When you social bookmark a blog post you are creating a back link back to your blog. In the past getting back links to your site could have been done in various ways including reciprocal linking, classified ads, article directories, ezine advertising, discussion forums, and so on.

Your goal was, and is, to get your website URL in his many different places as possible. The more back links you had the more opportunities there were for people to find you.

Now when you blog, you can social bookmark your blog article much like you were submitting an article to an article directory, except it is easier to do.

The easiest way I know to do that is to join as many social directories as you possibly can. One place you can quickly do that is on a website, at Onlywire.

There you will find over 20 directories that you can join in one location. Then you can go to your only wire account and submit your newest blog article with one click.

They then take the information that you give them and turn around and bookmark it to all of the directories for you. The great thing about the service is they do not charge anything for it.

The hardest part is joining the 20 directories, initially, and that does not take that long to do. From here on out you are now going to be getting back links to your blog URL in over 20 directories every time you submit your newest blog post to your Only Wire account.

These back links serve two purposes. First of all there is potential traffic from the social directory back to your blog.

Secondly, they serve as search engine bait for the search engines to find the newest blog post to. If a search engine likes what you are writing they can rank you high, which gives you additional traffic from them as well.

Social bookmarking your blog articles to as many directories as possible is a smart thing to do. Certainly one of the easiest ways to bookmark a blog article is Onlywire.

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I have compiled a list of Social Bookmarking websites from a number of sources. You can find it in the resource box at the end of this article.

Once you have bookmarked them, you can view them, sort them by category/keyword as well as see links from others that have been categorized like yours.

You also establish RSS feeds for each category (tag) that you ’subscribe’ to. This alerts you to new links in your areas of interest. Your bookmark collection/RSS Feed becomes viewable to others who can also copy your bookmarks to their own collection. So now you can aggressively promote your RSS feed to the RSS Directories and Search engines, syndicate them and make them available to a much wider audience.

Social bookmarking sites also help you to meet other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have knowledge of web resources that you don’t.

On Social Bookmarking sites, you first create an account. Then you bookmark interesting and useful things in the area of your interest or expertise. By doing so you create a useful Feed. Once you’ve done that you intermittently, (or aggressively), add useful and interesting items, (that could use additional exposure), from your own content. Make an honest effort to contribute USEFUL information and links. This is all about sharing and exposure. Done properly, you can be as aggressive as you want to be about sharing information. You can share your blog(s), links to your informational/resource sites etc. Think about the fact that when you share links to other’s resources, you’re also effectively promoting their content as well.

This is a way you can aggressively and ethically promote your content and the content of others. I personally have hundreds of gigabytes of my own information and information of others, connected to my notebook. In the final analysis, it’s doing me no good what-so-ever just sitting there. But by organizing it, online, I can help myself, (getting organized, getting my content exposed, etc.) and help others at the same time.

If you spice up your feed with too much sales and marketing related or self promotional stuff, people can and will easily drop their subscription to your feed. And instead of gaining good will and doing a service to the internet community you could get labeled as a spammer and suffer the consequences.

So while being aggressive is possible and acceptable, being careful to consider the best interest of the community is certainly warranted.

Balancing being ethical and providing a useful service to others with promoting your own content enables you to be as aggressive as you like. But remember, in the final analysis, others will make the decision on whether it’s ethical and useful or spam.

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The nice thing about social bookmarking is that people can comment and rate the bookmarks that you add to a social networking site. In this way, you can have great exposure for a site and allow others to add their own ideas to it too. An example of a social bookmarking site is del.ici.ous.

News, If your blogs are more about current events, the latest technologies, or even politics, than you will want to use social news sites like Digg.com. These sites offer round-the-clock news and can be particularly popular with news hounds. They show up to comment and rate stories and depending on their popularity, you can land on the front page and get lots of traffic! So, be sure to use this site if your blog is appropriate for it.

Tags, When you write up a post, the blog interface will have a place for you to put tags in to identify what the article is about. You can simply type in some key words there, or you can use a plug-in like SimpleTags to help you identify good tag keywords. Either way, the more relevant the key words and the more searchable, the easier it is for people to find your blog. So, be sure to add that information in if you want to attract people to your blog.

Comments, As you begin to understand the blog world, you will start to develop relationships with other bloggers. You can use that networking to help you create more traffic for your site simply by going to other blogs and commenting on a popular entry. When you comment, many blogs automatically put in your blog URL in where your name appears, if you are in the same community. And, you can also use html to add your own link to an article that might be relevant to the post.

People who come to read the other blog will read the comments and if your’s is interesting they may follow your link or click on your name. Either way, this will produce much more traffic for you than simply sticking to your own blog.

RSS Feed

This feature is automatic on Wordpress blogs and a plug-in in other blogs. You should have it enabled because it allows people to subscribe to your RSS feed. This feed gets sent to their newsreader every time you update your blog, so it keeps people motivated to keep visiting, but only when new content is posted. The more regularly you update your blog, the more frequent the RSS feed is updated and the more people visit your blog.

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One innovative way to get the clicks where you want them is take part in a Social Bookmarking site. If you have not yet heard of the phenomenon, there are sites where you can store your list of bookmarks online. This is convenient for the person who’s always hopping from computer to computer; you’ll always have all the information you need at your very fingertips. Even better, you can make your bookmarks public; you can share things like your favorite news sites, or your top ten favorite webcomics. The big advantage to this sort of service comes when you realize that you are an expert. Make a list of bookmarks that feature other sites that are like yours and make it public.

