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How To Use Social Bookmarking Sites Using OnlyWire

Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by admin.

Learn More About Social Bookmarking.  Here’s How!

Social bookmarking sites are sites that allow Internet users to classify and share their Internet bookmarks or favorites with others. They are similar to social networking sites, where users share content, personal photographs and other information. Social networking and social bookmarking sites alike both work to promote a community-type look and feel.

While the intent of social networking sites is more to create communities of like-minded people, social bookmarking sites concentrate more on increasing the popularity of common Internet bookmarks or favorites. You can tell the whole world what your passions are, and increase the page rank to your favorite sites, by placing tags on them and listing them in social bookmarking networks.  OnlyWire, a social bookmarking tool that allows you to submit your article to numerous bookmarking sites, has an area where you can include you tags along with for your blog posts.

Social networks are nothing new, they have existed for decades on the Internet. Only recently however, have people taken a keen interest in their potential, especially from a marketing perspective. Think about it; you put bookmarks to all your blogs, sites and lists in a public forum. Others can link to your sites and click through to visit your sites through the social networking site you list with. You increase knowledge and awareness of your sites and also get free advertising and targeted traffic.

If the quality of information you provide is worthwhile, chances are you benefit tremendously from this new technology.

There is little difference between the two technologies, many use them as one in the same. If you do plan to use social networking or bookmarking sites to publicize your content, just be sure you do it in a non-threatening, non-confrontational and legitimate manner. No one likes a spammer, and you can spam social sites.

Remember, people join these sites and post information because they want quality links and information from real people. If you use the sites as a general “bulletin board” or classified ad, you diminish the value and might even get booted off.

In fact, one of the more commonly cited “drawbacks” of these sites is they do not rely on a standard set of tagging or keywords, so people can often set up unclear tags or fill the site with misspelled tags in the name of driving more traffic to their sites. Many sites are more likely to corrode as people use them more as a page rank boosting or search engine tool than to provide valuable information. Don’t book the same site repeatedly or you will get into trouble.

Want To Learn More About Social Bookmarking?  Here’s How!

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Social Bookmarking Sites

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by admin.

In addition to networking sites, there are many websites that are designed for the sole purpose of sharing links with other Internet users. These resources are called Social Bookmarking or Tagging sites and they can be a great way to drive targeted traffic to a number of websites.

Social Bookmarking is exactly what the name implies. It’s a way for users to store their bookmarks or favorite links online, and in most cases publicly (hence the ‘social’).  Why would you want to do this?

Two reasons:

1. Most bookmarking sites have a high Google Page Rank, making them great sites to link to your sites from for SEO purposes.

2. More people are turning to social sites like this to find resources they are looking for. And once you add your sites, other users can see it and if they like what they see they will add some or all of your links to their list! This could mean BIG traffic. This is a simple process. You just register with a good bookmarking site and then start adding your favorite links to your list.

Most bookmarking sites require you to download a toolbar that allows you to instantly add a site to your list as you cruise the web. And of course your first step after registration would be to add all of your personal web pages and blog posts to your list.

Note I said all of your pages and posts. Don’t just bookmark your home page and leave it at that, really leverage these resources by adding all of your pages for the world to see.

Something you should seriously consider when you have a good selection of sites bookmarked on the web is finding other people (perhaps some of the contacts you are now making via social networking sites!) to join you in a bookmarking network. Here’s how this would work:

You find ten other people with websites they want to drive traffic to and form a network.  Then all of you agree to bookmark each other’s websites using the top social bookmarking sites!

Ideally once a handful of people bookmark your sites others will jump on the bandwagon and start visiting your sites and adding them to their lists. Pretty soon you can have lots and lots of people checking out your site, joining your mailing lists, and even buying your products.

There are a number of good social bookmarking sites to choose from. Here are three of the most popular which I highly recommend you join and start using right away:

Diigo
Delicious
Mixx

Check these out and get registered. Also there are two other sites I’d like you to keep in mind.

Digg is a news site that works very much like a bookmarking site in that it is user fueled. You’ll see when you land on the page a number of new ‘stories’ that were posted by members and then ‘Dugg’ by other members.

You’ll find Digg buttons on Squidoo lenses and Blogs all over the web, and now you know why. This is a heavily trafficked site and having your article Dugg by its users is a great way to brand yourself and drive traffic to your site. To Digg one of your web pages or blog posts, all you do is (once you have an account) enter a title, short description, and add your link. Then select a category and confirm your submission.

If you submit something interesting other users will come across the story and Digg it as well. A word of caution here – do not post spammy adverts on this site or you will be flamed and even marked as a spammer for all to see; only use Digg to bookmark quality articles and stories from your blog and other web pages.  You should also know that Digg places the nofollow tag on all outbound links so it’s worthless as an SEO tool. Use this site only to brand yourself and drive traffic.

OnlyWire calls itself ‘The only bookmarking service you’ll ever need” and for good reason. This site is a hub of sorts that allows you to use one interface for bookmarking your pages on 16 social portals!

I recommend signing up at OnlyWire and joining each program listed there. Then you can simply add a special link to your favorites and use that link in the future to bookmark a page on all of the sites listed with OnlyWire!

However don’t be surprised if you find some of the sites you try to join through OnlyWire are down. Just skip them and go on to the next one, although you will have to enter something in the field for each site so if you find one that is offline just enter a generic username and keep going.

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