From: Edwin Brian
Date : Thursday, October 29, 2009
Dear Friend,
I hate Web Promotion. I hate it more than you do, and I always have.
But once again, the search engines saw this coming and as a result it is now very difficult to rank one's websites on search engines, based on Blog and Ping.
Article submission is one of the methods I used. However, though it is still a very effective traffic generating tactic, it is also very time consuming.
I spent thousands on SEO tools and even hired an SEO expert. I spent hours doing Search Engine Optimization on-site and off-site. I did see some traffic now and then but the figures were not something i am proud of.
I was at the mercy of the search engines and was spending more time and money than I could earn!
I was desperate for a real traffic generating solution. I needed to be able to get traffic fast! To my luck, I found the very answer to my web promotion pain.
What is Social Bookmarking & Why is it so powerful and different from other web promotion tactics?
Social Bookmarking websites are basically sites that categorize and store 'bookmark links' (links which take one to a specific website). Millions of visitors flood these Social Bookmarking sites to search for information.
So the idea of bookmarking is to post links back to your web page from these Social Bookmarking websites. You need to specify some keywords (we call them TAGS) which categorize your bookmark.
This allows others to search and even vote for your bookmark. Social Bookmarking is in a league of its own because of its ability to generate traffic by sharing links.
Just in case you are wondering if BookmarkingDemon is a demonic blackhat spamming social bookmarking tool - The answer is NO! It is not designed to spam!
Some social bookmark automation tools that are not designed for spamming are accused of blackhat because most users are using them the wrong way!
E.g. A doctor gave some sleeping pills to a male patient to aid him in his sleeping disorder. But the male patient used the pills to spike somebody's drink. What the patient did with those pills is totally out of the doctor's control!
You know what I mean...
I have seen many users bookmarking hundreds of URLs daily! This is an obvious spam and all the links and the account will be deleted. There is no point bookmarking so many web pages when they are all deleted almost instantly.
Creating hundreds of accounts is a spamming tactic! All I did was bookmark a few links in the morning and some at night. That is all I did! Up till now, none of my links and accounts are deleted!
To sum up, Blackhat tactics are usually short-term tactics and they are all about volume. On the other hand, Whitehat tactics are long-term tactics that will make your sites last longer in the Social Bookmarking sites and rank higher in the search engines.