How Social Bookmarking Can Help Your Online Business
By Matt Bacak

Social bookmarking has become a web phenomenon over the past few years. It seems as though everyone and their mom is doing it. Celebrities are doing it and they’re getting a lot of attention from it. They are sharing the news of their newest movie or simply attracting attention to themselves simply because their career needs a bit of a boost. Whatever the reason, the are not the only web savvy people noticing the amount of coverage they can get by using social bookmarking. Thousands of online businesses are doing it. So what is it?

Well, let me explain social bookmarking so that it’s easily comprehensible for those of you that don’t know exactly what it is. I’ll then explain exactly how it can help gain more exposure for your website. Now, just imagine, you go to a website and you want to bookmark it on your computer. So, you want to basically save it to your favorites. On your browser, a lot of times it’ll have a thing called Bookmarks or Favorites, which will allow you to save your favorite websites so that you can reference them again at a later date. However, when you do that, only you or whoever is using your computer will be able to see what websites you’ve saved inside of your favorites.

Well, just imagine having a page on the internet where you can go and save your favorite sites so that you can always easily go back and refer to them. Wouldn’t that be convenient? You’d be able to access this site from anywhere in the world! Basically, that’s kind of how social bookmarking works. So, instead of saving it on your browser – on Internet Explorer or Firefox Mozilla, you’re saving it to the internet. This will allow anyone to be able to see what websites you have saved and that are of interest to you. This is a bonus as it allows like-minded people to meet and network who share the same interests.

So, the question remains, how does it help your website? Well, basically how it can help you is that it allows you to rank higher in the search engines. And as you may or may not know, one of the best ways to get high up in the search engines is to basically have links pointing to your site. However, you don’t want to have just any link; you want to have links from authority sites or from sites that Google is searching all the time. Most social bookmarking sites are very well-trafficked, therefore when you do that, you’re getting a link back to your website and it’s helping pull it up higher in the search engines. So really in a nutshell, that’s how it can help you.

If you’re not already using social bookmarking you should really consider it. It’s a great way to stay organized but also leverage those efforts to make your existing website gain more exposure.

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Let’s review what we have done so far. We first started off writing good quality 350-500 word articles. We then submitted these articles to the various submission sites. Next, we repurposed and modified the same content into press releases and submitted those. After that, we took the same content and made it into professional videos. We submitted those.

Now, we’re going to take the audio that was in your video, which your professional voiceover person did, as well as your call to action, and podcast it for you.
The cool benefit for podcasting is that there are literally over 200 million Apple iTunes users searching on iTunes every single day. Now, although Apple iTunes likes video, it is really an audio search engine, just like YouTube is really a video search engine. So, if you don’t think 200 million is a lot of people think of adding yourself to other different audio search engines. That’s all you’re doing here is you’re just placing the media that these search engines like.

So what we do is, we actually take that audio and we create you a podcast channel and then get you on iTunes. What that’s going to do is it’s going to put you into another search engine that’s going to get you even more traffic. Plus you can get back links from that because it’s an RSS feed – meaning that it’s constantly updating. It’s like a blog. You’re going to constantly see this updating in Google or in all of the other regular search engines simply because it’s like new content coming in.

Pretty amazing stuff when you think about all the techniques we use to generate a huge amount of traffic. The best part of the A9 process is it’s not a bunch of smoke and mirrors that will get you banned and the effects of using these techniques will last indefinitely because the media we are using has been around forever and is not some passing fad.

If you haven’t done so already, make sure you go over to DirectTrafficGeyser.com and check out what we have to offer. We have done our best to help you in this whole process and we have arranged special pricing on all this stuff, in case you don’t have the time to do any of this yourself. It will be one of the best investments you ever make in your business.

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Matt Bacak

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If you are not familiar with what an opt-in box is, you should be. So, go over to www.mattbacak.com and look on the right hand side just below the fold (which I think is a perfect place to position this) and you will see I have an opt-in box for people to sign up to my newsletter. After they sign up, I now have one more person on my list to sell things to in the future.

Now, you have set up a blog and you want to be able to capture people’s names and email addresses in the same way, however the blogging platform you are using doesn’t give you this option. So the question is, how do you go about adding an opt-in box to your blog site.

Well, the first thing you have to do is get the form. So, find an opt-in form you like either from your other website, squeeze page or somebody else’s site and copy it by looking at and locating the source code for the page it’s on. Place the code into a text file for now so you can refer back to it.

The next thing you want to do is go into your blog and try to add the new code into your blog template. So, find the code for your template and copy it into an html editor such as FrontPage. Once you’ve done that, copy and paste the opt-in form code into the template and view your changes by previewing them.

