Social Bookmarking and Marketing
Table of Contents

Introduction to Social Bookmarking 3
The So-Called Web 2.0 Revolution 3
What Is Social Bookmarking and Tagging 4
Demographics of Social Bookmarkers and Taggers 4
Try It Yourself 7
How Bookmarking Helps Marketing 8
1. Getting featured on the front page 8
2. Being Found by Fellow Bookmarkers 9
3. Increasing Links to your Site from Public Bookmark Pages 10
What Kinds of Businesses Does Bookmarking Help 10
Marketing Strategies for Social Bookmarking 12
1. Encouraging Bookmarking by Visitors and Subscribers 12
 

Free Bookmarking Scripts and Services

12
 

Which Social Bookmarks Icons Should You Feature?

14
   

Asking E-Mail Subscribers to Bookmark

14
  2. Submitting Your Content to Bookmarking Systems 15
   

A Bad Experience with Spam Tool OnlyWire.com

15
   

Responsible Multiple Submissions vs. Spamming

16
   

Importing Links and Submitting RSS Feeds

17
   

A Public Relations Approach to Client Links

17
   

Bookmarking Sites that Pass PageRank

18
How I Have Implemented Social Bookmarking 19
Appendix: Social Bookmarking Article Links 21
Introduction to Social Bookmarking 21
Articles about Digg.com 22
Articles about Squidoo.com 23
Social Bookmarking Sites 23
Submission Link Code 23
Spamming and Gaming Social Bookmarking Systems 24

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