Last Updated on April 20, 2020
If you run a blog, probably you have realized by now the importance of social networking sites in traffic generation. From my experience, and as you can see from the 103bees.com chart below, social bookmarking not only brings traffic from other diggers, stumblers, redditers…, but it also attracts an increase of natural search engines traffic. Look at the chart and you’ll see that every time there was a traffic increase due to social bookmarking (the gray bars), it was accompanied by an increase of the Google search traffic (the yellow bars), and this effect lasted a couple of days following the traffic spike.
So we agreed that social bookmarking is important. The problem is TIME! It takes a lot of time to submit every good piece of content you produce to all those 60-70 (or maybe more) social bookmarking sites. I used to spend about one hour each day doing that (taking into consideration that I wrote on average one post per day). Until today.
Back in August, I’ve joined The 30 Day Challenge, a 30 days program which was supposed to help its students to make their first 10 bucks by selling some affiliate product. Unfortunately, due to severe family issues (hospitals, funerals and all that stuff), I had to cut something from my to do list, and one of those things was this program (and this blog, as you can see on the traffic chart). The good part is that you can still join the program and go through it, all materials being still available. I did not finish it yet, but I highly recommend it to all those of you who are interested in internet marketing. I really learned some useful tricks and I finally saw which was my big mistake which prevented me to earn anything from affiliate programs. Briefly, I was skipping an important part of the preliminary research.
Back to our social bookmarking sheep: SocialPoster is a site which can automate part of the submission process. The site comes with a toolbar button. When you are on a website that you want to submit to social websites, you just select the desired text and click the button to pre-populate the submission form with information from the current page, like URL, title, excerpt from the text. You add some tags, then you’ll be taken to a menu where you will find about 52 most known social bookmarking sites. However, you still need to open an account with all those websites, but once this done, the submission process can happen very fast. I like it and I hope you’ll find it useful too. Good luck with your submissions, and don’t forget: if content is king, make sure you present it to the crowds, so they know it!
Sounds interesting. Reminds me of OnlyWire.com’s social bookmarking applet. It’s supposed to bookmark a site on 15 different social bookmarking sites at once, but only 10 or 11 of them actually work. I may have to give this a try.
Did you end up creating an account on all 52 different sites?
I already had an account with about half of those, and now I maybe have 3/4 of them covered. However, I don’t think all of those would bring in significant traffic. So far, I’ve noticed traffic coming only from indianpad.com, but it’s only half a day since I submitted that page.
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing, and it still has a human touch to the submission process so it should not be considered a bad tool by those social networking sites, hopefully. The site does promote some sites like adult sites and pharmacy-generating sites through its adult social submitter and its blog, though I think and hope that such a things should not result in any submitted site being penalized by any of the social networking sites.
I have not submitted a page through it yet, so I have 1 question for you please:
1 : when you submit a page, are you prompted to log into each network on a separate page or the same page?
Thanks again for sharing. 🙂
Bes, I think it is safe using that. You are prompted to login on the login page of each network, thus leaving this site (the link opens in another tab). All it does is to remember the info for your page and to fill in those boxes automatically. This is how you save the time, by not typing in each time the same info.
Thanks for explaining Simonne. I am definitely going to try it now. 🙂
Ok Bes, good luck! I’ve just confirmed myself one thing: after submitting a new page to about 10 social networking places, I’ve got indexed by Google in less than 3 hours.
I’m using SocialPoster for a while, it’s OK but i’ve got 2 issues with it:
1) they aren’t doing good job updating it – submissions to some sites fails because the interface was changed, site went out of service etc.
2) new sites aren’t added often
Other than that it does what it’s supposed to, and does save time
//Sleeping Dude
Sleeping Dude, thanks for the input. I also noticed that they don’t update it. However, for several sites where I used to submit anyway, it saves time. And it got me an idea: I’m going to make a better one. I just need some time to work on it 😉
I am coming with a better and faster service than socialposter, is http://www.SocialMarker.com , a lot of advantages .. nice bookmarking