Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – Using Social Bookmarking to Make Money Online

As an affiliate marketer, it’s important to use every possible strategy to get exposure to your affiliate links. Whether you own your own blog for the purpose of promoting affiliate programs and products or run a free blog, social bookmarks can help you earn more money.

How exactly can you use social bookmarking to make money online?

If you’re not familiar with social bookmarking sites, they’re basically a social community where you can “bookmark” your favorite sites. Other users can see your bookmarks and vote, comment and share them with others. As you can see already, these types of sites can be used to promote your own sites as well.

Social bookmark sites hold a lot of authority in the eyes of the search engines, especially Google. Utilizing these sites will help drive traffic to your blog, and specifically, blog posts.

To get started, you’ll want to sign up for as many bookmarking sites as possible. I recommend first signing up with Delicious and bookmarking sites, and then you can import those bookmarks into the other bookmarking sites.

Whenever you bookmark a blog post, or any web page, you include a title, description and tags/keywords. The benefit of doing this is that whenever you bookmark a page, the title you enter becomes the anchor text for the link that points back to the page. If you’ve been following my posts on backlink building, you’ll know that this has a lot of benefit for your search engine rankings.

Using this strategy and bookmarking your blog posts in which you want to get a lot of exposure will help create high quality backlinks for those posts, thus driving them higher in search engine results.

So, in terms of making money with affiliate marketing, if you wrote a blog post promoting a specific affiliate product or program, you want to get as many backlinks to that specific post as possible. The more backlinks you build, the higher that post will rank for your keywords. Eventually, sales will start coming in as your traffic increases.

I hope you can see the benefit of using social bookmarking as a method to make money online. As a word of caution, don’t simply bookmark all of your posts and pages; bookmark other sites that you find interesting as well. Keep a good balance as to not make your accounts look spammy.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.