What Is Social Bookmarking?

Have you ever e-mailed a friend or family member and sent them a link to a website you thought they might find interesting?  Basically that is social bookmarking.

When you save a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

Not only can you save your favorite websites and send them to your friends, but you can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag.

Social bookmarking is really a lot like ordinary bookmarking in a way. Instead of bookmarking a site in your browser for you to visit later, you share your bookmark with others so that they too can visit the site. This is where the “social” part of social bookmarking comes in.

Social bookmarking goes a step further than ordinary bookmarking in another way. You also “tag” your social bookmarks with keywords. This helps others to find them as they can conduct a search based on the keywords, or when the search for that keyword they may find your bookmark.

Social bookmarking becomes a way of classifying information. It isn’t as precise as a well designed encyclopaedia, for example, but it does work in that respect. A social bookmark can be found for all kinds of tags, or keywords, if the person who made the bookmark in the first place assigned them to it.

You can make money directly with social bookmarking through at least one site. Share A Link is a revenue sharing social bookmarking site where you can earn money through the Google AdSense program.

The idea is simple enough. Simply register at Share A Link for free. Edit your profile where you can add your Google AdSense Pub ID. You do need to be accepted into the Google AdSense program to be able to do this. Then you simply start sharing links by submitting your links to the Share A Link social bookmarking website.

If you submit highly popular bookmarks, others in the Share A Link network may vote your story up, which in turn will help to generate more traffic. When your story (social bookmark) gets lots of traffic, the revenue from Google AdSense will go up and you will earn money. If you do this regularly, you will make even more money.

Of course, using Share A link for your social bookmarking will also give you a valuable high quality back link to your main website, or indeed any site of your choice. This is what many people use social bookmarking for primarily – back linking their own sites. However, there is a better way to do it, if you want to get highly effective back links to a brand new site.

Use the social news sites like Digg , Reddit , Mixx and Propeller to post your story, which can simply be a snippet from the main front page of your site.

Next you should quickly use a few of the social bookmarking sites such as Delicious , Blinklist and Furl , and bookmark your story in the social news sites. You can round off this highly effective back linking procedure by submitting all the RSS feeds of the social bookmarking sites you have used to the various RSS feed aggregators.

This is a very good way to start off any website you have that you hope to make money with. Done properly the site will be indexed very fast, usually within a few hours, and it will rank in Google and the rest soon after. However don’t stop at that. Do more back linking to keep the ranking high.

Social bookmarking is becoming a new trend when it comes to increasing your traffic in the World Wide Web. But because it’s relatively new, you still need to be backed up with these 8 key ways to make money with social bookmarking.

1. Create a fake profile. You may find it strange, but it’s one good way of attracting interest. You need to generate enough curiosity so other individuals who are in social bookmarking sites will take a look at what you have and hopefully add you to their online favorites.

2. Write excellent content. In social bookmarking, contents play a big role. No matter how interesting you are, if you don’t have well-written copies, nobody would love to share them with others.

3. Choose your bookmarking service. Make sure that they have excellent standing in search engines and can bring you the kind of traffic that you need. It makes increasing your links so much easier.

4. Develop your own plan. Know your ways of convincing people to add you to their online favorites. You can send them private messages, sharing a piece of yourself, or you can send them snippets of your articles.

5. Exchange bookmarks. You can also interchange bookmarks with others who are in the site. It’s not going to be fun, but it will also allow you to gain new friends. You can choose your most well-loved articles in exchange for theirs.

6. Be active. There are a number of social bookmarking sites that encourage their members to participate. Take this opportunity to shine and get yourself noticed.

7. Sign up to as many bookmarking services as you can. The more exposure the better, they say. So get rid of automated software and do everything on your own.

8. Use keywords. This will make you easier to search online. You can add them in your description, title, or perhaps in your articles.

By the way, do you want to learn more about using articles like this to drive traffic to your website and increase online conversions?