Blogging With WordPress in a Web 2.0 World With Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is setting up an account on one or many of the social bookmarking sites like Technorati, Del.
icio.
us, Stumbleupon, Digg, Furl, Ma.
Gnolia and many others and submitting your posts to them.
Setting up an account on any of these services is quite easy because they don't want your life story, usually just a user name and password.
But - even though it isn't required, fill out your profile completely.
The first time you go to these sites it will take a bit longer but once your account is set up, it's a matter of clicking to the site and bookmarking your page.
Bookmark your page? What page? You bookmark the url (hopefully of your blog post that you just did.
You can put keywords into the form too so others can find your post by keyword.
This does two things - you get a link to your post - and we all know how important incoming links are for the search engines - and you make your URL findable by keyword for anyone who uses that social bookmarking service and searches by keyword.
But - here's the best thing you can do - How can you leverage the use of social bookmarking sites? Easy - Take you current blog to the next level with the Share This plug-in.
It lets your readers do your social bookmarking chores for you.
Your readers vote on your blog posts by bookmarking them on their favorite sites.
Presto - another incoming link! This plugin also allows them to e-mail your post to their friends.
How viral is that?? Think of these sites as mini search engines.
If you use any of the 'big' search engines to search by keyword you'll get about a zillion returns.
How do you choose? Can they all be relevant to what you want to know? Of course not.
By using these social bookmarking search engines, the results will nearly always be relevant if the blogger picks good keywords, there won't be a zillion returns.
icio.
us, Stumbleupon, Digg, Furl, Ma.
Gnolia and many others and submitting your posts to them.
Setting up an account on any of these services is quite easy because they don't want your life story, usually just a user name and password.
But - even though it isn't required, fill out your profile completely.
The first time you go to these sites it will take a bit longer but once your account is set up, it's a matter of clicking to the site and bookmarking your page.
Bookmark your page? What page? You bookmark the url (hopefully of your blog post that you just did.
You can put keywords into the form too so others can find your post by keyword.
This does two things - you get a link to your post - and we all know how important incoming links are for the search engines - and you make your URL findable by keyword for anyone who uses that social bookmarking service and searches by keyword.
But - here's the best thing you can do - How can you leverage the use of social bookmarking sites? Easy - Take you current blog to the next level with the Share This plug-in.
It lets your readers do your social bookmarking chores for you.
Your readers vote on your blog posts by bookmarking them on their favorite sites.
Presto - another incoming link! This plugin also allows them to e-mail your post to their friends.
How viral is that?? Think of these sites as mini search engines.
If you use any of the 'big' search engines to search by keyword you'll get about a zillion returns.
How do you choose? Can they all be relevant to what you want to know? Of course not.
By using these social bookmarking search engines, the results will nearly always be relevant if the blogger picks good keywords, there won't be a zillion returns.
