Social Bookmarking Made Easy With SocialMarker.com
I few days ago was speaking to a fellow blogger friend and Instant message buddy, Forest Parks from The Random Forest. We were simply chatting about random things as I was working my tail off submitting an article into many of the popular social bookmarking and networking sites. Having caught wind of what I was doing, Forest sent me a message that just totally made my day and has totally saved me a ton of time with submitting my posts into all these social bookmarking and networking sites. Thanks to him, this post will show you what he showed me.
SocialMarker.com
SocialMarker.com is a site that allows you to quickly and easily submit your posts and articles into 46 of the most popular social bookmarking and social networking sites on the Internet all in one bulk shot. While it doesn’t do what I have been wanting and visioning in my mind for a long time, I’ll admit that it is very close and its a lot better than doing things manually.
My dream software is to have a program - preferably a desktop application - that allows me to fill out a Title, Description, Category and Title tag field and push the submit button. From there this program would then automatically submit my information into all the social bookmarking and networking sites. While this animal doesn’t exist (at least I don’t think it does… drop me a comment and let me know otherwise) from what I see SocialMarker.com is close… very close!
SocialMarker.com is very similar to what my dream software application would be, but there are a few minor differences. For one, its web based. Nothing wrong with that, its just a matter of personal preference. However, the real similarities in SocialMarker.com and my dream software are very close.
With Socialmarker.com, you simply fill out the form as shown above. You need to enter in a nice looking title, provide the URL of the post or article you’re submitting, include some very well researched tags for search engine marketing purposes and most importantly, include a well written description of the post or article you’re submitting.
The next step is the fun part: Choosing which social bookmarking or networking sites to submit your article or post into. As you can see in the above screen shot, it is just a matter of checking the box on the sites you’d like to submit your article or post into.
A very handy feature that SocialMarker.com provides are the pre-selection links found on the top of this section. They are highlighted in yellow on the above screen shot.
Your options are to hand pick individual networks, to select all, choose only News, choose only Bookmarking or choose only DOFOLLOW for scoring search engine friendly backlinks.
Once you have chosen the sites you’d like to have your article or post submitted into, simply click the submit button on the top right of the screen. What happens next is amazing and will literally save you tons of time!
You click the screen shots below to view full size:
The above screen shots show you live examples of how I quickly submitted a post in Digg, Propeller and made an entry into Twitter. These are only 3 of the 46 available sites that you can quickly submit your article or post into.
SocialMarker.com automatically fills out as much of the online form for each network as possible. There are many submissions that don’t require any edits or manually entries at all! Simply click the “Submit” button and then the “Next” button. Each time you click the “Next” button, SocialMarker.com automatically loads the next page and auto fills as much of the information as possible in the submission form of the next social bookmarking or social networking site.
The great thing about SocialMarker.com is the fact that it does not require a registration of any kind. You do not have to create a username/ password and you don’t have to join anything. The program works purely without the need to register for their service. If you choose to have your web browser to remember your username and passwords for all the social networking and bookmarking sites, then as you keep clicking the “Next” button you’ll be automatically logged into the site you’re submitting the article or post into. I would recommend allowing your web browser to remember your usernames and passwords so that you can quickly roll through all the submissions without having to take the extra step to log in each time.
What about Plugins?
SocialMarker.com has a WordPress plugin available. I have downloaded it and have started installing it on many of my blogs. The plugin works like a charm and it allows for your own readers to utilize their service. Most WordPress plugins I have used in the past allow readers to individually submit your content into the social bookmarking and social networking sites. By providing your readers with the SocialMarker.com plugin, you allow them the option of submitting your content in to multiple networks - up to 46 currently.
Overall, if you use the SocialMarker.com plugin, you’re giving your readers an easy way to do more for you in much less time. Long story short, this will help you increase traffic and gain even more readers to your blog. If you don’t have a WordPress blog, or don’t want to install their plugin, SocialMarker.com also provides a direct javascript code that you can install instead.
All in all, I think SocialMarker.com is awesome. It doesn’t quite fit the glove perfect in relation to my dream desktop application; however, it is very close and indeed, it does save me a ton of time and it will save you a ton of time too.
One last thing that I would like to add a comment on. When I visit SocialMarker.com, it is very clear that they are seeking donations. Their site has some Google AdSense ads on it and there are a few donation buttons on the site. While this is a totally free service, I can strongly see how the creators would like to gain some compensation for the creation of this masterpiece.
I’d like for you to help. If you can’t donate any money, that is understandable. Some people can’t afford to spend money on extra things, even more donate money. However, you do have a blog and writing a post about SocialMarker.com will have a huge impact on increasing their exposure. If you really enjoy using SocialMarker.com, do what I did and write a blog post about it. I think SocialMarker.com is a wonderful service and I believe that it will help my readers a lot. If you feel the same, then tell all your friends about SocialMarker.com too.
What Do You Think?
I am very into this whole social bookmarking and social networking thing. I have totally seen a difference in traffic when I submit content into these bookmarking and networking sites. What do you think about all the hype regarding social bookmarking and social networking? Has it been working for you? Do you have friends in these networks? Do you all work together to help each other out? What do you think about SocialMarker.com? Give it a try and please be sure to provide your feedback about the program, it can only help others decide on what’s best for them. Share your thoughts using the comment form on this post.
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Date/Time: 5-2-2008 15:02:02 Comment #13836
Hey Garry,
Thanks for the mention… I have just gotten round to registering with about 40 of the networks and now can breeze through submission.
I think I definitely need to make space for a post about this in the very near future.
