What is Social Bookmarking? From Wikipedia:
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".[1]In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.
Simply, bookmarking is adding links to favorite sites. And there's a lot
of bookmarking sites, each giving us an opportunity to create more links.
There's also web site software that lets folks create their own bookmarking sites. Two of the more popular scripts are Pligg and Social Web CMS, which is an off-shoot of Pligg. If you're at all familiar with Digg.com, Pligg let's you have your own "Digg-like" site.
So you have the "major" bookmarking sites and thousands of Pligg and Social Web sites that you can use to create more links.
You don't want to be seen as a spammer and only submit links to your own commercial sites. Remember, these are "favorite" links users are posting. You can't post your "buy viagra" links over and over and get away with it.
You don't want to lose links. First, it destroys the work you put into getting the links, and losing links may very well be a ranking factor.
For best results, you want to have a lot of different sites you can submit, and these shouldn't be sales letters. Instead, write content and articles bookmark these pages. Then point these pages to your sales pages and affiliate links.
Also, include a BUNCH OF SACRIFICIAL LINKS. These are links to major sites that have nothing to do with your links. Add links to your camouflage pages, funny and popular videos, news articles, etc. Then sprinkle in your own links that go to real content pages.
Then use some camouflage on these pages by faking spam comments and point to 1-3 of your profile pages. But don't directly bookmark profile pages. That's too obvious.
And the more content you have spread over the web the more you can utilize bookmarking. And by spread out, I mean on different sites, domains, blogs, IPs, etc.
Here's a general linking plan:
Bookmark => Content/Camouflage Pages /Sacrificial
Content pages => Money pages
Camouflage <<=>> Content
Camouflage pages => Money pages
Camouflage => Profiles
Profiles => Content and Camouflage
I've heard from more than one friend that Squidoo has banned them due to "improper linking". Both used a lot of bookmarks. So be very "gentle" pointing to Squidoo.
Instead, point to other pages, then point these pages to Squidoo.
One Warning: When using Pligg sites, Pligg can be hacked so you
download bad stuff. Make sure when you're visiting these types of sites your
Virus protection is up to date.This is true even if you only use submission
software and don't visit the sites directly.
You may even want to check out a program called Sandboxie, for protection above and beyond what any anti-virus can provide.
There are plenty of submission options that will let you add your
links to tons of bookmarking sites, both big and small.
FREE - 462 Bookmarking Sites Here's a list of bookmarking sites you can visit and submit your sites.
OK (Free/cheap)- OnlyWire - Used to be a good, free service that would submit your pages to major bookmark sites.. But no longer reliable.
Very Good: SocialBot is a very good program to submit to bookmarking sites. It's cheap ($25) and does the job very well.
EXCELLENT - BookMarkingDemon is a very powerful program. I creates accounts, finds Pligg accounts and much more.
If you just have a few sites, get SocialBot. If you are really hard core and want the best of the best, get BookMarkingDemon.
For honesty and disclosure, I'm an affiliate for both. But, I also bought
and paid for both, and have used both. And each does the job well and I have
no problem endorsing either of them.
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