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social bookmarking is one of the hottest Web 2.0 online trends.  The concept of social bookmarking is about 10 years old, but due to it’s recent explosive growth, it has just now become one of the new internet “buzz words”.

It’s important for internet marketers to understand social book marking and how it can help them promote their products and services.

So, what is social bookmarking?  What is social bookmarking’s purpose?  Why is social bookmarking important to internet marketers?

What is social bookmarking?
You are probably already familiar with bookmarking web sites, that you want to visit again, using your Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser. The bookmarks you create to these sites are for your personal use and are stored on your computer.

social bookmarking is the next step in bookmarking, where you and others can share bookmarks to web sites you think may be of interest to others. This is done via social bookmarking services. After you have signed up for the social bookmarking service, you will be allowed to register a website, site description and tags (keywords) with the service - this is a bookmark. You will also be allowed to share this bookmark, or you can keep it private (depending on the service). This information is stored by the social bookmarking service, and is not stored on your computer.

What is social bookmarking’s Purpose?
There are really two major purposes behind social bookmarking.

1.  The main purpose of social bookmarking is to have people with like interests bookmarks sites that they think would be useful, or interesting, to others who have the same interests.  For example, I love fly fishing.  Let’s say I find a site that contains some great custom-built fly fishing rods for an inexpensive price.  I would bookmark that site with one of several possible bookmarking services.  I would give the site I’m bookmarking a title, a description and tags (keywords) related to inexpensive custom built fly fishing rods.  I would make sure the bookmark is set to public so others could find it, and would then have have created a social bookmark.

Now when people search the social bookmarking service, using the tag words used to define the bookmarked sites, they are presented with a list of related sites.  Using our fly fishing example above - When someone searches for “fly fishing rods” they would be given a list of related sites, including the custom fly fishing rod site we bookmarked.  Most bookmarking services also have a rating system so the most popular sites are at the top of the list.

2.  Another great benefit of social bookmarking is, once you have social bookmarked your favorite sites, you can easily find those bookmarked sites from any computer connected to the internet.  You simply log into the online social bookmarking service and find the website you bookmarked.  This can be very helpful if you have many websites you like to monitor, when you are away from home and you are not at your primary computer.

Why is social bookmarking important to internet marketers?
Since social bookmarking sites are generally very popular sites that get a lot of traffic, they have high Google page ranks and are visited often by search engines. Submitting your site to the social bookmarking services, increases the chance your site will be crawled by the search engines. I have seen my sites crawled by Google only one day after registering my site to social bookmarking services. 

Submitting to social bookmarking services is also a great way to get one way, incoming, high page rank links coming to your website which helps increase your page rank. 

But most importantly, if your website is seen as having value to a group of people, your bookmark can be rated highly and can create a ton of very targeted traffic to your website.

social bookmarking is growing at a phenomenal rate and if you want to market on the internet, you need to add social bookmarking to your set of internet marketing tools.

After reviewing the top Google “Adwords manuals”, Adwords Confessions became my pick as the Adwords Guide that I would use to grow my business in 2007. See how I came to that conclusion!

Every December I start reflecting on my last 12 months of business. I consider what went right, what trends I was on top of, what went wrong, what did I miss and what can I do better. I then start to look at what I want to do in the coming year.

I realized one big area of weakness in my internet marketing knowledge and expertise was Google Adwords, pay per click marketing.

In the past six months I have seen a few new names emerge as internet marketing success stories due to their knowledge of Google Adwords and it’s relationship to affiliate marketing.

After seeing some of their affiliate program earnings I realized Adwords is something I really need to understand better and to use more in 2007.

You see, I had used Adwords before and ended up just loosing money every month. I thought I knew how to use Adwords, it’s not rocket science. I couldn’t understand why I was losing money when I was doing what some “Adwords expert” taught me to do.

I finally gave up on Adwords and viewed it as being too expensive, and not producing the targeted prospects it was supposed to bring to my sites.

I later found out that I was doing almost everything Adwords related wrong. My trusted “Adwords expert” presented incorrect information. Either by choice, by lack of knowledge or by presenting old, outdated information.

So, the past few months I have been reading the material presented by these new Google Adwords experts. The Adwords information they have presented has been consistent in most areas, with each providing different twists and tips.

The consistency of information gave me confirmation that the information these guys were providing was correct and up to date.

So, I needed to decide which book would be my primary “Adwords Bible” to start my Adwords education.

One ebook was geared to the beginner, but was too basic for someone that had some Adwords knowledge - too basic for me. And it lacked advanced Adwords techniques.

Another was great for the advanced user, but the beginner would be lost. I was not a beginner, but I thought I needed to master some of the basics first.

I determined Adwords Confessions was the ebook that best spanned the beginner to expert knowledge spectrum, and would fit my needs best. Plus the author gives detailed stats related to testing he has done, so I can start off using the best techniques without having to do the testing myself.

Adwords Confessions is the guide I will be using to improve my Adwords skills 2007. I expect my affiliate commissions to sky rocket in 2007 as I put the Adwords Confessions system to work.

What about you? Do you want to join the factory worker, the mechanic, the grocer and the shop assistant who all are now raking in mountains of cash due to the information in Adwords Confessions?

Start your 2007 off on the right foot and do something to improve your financial situation in 2007.

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