Social Bookmarking in a Flash (update)

Update!!!

I have found that Social Bookmarking is a good way to increase traffic. In this video I explain what Social Bookmarking is and how to apply it. I also show you step by step how to mark your sites and pages on 48 different social bookmarking sites in less than 20 mins.. I will show you how to use Socialmarker.com
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please watch the entire video and read this post entirely … There is an update about SPAMMING!!!!

What is SocialMarker.com?

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That’s where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.

This tool should not be used to SPAM Social Bookmarking sites, rather to speed up your bookmarking process.

This video is very interactive.. you will find live links so you can click and follow along.. Brought to you by Handmadeology

For those of you using Internet Explorer that can’t drag the SocialMarker button into your tool bar.. you will have to enter the info manually… you will only have to do this once per url that you mark. It will only slow the process down a few seconds!
What you want to do:
1. Read all the Terms of Service for any bookmarking site before
you mark any link. Most bookmarking sites will not allow
you to mark commercial sites, like Etsy.
2. Provide the info.. Remember you are marking links so
others can find them.. If they see a link with little text that is
not interesting.. they will move on.
3. When you can add a picture do it.. this will grab attention to a mark.
4. Pick a few sites that you like and use these when you bookmark. (read the terms of use)

Like stated in the Video PLEASE read the Do’s and Don’t of each site

Here are the Dos and Don’ts of the 5 major sites
Stumble
Delicious
technorati
Digg
propeller

Must Read Very Important Links
by: ohmeohmydesign
StumbleUpon: What it is and how to advertise on it without being spammy!
Updated rating/tag/review removal instructions:
Clarifying how honest social bookmarking can still benefit your shop:
More TOS/TOU terms from popular social bookmarking/networking sites:

What you DO NOT want yo do:
1. You do not want to SPAM the sites with your links.
2. Do not EVER mark your links more than once.
3. Never Create an account on any site just to mark your links alone… this is SPAM.
4. Only submitting your own blog posts? YOU are a social bookmarking spammer!
5. Do not mark until you read the terms of service.
6. Don’t Mark Etsy links on the sites that don’t allow it.

Here are 2 videos I found that explain Social Bookmarking, and how it will help!

Social Media in Plain English

Here are the top 30 Social Bookmarking sites

160 Social Bookmarking sites

www.delicious.com
www.slashdot.org
www.reddit.com
www.digg.com
www.propeller.com
www.twitter.com
www.folkd.com
www.tumblr.com
www.mixx.com
www.furl.net
www.multiply.com
www.dzone.com
www.blinklist.com
www.mister-wong.com
www.hugg.com
www.backflip.com
www.bookmarks.fr
www.chipmark.com
www.sphinn.com
www.clipclip.org
www.searchles.com
www.de.lirio.us
www.jumptags.com
www.simpy.com
www.indianpad.com
www.spurl.net
www.designfloat.com
www.bibsonomy.org
www.bobrdobr.ru
www.linkagogo.com
www.alltagz.de
www.moemesto.ru
www.kirtsy.com
www.mylinkvault.com
www.healthranker.com
www.listible.com
www.cellphonenews2.com
www.sloger.net
www.smi2.ru
www.buddymarks.com
www.myvmarks.com
www.newstube.de
www.smallbusinessbrief.com
www.toodoo.ru
www.leenks.com
www.dropjack.com
www.weblinkr.com
www.joomocracy.com
www.faves.com

www.paie.cn
www.actualtopics.com
www.tabletpccounter.com
www.webmaster911.com
www.socialogs.com
www.linkarena.com
www.ruspace.ru
www.100zakladok.ru
www.chipmark.com
www.xixxi.de
www.ho.tli.st
www.rambhai.com
www.a1-webmarks.com
www.agentb.com
www.fav-man.de
www.koolontheweb.com
www.jackhumphrey.com/imnews/
www.easymash.com
www.iphonigg.com
www.politigg.us
www.politigg.co.uk
www.scottishinnbloomingtonin.com
www.indiareporting.com
www.getigadget.com
www.demos.kubelabs.com/PHPDug/
www.gogurl.com
www.klickts.de
www.wolkenkratzer24.de
www.lieblnk.de
www.faito.ru/tags
www.smilestory.ru
www.postonfire.com
www.the-bookmarks.com
www.dig.gr
www.tecnoclon.com.ar
www.laflink.com
www.expert-views.info
www.fashionablylatent.com
www.savoie-actualites.fr
www.joseluispretto.com
www.messija.net.ru
www.newblogs.ru
www.emodrama.com
www.business-planet.net
www.korica.info
www.realestatevoices.com
www.topstumbles.com
www.surfurls.com

