How To Get Free Back Links From “Do Follow” Social BookMarking Sites!
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Search Engine Optimization basically consists of two main factors your content and people linking back to you. The latter accounts for most of the weight in Google’s eyes. We’ve all heard that web 2.0 is the Internet. Period! It’s not a fad and it is here to stay. So we as Internet marketers need to come to grips with that, evolve and discover how to use this phenomenon to our advantages without abusing it! Yes its a fine line. But so many things are in the marketing world.
What Is Social Bookmarking?
One way to balance marketing and adding value to the web 2.0 community is to use Bookmarking websites. In a nutshell a bookmarking website is an online tool that people use to… Guess what? Bookmark or save their favorite sites. But unlike the bookmarks you may be using in Firefox or Internet Explorer (Do people still use that browser?), websites saved on social bookmarking networks are made public. This makes total sense since Web 2.0 is all about sharing content and interactivity. Chances are if you’re bookmarking a website, you must feel it has some inherent value. Consequently this may also mean that others will share the same perspective about these websites. So having it online for the world to see is an easy way to share that value and website.
How To Use Social Bookmarking Sites For Backlinks
Okay enough about the sharing is caring B.S. Here’s what’s in it for you on the marketing end. Social bookmarking networks tend to place the websites that are bookmarked on display within their homepage or various sections of their website. So the obviously, the thing for you to do as an Internet marketer is to bookmark your best content on various social bookmarking websites to gain some visitors. I’ve actually done this and its definitely helped me get some additional traffic. It’s not boat loads of it, But if you have some compelling content and titles people will click on your bookmarked websites more.
So that’s a direct result of social bookmarking websites! But there is also an indirect effect that you may not be aware of. As I said earlier, search engines like Google tend to rank websites based on links. So you should always try to get back links to your website using the proper anchor text. An easy way to get these free back links are from "SOME" social bookmarking websites! I emphasize the word SOME because many web 2.0 websites have no follow tags. No follow tags are a piece of code placed on links telling search engines: "I don’t vouch for this link! So ignore it like a stepchild." This was designed to prevent shady marketers from posting comment spam or other crap on web 2.0 websites. No follow tag basically stops any of the link juice you would get from an established website that the search engines trust.
However there are some social bookmarking websites that don’t support no follow tags where you can potentially get some search engine valued backlinks to your sites and content. Finding them has now become very easy using PostToaster.com which is currently in beta. PostToaster.com allows you to easily go in and enter your website URL, title, description and tags. Then you can easily check off which social bookmarking websites you want to send your url to. But there is a nice little feature that displays only the websites that don’t support no follow tags! How freaking great is that?
Prediction
We all know that as soon as the word gets out, BLACK HAT SEO scum will be exploiting this like Internet Explorer security holes! But in the mean time I do highly recommend that you legitimate marketers go and use PostToaster.com to post your best content to all the social bookmarking websites on PostToaster.com. Either way you may win free traffic via direct clicks on your bookmarks or indirectly via the do follow backlinks on some of these social bookmarking website. You have nothing to lose either way and everything to gain!
So go and get some free social bookmarking website backlinks today. Don’t say I never gave you anything! I want to thank the good folks at DOSHDOSH.com for bringing this website to my attention!
So what do you think? Is this something you would use? Do you have any reservations? Post your comments below!
May 7th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
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