Course 6: Social Bookmarking and Web 2.0 Properties

 

You may simply follow the steps below to know the current status of you web sites and add features to it. 
Checking Website Statistics

  1. Use the following programs to check your website statistics.
    1. AWStats, Webalizer, and Google Analytics
    2. Web hosts offering Cpanel give you stat tracking software that you need.
  2. Unique Visitors and the length of time they stay on your website are important things to look at.
  3. Also, try to see which pages they are leaving your website from as well.
  4. Look up the various keyword phrases that people are finding you for.

AWStats and Webalizer

  1. Provided by website hosting companies that offer
  2. Make sure you have selected to view stats for them in your Cpanel.
  3. AWStats and Webalizer will vary quite a bit from each other.
  4. Let’s look at an example of each of these.

Google Analytics

  1. www.google.com/analytics
  2. Free website statistic tracking program.
  3. Stats will vary from the other programs as well.
  4. Simply Add a line of code to your website.
  5. Very clean and user-friendly features.
  6. Here is an example.

Social Bookmarking Overview

  1. It is a method for you to share, store, and organize websites, stories, or things online that you appreciate.
  2. It is more of a way to share your favorite websites with the world.
  3. Social bookmarking websites get a lot of traffic.
  4. Submitting to these websites helps you build backlinks and exposure for your website.

Social Bookmarking Tips

  1. You want to bookmark both your home page and your internal pages as well.
  2. You will also bookmark your blog page and other Web 2.0 properties like Squidoo pages or online videos.
  3. Use your keyword phrases as the title for your bookmark.
  4. Might consider setting up several social bookmarking profiles as well with each website.
  5. You want to also occasionally bookmark other pages.
  6. Use tools to automate the process.

Social Bookmarking Preparation

  1. Come up with the following before you start bookmarking and place in a Notepad file:
    1. The title you are going to use.
    2. A short description.
    3. Your keywords and tags
    4. Your URL

Go to www.socialmarking.com and sign up for the sites you see on the page after you put in your title and URL.


Social Bookmarking Sites

  1. www.socialmarker.com for a list of sites.
  2. www.socialmarking.com for more.
  3. www.onlywire.com (helps automate the process)
  4. www.digg.com
  5. www.propeller.com
  6. www.mixx.com
  7. www.reddit.com

More Social Bookmarking Strategies

  1. Setup multiple social bookmarking profiles.
  2. Ask friends to bookmark pages for you and you do the same thing for them.
  3. E-mail your list.
  4. Bookmark videos you submit, press releases, articles, and new blog posts.
  5. Bookmarking helps build backlinks, exposure,  and helps get your new content indexed.
  6. Building links to article, video sites, and Web 2.0 sites help them rank.

Web 2.0 Properties

  1. Web 2.0 sites are basically social type websites where most of the content is user generated.
  2. You can leverage Web 2.0 websites for more backlinks, exposure, and traffic.
  3. There are many different Web 2.0 properties that you can leverage for more traffic.
  4. You simply add your content to them and link to your website if applicable.
  5. Use your core keyword phrases as the title of these properties.
  6. 4 Web 2.0 sites I will show you how to use include:
  7. www.Squidoo.com 
  8. www.HubPages.com
  9. www.Weebly.com
  10. www.Issuu.com

 


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