Thumbnail example How the Public Can Help the Exposure of Your Website

Many public relations firms will suggest utilizing the public to place your business on some of the major search engine services. This can be accomplished by the posting of blogs and forums throughout the public. Because many people frequent publicly exposed websites such as Myspace and Facebook to advertise, blogs and articles found on these sites will also be posted via the search engines. Therefore, there are many services that will offer links on the business site to assist visitors to post information via the social sites.

1. Locate via the major search engines the key phrase “Book Marketing” or “Group Postings”. You will be directed to many sites which will offer the tools to create your own link or will create one for you .

2. Determine which widely used social sites will provide your type of business with the best exposure and select these sites to be link on your shared button.

3. Most of the sites will provide you with a HTML code to paste on your home page of the business site.

That's it! You're ready to go!

The benefits of this type of resource sharing are great! Social bookmarking can help generate traffic to your site and/or blog easily and effortlessly with this type of search engine marketing. You can set up your blog to link to your favorite tagged sites as well as allow your blog or website visitors to easily bookmark your site. This will result in more traffic and potentially more sales! The importance of keeping your website or blog up to date is imperative! Most of the social bookmarking sites that you can join will allow you to add your bookmarks to your blog. This way your blog can be updated with tags and links on a weekly or daily basis.

People who visit this site will inadvertently send this information to other people on their social list of friends. Later, blogs will be posted about your business, which can be found on the major search engines for free.

Between social bookmarking, forum or discussion board postings, and/or social sites such as Myspace and Tweeter, the possiblities of allowing the public assist you in marketing your website are endless! Myspace and Tweeter help promote your site in a new and safe way that appeals to a younger generation while social bookmarking and forum posting help you gain the trust of prospective customers through an online type of word-of-mouth. It is truly a win-win self-marketing situation that will never lose steam with little to no maintenance on your part.

Joining in on these types of search engine marketing is a great way to keep your finger on the pulse of what consumers are interested in advertisement-wise. The disadvantages of social bookmarking has yet to be discovered especially in the realm of search engine marketing and self promotion. This relatively new marketing tool's advantages, however, exemplify a fool-proof way of promoting your website or blog.