Tuesday, June 30, 2009

How to Make Good Use of Social Bookmarks

To understand online social bookmarks you first have to know it by definition. Social bookmarking is an internet method for organizing, searching, managing, and storing the bookmarking of the web pages. It's helped along by using tags, used in 'metadata', that become 'folsonomies'.

A folksonomy is a process of social 'tagging'. It saves links to web pages that you want to remember or share with others. While they're mostly used in a public venue, you can save them privately as well. You may also be selective about who may view your pages.

For those who have an online business, then having an online presence is vital to their success. Knowing that online social bookmarks build site traffic gives them a unique advantage for getting customers to their site where they can see their products or services.

One of the other key benefits of online social bookmarks that you can share things with people that are of a real interest to them. It's an easy way of discovering things that's unlike do search engine searches. And it's more personal.

Social bookmark managers online are numerous. Most of these are FREE to use. They allow you to store and manage your bookmarks on a site that's different from your own. This gives you an advantage of not cluttering up and overflowing the space on your own site.

If you try to weed out all the sites that are similar to your topic, but not what you really want, you could spend hours upon hours. But if you use your bookmarks to find your information, then you have a much easier way of doing it. The tags help you find what you need.

Your readers and followers can find your bookmarks if they're public, or if they're in your group. They can share your information with others, and send people your way who are interested in your particular niche. The social effect is viral and spreads quickly.

You can literally bookmark hundreds of sites and still keep them in an easily accessible list of tags which makes them only a click away. It really is the best way of keeping track of all your favorite sites and for organizing important information for your business.

If you want to try using online social bookmarks yourself, then register on a social bookmarking site. A good one to start with is del. Icio. Us and it's very popular. There are many others to choose from and the list is massive. You can add your bookmarks manually, but most of these sites will offer a toolbar to put on your homepage that allows you to bookmark sites as you surf.

Source:Ezine

One Way Link Building Alternatives

One of the best ways to increase your web site's ranking in the Search Engines and beat the competition, is by getting other web sites to provide one way links back to your web site.

There are many ways to acquire these one way links: write good content that will make other sites want to link to your site naturally, write articles and post them to article directories, submit your site to the top directories, set up a blog on your site, ask for reciprocal links just to name a few.

There is an alternative that will allow you to get even more backlinks from authority sites: submit digital products (software, eBooks) to download sites. Major download sites have Google Page Rank as high as PR6, PR7 and even PR8, but the page rank varies from PR0 and up.

There is a viral aspect to this method. Over time you can literally gain dozens of semi-permanent one-way links to your site, some with a high Page Rank.

You will get traffic both as a result of your higher ranked site (as a result of using this method) as well as traffic from the download sites you submitted to. The same goes for additional profit, some will be as a result of higher rankings and some from the download sites, although conversion rates from download sites is low. You don't have to be a technical person, i.e. programmer. The process is simple enough that anyone can do it and you can find ready made software that can be re-branded if that is the route you want to take. This is a method I have used to successfully get my sites ranked in the top 10.

Source: Ezinea