www.beemylink.de
www.digitalsoul.com
www.affilimedia.com
www.realestatebookmarks.net
www.b24.poel-tec.com
www.kozete.com
www.2centsnews.com
www.bio-bookmarks.de
www.tagzswap.de
www.pluggos.com
www.pligg.de
www.linktagger.com
www.mouse-network.net/bookmarks/
www.i-bookmark.info
www.taxonomies.info
www.addyx.com
www.tooligo.de
www.windows-software.info
www.upmod.net
www.dewfun.com
www.psychoticape.uni.cc
www.zapiz.com
www.suptoronto.com
www.feedelize.com/ca/
www.buzzingtopics.com
www.bd-khobor.com
www.seedz.org
www.h00ligan.de
www.stumbled-on.com
www.marlat.de
www.mms.dreamhosters.com/links
www.blogstr.net
www.booki.at
www.1-lesezeichen.de
www.qiel.com
www.okenoretro.flashnukers.com/scuttle
www.twinprime.net
www.mytwopence.net
www.easydatafeeds.com/social
www.contentfetcher.org
www.favelicio.us
www.bookmark.evanzo.net
www.social-bookmarks.software-www.solutions-juergens.com
www.xeeoo.com
www.de.digitalsoul.com
www.theseotree.com
www.metalz.info

www.plurk.com

www.facebook.com

www.myspace.com

www.stylehive.com

www.thisnext.com

www.kaboodle.com

www.friendfeed.com

11 Responses to “Social Bookmarking in a Flash (update)”

Aimee says:

February 6, 2009 at 1:32 pm

Thanks Timothy!
Hmadmin says:

February 6, 2009 at 11:52 am

Great points…Most of the Social Bookmarking sites will not allow you to mark Etsy links…..If you are marking your blog posts… that is fine..
BUT you need to make sure you are marking more than just your content… Make sure you read the TOS on any site you are using before you mark.
The tutorial has not created spammers.. people chose to use the information in the wrong way…

`tim
aimee says:

February 4, 2009 at 6:58 pm

“Social Bookmarking is a good way to increase traffic” (?)
–the social bookmarking lesson seemed to be another great promotional tool for bloggers/artists to “increase their traffic” (see: “Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website”) but the amendments to the post seem contrary to the idea of “self-promotion” and determines that bookmarking your latest blog post or shop item is spamming…

So, Timothy, are you saying that we can/should only bookmark (in other words: promote) other peoples websites? If I featured an Etsy artist (not myself) on my blog then bookmarked it…how does that classify?? I did that over the weekend as a test…got the most views ever but I don’t want o be viewed as a spammer and may not use the social bookmarking again for that reason.

I fear the tutorial on social bookmarking has created little handmade spamming monsters and it might reflect poorly on us as a whole…maybe i just worry too much.
Kiiss says:

February 2, 2009 at 12:03 am

Thank you so much. This will be so useful
Laurie Wilson says:

January 31, 2009 at 7:40 am

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I had no idea some of these things even existed. I’m looking forward to more videos and information from you.
Social Bookmarking and all that. « Joanna’s Photography says:

January 28, 2009 at 5:51 pm

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Kitty Ballistic says:

January 27, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Excellent video! You explained it all clearly and quickly. I’m ready to go a-bookmarking - thanks!
CristinaH says:

January 26, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Hi Tim, I tried this and propeller says this:
“This domain has been banned for spam content.”
Did I do something wrong?
Hmadmin says:

January 26, 2009 at 3:59 pm

You welcome.. and thank you!

~tim
Ronalyn says:

January 26, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Great tips and how-to, Timothy! Thanks, you are the best.
AliBaliJewellery says:

January 26, 2009 at 2:35 pm

I found this on Timothy’s blog some time ago and have used this tool. Whilst my sales are still quite modest, I’m seeing a definate upward trend after starting with social marking. Timothy explains the concept clearly and succinctly and if a technophobe like I can follow it, anyone can!

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