Key Social Bookmarking Mistake - Not Promoting Your Promoters

If you were a professional boxer then you would likely have a manager and a promoter. The promoters job is to get you fights, while the manager is there to get you ready for the fights. But even the promoter has business cards and a listing in the local yellow pages. Well, so should your social bookmarking campaigns.

Social networking and social bookmarking are tools that can generate a ton of traffic to your websites, the only major problem is that you need to know the difference and how to best use each one.

Social networking sites is your website manager. You can use these sites to generate content where people can read it and then click through to your websites.

Social bookmarking sites are site that you can use to link to content worth linking to and looking at.

The big mistake most people make si that they never think to bookmark the social networking content pages that they have created.

A good traffic strategy to use for social networking and social bookmarking is to make sure that you have social network content pointing to your site and social bookmarks pointing to both your sites and your other social content.

While your content on Squidoo might get traffic on its own, imaging how much more traffic it can get with a little more effort. This one little step of bookmarking your social content pages can increase both their incoming links and their traffic. This in turns helps the traffic eventually trickle down to your sites.

It's a numbers game. Social bookmarking can help to level the playing field, but only when you do it right. Make sure you are taking the time to get those highly ranked social networking content pages you created bookmarked and help let everyone else know they exist.