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Tags: internet marketing, make money online, social bookmarking, social bookmarking
 Gone are the days when you inform your friends of an interesting online topic by sending them the website’s URL through phone, chat or email messages. Now, there is this so called social bookmarking where you could tag the topics you think your friends will find interesting. It also allows your friends to rate them.
The topics having the highest ratings are found on the top of the social bookmarking site home page. This means that many internet users visit them. If you are an online marketer, this could be utilized to drive traffics into your website. In fact this is one of the easiest and cheapest way of generating traffics and ultimately, of making money online.
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However, submitting more links into the social bookmarking sites is not enough to give you the optimum benefit. This is the common mistake of some online marketers. To have this benefit, take note of these few things. Submit topics that will arouse the readers’ curiosity, or something intriguing. You may visit various sites to know what topics will arouse their curiosity.
This is because users of every site usually have something in common. Writers call this thing as culture. Knowing their culture is very important because it will give you ideas on what topics to submit that would interest them. Find out what topics usually make it to the top of a particular site.
Is it human interest stories, politics, health and fitness or entertainment? Your topics must also be new, something that users don’t find in others. If yours is no different from theirs, do you think you would get their attention and vote for you? In other words, be the first to introduce interesting ideas or information.
This can be done by doing research. Find out what others have and think of something that they don’t have. Only then will you be different and intriguing. Lastly, social bookmarking is a community, only virtual. That’s why it is called as such. It is a community because people meet, communicate and share with others what they think.
If you want to be a part of a social bookmarking community, you must also do your share. Leave comments and rate other members’ stories. This is one way of showing them that your purpose is not only to get traffics or market your product. I’m telling you this because some members are also online marketers like you.
If you want to benefit from them, give them also the opportunity to benefit from you. In short, don’t be selfish. If you do, members will notice that and will eventually drop you off by simply not voting your site. If you follow these things, you will be able to get your link to the top of the page and allow you to stay there for quite a long period of time.
These are only simple social bookmarking strategies, but will surely help you a lot in your objective of getting traffic to your site. Though simple and so basic, yet could cause your all efforts to fail. So do not take these things for granted. Many failed because they ignored the basics.
So don’t repeat the same mistakes they made. Make use of social bookmarking for your online marketing and apply these simple strategies.
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The author of this article, Menno Spijkstra, is an underground Internet
Marketer who has been successful in selling products online for many years. Let Menno Walk You Through Setting Up Your Own Google Adwords Account and Campaigns. Click HERE for the complete information.
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