Bookmarking Submission -

Now we come to the most important part of this tutorial - actually submitting your web page to Social Bookmarking directories in order to acquire relevant backlinks.

Just about all Social Bookmarking sites will allow you to enter the following fields when submitting your web page to them -

1. The actual URL of the page you're submitting

2. The title of the Bookmark that will be displayed on the Social Bookmarking site

3. A description of the web page you're submitting

4. Some custom tags that are relevant to your site

Now the problem with most Social Bookmarking sites is that they won't allow you to include any anchor text in your link, meaning that you'll obtain a backlink to your site in the form of "http://yoursite.com" as opposed to "Backlink Containing Your Keyword Phrase".

This poses a great problem in terms of building Keyword Authority, however we can still establish some Keyword Authority by including our desired keyword phrase in the title of our Social Bookmarking submission, including it in the description of our site, and lastly by including it in the custom tags sections. This will still allow us to build some Keyword Authority through our backlink, as the web page containing the backlink will be relevant to our keyword, even though the anchor text is missing (remember this from the first tutorial).

Now it's time to finally socially bookmark our site. Let me start by saying this - 100% automated bookmarking submission sites won't submit your article to many Social Bookmarking directories.

Don't rely solely on automatic submission sites

The primary failed example of automatic bookmarking submission that I don't recommend to anyone is Onlywire.com. I realise a lot of people stand by this site, however I found it quite simply does not work for me. The supposed "automatic submission" to 20 or so bookmarking sites has only ever resulted in me achieving maybe 2 or 3 backlinks at most. After doing some experimentation, I found that more than three quarters of the submissions of this site fail.

Two or three backlinks really isn't worth my time or yours, in fact it's almost a complete waste of our time. We're here to obtain lots of relevant, quality backlinks, not one or two poor ones. Please do correct me if I'm wrong about automatic submission sites, but I have yet to find one that actually works.

It's for this reason that I recommend manually submitting your web page to Social Bookmaking sites. Thankfully, there are a number of websites that make this process quite easy and semi-automatic. The most valuable of these sites I've found (after trying many others) is SocialPoster.com. So without further ado, open up SocialPoster.com in a separate window.

You will notice that the section to the right allows you to enter the URL of the web page you want to link to. Obviously, insert your keyword optimised, relevant and informative web page in this section. ie: http://mysite.com/page1.html/

Note: Do not insert a link straight to your domain ie: http://mysite.com. This is not recommended for two reasons -

1. It totally bypasses the Web Page Layout section of this tutorial, which explains the need to create a relevant web page specific to a keyword phrase. Linking to an entire domain is not specific or relevant enough.

2. Most Social Bookmarking sites will view your site as being spam. Spammers submit one page sites (usually consisting of a landing page designed for PPC) to Social Bookmarking sites and then wonder why they get banned. That's why. Even if your domain isn't a landing page, and does contain relevant content to your keyword phrase, don't submit it. Submit a web page as opposed to aweb site.

Once you've entered your web page into the URL description, enter a valid title that relates to your keyword phrase, followed by a relevant description of your web page which contains your keyword phrase, and finally enter about 5 tags that you want to get listed under (make sure at least one tag includes your keyword phrase, separated by a comma).

After you've done that, you may select your desired method of submission (General List, Frame submit, Light list). I find General List works best. Lastly, select 'All' under the 'Social Websites:' section. The page should look something like the following -

Finally, click 'Start Posting'. SocialPoster will cache all your web pages details on its server, including its title, description and tags, making submission an easy process.

All that remains is submitting your site to the directories on the list.

If this is your first time using SocialPoster, you'll first need to register at each Social Bookmarking site by clicking the "R" next to the site in question, and verify your membership (unless you're already a member of the site). Once you're a member of each site, simply click the "L" button on each site in order to login.

Once you've logged into each site, simply go down the list of sites, clicking on "Post" next to each one. A new window will open up with your web page's details already filled out for you. All you'll need to do is follow the prompts for each site in order to have your web page bookmarked on that site.

Some sites are a little trickier than others. You may find it easier to avoid sites such as Blogger.com or Squidoo, which require you to write an actual article of some form. I often bypass these sites unless I have an article already written that I can submit to them. If you've followed my previous tutorial and already have an article written, then feel free to post the article to sites requiring content (such as Blogger and Squidoo). Don't worry about duplicate content, as this was explained in Part 1 not to be a major issue when it comes to backlinks.

Now, try to avoid Social Bookmarking sites on the list that have no relevance to your web page whatsoever. General sites such as Digg and Propeller are fine, but submitting an article about hypnosis to the Hugg.com bookmarking directory would be viewed as spam.