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 Adsense Income by 50%. All I did was place some tags on my webpages and bookmark them to the major social bookmarking sites.
 
But recently I met with a problem. I kept building so many webpages that I found it very time consuming to manually bookmark them. As a solution, I bought some social bookmarking automation softwares. Now, these worked very well, but there is one issue. They are too expensive! Some almost sucked me bone with their monthly fees.

As you can see, the ridiculous pricing of these softwares have made them beyond the reach of most people. Many are forced to do the painful job of bookmarking their sites manually.

After months of research, I finally found the software that I was looking for.

One that -
- bookmark to at least 20 major bookmarking sites
- supports adding unlimited scuttle bookmarking sites
- has no monthly fees
- free updates

I was so excited when I put this software to work! Interestingly, I quadrupled my Adsense income in a month. I also see a huge jump in my search engine's ranking. The amount of traffic coming to my site was amazing.

And the best part - it's not $297, or $197…not even…heck, I will let you just go to the page and see…

The Bookmarking Demon

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Tagging Tool

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Tagging is really the act of bookmarking a site with one of the services and a tag is actually nothing more than a keyword. Let’s say for example that you are into fishing and you find a really great site on fishing, you could “tag” that site with the tag of “fishing” as well as others and then share the page from your chosen bookmarking service with others. This is the way that tagging is used by the general public to share sites with each other.

So now you are probably wondering how you use this to promote your sites and actually make money with it. It’s really quite easy. Let’s say you have a site about golf and you write an article about the perfect golf swing. Well, you can tag the article with the tag, “perfect golf swing” and then link to the URL on your site where the article resides. It is that simple, the tag just needs to be relevant to the subject matter you are linking to. You can’t just use a tag for a high traffic term and then link it to something totally irrelevant, which is a sure way to get banned from the bookmarking services. It is easy enough to get traffic and use them to get indexed in the search engines without trying to game them.

Similar to keywords and search engines, the longer tail tags or longer phrases are easier to dominate than the more broad or general ones. One feature that Technorati has in particular is the ability to “claim” your blog for a particular tag. The cool thing about this is that a lot of people going to Technorati search for blogs about a particular subject so they will input the tag of the subject they are looking for and if your blog is listed for that tag it is displayed! On the Flickr site pictures can be bookmarked in the same way by tagging them a with a descriptive name that relates to the picture. You can start with the longer tail phrases and then continue adding more until you eventually have as many tags as possible that link to your site as well as the tags on your site itself. This takes us to another area of explanation which is the two main ways you can use tags for the purpose of business promotion.

When it comes to the use of social bookmarking and tagging for business promotion you can place tags on your on site which are then crawled and placed in the social bookmarking directories and you can also tag on your own “authority site network” that you have created on one or more of the services which is a method strongly espoused by Sean Wu of  Tag and Ping

In order to utilize the tagging method on your own site you will need to use a blogging platform such as Movable Type, Wordpress, or Blogger. I have to tell you from personal experience I can not recommend using Blogger for business due to their censorship. If you are going to use these methods in order to promote your websites as I am teaching you need your own domain, hosting and either Wordpress or Movable Type which you can install on your own server. Blogs have a built in functionality which allows you to alert the major blog directories of new posts when you make one. This is the process referred to as “pinging”. You can insert tags like we talked about within your posts which will result in an almost immediate indexing of the post by the social bookmarking service or blog directories.

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  What in the world is Social Bookmarking? Social bookmarking has become a HUGE force both in internet marketing as well as mainstream culture. The wildly popular Social Networking site MySpace sold to News Corp last year for $580 million despite having no real measurable revenue. The value placed on the site was from the enormous traffic it generates and even at over a half billion was considered a bargain. YouTube sold to Google for 1.65 billion with only 20 million in revenue. These big ticket sales just demonstrate how popular and how important such sites are. 

 Okay, enough news. How does one actually use these services to make money? First off, let me forewarn you that just like sending out B.S. emails and setting up SPAM blogs or SPLOGS as they are known online, abusing the social bookmarking services will result in getting your site banned by them and you will get exactly the opposite results from what you are seeking. With that said, I suggest you pay close attention to what I talk about in this report as well as some of the resources that I am going to suggest to you.

Like many online marketers I am always on the lookout for new techniques and methods for driving free traffic to my sites and try to reduce the use of methods such as PPC (pay-per-click) and co-registration promotions. If you can get enough of your target keyword pages to show up in the top of the major search engines you just about have a license to print money without having to put out any of your own.

There are quite a few bookmarking sites out there but for the purposes of using them for internet marketing we are going to focus on a few of the more popular such as Del.icio.us, Furl, Digg, Spurl, and the one I really love, Technorati. There are some automated tools that I will be sharing with you later on that will help you to automate the process of bookmarking your sites.

Before we get into an overview on the sites themselves, let me give you a short definition of what social bookmarking is overall. In a nutshell, it is a way for people to bookmark their favorite places online instead of on their own computer. The difference in this method is that instead of having your favorites saved in folders on your own computer you have them saved online under certain “tags” or keywords. In addition you can also set multiple tags for an item. For example if it were an affiliate marketing site you may have “marketing, internet marketing, affiliate marketing, affiliate programs, etc.” Another aspect is that just by the nature of how the social bookmarking sites are set up, other people can also see and share your favorite sites with you. Flickr is a social bookmarking site that specializes in sharing pictures and is therefore particularly popular.

 All of the major bookmarking sites will help you to get traffic and if you have a blog you will get the greatest benefit by having constantly updating content that can then be sent to the directories when your blog updates. They love fresh and UNIQUE content. There are software plugins you can use which I will give you later that will put buttons on your blogs which make it easy for someone to recommend the articles or content from your site or blog. One of the other sites that has become extremely popular recently is Digg. The site was started by Kevin Rose for under $1,000 and now with over 400,000 members and 200 million page views is one of the largest news sites on the internet. Just to give you an idea of how big they are, their readership is almost as large as the New York Times.

One of the new things that some of the better bookmarking sites have been doing of late is ranking bookmarked pages. So how does this help you? Simple, the pages with the highest number of bookmarks are shown at the top of their lists. Just like search engine results, the higher you are in the results the better the benefit to you.

Personally, I like to give my readers a lot of options which is why I will put buttons to Del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Reddit, Ask, Blinklist, Blogmarks, Google, Ma.gnolia, Spurl, Yahoo, and another service called Socializer that covers many more. This gives me a large coverage of all of the major sites. I will share some of the better plugins and automation software at the end of this report. In addition to the buttons that I put on my blogs I will also create “tags” for Technorati and add them to my posts. I will cover the subject of tagging in a moment. I really try to focus a lot of my efforts on Technorati because they have given me really good results. I strongly suggest that you do the same. You should also sign up for OnlyWire, it is a free service that allows you to manage multiple social bookmarking memberships from one location at OnlyWire.com.

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