Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites Strategy to Promote Your Blogger

You've done a couple of things with your blogger blog so far: you've set your blog to dofollow, encouraged and rewarded commenters for quality coments, implemented keyword exchange for comments, monetized your blog, doubled its pull and your adsense income, and enabled others to easily navigate the site. Now it 's time to get the word out. And I mean get the word out in a big way. Your content is precious. Right?!? You want people to know about it.

One of the quickest ways to get the word out is post a social bookmark. Social bookmarking is a great way to get links back to your blog. Links that are well categorized. Social bookmarking will bring you targeted traffic. Social bookmarking, when done right, will increase your blog's popularity with search engines. You can find more about social bookmark basics by simply signing up for delicious.com, one of the original social bookmarking sites. Roam around and you will find how the system works. Yahoo has recently bought delicious.com and seems to be putting some efforts together to integrate delicious more tightly with Yahoo search and other offerings. There are hundreds of other social bookmarking sites out there and new ones are mushrooming daily.

How to make sense of all this? Should you go and sign up for all the sites and bookmark your blogger pages? That could take forever! Well you are in the right place to see about bookmarking selectively and speeding up the social bookmarking process.

I recommend using two tools:

1. Onlywire.com
2. This very page! ( see below )

I'll cut to the chase. You want as many backlinks as possible and you want them to be dofollow, so they count more for google. Onlywire represents 40 of the biggest social bookmarking websites and you can submit easily to all of them in 5-10 minutes. The backlinks will mostly be nofollow, but they will bring you targeted traffic.

Step two, go for the dofollow social bookmarking sites regardless of the size. There is no established tool for dofollow social bookmarking sites so below you will find a clickable list of those that I use and recommend:

List of recommended dofollow social bookmarking sites. Combined mainly from two sites, http://niceblogger.com/2009/08/05/101-dofollow-social-bookmarking-sites/ and  http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/do-follow-social-bookmarking-sites/, then double checked for dofollow:

• buddymarks.com
• spurl.net
• linkagogo.com
  
• a1-webmarks.com
• diggyourpost.info
  
• savethislink.net *
• newsmarked.info *
• ebaumsworld.com *
• seedz.org
• tungaw.com *
  
• hitmarks.com *
  
• bookmarkglobe.com
• iorkut.net
• starton.us
• bookmarkplace.com
  
• gyach.com *
• tedigo.net
  
• websapiens.net *
  
• totalpad.com *
• mysitevote.com
• maple.nu *
• blurpalicious.com
• socialogs.com *
• spotback.com

Dofollow bookmarking sites just for blogs:

• wikio.com
• bloghop.com
• technorati.com
• buzzup.com
• wagg.it
• blogengage.com *

Where possible, I have included the link directly to the post page to post the bookmark, so it is more convenient and faster. You do want to use cut and paste for your Title, Text, and Tags but you also want to vary the Title, Text, and Tags a bit so search engines do not consider these entries duplicated content.

Another point when bookmarking: Don't just bookmark your sales pages. Or just your blogger. Add some spice to the mix, bookmark pages in the news that you read and you found remarkable. For example, today I bookmarked  this page http://www.pyrabang.com?id=50ac1b and this page http://www.pyrabang.com?id=50ac1b, just because I found them interesting and illustrative of what is happening in the USA today. I highly recommend you bookmark websites with a wide variety of topics. Bookmark news. Bookmark sites you like. Bookmark sites that represent a cause. When the social bookmarking site editors look at your bookmarks they will be less likely to consider your bookmarks "spam" or "self promotion" if you bookmark a wide variety of sites.

Here is how you can verify whether your bookmarks are active on the above sites through Google Custom Search:

External Links: Make Your Visitors Stay On Your Blogger

It is great to post links to your sources of information. It is great to post links to bloggers who have been writing for a long time and have success and good reputation. Successful bloggers monitor who is linking to them and will come to your site. Maybe even link to your blog. In fact successful bloggers are generous when it comes to link love. Links from successful blogs count a great deal.

