Social Bookmarking Intelligence by Laura Maya - HTML preview

Chapter 4

Social Bookmarking and Annotation

Diigo is a research and Knowledge sharing Bookmarking site , it has all of the basic social bookmarking features. You can bookmark any site, add a description and tags, and allow others to comment on your bookmarks. There is one exclusive feature for Diigo ,that is its annotation features . How it works is that , you can attach highlighted text and notes to any bookmark and even simultaneously bookmark to other social bookmarking services, such as Delicious, Blinklist, , and more.

Diigo allows for easy annotating a page and then bookmark it to Diigo and Delicious and because the notes are saved to Diigo, the next time I go to that website from my Delicious bookmarks, the notes will be there.

You don’t have to use Diigo for its bookmarking . You may also import your browser or Delicious bookmarks to Diigo and export them when needed.

With the annotation features.Users can bookmark a page and highlight text and images on the page to take note of. Highlights on a page by the user will then save and appear as a blue dashed underline whenever they visit the site again.

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Being able to bookmark and annotate a page is very helpful. In terms of research, you can bookmark and annotate all the sites related to the topic you are researching. When you're done getting all the information you need, select all the bookmarks in the “My Bookmarks” area and select in the top right drop down, “Extract highlights.” This will then grab all your notes from all the sources you’ve saved and display them on a clean page for you to look over and print.

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Extra tips on Social Bookmarking

There are several other things you can do to improve your page rank and to increase the visitors that come to your site.

Here are some tips:

x When pinging, the more sites you ping to the better. There are more than 600 social bookmarking sites. You may not be able to ping to all of them, it will take some time. But the more you post to the better.

x Make sure you use Delicious.com or Diigo.com, even if you do no other sites. You should try to get as many sites in as possible, So start registering ,go from there. Plan to book mark at the top 20

social bookmarking sites , we are talking exposure to many millions user already

x Consider which and what tags you plan to place on your site –

You need to find many more tags for your site if you want to do well. If you are short on ideas, go to diigo.com or technorati.com and go ahead and register. You can use this site to search for Hot tags, or keyword terms you might use on your site. Once you do this, you should come up with a large list of potential tags, words and sites other people are bookmarking that are popular.

x You can put as many tags as you want on your site, but probably less than 20. Some tags attract and pull in good traffic, like

“Anime ” or “ Movies ” or “earn money online ,” but please avoid using tags that are not suitable for your post. Avoid using words that does not suit to your site, or you could get have your site banned. If you use popular words to tag just to get traffic with Non related content , you will get categorized as “tag spam”.

x When looking at a site, you may see how often a tag is saved.

You’ll see what some common tags are, and what sites people are clicking on the most

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x Always keep a watch on new trends . Look to see how many people are looking for particular subjects or niche products . You can click the Delicious’s hotlist to see what is popular. That may give you some ideas of what to do with your site, and you may see what trends start to develop over time. You may try adding some content related to trends.

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BOOKMARKING DEMON SOFTWARE

Hi All Internet Marketers ! ,

I'm sure you have heard all the buzz about social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is one of the fastest ways to drive hordes of targeted traffic to your site.

With social bookmarking, I was able to increase my online income by 50%. All I did was place some tags on my webpages and bookmark them to social bookmarking sites.

- bookmark to 100+ social bookmarking sites

- supports adding unlimited scuttle, scuttleplus, pligg and phpdug bookmarking sites

- has no monthly fees , free updates , bookmarking randomization

- bookmarking camouflage , email verification , scheduler to drip your bookmarks

- pinging feature , random proxy servers , multi-threading for faster bookmarking

- visual aid with decaptcher

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You can consider to put your Bookmarking efforts into autopilot mode, using a Fast submission software like Bookmarking demon to bookmark many accounts at once.

When you purchase the software you can interface many bookmark accounts and with one simple procedure bookmark your blog post to all your accounts at once.

Bookmarking demon works with Pligg, Scuttle site with different PLR ( ranking ) ,the following are some of the Bookmark accounts which it works with and easily it can handle up to thousand of bookmarking site submission fully automatically.

- Backflip

- Blinklist

- BlueDot

- Diigo

- Jots

- Linkroll

- Delicious

- Ma.gnolia

- Shadows

- Simpy

- Spurl

- Wink

- Rawsugar

Etc etc…….

Updating Your Bookmarking software

To date, Social bookmarking is still one of the fastest ways to drive hordes of targeted traffic to your site and the following will be the basic criteria for selecting a good Bookmarking software: Page 37

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bookmark to 100+ social bookmarking sites

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supports adding unlimited scuttle, scuttleplus, pligg and phpdug bookmarking sites

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has no monthly fees

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free updates

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bookmarking randomization

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bookmarking camouflage.

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email verification

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scheduler to drip your bookmarks

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pinging feature

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random proxy servers

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multi-threading for faster bookmarking

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visual aid with decaptcher

Once you have bookmarked your pages via the Recommended Bookmarking demon interface, you can supercharge your bookmarks by pinging your individual Bookmarks accounts Like delicious, blinklist, etc

If you go to the Pinging service provided by the software you can PING

your actual book mark accounts from your full submitted list , and all this capability are flexible with full accessible data from the bookmarking demon’s software platform .

