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Learn how to Skyrocket your ranking on Google.

Looking for the secret to nail yourself to the top of google for all your keywords?

Learn what you need to know about driving traffic to your site.

More Traffic in Traffic Videos on my site, if you liked this one.

Social Bookmark sites allow you to make a link on their site to your favorites. Linking to your own site will help search engine spiders find you and will help other people searching these link sites to find you as well.

Delicious has since added "no follow" tags which devalue the links you make back to your site, however this doesn't change the fact that the strategy works like a charm. Here is a Social Media Marketing Report that will help you with a list of hundreds of sites that allow you to do this.

I've also found a tool that makes bookmarking on multiple sites a LOT easier. Have a look at BookMarking Daemon, it'll save you a ton of time and is well worth the low cost of the software.

Posted by Riel Roussopoulos - SEO & Web Strategy Expert on 10/07/2007 01:58 AM

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80 Comments on Learn how to Skyrocket your ranking on Google.

OCT

2007

Here is a list of sites as mentioned in the video above.

Wikipedia list of social bookmarking sites

Riel, I had a hard time hearing what you were saying because I was so amazed at how you were making this video. I kept bursting out laughing.

But I bookmarked the page so that I can listen to it again with my eyes closed. i won't be so worried about you getting into a fender bender while giving this lecture.

I do appreciate the insight on seo and am going to try it after I listen again.

Just one of those things ... I always wanted to do this, but never had time... Since I think about this stuff when I'm driving, and I don't have anything else to do ... I thought it would be a fun little gimmick :)

I'm glad it gave you a laugh :)

Riel - Thanks for you cake mix tips :)

A really solid post. I have to tell you that your idea of traffic in traffic is definitely unique. Apart from that your information on social networking is solid. While a very powerful tool, many in the real estate industry have not caught on let alone maximized on its potential. I look forward to reading/watching more of your blog posts.

That was really cool to watch, and I think you should have your own TV show. I've never seen a video blog like that before. Thanks!

Thank you all so much for your positive responses, it's one of those nutty things that you do and think .... Will people respond to the fact that it's a little unique, or will I just look like a goof.

I'm really encouraged by the positive feedback... I'm going to make a few more of these now that I know that people like them.

Thanks again, all of you.

OK, I'm going to admit, I am one of those people living under a rock and have never heard of social bookmarking. Thank you for dragging me out from underneath my rock! Love the video!

I am new to active rain and received an invitation to join this group and there you were. I loved your video and I could tell you are probably a great source of wisdom. Thanks for making my first day at active rain a great one. I am still under a small rock finding my way out.

Love this idea and am trying to figure out how you actually get this done. I did personally email you with some questions. Who would not want to be on top. I can always find time to get that done.

Thanks for the tip

Thanks to all of you.

can you please take a second to rate the post if you liked it, I'd appreciate it.

Riel

Riel, how do I go about adding my site to delicio.us for example?

It is my understanding that you can add your site to delicious for example but you need to write a blog and add content to actually get vistiors to your site via content. This way people rank or rate your site to move it up into the search engines. So here we go again everyone needs to write blogs.

How can we add it to our site? I have a blog but didn't know how to add my site to delicious.

You'll have to set up an account, and then just start to add bookmarks (like your site).

instead of using the site name (or whatever the title of the page is, which is what it'll pick up) you replace it with something that has your keywords in it : like : " Best Vancouver Realtor | House for sale "

Happy linking, I'm off to eat turkey :)

Well on digg.com you join and you have a place where you can actually enter the site where the story originated. So if it is on your webpage that is where I would enter my URL. I am still trying to figure out the delicious site. I am certainly no web designer but it looks like that is what will work on the digg site. I am having a blog set up on my own web page so I can link any blog I write directly to some of the other sites which will move me up in the ranks as people rank my blogs. So lets say I wrote a story on the Wildwings Subdivision in Woodland I am going to add that site to diggs under submit new site. That should help my pages in the search engines because I have my website linked to activerain which we all know the consumer side is localism.com

So my url is going to be

http://localism.com/article/169727/Wild-Wings-Subdivision-Gated-Golf-Course because that is where my story orignated. Hope that helps.

It is hard for all of us novices to figure out what the pros are trying to tell us. We just have to keep moving forward because buyers and sellers are letting their figures do the walking.:)

Or of course hire us pro's to do it for you :)

I posted an update to my delicious page in the body of the blog text, check out the link and you'll get the idea.

it's called a "post" on delicious.

