Social Marker.com
Posted by Brian Duke on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 @ 03:47 PM
So you've created this great website, put in all sorts of great
graphics to better explain your product and/or service, and optimized
it for your target audience. Now it's time to just sit back and watch
the traffic flow in, right? WRONG! One of the most common
misconceptions about search engine optimization (SEO) and link building
is that it will just happen on its own. SEO and link building takes
time and effort. Simply creating a website isn't enough anymore unless
you have specific campaigns designed to drive traffic to your website.
Social Bookmarking
is a great way to drive traffic to your site. From just one submission
to a StunbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, etc. can drive hundreds of visitors to
site on a daily basis. The key to doing this though is constantly
changing and updating your content and having content that will be
useful to your visitors. No one wants to read about how great you think
your own product(s) or service(s) is/are, they want to find answers to
THEIR problems. If you can find a way to answer questions and solve
problems that are relevant to your visitors, the rest will take care of
itself.
The main problem with social bookmarking is that it
takes time, a lot of time. You have to create an account at every one
of the social bookmarking sites, fill out a profile, submit the links,
describe your submission, and verify you are not a machine. Going
through the 5-8 step process at each site can get really frustrating,
but trust me, it is worth it in the end.
There is a free
solution out there that can help with this process and make submitting
your website(s) to social bookmarking a breeze. The solution is called Social Marker.
Social Marker allows you to submit your website or link to 47 different
social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes! (The first time you go
through the process will take longer though as you have to register a
profile at each site you choose to submit information to, but after
that, it's a breeze!)
One of the best parts of this service is that I haven't receive one unwanted email after signed up with all these sites. I highly recommend you check this site out and take advantage of this incredible tool!