Friday, March 5, 2010

List of Social Bookmarking Sites

AllMyFavorites – Share favorites/bookmarks with your friends. Search the favorites/bookmarks of others. Access your favorites/bookmarks from any computer
with an internet browser.

Backflip – Automatically organizes personal bookmarks into a searchable hierarchical directory.

Blinklist – List of the best sites on the web

Blogmarks – BlogMarks is a collaborative link management project based on sharing and key-word tagging.

Blummy – blummy, a handy tool that puts your favorite services at your fingertips.

BuddyMarks – The Online Bookmark Manager
. The Web’s best online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.

BookmarkTracker – free web-based bookmark management, social bookmarks, tracking, sharing, synchronizing and RSS services

Chipmark – Chipmark is an on-line bookmark manager that allows you to access your bookmarks from any computer. Chipmark fits seamlessly into your browser so you don’t even have to change your bookmarking habits.

del.icio.us – Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service.

De.lirio.us – cut the web down to size with this social bookmarking tool.

Diigo – Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community

Dogear – dogear is meant to be used as an in-page bookmarking tool. If you often read blogs, articles, online books, or e-texts of whatever kind, dogear can help you keep track of your position within a text. It also keeps a history of everything you’ve read.

Favoritoo – Free web-based service to manage your bookmarks (favorites). Autologin, sharing, searching are some cool features offered by Favoritoo.

Feedmarker – Free bookmarker and newsreader with tagging

Foxmarks Foxmarks is now Xmarks. Please visit Xmarks.com for the latest and greatest version of our free bookmark sync and backup add-on

FreeLink – Keep your link pages private or share them with your friends and colleagues by sending them a URL (no login required). Take advantage of the Internet knowledge that you and your friends have collectively. Create a network of expertise by linking to each other’s pages.

GiveALink – Share your bookmarks with the community and help others navigate the Web

iKeepBookmarks – iKeepBookmarks.com allows you to upload, and keep, your bookmarks on the web for free. You can access them at any time, from any computer… anywhere!

Jack of All Links – Jack of All Links is built off of the websites that you send us. If you find a funny video, let us know. If you found a cute picture of a cat, let us know. We want links!

LinkaGoGo – Need instant access to your favorite bookmarks? from any browser? With our unique dynamic bookmark toolbars you will have your favorite sites always at hand.

Linkatopia – Would you like to share your bookmarks and favorite web sites with your friends but keep them hidden from everyone else? Linkatopia is a free utility for keeping your favorites online!

Linkroll – BOOKMARK, COMMENT, ORGANIZE, SEARCH. IT’S SIMPLE AND IT WORKS

Ma.gnolia Now called Gnolia – Welcome to the re-launched Gnolia, an online community built around link saving and sharing. To keep Gnolia sustainable, membership is by invitation only with former members given priority for now.

Mister Wong – Mister Wong is a leading social bookmarking service with portals in 6 languages and over 7 million monthly users globally

Mobilicio.us – Access del.icio.us bookmarks from your mobile device.

MyBookmarks – MyBookmarks is a free Internet service that allows you to keep your browser bookmarks and favorites online so you can access them from anywhere.

MyHq – Easily manage your bookmarks in a banner ad FREE environment. Import/Export, create public pages (password protected if you wish), share bookmarks. All for FREE.

Mylinkvault – MyLinkVault is a free online favorites manager. Other favorites managers can be so clumsy to use – trying to rearrange your favorites can be slow and frustrating.

MyPip – Make your own personal favorites page, Manage your favorite bookmarks and have them available everywhere within a moueclick

My Stuff (from Ask) – Import your bookmarks or favorites

Netvouz – Netvouz is a social bookmarking service that allows you to save your favorite links online and access them from any computer, wherever you are.

OnlyWire – OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click.

Oyax – Oyax is 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 not only with your own browsers and machine, but also with other people.

Simpy – Simpy is a social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag, search and share your bookmarks, notes, groups and more.

SiteBar – SiteBar is a solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them or take them along.SiteBar is a solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them or take them along.

SiteJot – It allows you to store all your bookmarks/favorites in one online location, making them easy to access and manage from anywhere. Your bookmarks (organized by category) are displayed on a simple, well laid out page. SiteJot will even integrate with your web browser, allowing you to bookmark any site you are currently visiting with a click of your mouse.

