If you've ever researched how to bring in more traffic and visitors to your website - you'll probably know some of the basics. All the main requirements can be found with some basic searches on the internet. The process though to implement these requirements can be difficult which is why whenever possible I automate these tasks using website promotion tools.
Ok so if you're done your research you'll know you need some links to your website - the more links the better. If you've ever tried emailing webmasters asking for links you'll know it's neither a fun or rewarding job on the whole. So where can you get these important links - well these are still quite a few more options and some can be made much easier by using website promotion tools. The method I am going to explain is to use social bookmarking sites - these are all over the web and represent a large part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. They are basically an online favourites folder where you can store all your favourite webpages and manage them - importantly for website traffic you can also make them public and share them with other users of that particular bookmarking service. The beauty of this system is that when you place a bookmark of a web page on a social bookmarking site it is listed as a link to that website.
Now at this point I am hoping that anyone who wants to promote their site has figured out it might be a good idea to bookmark some of their own web pages ! Well I agree entirely. The problem is that there are many hundreds of these social bookmarking websites and registering even a single page can take a huge amount of time - how many pages do you have on your web site ? It is extremely time consuming and in the passed I have had to charge my clients a lot of money to register lots of their pages on these social bookmarking websites - it's not particularly stimulating work either !
So what are the options ?
- Register each page manually with every social bookmarking site- if you have lots (and I mean lots) of time on your hands this is indeed an option
- Pay a company to submit your website for you - there are many places on the web that will submit your website pages to the social bookmarking sites for you
- Use automated website promotion tools - there is software which can submit pages automatically for you
Now if you have only a very small website then submitting manually is probably the best option for you - have a search on the web for 'list social bookmarking sites' and you'll find a selection to create an account an add your pages manually. But if you have any more pages or you regularly add pages to your site it's probably going to be impractical to do this. There are some companies who will submit your pages professionally but many use very basic scripts which just spam your pages on to the bookmarking sites - this is not a good idea. The idea is to obtain links gradually and naturally and you have little control over these services of how and when they submit. Personally I use some software to automate the process - to register a few customers pages would still have taken several hours manually - I literally can do it in a few minutes. I have full control over when, where and how the pages are submitted and I can trickle in pages to multiple accounts over several weeks for optimum affect.
You can have a look at it here.
SocialBot 3.0 Social bookmark software
All the best
Joe Search Engine Rankings
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