On the other hand, you do not want your visitors to leave your blog when they follow an external link. Here's how you can have them go and stay at the same time: open the external link in a new window. Here's a quote from blogging4good.blogspot.com:

http://blogging4good.blogspot.com/2009/01/do-not-let-visitors-leave-your-blog.html

Create a Hyperlink That Opens a New Window

The basic structure of a hyperlink looks like this:

<a href="http://internettradingbeginners.blogspot.com/">Online Stock Trading for Beginners</a>

If you use this code, the clicking on the link will lead the visitor to the new location and they will leave your blog. Opening a new window on every click requires html code modification. Just add one more property to the ’a’ tag:

target="_blank"

Just like the href property/value pair (href="some value"), you need simply to include the target="_blank" to the ’a’ tag of your hyperlink. Here is what the finished hyperlink will look like:

<a href="http://internettradingbeginners.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Online Stock Trading for Beginners</a>

Some desktop software HTML authoring utilities are able to provide this functionality as an option for you when you create a hyperlink. For example, Post2Blog, I use can do that easily. But if you use online Blog editor, like Blogger, you do not have ready to go option for the hyperlinks properties modification. You need to review the HTML source, find the ’a’ tag you want to modify and then add the target="_blank" value pair to the hyperlink definition.

That's all folks. Happy external linking.

A Quick Trick That Can Significantly Increase Traffic To Your Blog

According to

http://reviewofweb.com/blogging/dynamic-meta-title-tags-blogspot/

you want to add a post-specific META description tag to your blog posts. Just put a meta tag
inside the head of posts. Go Layout/Edit Html then insert between <head> and </head> tags this line:


<META NAME='description' expr:content='data:blog.pageTitle + &quot;,Put in your common description tags here &quot;'/>


where you replace your own common description tags.

What happens is expr:content= ‘data:blog.pageTitle’ gets replaced by the title of your current page. So when combined with the common description tags, the description tag becomes unique for each page.

This will enable more searchers to find your post.

P.S.: I am not mentioning the second trick about putting title of the blog into the title of the page as recommended on the website above. Blogger already has that feature built in as of today.

Comment Moderation

Since you've made your blog Dofollow (because it is cool), you will have a lot of people commenting. You will have to introduce measures to prevent spam. You'll do that with comment moderation under Settings/Comments/Comment Moderation. For now, I'll allow anyone to post comments and they will not be moderated. There are several other ways and I'll write about them when I get to them. If your blog is more popular, let me know what choice you made by commenting below. Remember, your Name/URL is Dofollow!

Dofollow Cool On Its Way!

Welcome to Dofollow Cool! How to start a blog with valuable dofollow links in comments. And why to start a dofollow blog! Read on!

I started the blog DofollowCool.blogspot.com because I feel there is value in dofollow blogs, forums, search engines. It's all about encouraging meaningful conversation on the internet. This will be a blog with tips, tricks, and collections of useful information on how to get your voice heard in the blogosphere. On how to drive targeted traffic to your own blog and website. Enabling dofollow comments is a big part of it. By setting my commenter's links to dofollow, I am sending a message to them: I appreciate your input. I appreciate your contribution to this post and this blog. I trust you will read the post before commenting. I trust you will not leave a comment just for the sake of getting a valuable backlink. I trust that you understand that there is value in maybe small but definitely meaningful information exchanges through comments. I trust you won't abuse my trust.

So, dear visitors, the comments in this blog are set to Dofollow. I will prove here that Dofollow is Cool!

If you have a blog, I challenge you to set your blog to dofollow. You'll get more comments. Your blog will flourish. And for an occasional attempt of abuse, there is always comment moderation.

Go ahead, check out the details on setting a blogger to dofollow, and just do it! Or, share your thoughts about setting your blog coments to dofollow with me in a comment below. You are getting a valuable dofollow link in return for your thoughtful comments.