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Have you discovered the new online craze for social bookmarking? Maybe you’re still struggling to figure out how to save your Favourites or Bookmarks in your Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Firefox. That’s a good place to keep your own favourite links, and it is smart to put them in folders and sub-folders so you have all your links well organized. Social bookmarking is where you share your favourite links with friends or the rest of the world by listing them on special websites that basically do nothing else, but give you an account, and let you post your links and help you share them.

Apparently there is getting to be quite an elaborate process for notifying friends of new links, or going to visit your friends’ bookmarks to see if you can find anything that looks worthy of a visit.

There are so many smart netpreneurs out there, it’s amazing. Some have already figured out how to use this to their advantage. Well, ours too, if we catch on and use the same technique.

This is what I’ve learned from SearchBigDaddy.com the search engine affiliate program that is branching out into everything hot.

What we need to do is create a nice long list of all our websites, and affiliate links - being very thorough and double-checking for typos.

Then you go join all these various social bookmarking sites, networking membership/friends sites, and even those places that offer you a “My Page” such as Yahoo, MSN, Excite, all kinds of places. Depending on how long your list of URLs is that you want to promote, this could take several sessions, or days, to complete.

But then you can sit back and see how the traffic starts to flow in as the search engines discover and list your site - recognizing it as being more popular because so many other sites have links to it now (and your affiliate URLs as well!) As others come to explore your social bookmarks, they too, will click on your links and come pay a visit.

In some cases you are allowed a title and a short description for each link, as well as a list of keywords that relate to it. Yes, this will take more time, but in the end, it will be more effective for you, because when people do a search for a certain keyword, on these bookmarking sites, your link, if it is of that keyword, will come forward and before their eyes.

Personally, I feel that a lot of these networking and friendship sites so you can give each other your referral links are very time consuming. I already have a busy life, and I’ll bet you do too. However, I do see the value of these incoming links, and I figure, this looks like a clean and productive marketing ploy. I can do the signups and listings and hold back on all the other social activities offered. It’s faster than trying to exchange links with other webmasters, that’s for sure!

Now just where you begin is up to you, but if you want to follow me around, start with these links;

SearchBigDaddy.com (once inside the back office you find links to these others)
SearchBigDadddy.net (has a row of icons/links to lots of social bookmarking sites)
BigDaddyFriends

Del.icio.us (I had already joined this one)

My time for working on this is up today, but I plan to spend a few more days at this, and hope to have a good report of success next time. However, don’t hold your breath that I will sign up with all of those bookmarking societies.

To quote an old proverb (translated) of my Grandpa Gerhard, “The limits for kids and cattle, mature adults have to know.“