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Social bookmarking for unlimited traffic to your website

Karin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:05:37 +0000

This blog post details the impact of social bookmarking on the traffic to a website. Proof is provided that the number of unique visitors was quadrupled as a result of the bookmarks. [...]

Is Facebook a social bookmarking site wannabe?

Karin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:51:11 +0000

This article speculates about the real reason Facebook made the change from Fan pages to Like pages. I make the case here that Facebook did this, because of the rapid increase in popularity of social bookmarking sites, and StumbleUpon in particular. [...]

Using a social bookmarking strategy to become the authority in your niche.

Karin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:18:48 +0000

Social bookmarking was developed to be able to keep track of information that you would come across while surfing the net. Subsequently, it became a great way to get your website indexed within a matter of hours and to build quality one-way backlinks to your site. [...]

Social media, including social bookmarking, is all about know-like-trust.

Karin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:47:42 +0000

Whether you sell online or offline, you know that it is much easier to close the sale when the buyer knows and trusts you. A good example is when you look at a tv commercial, where someone describes a product that solves a problem you may have. Even though it sounds great, you will, most likely, be reluctant to buy the product. After all, you don't know whether you can trust that the claims made, are accurate. [...]

Effective use of StumbleUpon for your social bookmarking

Karin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:41:24 +0000

If you have read some of my other blog posts, you will know that I am a fan of social bookmarking. StumbleUpon is one of my favorites amongst the social bookmarking sites. The reason is that it is a very easy to use and high traffic generating platform. Having said that, it took me a while to find out what brings me the most traffic. [...]

Your social bookmarking profile is more important than you may think!

Karin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:28:04 +0000

One of the reasons that social bookmarking is such a great tool to drive traffic to your site, is the fact that they all seem to have extremely high Google page ranks. The problem is that Google ranks pages, not sites. So a PR 7 site, more than likely will not have a PR 7 on the page where you are adding your bookmark. [...]

Part 2: Promoting your link wheel

Karin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:55:25 +0000

In part 1 of the two part series I described to you how to set up a link wheel. Link wheels are very effective in promoting your site. In part 2 I will discuss with you how to promote your link wheel and what you can add to the strategy to (hopefully) increase the traffic to your site even more. So, let's get started. [...]

How to format the tags for your social bookmarking submissions

Karin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:07:53 +0000

My friend Larry Brauner wrote this in a comment on one of my social bookmarking articles the other day: “One of the challenges in bookmarking at some sites is choosing appropriate tags for other people’s articles. Then to make it even more challenging, some sites want comma delimited tags while others want space delimited, etc. Bookmarking [...]

Getting leads from social bookmarking in under 30 minutes a day.

Karin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:05:16 +0000

In my previous post I went over the fact that you should get into the habit of bookmarking the sites that are of interest to you. If you do this consistently, you will gradually build a profile that clearly indicates your interests. Let’s take the health topic as an example. This is a very popular topic [...]

Social bookmarking sites as keyword selection tools?

Karin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:51:18 +0000

Not to many people realize that social bookmarking sites can be extremely powerful keyword selection tools. But when you think about it, it is not as far fetched as you would think at first instance. After all, social bookmarking sites are a collection of information that human beings deemed of interested to them. In order to [...]