Social bookmarking sites work because of the selection involved. As more people become wise to the concept of Search Engine Optimization, they are a lot more wary of the first ten hits that come up when they check Google or Yahoo. Social bookmarking works because it has the endorsement of another real person. A real community can spring up around the idea of social bookmarking and it becomes a network of people who are trading information. With the right list of bookmarks made public, it will take a very small amount of time before your blog will be getting more hits than ever before.

To get started with social bookmarking, there are a number of sites that you can go to. http://www.technorati.com/ is one of the first sites to take advantage of this phenomenon and the interface is quite usable. You’ll find more technical bookmarked lists here, which is ideal if you have a blog on computers, televisions, or general gadgetry. At http://www.stumbleupon.com/ you will find a more social atmosphere, and there is more of a focus on entertainment. If you have a blog on the latest celebrity doings or even of your photography, this might be the place for you. Though it might look less polished than the other two, http://del.icio.us/ packs a lot punch with a history that goes back almost five years. Del.icio.us is a wonderful place for almost anything you might want to find and more and more people are using it to find the information they need.

This is also a good way to find out how people are coming to your blog. What searches are they using to get there? Once you can pinpoint that, you can can tailor your blog to meet the demand and receive more traffic as well. Many blogs also offer subscriptions, which will tell readers when you have updated, and in this way, with a list of readers at your disposal, you can play your content to an audience that you know better.

Social bookmarking is a trend that any blogger who wants more traffic to his site should take advantage of and with sites like Technorati, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us, you have many avenues waiting for your personal touch.

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One good way I found out that can help provide few more backlinks to your websites or blog is by frequently posting “How To Posts”. I have been using this method on my other blogs and they have been of great help to me!

But what are How to Post? These are basically short manuals on how to do something. If fact anything you can think of. Depending on the niche in which you find yourself, you can frequently write and post interesting How to Post on your website and I can assure you that the results will be tremendous.

As people read your website or blog, some will agree and some will not agree with what you are saying, just depending on how controversial the subject is.

Those people who agree with you will usually have the tendency of linking to the given post on your website or blog so that his or her visitors can benefit from the knowledge you provided in your “How TO Post”. The more they link to your website, the more backlink you will be creating.

That is yet another tiny little way of getting few more backlinks to your website which will help in bringing you more targeted traffic and maybe generate a sale!

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Social Bookmarking to gain links is very easy to do and involves posting the particulars of your blog post on several social bookmarking sites.

First of all, you need to be blogging consistently. If you are extremely busy, then you can post one or two articles per week, and doing this will be way better than doing nothing.

This is OK if you stick to your schedule. Just don’t let your blog lie dormant for long time periods as this will erode away any benefits that you have already gained.

Each blog post can be bookmarked to all of the top social directories, as time permits. If you want, you can add a plug in which will cause your posts to be automatically bookmarked to the top sites every time you post.

One of the best free bookmarking services is Onlywire.com. With this service, you can bookmark to over 20 of the top social sites with one mouse click.

It will take a little bit of time to sign up with all of the bookmarking sites within Onlywire, but it will be well worth your time to do so and you will only have to do it once.

Make sure when you bookmark your blog posts to include relevant keywords that are associated with the article. It is therefore important to produce high quality articles which contain targeted keyword phrases.

To get the most out of your blogging, you will first of all, want to generate a list of targeted long tail keyword phrases. Next, write each blog post using the keyword phrase as the central theme of the article. When you bookmark your blog posts, create a short summary that includes the keyword phrase and don’t forget to place the keyword in the tags portion of the bookmark.

You will start to understand how valuable social bookmarking is to increase back links for your blogging when you see the resulting traffic. This traffic will not only come from the social directories, but also from the better search engine rankings which you will receive.

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As a result of all the free tools now offered online, you simply do not have to plunk down any cash to get started with an online business.

You might well have already received a bunch of emails from people or companies that are trying to convince you to purchase products that will show you the “secrets” to online success.The truth is, however, you don’t need any secrets to get started. In other words, it is very simple to get your web based business up and running, even if you don’t have any money to spend.

To start you off, it’s easy to get going with your own blog at Blogger and pay nothing at all. This website is rather helpful for anyone wanting to make some extra money, for, due to its being owned by Google, it is set up to allow you to start your own Google Adsense account (for free). An Adsense account is great, because it enables you to earn money every time visitors to your site click on the ad links.

The more you build your blog and promote it by posting on related blogs and forums, by socially bookmarking it with Digg and Propeller, and by writing short articles to post for free on sites like Ezineartices, the more traffic your blog can get and the more Adsense money you can make.

Sounds almost too good to be true, but many people are making good incomes from Adsense alone. Eventually, you can also add affiliate sales to your income. Affiliate programs are a method of earning a cut of sales that is made when you send traffic to another commercial site. It is possible to earn from a little money all the way up to three quarters of every sale you refer.

Once you have one blog up and running, you can either continue to add content to that blog or start another and start expanding your online business. Yes, it just is that easy to begin your business and see money start rolling in. The more time you spend on your business, building pages of content or learning how to drive traffic to your blog, the more you can make.

Eventually, you can start to reinvest some of your income in your business. For instance, you can get your own low cost hosting plan to set up websites that you own. Or you can set up your office with a 2 line cordless phone (or even a set of 4 line cordless phones for future expansion). Do some investigation and track down thebest cordless phone for your home based business. Get a comfortable chair too, as you will be using your office as the hub from which you build your business. As you begin to reinvest in your business, you will find that it will grow and grow. Eventually, you can have not only a second income but a full time business.

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