Social Bookmarking Explained in Simple English
Social Bookmarking is a TREMENDOUS opportunity to generate an influx of automatic traffic to your site. And as you know, traffic is the KEY to this business.
??? What if someone tells you :
"Hey I know how you can drive traffic to any of your sites...
- without submitting articles to directories
- without building incoming links or exchanging links
- without a list
- without submitting it to directories
- without blogging
- without search engines optimization
- without 1 single visitor coming from search engines"
What would you think ???
Probably - "I don't Believe It..."
But this is in fact one of the beauty of Social Bookmarking. It's another TOOL and one of the most effective (at this moment) to easily drive traffic to your sites.
How it works:
Suppose there is Site A that runs such a service.
You visit Site A and bookmark your site.
That means:
You include the URL of your site and "tags" for it.
For example, if I bookmarked my turbo membership I'd use:
This URL: www.turbomembership.com And these tags (think of the tags as keywords...)
. Best membership site for Internet Marketers
. internet marketing site
. scripts and ebooks for Internet Marketers
...etc...
You get an idea?
Now...
People visit Site A for searching things.
They see the listings or search them or see the popular sites and when something matches to their interests, they click the link. Site A keeps updating all "tags" with the click-rate so...
...the more people visit your site
...the more popular your site comes on the directory
...the more people click and visit your site
...the more traffic you get...
Plus:
People can include a button to their browser's toolbar, so when they visit a site on the Net that they think is a good one, then they click that button and BOOKMARK that site to Site A's directory.
Then again:
...the more people visit your site
...the more popular your site comes on the directory
...the more people click and visit your site
...the more traffic you get...
One more thing:
As you can understand, those sites that offer such a service keep getting traffic from the users that:
a. - Visit the site to search for their preferred listings
b. - Bookmark a site and add a link to the directory
AND BECAUSE OF THIS (because sites like Site A) are being UPDATED due to the traffic attracted and the new links added to the directory... guess what happens....
Search Engines LOVE those sites!
Can you see the picture now??
- If you ADD your site to sites like Site A
- Or if people like your site and ADD it to sites like Site A
AND...
- if your keywords are unique
THEN...
Search Engines will CRAWL those keywords and when someone enters those keywords to their searching through the Search Engines, YOUR link in THOSE bookmarking sites comes up...
Thus, your site, the one you submitted to those bookmarking sites get traffic:
a. - From people that Visit the site (in our example Site A) to search for their preferred listings
b. - From people that bookmark your site and add a link to the directory (of site A)
c. - From people that search through the Search Engines and end up to Site A because YOUR tags/keywords came up first!
Powerful?
Yes it is.
Now, re-read what it has been stated above:
"Hey I know how you can drive traffic to any of your site...
- without submitting articles to directories
- without building incoming links or exchanging links
- without a list
- without submitting it to directories
- without blogging
- without search engines optimization
- without 1 single visitor coming from search engines"
Can you see how it works??
> - without submitting articles to directories
Yes, there is no need to submit anything there...
> - without building incoming links or exchanging links
No need for this too. All you have to do is to add your link & tags in those directories. It's easy, right?
> - without a list
Yes, you do not need any list at all, but you CAN generate/create a list if you deal with it the smart way.
For example: you can use the traffic sent to your page, offer a report through an autoresponder and build your first list!!! Then you can follow up with subscribers and invest on that communication...
>- without submitting it to directories
Yep... There is NO need to submit your site to the Search Engines and/or to directories because as it has been discussed, the search engines CRAWL those sites (aka. Sites like Site A) often *because they are updated often* and your keywords will come up THROUGH the Search Engines!
> - without blogging
Correct. No need to spend time on blogging too - while there are some good ways to use blogs with social bookmarking (say having visitors to BOOKMARK your blog!)
> - without search engines optimization
Yes, you do not need to know how to optimize your pages because Search Engines WILL CRAWL sites like Site A ANYWAY (again, the reason is that sites like Site A are being updated often with new content => Search Engines love new content.)
> - without 1 single visitor coming from search engines
This is true too, because while your traffic can be maximized by the visitors you will get THROUGH the search engines (anyway) you can still forget them and have people coming back to your site through the link in those sites like Site A.
REMEMBER that if you CREATE such a service then you can have people submitting their sites to YOUR social bookmarking service and thus gain the ULTIMATE traffic funnel:
- people will submit their sites to your site and you can capture their information (through their registration with your system) so you can follow up with them OR just offer something to them through your social bookmarking service.
- search engines will rank your social bookmarking service in top listings
As you can see you can really benefit from this modern way to deal with traffic:
- as a user you can use the social bookmarking services offered through the Net, add your site & tags/keywords and have traffic back to your site.
- as a social bookmarking service's owner you can get a serious traffic from all people that use your system.
Thanks for reading.
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