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Social Media Marketing does help you Build Your business Social media marketing is a growing industry ,it is a new recent trend where young savvies were socializing to share information and making friends on the internet and it has rapidly grown to encompass business as well and it cater to web surfers of all ages It revolves around social networking sites ,and is an excellent means of getting your message out to the people who matters, especially to your target audience . Social Media Marketing is the practice of creating compelling content for marketing online to mass audience by sharing by using social networking and social bookmarking sites .

This immerse growth has seen many people participating in social media and networking sites that has led to increased investment in the growing field of social media marketing. As we see a rapidly growing number of small businesses implement social marketing ideas and strategies in their business plan , we will look at how businesses adapt to this new marketing concept and understand how users use these social media sites in order to be successful in business typically in marketing their products or brand by Sharing , Socializing

,Strategizing and realizing Sales .

If your company is aiming to start venturing out into social media marketing, you have to understand sharing information with the rest of the world while showing off that your company’s expertise .It is an effective mean of finding your target audience and connecting and interacting with them .It is an avenue to build your reputation in your specific trade ,you will be able to utilize the social media channels to build product and brand awareness, increase traffic to your site and for link building and then you can track statistic to see which channel or methods are working for you.

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There are many social network sites that were developed specifically for business owner ,they come under different category like Pligg, Dofollow , Scuttle and Scuttle Plus Sites , there are other that are designed specific field of interest and take some research to find out which one might be best for you and your business .There are also social news websites, such as, Digg and StumbleUpon, Faves , Diggo that have the potential to attract many thousands of unique visitors to your website in a short space of time as well as a good number of backlinks if you manage to reach the front page.

It seems that many small businesses have registered with these sites and have diligently filled out their profile pages ,upload their content article page and waited for incoming flow of traffic and new business to arrive. If you want to attract new visitors to your site then you have to actually participate and become involved in a community provide by the Social Media sites.

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The Secret of Scuttle and Scuttle Plus Sites Scuttle is an Open Source Social Bookmarking website script which allows anyone to create their own Social Bookmarking website like Faves , Slurp, Furl, Digg, etc.. scuttlePLUS is a modified version of the Scuttle social bookmarking system. The original scuttle source is located at SourceForge

scuttlePLUS uses the original Scuttle bookmarking code and adds many enhancements including an Administrator Backend System allowing you to manage multiple scuttlePLUS users, posts and installations scuttlePlus is able to manage a scuttle installation and allows multiple user site installations and provide easy management of bookmarks upload by members per day,index or sort out the members and most importantly, it has advanced features which allows you to add Google Adsense ads to your scuttle sites quickly and easily.

Do Not Over-bookmark

Concentrate on bookmarking the index page of each of your sites first.

Be careful not to bookmark too many of your own sites at first, since that can appear spammy - remember to bookmark other interesting sites you see that you don’t necessarily own by yourself.

The key to social bookmarking is to become part of the community who shares interesting information. Create a good profile that tells a little about you. Add a picture, and if the site offers it, start building a

“friends” list.

Be careful about how many links you add per day. You shouldn’t go crazy and add 500 links the day you sign up to a social bookmarking site. Keep it to ten or less per day and you should be fine.

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After you’ve been a user for several weeks, you might be able to get away with up to 50 per day. This helps make your profile look a lot more legitimate in the eyes of the community.

Advantages of Social Media Marketing

A successful Social Media Marketing campaign leads to major awareness of your brand or of the products which you are marketing online. Choosing an effective Bookmarking software or some specific social bookmarking or networking site which complement to your campaign sometime can really spread your word very fast attracting many unique visitors to your site.

Getting listed on a front page of major social Dofollow bookmarking sites will send you huge amounts traffic and almost instantly. This can be achieved if you

have good Killer copy write heading with an interesting article and although the increase in traffic may not equate to conversions to realized sales but it should generate good publicity of your website.

Some of the benefits are as follows:

- A good well strategize social marketing plan may provide a effective low cost traditional advertising and marketing

- Frequenting campaigning bring you large amounts of backlinks that benefit your ranking in search engines

- Traditional online advertising methods, such banners advertising are static while social media marketing is totally dynamic and can be presented with different heading and with flexibility to broadcast to also forum and ezine article submission site for broader exposure

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Setting your Goals and objective

Social Media Marketing requires details planning before launching of your campaigns, it would be necessary to set short, medium and long term targets for the exercise, and typically before launching any campaign , you will need to do some simple research as follows :

- to identify your target customers & audience

- to select a list social Networking and bookmarking site , Dofollow pligg site to Scuttle and Scuttle Plus Sites ( choose 300

to 500 site to start with )

- Looking for a good bookmarking software . We recommend the Bookmarking demon ,It will save a lot of time in bookmarking submission and is both effective and efficient. This software is worth its price in web publishing is a long term investment especially when it includes free lifetime updates. Bookmarking Demon provide regular updates and the program now in version 5.0 is better then ever. It currently offers more than 100 social bookmarking sites that includes 7 of the greats, and a combination of Scuttle, Scuttle Plus, and Pligg sites.

