Social Bookmarking - It Is Here To Stay

We can describe social bookmarking in a few happy words - fun, simple, remunerative and interesting. No matter what business you are in, you will benefit from leveraging social bookmarking for massive free traffic generation to your website. The Web 2.0 platform has made it possible for all online marketers to shift to a whole new concept of promotion where they actually interact with their prospects and customers.

Just some ways in which you can market your website with social bookmarking are:

Signing Up With Social Networking Websites

Sign up with websites like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, which are the craze these days. Not surprising, considering that you can promote your products through your free profile, join groups and forums, blog and create a huge network of your own. It's a great way to go about niche marketing as well.

Adding Bookmarking Links To Each Web Page On Your Website

Another easy method that you can use is to provide a bookmarking tool on your website on each page. Some popular favorites are Digg, del.icio.us, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Reddit, etc. This lets the content on your website be linked to various sites by your visitors or yourself, increasing the number of back links to your website which means traffic generation.

Providing A RSS Feed

You can add an RSS feed to your website so that each time you update the content on your website, your subscribers are notified of it and keep in touch. You can also create your own RSS feed and brand it - and let others use it. Go viral with it.

Post Videos On YouTube, GoogleVideo, MySpace Video

When you post interesting how-to video clips or other attention grabbing videos on YouTube, you have the possibility of millions of people viewing it, social bookmarking it, linking to it and sharing it. If its useful information you get recognized as an expert and develop trust in your viewers.

Share A Photo On Flickr

Another unique way to use social bookmarking is to upload photos and share them on sites like Flickr. Link back to your website.

Blog

You’ll see social bookmarking at its best with blogs. Include your RSS feed and bookmarking tool on the blog. Post content every day. Promote your blog wherever possible - on your website, on your profiles on other websites, in your email campaigns, in your ezine - and wherever else you can think of.

See how amazingly easy and fun it is? Social bookmarking also provides a solid punch to search engine optimization and gives your page ranking a healthy push up!.