See I thought that was the purpose of your post. Just enough information to reel us in:)

It really isn't Charlotte. I'm not trying to hold things back or give you partial information.

But like anything, it's work, it takes time and even if it's something you could do yourself, it's often simpler to simply pay someone who's main focus is doing that.

Ok Hate to sound stupid but what would your delicious page be? I have searched posts and am not finding it.

Sorry I found it., Duh!!

Where is it?

http://activerain.com/blogs/riel Here it is Blair He added the blog in the main page of this blog.

Wow , i dont know what to say, i feel like your this webite superstar..lol,thank you for all of that.But the million dollar secret , you say to put keywords? but do you still put your website behind that? how do the seos know how to find you if you dont put your website.

Riel, where is the camera strategically placed in your car. Great video, thanks for sharing.

Todd: The form consists of a Title, the URL and a description box

The title would be your keywords (Vancouver's Best Real Estate For Sale ) - this way you're hitting a few at once

The URL would be to your website (thus it's pointing to your site).

The description can be whatever you like, although some more carefully placed keywords would be good.

So now ... when you view the page on delicious - the TITLE has become your link, and thus... as you put in your keywords and not "Todd Crilley's web site".. you are helping your ranking for those keywords since they point to your site, so that must make you an authority on that subject.

Timothy: I've got one of those little $100 camera's off ebay that does video, stills, voice recording, mp3 player and it'll make toast (ok, not toast, but it's silly how much they pack into these things)

I'm just holding it in my hand and leaning my arm against the window to brace it. It works pretty well, although it would be fun to trick out the van with some fixed cameras and mounted mics - I was thinking I could even do interviews :)... I'm sure that the wife would just love that!!! :-(

OCT

2007

Riel, whatever works :) Thanks for the info. Your blog inspired me to just join a social network. I just joined diitytalk.com

Social bookmarking and news sites are important can generate huge traffic and great links. Links on Delicious profiles and many others are no-followed so they are not passing any link love BUT the more visibility your site receives the more visitors it will get AND many of those visitors will pass link juicy links to your site from their blog or site. A front page story on DIGG can generate thousands of unique natural links. Delicious may not deliver quite as many but it can deliver 500-1000 quality links if the site or blog gets popular enough.

Great video and great tip - thanks for taking the time during your driving to make the post.

OCT

2007

I agree with everyone, thanks for the tips, I've already sign up on delicio.us, I'm looking forward to seeing more videos

Your video post is AWESOME! I hope you will continue to do more and education those of us out of the loop for SEOs, page ranking etc. I'm now off to check out social networking (sounds like I'm going to a party)

OCT

2007

Thanks for the tip, I will go out and start placing my website out on these sites.

You are a trip! Who thinks of doing traffic in traffic, it's brilliant. I only wish I understood!

OCT

2007

Riel, I'm gonna put this to the test. I think you have a great way of making something a bit dry very fun. Keep you eye on the road. T hanks.

COOL, COOL, COOL! Oh, yeah....and great tips besides!

If you ever have an accident, we are not gonna be happy! Be careful out there...but then again, you did seem to have both hands on the wheel. I still love the women I saw driving on the freeway, putting on makeup and talking on her cell phone while driving...and NO, it was not a hands free cell phone!

Thanks for the great tips!

Good blog and good advice. Lots of strategy to the wording of how you link.

OCT

2007

Thanks again for all the great feedback on this post, I'm glad it was helpful to some of you. Do you like the format enough, or would a more traditional screencast that went with this lesson be something you'd like to see?

OCT

2007

Great advice.I will bookmark and read later.Thanks for sharing.

OCT

2007

Pretty sweet, that's a new SEO avenue I haven't tried. I just booked marked myself on both delicious and magnolia.We'll see if it does anything for two of the new pages on my website that are not yet indexed Utah Homes for Sale and Logan Apartments for Rent.

Alan: Just putting them in here will get you indexed, nice job on the keyword linking :)

Awsome! I do my best thinking in traffic and another place that would not work to well for video. Why didn't I think of traffic in traffic. Oh yeah, great tips!

Moises

Great post. Thanks for the info. It is passed my bedtime, I think I will visit again tomorrow, and see what I can create.

Thanks again

OCT

2007

great post! one more arrow in the quiver!

OCT

2007

Great video! I have bookmarked so I can go back and absorb all the information given. I'm new at this so any advice is welcomed here! Thanks!

