SEO and Social Bookmarking Tools

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Absolutely Crucial! Very few people will read your blogs or view your Youtube videos without proper placement in the search engines. There are many, and I mean MANY resources out there that you can pay for, but don't waste your money. Google is not stupid and you simply cannot throw endless repetitive links at it and think it will increase the ranking of your site (this is what many paid services do).

The first think to do is make sure you've optimized your webpage or blog posts. Make sure the title, content, and keywords all are synchronized. What I mean is, make sure they all contain similar relevant key words. Although a bit of caution - Do Not Key Word Stuff! The search engines are smart and if you overload your content with the key word "free stuff" for instance it will look bad to search engines.

An Effective Title is Always Key for Blog, Website, or Video. For example, if your video is about Cat jumping into a box, don't make the title "Funny Cat." There's so many videos with this title yours will get lost in the mix. Make it more specific like "Funny Cat Leaping into Small Box." This isn't a perfect science, so play around with a title to see what draws more attention.

Also tailor the key words to what you think people are searching for. If you don't know what key words people are searching for check out Google Trends, it's very helpful. Also, make sure to not have too many key words. There's not a consensus on an exact number to use, but a good rule of thumb is to aim for about 10 keywords. What's more important than the number is the quality and remember to include your most searched for key words in your text and title sparingly.

There's no shortcuts when it comes to SEO. With link building for better search engine placement you must meet certain criteria including but not limited to the following:

1. It must be done over time. Search engines will penalize you if you crazy and create hundreds of links in one day.
2. It must have value to the search engines. Posting a link on twitter is good, but 25 people retweeting that link and talking about it on other social networks is much better.
3. Submitting your site to search engines is good (I recommend Submit Express - Submit up to 5 Links Free to 70+ search engines) but getting other bloggers or websites to feature your blog or website with a link is much better!

Basically, the principle to use is quantity is not better than quality, and search engines are smart enough to recognize use this criteria to display the most relevant results to the searcher.

Another good thing to do is Social Bookmarking! Tweet about your blogs and posts on twitter, post videos on youtube about your blog, post those videos on your blog, and think of anything else creative you can to promote your blogs. Remember that search engines hate new content and love old trusted linked to, liked, shared content. So remember you won't make money blogging overnight. Get your blogs linked to as many other sources as you can an search engines will reward you with higher rankings.

Here's a helpful list of 30 Social Bookmarking Websites in order of traffic. Add your blog posts to them so you can increase your backlinks and your search engine ranking (SEO) on Google!

Also, you can automate your link building free (10 links per day) at IMAutomator.com

HINT: Enter all of your links into your browser favorites, export the file, and then use it to import your bookmarks elsewhere. Not all bookmarking sites allow you to import, but many do!

1. Google Bookmarks - Access your Bookmarks on any computer, and use Lists to share them with friends.

2. Yahoo! Bookmarks - Allows users to import bookmarks and organize them into folders. Also offers a toolbar to add into the browser.

3. Twitter - Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news.

4. StumbleUpon - a discovery engine that finds the best of the web, recommended just for you.

5. Slashdot.com - top traffic, great bookmarking, just be very careful to not over post or you will be banned.

6. Reddit.com - The front page of the internet. User-generated news links. Also be very careful not to over post.

7. Digg.com - The best news, videos and pictures on the web as voted on by the Digg community. Breaking news on Technology, Politics, Entertainment, and more!

8. Delicious.com - Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.

9. Technorati.com - Real-time search for user-generated media (including weblogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes.

10. Folkd.com - Social Bookmarking - Save your bookmarks and links online and search what your friends like.

11. Blinklist.com - Easily Share Your Links with Others: While browsing, you can save and share links in one click.

12. Diigo.com - is a web highlighter, sticky notes. Powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community.

13. Linkagogo.com - the free Online Favorites and Social Bookmarking Application, its unique dynamic toolbars automatically adapt themselves.

14. Tagza.com - a Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking web site, where registered users submit their favourite links and others users can add that links.

15. Mylinkvault.com - online links made easy.

16. Buddymarks.com - an online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.

17. Sphinn.com - a place for web, online, search, interactive and internet marketers to share news stories.

18. Pxpf.com - a Do follow Social bookmarking website which opens the door to new ways of bookmarking, managing and mingles your categorized resources.

19. Oyax.com - a social bookmark manager. It allows you to add web sites to your personal collection of links, categorize those sites with tags and share your collection.

20. Tipd.com - the social media site for financial news, ideas and tips.

21. Bookmarkitnow.com - a social bookmarking site for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources.

22. Wirefan.com - Advanced Social Bookmarking, News Articles Submission Site.

23. Bookmarktracker.com - free web-based bookmark management, social bookmarks, tracking, sharing, synchronizing and RSS services.

24. Netvouz.com - a social bookmark manager where you can store your favorite links online and access them from any computer.

25. Chime.in - an interest network, where people share, connect with others, and build communities around their favorite topics.

26. Dizzed.com - source for social news and networking.

27. Karmalynx.com - a social bookmarking site where you can contribute links to content and submit your own articles for publication.

28. Linksmarker.info - your source for social news and networking. A do-follow social bookmarking site.

29. iZeby.com - a web based social networking platform that allows members to bookmark and share all thier favorite web content.

30. Dropjack.com - News Articles on Business, Entertainment, Technology, Ecommerce & more.
 
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