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Day 17 – Part I – Social Posting
By Mike Mindel | August 18, 2007
Social Poster
Using Social Poster to begin the process of advertising the existence of your website to get indexed in Google (and other search engines).
This is how you tell the world your website exists.
Social Poster is an Aggregating Tool
Rather than go through the social bookmarking process one by one I’m (Rob) going to introduce you to an aggregating tool called Social Poster which allows you to manage the process of social bookmarking over 40 bookmarking sites using just one interface.
So head on over to http://www.socialposter.com.
As you can see you can bookmark up to 40 social sites including Digg.com, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon.com.
Most of the main social sites are here.
How to Use it
When you arrive for the first time, drag the Social Poster button
on to your Firefox toolbar.
An Example
Lets head over to the ‘how to become a wedding planneer’ Tumblr blog we mentioned in a previous post.
Click on the ‘SocialPoster.com’ button in your browser toolbar
which takes you here
This is the Social Poster control panel. All the details about the website you want to bookmark have been extracted and placed in the interface.
The url is there, the title has been taken from the page, and some of the keywords I might be wishing to tag the site with, are there as well.
But Social Poster hasn’t done a great job on the keywords so lets change them to the main keyword (aka ‘umbrella phrase’).
Notice I’ve also put the ‘how to become a wedding planner’ keyword into the Text: section for those social sites that allow a description in relation to a URL.
How the Site Works
Now you need to ‘Generate links for submit’
This will create specific links for all the bookmarking platforms that Social Poster works with.
When you click on the Post,
it will use a specific link that the website has created that will take the information you have entered and post to Digg in the correct way.
This simplifies the process of populating the various social bookmarking interfaces to make the post.
Accounts on Social Bookmarking Sites
If you don’t have an account, you need to register using the R button.
So here’s an example using Digg
You’ll need a username & email address so they can activate your bookmarking account.
Now Login
You then need to login with the L button. If you try and post without logging in then Social Poster will ask you to log in first.
An Example
Now click on the ‘L’ button for Digg
login to Digg
Now click ‘Post’
In this case the story has already been submitted. So I can just click on ‘digg it’
If this has been the first post (say to Reddit) then you would see a screen like this
with all your details entered. Social Poster has already filled out the url and the title.
All you need to do is fill out the captcha (computer generated graphic to check you are a human and not a computer program trying to trick the site).
Then we’re on to the next one…
select the ‘P’ next to Indianpad
Assuming you’ve now registered just fill in your details
and submit your link
on to step 2 where you fill in the website details
Select an appropriate category
Indianpad will ask you to check whether your story exists.
If it doesn’t then click ’submit story’
and there ya go
There’s your bookmark.
You Only Have to Setup Social Bookmarks Once
Once you’ve registered and logged into the various social bookmarking sites you only have to do it once.
This methodology is an extremely effective way of letting the world knows that your website exists.
Sites can be ranked and indexed in Google purely by social bookmarking.
That’s how we begin the process of letting the know our new website exists.
It might be a Tumblr blog or an EZine Article. Whichever hosting platform you have chosen for your keyword optimized content.
Please also make your sure read Tip #12 – IMPORTANT – It’s the Process NOT the Platform.
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Topics: Daily Summaries | 20 Comments »
August 20th, 2007 at 2:22 am
Great explanation. The Social Poster site assume you know everything. I was not sure what happens when hit the button. Or what to do about it.Again thanks.
I got to #5PR without any socializing, but my gorgeous and friend
August 20th, 2007 at 3:38 am
Now I find out my friend Tumblr has my account Suspended. I don’t know what they are mad about…
August 20th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Thanks. Wow, that sure was time consuming filling in all that (registering) but once you are done, it’s a done deal and that is nice to think about when you about had enough! LOL
It (SP) sure is a wonderful little tool! I am so grateful to whoever thought it up!
August 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
I so much appreciate these summaries Mike and the work involved. It lets me quickly reference a section I need. By the way, my site survived Tumblr and is in 7th place!
August 25th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Was there a video on this in the main training or is this all your initiative Mike?
And thank you very much.
BTW Blog Marks requires an invitation code….anyone got one?
August 25th, 2007 at 5:08 am
This is kind of a crappy program isn’t it?
You still had to fill in all the Indianpad info in the example above.
Are we better off having each of the quick link plugins each site gives?
i.e. navigate to your content and click the Indianpad button…at least it fills it in for you.
Sean
August 25th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
It’s a bit annoying have to go through one at a time.
If anyone has any better social posting tools, then please leave a comment.
This is based on Day 17 training for the Thirty Day Challenge.
-Mike
August 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Hi, nice tool that socialposter. I’m always surprised to find tools like this for free!
August 28th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
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August 31st, 2007 at 2:17 am
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September 1st, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I wish I had read this earlier. I was doing it all wrong. Thanks for the help!!!
Aloha, June
September 15th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Hello Mike,
Awsome Info!!! Got a site ranked in 40 minutes using the IndianPad (Ranked 9 on Google without quotes)and Digg (Ranked 15 on Google without quotes)platforms and best of all I Understand the process! IndianPad has a Page Rank of 7 Digg I think has a Page Rank of 6. Picking the top platforms (I used 9 platforms with Page Ranks no less than 5) gives you the best chance of success.
Thanks for the Info Mike Great Stuff!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 2:46 am
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November 22nd, 2007 at 11:22 am
Im new here at the forum, just wanted to say hello
Samantha
July 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I’m going to try out this social bookmarking thing to replace all the useless article submissions I’ve been making to Article Dashboard clones.
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 am
I’ve always visited this blog ever since I got this job at this website marketing firm. I had not one single prior ounce of knowledge of online marketing. It was then I came across the thirty day challenge, and it has helped me so much since. I am trying to break away and hopefully find my own income. I want to say thanks to Mike and those who work with him. ^_^
December 19th, 2008 at 5:13 am
I found another great website http://feedping.com. I’ve never actually used social poster myself because I’m personally afraid of spamming websites. Yeah I know, I’m probably being just a fraidy cat, but I always hate putting others at an inconvenience, and it makes me feel like I’m giving the social bookmarking sites some inconvenience lol. I know its dumb. But Mike, would feedping.com be another good website? you should probably right about it.
March 31st, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Thanks Mike, i Appreciate your work… Can you suggest; http://www.ezedir.com/Socialsubmit/
Is it worth trying?
June 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Just saying hello to you all .. Still a bit confused about the goings on here, but I guess I’ll keep poking around.
July 20th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!