The bigger sites will ban you if all you do is bookmark your own post. In my “zest” to utilize Web2.0 and social bookmarking I’ve been baned by www.shoutwire.com and www.propeller.com. Getting baned from a big traffic driver can be demoralizing. They didn’t answer any of my emails so I don’t know why I got banned but more importantly I couldn’t bookmark.

How did it happen?

I bookmarked to many of my own posts…actually all I did was bookmark my own posts and in my quest I probably bookmarked the same article twice.

Not reading their terms of service. Some services don’t allow you to post every day. And some have specific requirements for posts. Shoutwire likes newsy post so bookmarking your sales letter is a bad idea. Trust me I know.

How do you make sure you don’t get banned?

Get someone else to bookmark your site’s posts and then bookmark there’s. Don’t bookmark your own posts on these social media sites. To get the most out of this simple procedure you can create a “bookmarking group”. All you do is get some folks together and create an email contacts list then mail the list with your post, what service to use, category, and tags. You of course are on the list as well. Make sure they all install a bookmarking toolbar in their browser for the service you use and you’re done.

Doing this for one service is easy but it gets hard the more services the group uses. You can use automation like Web2Submitter which BMs boatloads of services for you and it comes with a “Buzz Group” that you can submit your posts to and the group will bookmark.

Social media is THE traffic generator for 2008 and beyond. Learn from my mistakes and don’t mess it up. Getting your account back is HARD. Short of creating a new account with a new email and in some cases a new IP address, you won’t get it back and that can be devastating if your just starting out.

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You may not be able to article market all the time but you sure can bookmark all the time. You can easily bookmark post that may be too short to article market. Smallish, time sensitive posts are ripe for social bookmarking. Posts that go against the grain, excite or shock are great to bookmark as well.

GET SOMEONE ELSE TO BOOKMARK YOUR POST. If all you do is bookmark your own posts the site will ban you. Trust me, I know. Article marketing 2-3 articles a week will surely give your site a boost. However, if your new to writing, work full time job, or have a family, the process is daunting. Start with 1 week and work your way up. One good article/post of 400-600 words, on a subject you are knowledgeable about is doable.

PS if you have to do research to write blog posts, your in the WRONG niche.

I found a gem of program called web2submitter. It’s just like article marketing software in that it logs you on to all the sites that you have an account with and set up, prefills all the fields with your article information then bookmarks the article. About 25 SBM sites are used. That’s 25 back-links and 25 opportunities to get traffic. Be careful. If all you do is is bookmark you own post you WILL get banned. I know. I’ve been banned form Propeller, Shoutwire and Digg in my time. They seem to be the most strict. I use the software to BM about 5-10 posts or pages b4 I do one of my own.

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