Squidoo Friendly Social Bookmarking Sites
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Use Social Bookmarking Sites To Get Traffic For Your Lens, Blog or Website
Bookmarking your lens is a great way to get backlinks to your lens, blog or site. Backlinks are definitely something you want. The more sites that link to your stuff, the better search engines look at it. You will get traffic from the bookmarking sites and from the search engines.
Don't Spam
Do It Right
The growth of your links on these bookmarking sites has to happen naturally and progressively. You don't want to just bookmark to every site you can find all in a few days. The search engines such as Google and Yahoo want to see this as spamming. You don't want that. Do a little here and a little there.
I usually do a little activity on each site as I am bookmarking my lenses. As I bookmark to each site, I look around the site and vote on or save different links I find interesting to my profile.
Don't Just Self Promote
Be Social
Most people don't find a profile interesting if there are links that obviously only belong to that person and nothing from any other source. It feels too much like an advertisement and not a very good one at that.
Get People Interested
Develope A Following
Now, I don't mean for you to bookmark your competition. You don't want to help drive traffic to the other guys site. Here is an example of what I mean. Say your site is about dog training. You can bookmark sites about pet supplies, pet health or something like that. This way when someone interested in pet supplies may also see you have all those bookmarks on pet health and dog training and decide to follow you since you have similar interest to theirs. (I hope that made sense.)
If you have multiple sites with multiple topics, do the same procedure with each site. Sort of have a grouping of sites along with yours for each topic.
These folks that decide to follow you will copy or add your bookmarks to their list. They may also add them to other bookmarking sites since a lot of people use more than one site. So, the next thing you know you have gone viral with your links. Cool huh!?
Strategies For Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking To Get Traffic
There are varying opinions on what is the right strategy to get traffic from these sites. Here is my experience with getting traffic from social bookmarking. I DO get good quality traffic from sites I am not all that active on.
I am more fond of certain social bookmarking sites than the others, so I am more active on them. I know I draw in more traffic from people I may befriend or that are curious about me and my activities. I
Just please don't "spam" these sites with self promotion. That will get all of Squidoo banned from them. Try to follow the suggestions I have above about spending a few minutes on each site as you bookmark to vote on and save other links to your profile. This way you contribute something to that social community.
The last but most important tip is to tag your links well and make a good description that is a great example of what they will find if they click through to your site. Use the description to try to draw people to your site.
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Ruthi
Sep 1, 2011 @ 3:38 pm | delete
- Great tips, as I need all the help I can get! I totally agree with "Don't Just Self Promote"! And by the way, Lensmaster CCGAL had your lens link posted on her Facebook, which is what brought me here!
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NYtoSCimjustme
Aug 29, 2011 @ 11:26 pm | delete
- More great insight on building traffic to my lenses... greatly appreciated as I am still new and learning a lot about traffic and backlinks and content and ... and... and... The learning curve is never ending - but I'm hoping it is going to lead to a long and prosperous road to success!
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SusanCarter Aug 7, 2011 @ 2:29 pm | delete
- Good info. Thanks so much for sharing this. I'm an affiliate marketer and this will really help with my Google rankings. I like the tip about not spamming with just your own URL and sharing your appreciation of other peoples work as well.
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Kirilov
Jul 9, 2011 @ 6:41 am | delete
- Some good and useful ideas here, I will definitely take advantage of some advices provided by you. Thanks, you have mi ""Like".
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littlelotus Jun 11, 2011 @ 3:06 am | delete
- very useful info and links..... will surely come back :) thanks for sharing
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