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Link Building Made Easy With Social Bookmarking

Posted by on November 28, 2011 No comments

The ultimate aim of achieving more and more traffic is the lifelong aim of Internet marketers. A powerful addition to Internet marketing, social bookmarking is a great way to spread the word on your niche and website, and if done the right way, can lead to fantastic surges in your traffic. A common issue that has grown from these sites is that users tend to not use them in quite the right way. Getting referral traffic from social bookmarks and the process behind this is something that may be less obvious to the wider online community.

What do you think of when you hear what is social bookmarking?

How these bookmarking websites work is that they encourage site owners to compile little teaser texts of articles. The aim of having the short summary is to draw further attention (and hopefully redirect) from the web user to the main article. Members can vote on their favorite bookmarks. Once social bookmarks get lots of nominations, bookmarkings sites will start to make these popular bookmarks more visible, such as on the home page. For a short time, while a bookmark is on the landing page of the bookmarking site, the target website has the potential to gain a huge spike in traffic.

The premise of social bookmarking is one of confusion, as not everyone that may be at first introduced to the concept is completely understanding of the benefits. So, what everyone wants to know is, how can you really use social bookmarking sites to your advantage? Herein lies one area that needs commitment to work. Anyone can sign up to dozens of sites and create a bunch of two sentence blurbs. Working this way does not tend to reap many returns.

The Complete Guide to Traffic contains a Social Bookmarking module, which explains everything that one needs to know about successful bookmarking. One key point covered is connecting with the community. These sites are social in nature and if one does not become a valuable member of the community, they will not get the needed votes. Once high ranking members in the community post content to these sites, other members will share it. The guide teaches people how to do this. Once people learn how to get others to share and vote for their content the bookmarking world becomes easier.

Once one masters bookmarking sites, their traffic begins to increase. People should not waste their time just tossing up bookmarks. You stand a better chance of getting traffic in a more qualified manner, as long as you can utilize social bookmarks effectively.

Bidding Directories

Posted by on May 30, 2008 4 comments

Familiar with Bidding Directories?

If not, perhaps you should be. Bidding Directories are an easy way to get listed in high quality, high traffic web directories. Bidding directories give you the ability to control where you want your link to be placed.

PR 4 Bidding Directory

Google uses a complicated algorithm called PageRank (PR) to rate websites. Google ranks web pages from 0-9 with 9 being the highest. Ultimately, to improve the PageRank for your website, you want to be listed on other high PR sites like Bidding Directories. If Google discovers a link pointing back to your web site, on a high PR site, it concludes that your site must be pretty important. these links are called “backward links” or “back links” Bidding Directories is a PR4 site, so a back link from Bidding Directories would be a very strong link. We hope you will consider placing you link,… or 6 of your links,… ;) in our bidding directory.

Benefits of Placing Your Link in Bidding Directories

  • Low Cost – often as low as $1!
  • Listed on Several Pages – home page, details page, Top 10, category page…
  • Search Engine Friendly – Google will follow the links back to your web site.
  • High Traffic – This means Google will visit your site often.
  • Improve Keyword Results – You choose the “Title” for your link.

How to Submit a URL to a Bidding Directory

First, determine which 6 pages of your site you would like to promote. Next, determine which keywords you would like to associate with each page. The next step is to Add a Link to Bidding Directories. Lastly, you will need to place your bid and pay for it. If you want to be on the home page, at the very least, you will need to bid $1 more than the lowest bidder on the home page. If you want to be a “Link Leader” and be listed at the top oe every page, you will need to bid $1 more than the highest bidder.

It’s not necessary to have a PayPal account, but it makes directory bidding much faster. Either way, you still have the option to pay with a credit card. That’s all their is to it!

Promoting Your Bidding Directories Link

You might want to consider promoting your newly created listing for even better results. One way is to use social bookmarking sites like Digg, Technorati, Faves and many more. Social bookmarking sites are very high traffic and Google will follow your bookmarks to whatever sites you have bookmarked. By locating your “details page” and bookmarking it, you will in essence, immediately drive the Google spiders to the bidding directories page and it would automatically follow one of the 6 links back to your site.

For even more web promotion ideas, consider attending one of Steve Renner’s free weekly internet marketing training workshops in Minneapolis. Not from Minneapolis? Log in for free internet marketing webinar training on Tuesday evenings and Saturday mornings.