I’m glad it’s been helpful to you and I am sure it will be a big help to many others. I think I actually found out about it from a comment left on RyanShamus.com.
Date/Time: 5-2-2008 16:54:07 Comment #13837
Yeah man… this is the one of the best things I have seen in awhile. I did the same thing, I registered for an account with most off the networks that I was interested in.
Here is another tip I’d like to mention, but didn’t in the post because I didn’t want to make the post long and drawn out. As people are registering for these social bookmarking and network sites, do things right and get yourself started on the right foot.
Remember that when you join these many different networks that you’re the new guy or gal in school here. You can’t just enter into their territory with ill intentions. Most all of these networks are great places and if people have the perception that you’ve entered into their domain for the purpose of scoring traffic, then they’ll shun you.
Invest time into each network. Take time to properly fill out your profile page by adding a bio about yourself. Include a picture of yourself or a special avatar that you use for brand building. Make sure that you answer all the questions made available on your profile page which all allows you to illustrate the unique and creative individual you are.
Secondly, its not all about you and your article and your post. It is more about the community within each environment. Be a contributor in each network. Actively seek out friends and invite your own friends into the network. Build a base, build and establish a reputation and overall just be an open and genuine person.
Make sure that you don’t just submit your own material into these network. Use these networks as a tool to not only help boost exposure on your own content but most importantly your friends content and the content submitted by other more established members within the network.
Shedding more light on social bookmarking and social networking sites, most people who contribute in these type of communities are not blogger, they are not web masters and don’t even have their own personal sites. They may have a blog, but their blog isn’t like our blogs. Commonly they’ll have a little AOL blog or MySpace hosted blog - to them, they don’t see blogging as we see blogging.
Overall, many people in social networks don’t consider themselves to be bloggers and by default, they typically don’t like bloggers for the fact that the only interaction they have with bloggers is in dealing with people who come into their network to try to self promote and advertise within their territory.
Contributors of social networking sites are very protective of their community as they have contributes their volunteer time towards shaping and molding the network into what it is today. StumbleUpon.com wouldn’t be as great of an environment if it wasn’t for the Top Stumblers within the network. And in every social network you’re going to have your handful of “Regulars” who handle all the “Checks and Balances” of their network.
Social networks follow the same characteristics of any type of social club. You can’t just go walking into a country club at your local golf course and expect to be best buddies with the high profile people in the lounge. You have to take baby steps and you have to slowly work your way in. Perhaps get introduced by someone who is already “In” with the crowd, etc…
Date/Time: 5-2-2008 17:21:41 Comment #13838
Hey Garry, great points.
I must admit I just signed up and started submitting. I gotta work out which ones I want to spend time on and dedicate some using time each week for each one.
Date/Time: 5-2-2008 17:38:57 Comment #13839
See that is another thing too… each network has their high concentrations of certain topics. For sure it is a great idea to spent a little bit of time in each network to get a scope for what kind of content is primarily submitted in. Also a very quick indication would be to do a quick scan on their categories.
Date/Time: 5-3-2008 08:34:29 Comment #13849
Garry,
I absolutely love SocialMarker. I must admit though that I have been using Socialposter.com more lately. It have a function that carves out the dofollow bookmarking sites so that you can focus on getting dofollow backlinks. THis feature is awesome.
Date/Time: 5-3-2008 20:47:24 Comment #13857
Hey Garry, Thanks for sharing. Never knew this services available. Will surely look at them and try it for my blog posts.
Date/Time: 5-5-2008 00:24:27 Comment #13875
I’ve been using SocialMarker for about 4 months now and it is great
There are other sites similar to it, but I forgot them. The other sites may be better than SocialMarker because it is more simple with a 2 color scheme and no ads. I’ve been wanting to create a site like this, so maybe you will see it soon? 
-Mike
Date/Time: 5-5-2008 00:32:38 Comment #13876
Hi Mike, thanks for dropping the comment. Let me ask you this… if you have an interest in creating your own blend of SocialMarker, what are some things that you’d find to improve on? No point in duplicating something that many other people already have done, unless its something you think its worth competing in… so I’d like to believe that you see a window of improving an existing successful system. What are some opportunities that many of these sites such as the mentioned SocialMarker.com have for improving?
Date/Time: 5-6-2008 07:52:58 Comment #13893
Have you tried Bookmarking Demon? It automates the process of creating accounts and could be used as a spam tool if used improperly. I’ve considered buying it but think I’ll give social marker a try first.
Date/Time: 5-12-2008 08:12:37 Comment #14109
With http://www.socialmarking.com you can easily bookmark any site to 130+ social bookmarking services. It also have a google gadget, buttons and blog plugins.
Date/Time: 5-27-2008 01:41:26 Comment #14559
I just found it and did a search to see what people were saying about it and found your site. I was going to write a script to do this but now I don’t have to.
Date/Time: 5-28-2008 07:31:26 Comment #14604
I started using this yesterday. I am hopeful it will help drive traffic. Now I had better get some more substantial posts added onto my blog to make it worthwhile, lol. Thanks!
Date/Time: 7-25-2008 23:13:42 Comment #17379
“The great thing about SocialMarker.com is the fact that it does not require a registration of any kind. You do not have to create a username/ password and you don’t have to join anything.”
“I would recommend allowing your web browser to remember your usernames and passwords so that you can quickly roll through all the submissions without having to take the extra step to log in each time.”
So, what are the advantages of using your own accounts over than using the no-login method?
Garry, the software I use for most of my social bookmarking is