Make Money The Honest Way

This is a brief post just to mention the website promotional potential of social bookmarking. There are several sites dedicated to this relatively new online phenomenom, the most popular being del.icio.us; digg; stumbleupon; reddit and technorati.

As with all website promotion, it’s all about gaining more visitors to your site. These social bookmarking sites allow you to register, or “tag” not only your website, but also each individual page and blog etc that is related tou your site (or sites). This provides your site not only with valuable backlinks, but also spreads the news about the very existence of your site.

The good part about all this is that you only need to get lucky once by attracting a big hitting visitor and that could mean a huge influx of new visitors to your site. Which is what you want, right?

Lots of visitors means lots of potential new customers which is good for your business.

So if you are wondering how to go about setting up social bookmarking as a source of potential new visitors to your site, I’ll make it easy for you by providing the links to the above social bookmarking sites:-

All you need to do is register with each site, then follow their simple instructions to get your site registered. Each one is slightly different, so I’ll give you the bare basics here - the rest you can do yourself as it really is quite easy.

del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us

Sign up and download the toolbar. Then all you do is bring up each page of your website and click the “tag” button. The page is tagged. Do it each time you update a page with new content.

stumbleupon - http://stumbleupon.com

Again, sign up and download the toolbar.

digg - http://digg.com

Sign up and verify your email. Then add your website url to yor profile. Then add your blog via the easy steps.

reddit - http://reddit.com

Sign up. Then you are able to submit your article via the submit panel for general viewing.

technorati - http://technorati.com

A little different in that technorati is biased towards blogs. Sign up and claim your blog by taking a piece of code which will be your profile eg: Technorati Profile, and paste it in a new post on your blog - like I’m doing right here!

This is only a brief overview as it’s quite a new thing for The Honest Way to be involved in, but as the results begin to show, there will be another post to update you.

Thanks for calling in!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

A great way of generating traffic to your blog is to regularly update it with quality posts and then ping it to all the blog services. There are a number of free blog pinging services around and they all do pretty much the same job of alerting the blog services that your blog has been updated.

Over time, this will bring a number of curious blog readers to your blog. If they like what they see, they will come back often and that number will grow, raising the popularity of your blog.

One upside of this is of course the potential to generate an income from your blog. This can be done in a number of ways. For instance, you can directly monetise your blog by adding google adsense ads. You could also add affiliate links with some good ad copy and boost your sales of affiliate products.

Best of all is you can use the increased traffic to your blog to direct them to your website and increase visitors there. To get these visitors to go to your website you have to offer something that will interest them.

By posting on your blog a short but informative introduction to a well written article on your website can be just the thing to get their interest and have them clicking the link over to your site to read the main article. That’s where you will hopefully entice them to either sign up to your list or buy one of your well advertised affiliate products, or your own product if you are marketing one.

The Honest Way Blog Pinging Service

As part of The Honest Way’s ongoing assistance to newcomers to the cut and thrust of the Internet Marketing world, we have added a special page to our website to enable you to ping your blog without having to leave the site. Just go to the homepage, click on the “Ping Blog” tab on the menu bar and you’ll be taken straight to our own custom blog pinging service. Just type in the name of your blog and it’s url and hit the “Ping the Empire” button.

Job done!

I hope this has added to your knowledge of Internet Marketing and Promoting your blog and website. Feel free to leave a comment if you want - we all need feedback and it will help to make this a better place.

Thanks for your visit and come again soon!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way