When you have the form looking the way you want it, copy and paste the code back into you blog template on your blog site. Click on the “view blog” link to make sure everything looks proper and correct. If it looks good then you’re finished otherwise you’ll have to go back in and change the location of your code until it looks right.

As you already are aware, opt-in boxes are necessary in order to capture the names and contact information of your prospects. You want to be able to sell to them again and again so you need to gain access to their contact information. Opt-in forms also known as squeeze pages can make you a bundle of cash. As long as you have and own your own list, you now have a business that you can grow because you have people who are interested in what it is you have to offer.

Take the time to create an opt-in box on your blog to start gaining ownership of your business.

Warmest regards,

Matt Bacak

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When you create a blog it’s a great way to express yourself and at the same time inform your audience what’s going on. But it’s also a great way to improve your rankings in the search engines. Let me explain.

If you want to get to the top because you’re seeing your competition dominate you in your niche, it’s time to take action!

So, let’s just say you’ve submitted an article to an article directory site like ezinearticles.com but you were seeing someone else in your niche dominate you in the search engines. Well, it’s time for you to knock them out of that top position and take over. How do you do this? It’s simple!

If you want your article to appear at the top of the search engines all you have to do is blog that link! Basically, every article that you post to an article directory site like EzineArticles.com (which gets huge traffic I might add), you simply place a link to that article on your blog. For example, if it was www.Ezinearticles.com/adoption/how_to_adopt_a_child, because that’s your niche, if that was your actual article, then you should go and blog that link. Whatever that link is where your article is located you blog the link. But just make sure when you do that you sound very natural in your recommendation for your visitors to visit that link. Whatever you do don’t sound salesy or desperate to get the traffic.

Say something like: “Hey, check out these pages. I was doing a search on Google and I found these sites where people had posted information about me. I’m so flattered. You should go check them out.” Basically what I did that for is not for people to go check them out – I really didn’t care about that. What I did that for is so my sites would be pulled up higher in the search engines. So, when I did a search, I would be at the top of the search engines in my niche and my competition would fall in their rankings. This is an excellent strategy that has always worked for me. If you check out my blog at MattBacak.com you’ll see several places where I’ve used this strategy… and it works like a charm!

So, go and find all the links out there that are indexed with Google. For any of your competition that has started to creep in on your space use this strategy to pull you up higher in the search engines. Your competition will have no idea what hit them ;)

Warmest regards,

Matt Bacak

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If you have a website online you know the necessity of providing useful content for your readers. But did you ever think that the content on your site could be made into articles and distributed all over the internet to bring you oodles of visitors – more than natural SEO? Well, it’s true. If you can submit at least two articles to an article site per day, you’re on target to make more money by leading more visitors to your site.

If you plan to use this strategy, just ensure that the articles you are providing are helpful to your audience. Make sure you’re offering valuable information that will help them.

Here are some article sites you can submit to:

· ezinearticles.com
· submityourarticles.com
· searchwarp.com
· ezarticles.com
· articlebin.com
· articlebeach.com
· articlehub.com
· articlegarden.com
· articlesphere.com
· media13.com
· visiblecontent.com
· articlegeek.com
· articlewise.com
· articlejoe.com
· alumbo.com
· linkgrinder.com

Posting your articles to these sites are the first step. But you’re not done yet. After you submit your articles to these sites you need to repost these articles on your own website. After I post my articles to my site I post them again on my blog, my myspace page, my squidoo lense and my other Web 2.0 social networking sites. These sites get a ton of traffic and are already ranked very well by the search engines so it’s a win-win by posting there.

After that I summarize the article and add that summary to an email to send to my list. Basically, I’m making that summary message number one of my autoresponder sequence. The full article will be accessed when my visitors click on the link I provide in the summary email. I do this over and over again with all of my articles – offering solid information to my list to ensure they continue to read my articles. But the best part of it all is that I can make money by leading them to my articles that have Google Adsense on it. That way I can make money even from my customers that don’t buy the products that I am promoting. It’s a very clever way to make money and I think everyone should be using this strategy. If you’re offering good, solid information, it’s always best to ensure you make money off of the majority of your visitors – even if they don’t buy.

So, if you’re not using articles to further monetize your site and draw in extra traffic you should start now! The interest in articles will never subside. People love knowledge and they are always looking for a way to take advantage of the information given to them. There’s no better or simpler way than providing articles to your list.

Submit some articles and begin to reap the rewards … with a little bit of work.

Warmest regards,

Matt Bacak

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