Snipit – Intelligent bookmark management and information sharing

Socializer – The Socializer allows you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems. Instead of having a link to each social bookmarking website, you have a single link to all of them!

StartAid – StartAid is perfect for saving all your Bookmarks and Favorites Online. You can quickly access your Bookmarks and Favorites from any computer and best of all, you will never lose a site again.

Stumble Upon – Discover the best of the web in less time.

Sync2it – SyncIT is the original FREE bookmark synchronizer.

Turboclip – yet another social bookmarking site.

Twine – You’re into a lot of things. Keep track of them with Twine.

WireFan – Save Your Favourite Sites and Quickly Access them from Anywhere.

Zurpy – Save your bookmarks, text clippings, images, files, and news feeds in one place. Easily tag and find what you’ve saved. Access your stuff from any computer anywhere. It’s free and extremely easy to use.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Promoting Your Site to Increase Traffic

The main purpose of SEO is to make your site visible to search engines, thus leading to higher rankings in search results pages, which in turn brings more traffic to your site. And having more visitors (and above all buyers) is ultimately the goal in sites promotion. For truth's sake, SEO is only one alternative to promote your site and increase traffic – there are many other online and offline ways to do accomplish the goal of getting high traffic and reaching your target audience. We are not going to explore them in this tutorial but just keep in mind that search engines are not the only way to get visitors to your site, although they seem to be a preferable choice and a relatively easy way to do it.

1. Submitting Your Site to Search Directories, forums and special sites

After you have finished optimizing your new site, time comes to submit it to search engines. Generally, with search engines you don't have to do anything special in order to get your site included in their indices – they will come and find you. Well, it cannot be said exactly when they will visit your site for the first time and at what intervals they will visit it later but there is hardly anything that you can to do invite them. Sure, you can go to their Submit a Site pages in submit the URL of your new site but by doing this do not expect that they will hop to you right away. What is more, even if you submit your URL, most search engines reserve the right to judge whether to crawl your site or not. Anyway, here are the URLs for submitting pages in the three major search engines: Google, MSN, and Yahoo.

In addition to search engines, you may also want to have your site included in search directories as well. Although search directories also list sites that are relevant to a given topic, they are different from search engines in several aspects. First, search directories are usually maintained by humans and the sites in them are reviewed for relevancy after they have been submitted. Second, search directories do not use crawlers to get URLs, so you need to go to them and submit your site but once you do this, you can stay there forever and no more efforts on your side are necessary. Some of the most popular search directories are DMOZ and Yahoo! (the directory, not the search engine itself) and here are the URLs of their submissions pages: DMOZ and Yahoo!.

Sometimes posting a link to your site in the right forums or special sites can do miracles in terms of traffic. You need to find the forums and sites that are leaders in the fields of interest to you but generally even a simple search in Google or the other major search engines will retrieve their names. For instance, if you are a hardware freak, type “hardware forums” in the search box and in a second you will have a list of sites that are favorites to other hardware freaks. Then you need to check the sites one by one because some of them might not allow posting links to commercial sites. Posting into forums is more time-consuming than submitting to search engines but it could also be pretty rewarding.

2. Specialized Search Engines

Google, Yahoo!, and MSN are not the only search engines on Earth, nor even the only general-purpose ones. There are many other general-purpose and specialized search engines and some of them can be really helpful for reaching your target audience. You just can't imagine for how many niches specialized search engines exist – from law, to radiostations, to educational one! Some of them are actually huge sites that gather Webwide resources on a particular topic but almost all of them have sections for submitting links to external sites of interest. So, after you find the specialized search engines in your niche, go to their site and submit your URL – this could prove more trafficworthy than striving to get to the top of Google.

3. Paid Ads and Submissions

We have already mentioned some other alternatives to search engines – forums, specialized sites and search engines, search directories – but if you need to make sure that your site will be noticed, you can always resort to paid ads and submissions. Yes, paid listings are a fast and guaranteed way to appear in search results and most of the major search engines accept payment to put your URL in the Paid Links section for keywords of interest to you but you also must have in mind that users generally do not trust paid links as much as they do with the normal ones – in a sense it looks like you are bribing the search engine to place you where you can't get on your own, so think twice about the pros and cons of paying to get listed.

More info : http://www.webconfs.com/seo-tutorial/increase-traffic.php

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