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Social bookmarking first started innocently as a tool quite similar to our browser’s “Save favourite” feature.

The original intention of social bookmarking our favourite webpages was to make these pages available wherever we go. In the past, when we see a website we like or frequently visit, we will save it. But we can only access that using the same computer.

With social bookmarking, you can bookmark any favourite website and still be able to locate it anywhere as long as you have an internet access.

So what has this got to do with internet marketing or making money online?

Let me share a bit more with you.

1. Get Top 10 Ranking in Google for Long-tail Keywords

A simple experiment I did revealed that social bookmarking can boost your search engine rankings! Subsequently, I have used the same method to obtain high rankings for many other keywords. Social bookmarking sites typically have high PRs and placing your links there will give your websites a boost.

Basically, what I did was to social bookmark a blog I own http://articlesubmissionservice.wise-tips.com using the keyword “article submission service review”.

After a few weeks, it is now ranked No.1 in Google for the search term “article submission service review” out of close to 7 million search results.

2. Fast Indexing

Submitting your sites to Web 2.0 authority sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Propeller can get your webpages indexed quickly. People often complain of slow indexing especially for internal pages.

This is the surest and quickest way to get instant indexing. It takes as fast as a few hours.

3. Selling Without a Website

I personally have seen how people have social bookmarked direct affiliate links. Though I have not done it, but by virtue of seeing it happen so many times, they must be doing something correctly. Since you determine what tag to use, it is easier for you to rank well in the search results of each social bookmarking site than seeing zero hope in ranking in the search engines for an affiliate link, for example a Clickbank hop link.

The whole idea is that Social Bookmarking sites are seeing more traffic from targeted searchers. While my feel is that such traffic are not of the highest quality and many are simply window shoppers or information browsers, it can still add up especially if you manage to get people to vote for your bookmarks.

Digg has a voting system and those sites that manage to get a good number of votes within 24 to 48 hours stand a good chance to stay on top of the category. This can mean 1000s of free visitors.

At the same time, I have also seen MSN ranking hop links in their search engine. Could this be the doing of social bookmarking? Quite likely.

A suggestion here though I have not tried it is to take a newly launched product’s hop link and social bookmark it to 100s of sites. Observe for a while and see if it ranks. Who knows someone who is searching for it will find your link in Del.icio.us?

The exact steps to do social bookmarking properly:

1. Decide a page you want to rank for. It can be the home page of your site or internal page.

2. Create an appropriate title. Research on the keyword you are trying to rank the page for. Make sure that the keyword is also the target keyword of your content. Do not even attempt to try to rank a webpage on the topic of list building for the keyword “making money with surveys”. It just won’t work.

3. Research on the tags. One clue is to look at the tag cloud at each social bookmarking site to get an idea of the most popular tags. If it is relevant to your webpage, use it. Tagging your bookmark with popular tags will get you some good traffic.

4. Social bookmark at as many social bookmarking sites as possible.

I personally have found 2 free automatic social bookmarking tools that are very useful. Each can post your bookmark to over 15 social bookmarking sites, so in total, you get your social bookmarks listed on over 30 top high PR bookmarking websites.

They are Onlywire.com and GetBookmark.com. GetBookmark.com is somewhat new but works fine. You can just drag and drop it into your browser and go to each of your webpage and bookmark conveniently.

5. Be Creative

Create attractive titles and descriptions, but do not forget to use the target keywords.

Alternate your titles and descriptions for different social bookmarking sites to avoid looking spammy to the search engines.

Go ahead and social bookmark your websites for more traffic, sales and subscribers.

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