- Ensure you have nice well designed website with multiple pageview , as bookmarking will require to submit article pageview links from your website , you can also provide your Blogs linked pageview as the more pages submitted social bookmarking sites will increase your exposure Page 43

- Define which article content of value is suitable to specific target audience and focus on what is their common interest and organize them from the statistic you have collected to short list and categorized them . Submit niche article to specific site to target them in order to target niche potential customer

- Usually you will see increase of traffic relatively improving , but in order to ensure efficient Social media marketing , the campaign will need to be long term for at least 4-6months to more than 18

month before you can see really good results .Please consider that as you establish a foot hold with some of this major bookmarking site , the more submission you have upload to their accounts ,the ranking of your site on search engine will improved .Therefore plan your campaign with good article submission with keyword, plan your bookmarking time and duration with consideration of promotion period, school holidays or public holidays , as certain period of time, some websurfers

has tendency to visit their

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Organizing a Successful Campaign

Social Networking site like twitter ,facebook and myspace are all effective social media marketing websites ,likewise most of the major social bookmarking website provide effective broadcasting of your value content in an efficient and fast distribution . But while the effort are being put in sometime results may not turn out as positive or overwhelming, this could be due to the following reason.

Be interactive

You must listen and respond to your customers. Having conversations which flow in both directions help you understand the concerns of your customers, why they exist and what you can do to fix them. Most social networking site like facebook, myspace provide option for video streaming demonstration , or sharing of photos .Utilize these media tools to help in bringing across message better .

The personal touch

Automated responses and standard letters are not recommended sometime.

Social media is about equal conversations and recommendation. Be conversational.

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Transparency

Be honest and offer transparency in your agenda . There are many compelling ways to raising awareness for your company. Stretching the truth will not be satisfying ,as websurfers hunger for truth and reliable information. There are easy accessible reviews on the internet.

Be a part of the community

Acknowledge and show appreciation to others in the community which offer value to your business. Always share useful knowledge. It goes a long way like making friends .Be friendly and you will always build friendship online .

A successful Social Media campaign can prove to be one of the key catalysts in growth for a small to medium sized business. It can increase brand exposure and PR for a fraction of traditional advertising costs and effort, as well as provide large scale market research and product refinement ideas at no extra charge.

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We have come to final stage of the book;

We trust you enjoyed reading it and have learnt how to:

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Identify the best social site that matches and suit for your business or Networking

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Able to develop content that increases your search engine exposure

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Practice the proven techniques to engage the many social Bookmarking sites available

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Incorporate social Networking and marketing opportunities into existing and future blogging sites and business plan

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Gain a new insight and techniques of marketing thru social networking for doing business online

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Share your ideas and reaching Millions in the Internet worlds without involving Much cost

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Top 25 Social Bookmarking

Please feel free to visit this website and have a look into it.

1. http://www.blinklist.com/

2. http://digg.com/

3. http://delicious.com

4. http://www.stumbleupon.com

5. http://linkedin.com/

6. http://www.hyves.net/

7. http://technorati.com/

8. http://www.reddit.com/

9. http://www.fark.com/

10. http://www.mister-wong.de/

12. http://www.simpy.com/

13. http://slashdot.org/

14. http://www.favable.com

15. http://faves.com/

16. http://www.diglog.com

17. http://buzz.yahoo.com/

18. http://www.clickazoo.com

19. http://www.digo.it

20. http://www.diigo.com/

21. http://funp.com

22. http://www.gravee.com

23. http://multiply.com/

24. http://www.mylinkvault.com/

25. http://www.plaxo.com/

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We have the following additional following Social bookmarking site in the China / ASEAN region:

1 .http://www.ping.sg

2. http://innit.nuffnang.com/

3. http://www.jombuzz.com

4. http://www.malaysiastory.com/

5. http://www.infogue.com

6. http://www.indokami.com

7. http://www.kafeinfo.com

8. http://www.lintasberita.com

9. http://www.imcurtain.com

10. http://bookmarkindo.com/id

11. http://www.365key.com

12. http://cang.baidu.com

13. http://shuqian.qq.com

14. http://.douban.com

15.http://gootou.com

16. http://www.mister-wong.cn

17. http: //www.vivi.sina.com.cn

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For more information ,please visit www.bookmarktechnology.com and http://www.bloggingbymillion.net

Laura Maya has brought forth over 3 years of specialist knowledge in marketing the company she worked for , and brought on success of the products which she market online for her company with realized online sales exceeding their yearly forecast . The product was so successful and became a leader in the business even though they were Korean based manufacturers that it brought on major big players like WD and SG who took notice and came in to compete for a share of the market of HDMI Digital Media Player . In addition to marketing, Laura is an accomplished writer , Proof reader . Her style of writing has always maintain a unique warmth and we hope you have would have found enjoyable and easy to read and digest .

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