One of the things known to increase traffic to your website is social marketing. It isn't rocket science to work out that social marketing is both time consuming and boring, so why do it? The good news is that you don't have to, you can find yourself some free social bookmarking software!
You could of course subscribe and pay for an automated system. You need to enter all your registration details for all the social market sites you want to submit to, and let the software do the work. There are some pretty good sites that do this. There are at least two good sites that will do this for free, albeit to a smaller number of sites. The two sites I'm looking at here are Social Monkee and Social Marker.
The Social Marker site is semi-automatic and possibly the first free social bookmarking software on the web. What you do here is to tick boxes for the sites you want to submit to (and you need to register for these), fill out the boxes for the target url, the keywords you want to use, a title and information box and click "go". The software shows all the information you need in boxes at the bottom of the page, then takes you sequentially to each site where you drag this information to the appropriate place and click "submit" once you are logged in. You then you simply move on to the next site. There are three problems I have personally found with the Social Marker site.
* I frequently get thrown out of the submission sequence and have to re-start from scratch again.
* When you list the keywords, it is natural to separate them with a comma. However, not all sites want them entered in this way, so you will have to do it manually.
* It is pretty well known that Google does not like identical texts plastered everywhere and will ignore them. Social Marker at the moment, only allows one text option, unless you enter more manually for each site.
On the positive side, Social Marker is free social bookmarking software and submits to some of the top social sites. It allows you to choose those sites according to whether they have 'do follow' links or not.
Social Marker is sponsored by the ever popular Book Marker Demon program, and this would be my suggestion if you want to pay for a dedicated and useful piece of software.
Social Monkee works a little differently to Social Marker, but is still free social bookmarking software. The Monkee has a widget that you download to your browser (Firefox), and simply click on to allow you to download 25 inbound "do follow" links to one site, per day, completely free and with no strings. You can also submit sites by logging into your Social Monkee account, but using the Monkee widget is easier as it pre-populates the first required information fields. What is also better than Social Marker, is that you have three titles, three information fields and three sets of keywords. Hit submit, and the Monkee runs around submitting different spins of your information to the social sites and then writes a report for you to view (clever Monkee heh!). This process is a great deal less time consuming than Social Marker.
Now, the above is also totally free, but if you want to spice it up a bit and get a hundred inbound links a day, to at least three different pages or sites, then you will need to upgrade. Now the good news is you can do this with, or without paying. To upgrade for free, just recommend the free service to 12 people or, if you just want to pay the one-off $47, this will give you 9000 back-links every month instead of the 750 you get free! I'm afraid I took the free option (there is even a free way to get a lot of links if you want to do it), but you don't have to.
Now, both these sites are worth looking at and both use free social bookmarking software. But if I had to pick one, I prefer Social Monkee as it works well, rarely has any hickups and allows you to spin the text and titles to some degree.
You could of course subscribe and pay for an automated system. You need to enter all your registration details for all the social market sites you want to submit to, and let the software do the work. There are some pretty good sites that do this. There are at least two good sites that will do this for free, albeit to a smaller number of sites. The two sites I'm looking at here are Social Monkee and Social Marker.
The Social Marker site is semi-automatic and possibly the first free social bookmarking software on the web. What you do here is to tick boxes for the sites you want to submit to (and you need to register for these), fill out the boxes for the target url, the keywords you want to use, a title and information box and click "go". The software shows all the information you need in boxes at the bottom of the page, then takes you sequentially to each site where you drag this information to the appropriate place and click "submit" once you are logged in. You then you simply move on to the next site. There are three problems I have personally found with the Social Marker site.
* I frequently get thrown out of the submission sequence and have to re-start from scratch again.
* When you list the keywords, it is natural to separate them with a comma. However, not all sites want them entered in this way, so you will have to do it manually.
* It is pretty well known that Google does not like identical texts plastered everywhere and will ignore them. Social Marker at the moment, only allows one text option, unless you enter more manually for each site.
On the positive side, Social Marker is free social bookmarking software and submits to some of the top social sites. It allows you to choose those sites according to whether they have 'do follow' links or not.
Social Marker is sponsored by the ever popular Book Marker Demon program, and this would be my suggestion if you want to pay for a dedicated and useful piece of software.
Social Monkee works a little differently to Social Marker, but is still free social bookmarking software. The Monkee has a widget that you download to your browser (Firefox), and simply click on to allow you to download 25 inbound "do follow" links to one site, per day, completely free and with no strings. You can also submit sites by logging into your Social Monkee account, but using the Monkee widget is easier as it pre-populates the first required information fields. What is also better than Social Marker, is that you have three titles, three information fields and three sets of keywords. Hit submit, and the Monkee runs around submitting different spins of your information to the social sites and then writes a report for you to view (clever Monkee heh!). This process is a great deal less time consuming than Social Marker.
Now, the above is also totally free, but if you want to spice it up a bit and get a hundred inbound links a day, to at least three different pages or sites, then you will need to upgrade. Now the good news is you can do this with, or without paying. To upgrade for free, just recommend the free service to 12 people or, if you just want to pay the one-off $47, this will give you 9000 back-links every month instead of the 750 you get free! I'm afraid I took the free option (there is even a free way to get a lot of links if you want to do it), but you don't have to.
Now, both these sites are worth looking at and both use free social bookmarking software. But if I had to pick one, I prefer Social Monkee as it works well, rarely has any hickups and allows you to spin the text and titles to some degree.
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You can look at these sites at; Social Monkee and www.SocialMarker.com. Or for the dedicated program mentioned above, Book Marker Demon simply follow this link.. This article, Using Free Social Bookmarketing Software To Increase Traffic has free reprint rights.
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