Give Your Site a Boost with Social Bookmarking
Friday, July 27th, 2007 at 2:54 pm by Gracie Browning
Every single method that is intended to help drive traffic to our affiliate marketing websites also seems to come with a built set of potential problems. And, of course, social bookmarking isn’t an exception.
A few million words have been written on the advantages and the disadvantages of social bookmarking. However, social bookmarking has been around long enough now to readily see the more obvious advantages for our affiliate marketing websites.
Here are four ways to use social bookmarking to give your website a boost.
Content sources: All of the social bookmarking sites are well equipped with RSS, HTML or Flash. that you can easily grab and display on your web site -providing instant content. You can use these tools to have a continuously updated stream of links that relate to the products and services you sell.
Implement tagging: You can get tagging plug-ins for all of the content management systems (CMS) or blogging systems. You tag your pages and your content, and then submit the pages to tag aggregators. Be sure to keep your tags relevant to your content.
Use social bookmarking sites as keyword research tools: Tags are chosen by users (your customers) so social bookmarking sites are keyword research gold mines. Study the labels that users apply to products, pages and sites to pick up on the unusual keywords and/or keyword combinations that are being used.
Add a social bookmarking tool to every page of your website: There are plug-ins for most CMS tools that display a ‘Add to” link. This allows your users to easily add any page on your site to their social bookmarks.
These are all easy ways to take advantage of the advantages offered by social bookmarking, and enhance your affiliate marketing website…for FREE.
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