Backlinks are the name of the game in the new media, and promotion strategies that fail to take that into account fail. Enter SocialMarker, a free service for promoting your blogs and articles to 47 sites safely and easily. It handles all of the major sites like digg, but also submits to lesser known bookmarking sites like Blinklists.
The easist way to use the service is to put the link they provide you on your toolbar. Then it is as as simple as visiting the site you want to bookmark and clicking the link. Any meta-data such as URL, tags, title and excerpt of your post will autoload and all you have to do is click the boxes of the services you want to submit to.
All the submission screens load in a frame that manages them, allowing you to page forward and back between the different sites. In the bottom, the information, URL, excerpt, and tags you used will be saved in case a given site doesn’t accept the automation, so all you have to do is drag and drop the data into the form.
Then it’s just hitting submitting buttons. If you submit to these sites often, you probably won’t even have to log in.
I would advise all writers in the new media to use this site to promote your work. Backlinks and rating sites are invaluable to building your online presence, and establishing yourself as an authority includes letting people know you are an authority. There are programs out there that sell for $50-$100 that do less than this site does for free. The time it would take you to promote yourself manually could be better used writing and finding new work.
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Thanks for the advice, Thanks.
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http://socialposter.com is one of the simplest ways of submitting the URLs to hundreds of social bookmarking sites.
Really useful one..
I have tried this now.. and it's so easy that anybody can use and submit his sites to all the top social networks..
I want to thank you for sharing such a nice tip.. Keep up the good work by sharing such useful information here..
Richard Vanderhurst
Thanks for your feedback, Richard. Some people find SocialMarker to be
a timesaver. I don't really use it anymore, myself, but I'm glad you
like it.
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Yes socialmarker.com is really good website.
Thanks
Thanks for the feedback. It's true, but the benefit there is in people
on your shout lists and on those services that will see your content
and perhaps end up linking back to it themselves. As far as I know, no
social media services follow, and what I am hearing is that
directories are useless for linkjuice now, as well, even though they
are dofollow, because they not being counted.
very good tool which i use once in a while myself. however, most of the bookmarking sites on socialmarker are nofollow so there is no backlink benefit. they however are useful for traffic and branding purposes
You really get something out of it through distribution of your work
to multiple audiences. Most social networking and news sites like
those posted to by this service use “nofollow” links for submissions,
so you don't get any linkjuice from them directly. The hope is that
others will see your content and link to it themselves and spread it
for further penetration.
social marker is very good to use with automate login and we can get submitting to all 47 with one place only. Not one by one with a lot of login. we can get fast index too for search engine…
Do i need to register one by one to all bookmark sites?
Isn’t there a faster way?
Unfortunately, yes. Each site is doing its own thing and usually
requires individual profiles. A few have OpenID, I think, and some
have probably added Facebook Connect or Google Friend Connect, but
since I already had all my accounts set up I haven't checked.
Great Advice, we should also use our local social bookmarking site in each our country
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That's a good point. Yes, localized social media and bookmarking can be
great for building a buzz.
sounds pretty simple… anyone have stats of how much traffic improved?