Step 6 ~ Using the Online Bookmark for Building Links

purpose: to build more links to your top level sites

The Online Bookmark

This is the last step in your niche website marketing strategy. In the last step you submitted your top level sites’ RSS feeds to directories. This step is going to involve your top level sites as well. Building links to the sites that point to your site helps make those links stronger, which gives your main niche site a little more authority.

What is an online bookmark?

Remember when people used to bookmark a page on their computer so they could find it again? If you did this, you probably ended up with a long list of sites that you never used because you could never find anything again when you went to look for it ~ well at least that’s how it happened for me.

The online bookmark is the same thing ~ except instead of being on your computer it’s online and everyone can see it. These bookmarking sites also give you the option to add tags to your bookmarks so you can find them later. There are tons of bookmarking sites available for you to use.

The first thing you will have to do is sign up for an account at each one of these bookmarking sites. Yes, it’s boring, but it’s worth it. You can find a great list of bookmarking sites at Social Marker. You will see the option to choose “dofollow” bookmarking sites. I suggest starting there. The dofollow tag means google will follow your bookmark back to your site, and will give you credit as it being a backlink to your site. Once you’ve signed up for the dofollow sites, you can click the “best” option and sign up for those.

You don’t want to submit all of your top level sites to the same bookmarking sites. This will look kind of spammy ~ having a bunch of bookmarks all pointing to information about the same thing. It’s better to break up your list of bookmarking sites. You have a list now of sites you have created accounts at, just break it down into as many lists of 10 as you can and bookmark each of your top level sites to one of those groups of 10 bookmarking sites.

If you are using social marker you will need to download the bookmarklet. Then go to your site and click it. Social marker will then grab your site information and will put it in each of the bookmarking sites for you. You still need to click through each one, but it will save you some time.

Time to head back to itunes for another podcast and get busy bookmarking.