TDC Day 8: Day 8 Introduction Video (TDC, Video, PDF)

TDC Day 8a: Using Social Marker (TDC, Video, PDF)

1. Social Marker (created by a former Thirty Day challenger) helps you bookmark your website pages through well known social marketing websites like Digg, Propeller, Twitter and others that Google listens to. Getting bookmarked can help you get ranked better in Google.
2. Go to Socialmarker and under “how to use it” drag the small icon to your bookmarks toolbar in Flock/Firefox to create a submission bookmarklet.
3. Go to the webpage you want to submit and click on your bookmarket and the submission form will be automatically filled in with the Title and URL, make sure you add tags and a description containing the keyword phrase.
4. Submit it to the major social marketing websites. You can use all of the bookmarking sites listed but for now, just focus on some of the major ones. Click on the none button to clear all check boxes. A few ones that work particularly well are propeller, digg, Del.ico.us, twitter, and stumble upon. Click on the check boxes to select these sites, then click on submit on the top hand corner of the page.
5. The first time you submit your site to a particular service through social marker you will have to register and provide you login but after you have done once, it will remember it.
6. Sign up to services that you haven’t registered for.
7. Once you’ve provided your login details, you can start using the bookmark details at the bottom of the screen to add more detail for each service. For example in Propeller, the next screen allows you to fill in the information. If it is the wrong title you can change the title under the heading Story title, just click on the radio button; story descriptionsare automatically filled and you can easily copy and paste the user tags from the bottom of the page. For story category you can choose the most appropriate. And, finally you can click preview Story, read through and submit.
8. You should do this for every post you want to promote. (Note: be careful about what you promote to your feeds, especially your Twitter feed – nobody appreciates being spammy irrelevant links).

Because our Summary was over 25,000 words and was taking forever to load – we’ve split it up and posted them according to the date they were originally allocated to – ie over August 2008 – it’s easiest to access all of them from the Thirty Day Challenge 2008 Summary page.

Note the quick links to the originating Thirty Day Challenge page (TDC), the relevant YouTube video (Video) and the transcript (PDF) for your convenience to help you access the study materials.