Friday, November 28, 2008

How To Get Web 2.0 Sites To Link To You

By Brian Armstrong

Search engine strategies and getting traffic to your website can greatly be enhanced by using websites like socialmarker.com. This is a website that will save you a lot of time on getting links back to your website. These links help getting traffic as well as will help you get search engine rankings.

The first thing to do is to compose your article, your blog post, or your web page. You can use any number of free websites to create your content. This is the first thing that needs to happen before you'll get the benefits of social networking for your site specifically. You can always start with other people's websites or web pages, but typically you'll get the most benefit by doing some of both.

Once you're ready to go with your blog post or article, you'll need to setup new accounts with the social bookmarking sites you can find on socialmarker.com. The advantage of using a service like this is that you'll be able to bookmark your articles or blog posts with one main website instead of having to repeat the process and visit multiple websites with each bookmarking process.

There are a few different components to these bookmarking sites that you'll need to consider. The first thing that you'll be prompted with is the title. Ideally this title is going to have your main keyword phrase in the title itself. However, the title should match the title of the blog post or article.

The description is another part of using socialmarker.com. Use this description as a strong call to action to get people to your website. You obviously don't want to deceive people into visiting by promising them something that isn't there, but make sure that in the description, you give a compelling reason for people to want to read more or find out more information.

You'll be prompted for your web address which you'll need to supply. Just make sure this is the web address for the exact page that you're trying to get ranked or "deep linked". If you use the main domain instead of the specific article or blog post page, you'll get those links blocked because they'll be duplicates. Basically, make sure you're bookmarking only individual pages assuming you've already added bookmarks for the main domain using your most appropriate keyword phrase for the entire site.

Tags are also important because they are what you'll use to get the individual "tag" pages ranked. These tag pages, especially using the long tail keywords or keyword phrases with little competition. This means that you can leverage the search engines to the point where you get not only your blog post ranked, but possibly several of your individual bookmark pages ranked including the tag pages.

These social bookmarking sites are a great way to get relevant links back to your sites and depending on which ones you use will have a very high "authority" in the eyes of the search engines. These sites can also help you generate a significant amount of traffic all by themselves. The majority of these sites also allow you to create profiles in which you can usually add links to whatever site you want to as well which will also help with the search engines and your overall traffic strategy. - 15615

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