Social bookmarking has been one of the main virtues of big social networking sites like Digg and Stumble Upon. Simply why people bookmark? There are various answers to this typical question. Some just do it to chill with their friends online to share what sites they find interesting, others do it because to make money online. Now you are probably asking your self, how do the people who bookmark to make money online, make money from bookmarking? That is a good question.
The Incentive to Bookmark
To make money off various social bookmarking sites, it takes knowledge as well as research. The idea here is pretend you are a news reporter. Your objective is to try and find stories that are of the general publics’ liking. When you visit large social bookmarking sites like Digg or Stumble Upon, sometimes you see some really interesting stories voted up correct? Your objective is the same. Chances are, that the stories voted up are receiving massive amounts of traffic and more web traffic means more money. Basically, your incentive to make money online with social bookmarking, is to find eye-catching stories and submit them to various social bookmarking sites and raise votes for from. The more eye-catching the story, the more likely people are to click and vote your story up. Think of social networking sites like Digg, like a lake with tons of fish. To lure them out, you need some really good bait (the story) and once you begin luring them out, that is when money starts pouring in. And to monetize what fish you pulled out of the large lake, you simply promote affiliate programs that are somewhat relevant to the story you submitted, to make money. Of course, to make this process work, you must have the essentials: a webpage and a product to promote (view our list of over 46 Affiliate Programs).
The idea here is to research and find up-to-date interesting stories that says breaking news all over it. This is one of the benefits of watching TV is that, if you are the first to submit a breaking news story to a social bookmarking site, chances are, your story is most likely going to get tons of hits. And more hits means more money in the Internet Marketing world. But if you are not a TV watcher, a great tool to use anyways to find what topics are hot at the moment, is Google Trends. You can sort of say that this method of making money online is like following the general publics’ interest and making money off it because that is exactly what we are doing. Since there is no end to breaking news, there is no end to making money off this method! Just find the right product to promote, whether it be CPA, PPC, PPS, and you’re bound to be making money online just by social bookmarking.
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It doesn’t have to stop there. Some great ideas that have worked for many professional Internet Marketers, is that they tape record what they see on TV, looking for breaking news. Now, you may say this is preposterous, but they are actually kind of smart. Like the incident when Kayne West came up to Taylor Swift and said Beyonce had a better movie video, you can bet that many smart Internet Marketers have used that opportunity to make bank.
Generally, the idea is, if you can find an interesting story that appeals to a wide range of people before anyone else, even for a hour, you’re bound to make money off your story. This is what we sort of call an untapped market, except once a story gets saturated with a lot of competitors, you just move on to the next available opportunity and begin again from there. No one can predict what is going to happen next so search engine wise, there is most likely no competition. This is one of the beauties of this technique. Everyday is like an opportunity to make money because there is breaking news everyday. You can sort of say, you are making money just from bookmarking peoples’ interests before anybody else.
