WordPress Guide To Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is probably the quickest and easiest way to generate traffic and attention to your blog or any website for that matter. Social bookmarking, I guess would be considered a web 2.0 tactic. And there is no better way to take advantage of social bookmarking than using the available plugins and the power of WordPress.
Although there are numerous social bookmarking plugins available for WordPress the very first option I want to share with you is not a plugin at all but a web site that will bookmark over 20 social bookmarking services at one time. To get started go to onlywire.com and join Onlywire.
After joining Onlywire you will be presented a list social bookmarking services with two boxes next to them, clicking on the name of a site will open that site in a new window. Join the site, get your username and Password and put it in the corresponding list back on the Onlywire web page. You can join as many of the list you want. It is going to take you some time to join all these sites and save your information on Onlywire, but doing this little bit of work upfront now will reduce your social bookmarking in the future. You may want to click Save My Logins after each one you add in case you close the page or your Windows-based PC locks up or crashes. A bit of sarcasm there at Bill Gates expense, sorry Bill.
Now here comes the cool part, at the top of the Onlywire you will see two bookmark tools like this:
Now simply drag one or both of these tools into your browsers tool bar and drop it there. The Save Page (fr) tool bar opens a small frame above the page you are bookmarking, the Save Page (std) tool bar will open a larger new window. I find it easier on the eyes and to see all my tags using the Save Page (std) tool bar.
To bookmark your latest blog post it is very important to first click the title of the the blog post to open it in it’s own page. Remember you want to bookmark the URL of each new post, not the URL of your main blogs URL over and over! Now you can click either the Save Page (fr) or the Save Page (std) tool bar in your browsers tool bar.
The Title and URL boxes should be filled in already and all that is left is fill in the tags box. The tags will need to be properly formatted, in this case multiple tags need to be space separated. To join two words as one tag phrase use a hyphen between the words. An example to tag the phrase WordPress plugin guides would be: WordPress-plugin-guides
I also suggest to copy the first paragraph of the blog post and pasting it into the Clipping / Comments / Notes section as well.
Now its time to add your WordPress blog post to a few more social bookmarking sites using a few WordPress plugins. The social bookmarking plugin I usually add to new blogs for my customers when I install a new WordPress blog, or configure their existing blog is called Share This. I really liked the Gregarious plugin that but it is not stable with WordPress version 2.3 so until it is upgraded Share This works just fine.
The share this plugin adds a little green icon at the bottom of each post as seen here on my blog. Clicking it will open a list of social bookmarking sites that you and your readers can use to bookmark your blog posts. Again be sure to have the blog post open it its own URL before bookmarking. The Share This plugin may have some of the same sites in it that you saved to in Onlywire, but don’t worry if you double dip, the sites usually let you know if already bookmarked the URL.
The musts in the Share This list are: Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Google Bookmarks. The others should also be done if time allows. Play close attention to how these sites want the tags formatted. Each site may be different and should have instructions how to add tags. Also consider that most of these social Bookmarking sites have a tool bar option that can be added similar to what I discussed above for Onlywire.
Other, but by any means not the only, WordPress plugins or widgets for social bookmarking are Social Bookmarks, WP PlugIM (the blue icon shown at the beginning of this post) and bumpzee.com
For a good basic understanding of what social bookmarking is all about and a good video guide to using Del.icio.us, a top bookmarking site go here: Social Bookmarking in Plain English
For an outstanding series of guides to another top social bookmarking site called StumbleUpon, check out thsi series at the Turnkey Business Blog
- Secrets To Stumbleupon – Introduction
- Secrets To Stumbleupon – Fresh Content
- Secrets Of Stumbleupon – Tagging Your Posts For A BIG Traffic Boost
- Secrets Of Stumbleupon – Making And Keeping Friends
- Secrets Of Stumbleupon – Becoming A Top Stumbler
Be sure to share your favorite social bookmarking sites or WordPress plugins and widgets in the comments box below!
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I’ve been having some difficulty with StumbleUpon lately…not sure if it’s allowing me to stumble some of my posts anymore.
Another great tool to use (which is better than onlywire in my view) is socialmarker.com. Let me know what you think…it’s direct access to 34 social bookmarking sites!
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I think there is nothing that helps as much as social bookmarking. There are a lot of websites that are ready to take up your links and you can always make use of that.
But the important point is to maintain quality, because eventually content is the king and if your product or whatever does not have it in them then they will chucked out.
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Social Networks like twitter and facebook are really useful when it comes to promoting your brand. Even Digg is really useful when it comes to creating a name for your brand on the net.
I think it is always a safe bet considering the number of users involved, there has to be a group of people interested in what you say.
I have never heard of onlywire.com thanks for the information I will check it outu. The whole post must have taken a great deal time for you to make!
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Social bookmarking is the way to go forward and it is something that I ma relying heavily on. I think my bet is worth it though.
Onlywire.com is a site that I have used long back and it is a good deal better than many of the other sites out there. I think for starting off this is the best site. Social bookmarking is getting big and the best way to stay front is to get the best resources.
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I may be slightly lazy, but for articles that I think that the potential of being a hit, I just contract out the submission for a firm that submits the article title, keywords, description, what I pick out to 125 different social networking sites. It’s interesting well written content and properly & professionally submitted so not spam, but it only cost me about $10; so well worth it.
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Social Bookmarking is the way forward. It can really take you places, and that is why this post comes in a really good and interesting time.
I think that this can really boost many campaigns. Thanks a lot!
Need to bookmark right away!
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Great information. I never knew about Onlywire. I’ve used socialmarker in the past. The trick with these autosubmitters is that you will actually get penalized for having too many links placed all at one time. I would recommend submitting articles over time, not all at once unless you don’t care about your search engine rankings.
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Informative post. Wasn’t really aware of Onlywire, have to check it out though! However, I would refrain from submitting to too many social bookmarking sites at once. Nonetheless, they can serve as a great tool in building links as well as some of these sites are turning out to be more of a community (particularly Stumble Upon )where you can interact with fellow bloggers, and share tips and ideas…
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Do you consider social bookmarking still as valuable as in earlier times? I was wondering if it hasn’t lost some of it’s power?
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Jeff Replied:
September 15th, 2009 at 7:36 am
I don’t so much any more but haven’t really kept up with it much. Nothing beats good solid original content. Post that and the traffic will find you.
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Neuseeland Replied:
September 15th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Thanks for your fast reply. Although everybody writes “content is king”, I doubt that. I’ve experienced that the ones with the better backlinking structure are superior to the ones with the better content.
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I was really confused regarding social bookmarking of word press. Now my problem get solved. Thanks for help. WordPress is really great
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