OCT

2007

Great idea. Now can you talk on your cell phone and drink a cup of coffee at the same time!

OCT

2007

Love the video, great advice.

Thank you

Totally Captivating! I have to say this is the first time I've heard of social bookmarking: thanks for the tip! One question: If you get in an accident while taping one of these videos, will that be a workman's comp claim...or auto;-) Very cool!

OCT

2007

Thanks Matt, I think they'd fight over it and I'd get screwed :)

JAN

2008

Awesome job and great info, thanks.

JAN

2008

I've tried the social bookmark venue. Bookmark any page you add and it shows up in the search engines the next day. It's incredible. It seems to fade off pretty fast though. Social Bookmark Links are kind of like sugar rushes.

FEB

2008

I loved this post, Riel. But I have to admit that I was a bit concerned that you were going to drive off the road or worse! Thank you much for sharing. I found it when I searched Google on ActiveRain and Google Rankings. Your's was at the top of the list!

Thanks again!

Regards,

FEB

2008

Thanks! Very good info on Delicious... never heard of it before :)

FEB

2008

Great idea! Facebook or myspace should have it.

FEB

2008

Thank you so much for all the positive feedback from people, I love that you all found this so helpful.

I've got a whole bunch more planned, so stay tuned.

Riel

Great stull. I appreciate the information.

FEB

2008

Thanks for the great tip, we need to improve our Google ranking so will try this site.

FEB

2008

Thanks again for more great advice!

MAR

2008

Gea post, I'm gong to have to try this and see how it works. We've been doing videos to our blogs but we haven't done anything that crazy.

Thanks for the video on social bookmarking. I will be going to your website to learn more about it. Social bookmarking is something that I need to do more of.

MAR

2008

I am still leaning the search engine marketing processs, thanks for the blog.

MAR

2008

Thanks Riel for the tip, I'll start working on that right away.

MAR

2008

After this post I will head to the sites. Great video idea! Thanks,

APR

2008

Great post!! I have already started my social bookmarking search and I hope to do more!! Thank you!

APR

2008

I have to admit that I was a little concerned with your technique. If we resided in the same city, I would be compelled to ask what you drive so I could keep a look out ... but we do not, so I should just say ... THANK YOU for the informative anecdote and the interesting delivery choice :)

Hi Reil, I'm, evidently, one of those who have been "living under a rock for the past 2 years." I'm new to AR, I'm reading everything I can get my hands on. (The New Rules of Marketing and PR...Great book) Anyway, I am taking notes, I love your videos (please drive carefully...and they said cell phone conversations were dangerous while driving!) I'm just getting on board with all of this and I appreciate anything anyone shares on AR! Thanks!

APR

2008

Reil, love the vid and bookmarking for future reference...thanks for the cool info. i have subscribed to your blog and need to read through it. it came up when I was doing a search for info on google talk...thanks.

Thanks a million Riel! I have been using a lot of tools to get my site over the hump in one major city I want to rank high with and this is one more I will use to get me closer. Thanks so much and have a great weekend!

APR

2008

Traffic in traffic!!! Great idea!

I loved the video. Keep up the good work Riel.

MAY

2008

MAN! This Page is Exploding With Comments! Obviously it is an important Realtor Thing! :)

Tom Davis Realtor - Delaware

MAY

2008

Nice video, nice ideas. There is always something new to learn to get a good google ranking. Thanks

Jay Skinner
Skinner & Associates Realty

MAY

2008

You Rock. But I hope I'm not ever driving next to you. I never considered the google indexing of social bookmarks. I can't believe I missed that one. Somehow, I just never "Got" the whole social bookmarking thing. Thanks for the informative video.

AUG

2008

Hey guys, thanks for all the great comments :)

I've set up TrafficInTraffic.com with these videos and some other ones on list building and traffic driving.

Please have a look.

AUG

2008

Thanks Riel,

I will go ahead and check out the link!

Again, Great Blog.

Thanks,

Tom Davis

World Class DE Realtor

AUG

2008

Excellent advice, and since my website has multiple subdomains, it especially applies to me. Thanks for the great videos....keep 'em coming!

-Peter H.

AUG

2008

You are right on with this strategy, it does indeed work well.

SEP

2008

HA! Sweet vlog.

NOV

2008

What a great and unique idea, traffic in traffic. I found it very entertaining, but am wondering what the police might think :( Anyway, great information, and thanks for sharing. I'm off to social bookmark.