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An alternative is to visit somewhere like the DigitalPoint Forums or the Warrior Forum. You can often find people here who are willing to do social bookmarking at very competitive pricing. You will find that DigitalPoint is cheaper typically, but sadly the people are often more unreliable.
However, if you find a thread on the forum with a number of posts where someone is offering this service and post in the thread you are buying then you usually get a very good response because people don't want their thread marred with any negative comments.
Make sure you provide your outsourcers with the web page you want them to bookmark, any keywords you want them to use plus titles and descriptions. This will ensure that the job is done properly and there are no unexpected keywords appearing. This will ensure your job is 100% targeted where you want it to be.
Ideally you can get multiple people to bookmark your site on the same site. This is where the Mechanical Turk comes in to its own due to cost. It can get expensive to pay people to bookmark your site through many of the SEO services offered, whereas with the Mechanical Turk you can get them done a lot cheaper. You can get 100 bookmarks for $1 here, so it's an incredible price.
The real advantage of the Mechanical Turk is that because your bookmarks are coming from lots of different accounts in lots of different locations they look just like real bookmarks! This means there is very little chance of them being classified as spam and deleted!
Another key point is to spread your bookmarks out over time. Don't do them all in one day as that looks odd. If you have them coming in over a few days or even weeks then again it looks natural and reduces the risk of spam issues.
Social Bookmarking Software
There are many software tools on the market that will help you to bookmark your website. These vary greatly in price and features, so you need to choose something that meets your budget and your requirements. The number of sites they submit to and the level of automation also varies significantly.
The first piece of software is SocialBot. This is a popular and realistically priced piece of software at just $24.95.
It supports 120 different social bookmarking sites and is automatic. It is also multi-threaded, which means it runs quicker!
It's a good piece of software from a well known developer who produces quality products. All in all, for the price you can't go wrong and it's a great starting point for social bookmarking software.
There are, of course, others on the market.
One of the best known of these is Bookmarking Demon. Costing $147 it is somewhat more expensive that SocialBot, but it does have the ability to submit to many more sites.
One of the big benefits of this tool is that you can import lists of Pligg and Scuttle sites, which are built on open source software. There are literally thousands of these sites so you can very easily get a great many incoming links to your sites using this tool.
It is also fully automated, which is one of the big benefits of it. All in all, it's a powerful piece of software that comes highly recommended.
Sitting squarely in the middle at $97 is Bookmarkwiz. This is another piece of software that will automate your social bookmarking for you.
This tool claims to be the fastest on the market and is full automated, providing you with a rapid way of bookmarking your sites. It automatically creates all of your accounts for you and validates all the emails, saving you even more time.
Another promising feature of this tool is the ability to spin (i.e. randomize) your titles and descriptions, which is a major benefit. The only support 25 of the best quality social bookmarking sites.
Auto Social Poster is a Wordpress Plugin that we'd be very remiss in not mentioning. It will automatically submit every post you make to 34 top social bookmarking sites when you submit the post on Wordpress.
On top of this, it supports multiple accounts and so will submit each post more than once, if necessary!
It has a lot of features and is priced at $99 for 10,000 bookmarked posts, $199 for 100,000 bookmarked posts or $299 for 1,000,000 bookmarked posts.
It's a powerful piece of software if you are working with Wordpress and will completely automate the bookmarking part of your traffic generation strategy for you.
Create Your Own Social Bookmark Site
One option that is open to you is to create your own social bookmarking website. It is very easily done and you can do it either with free software such as Pligg or Scuttle or with paid software.
The benefit of Scuttle is it is open source software, which means you can program new features in to it and create a unique piece of software that you can then copyright and sell. Who knows, maybe you will end up creating the next Twitter or Delicious or other super successful site.
They are not too difficult to set up and install. Once you have them configured and have some bookmarks you then need to work on getting the sites ranking and getting traffic.
The benefit of owning your own social bookmarking site is that you can pretty much do what you want with it. One very effective strategy is to create a number of different social bookmarking sites on various webhosts so they have a different IP address and get them all ranking well.
Each of these have your sites on them, socially bookmarked, and are pointing to your websites giving you link juice. This can be an excellent way to give yourself a leg up the search engines.
You can choose to open up your bookmark sites for submissions from other people who keep them closed for just your sites. It's up to you. Be prepared though for a lot of spam submissions for unsavoury parts of the Internet if you do open them up meaning you will have to spend time moderating the bookmarks.
These bookmarking sites can also contains adverts such as Adsense to monetize it. Depending on the niche and traffic levels you could even monetize it with CPA offers.