Triond, however, gives its writers a multitude of bookmarking sites, which makes everything so much easier. Rather than having to do a search for each site online, you can access them easily, using the tools Triond has provided.

Okay, let's get down to business. If the whole bookmarking scenario has you scratching your head, follow these instructions to get started.

How to Bookmark

1. Go to the Triond dashboard where you see your articles
2. Click on the third tab on the top, “Content.”.
3. A page will open and you'll have the option of viewing your articles 10 at a time or perusing more at a glance, depending on what option you select from the drop-down menu located down in the far right corner
4. Now, look over to the right, where you see “Share” (you'll see upwards and downwards pointing arrows)
5. On the line on which your article appears, hover your mouse over “Share.” You'll notice a small menu box appears. To open it fully, click on the Share button.
6. Under “Select a Service” you'll see a listing of the different social bookmarking sites
7. When you click on one of the sites, a page should open directing you to sign up
8. Do so. Now, whenever you follow this procedure in future, your article title and URL will load automatically.
9. Where it says: “Notes” or “Description” type in a descriptive paragraph detailing what your article is about. I usually copy/paste relevant material from the article itself, to save time.
10. If you've used keywords throughout your article (and in most cases, you should have), you'll want to include these where it says “Tags” or “Keywords.” Place a comma between each keyword or keyword phrase. For example: ape, hairy orangutan, apes.
11. Usually, you then just press “Save” or “Okay” and you're done

If you decide to bookmark your articles, you should see a big difference in traffic and earnings.

Bookmarking: Yes or No?

All that said, there's a downside. Some sites frown on this, viewing it as spam; other sites will discontinue your membership. It's really trial and error, as you go. The best advice I would give is to bookmark and, as time permits, try to also comment, and hit “Vote,” “Digg” or “Stumble” other articles you've enjoyed reading, so that you are actually a part of these communities.

The advantages outweigh the disadvantages and you will have to find your own happy medium. Many revenue share opportunities provide these buttons, so it is an option made available not only to readers but to writers, as well.

Further Reading:

Triond: 36 Bookmarking Sites . . . And Monthly Earnings!

Write it: Writing for Triond (How to Improve your Articles)

Writing for Triond How Much Can You Make?

I had 'dugg' an article about Eva Peron City: Buenos Aires which collected a lot of reads so I went to Digg to find out if they had come from there. I had a message from someone who was supposedly a fan of mine. I didn't take much notice of the name of the person because I was interested in their link.

The link was to a video which claimed to show everything there is to see in Buenos Aires, so I clicked on it. A box popped up and told me that I needed a plug in to view the video so I clicked the button and allowed it to install.

At this point AVG virus checker started to flash up virus warnings. I also use the Microsoft virus protection system (the one with the shield)and this started to give warning signals.

Then, I got warning sounds and boxes from a virus protection system that I didn't recognise. I thought that I may have installed extra protection and perhaps forgotten about it, so when the programme indicated that I had a serious virus infection, I clicked the button to heal it.

At this point all kinds of warning signals were going off on my laptop.

I investigated the virus which had HREU in the name but no other details and discovered that there are fake virus protection programmes being circulated around the internet and some actually introduce trojan horses to your system.

I am not a computer geek by any means but I did know that I shouldn't close my system down without eradicating these viruses in case they were executable files and they installed on my system when I started it up again. . AVG revealed 28 instances of viruses and Adaware found 40 instances of malware.

My system is checked thoroughly every day and it was clean last night. So, the only conclusion I could come to was that I shouldn't have opened the video link sent to me via Digg. It had disabled my virus protection and allowed viruses into my system.

Video and other file links sent to you via Digg, StumbleUpon and other social networking sites need to be treated with the same caution you exercise when opening your personal email.

Fortunately, I have been able to clean my system up but it has wasted three hours of my day. Be warned.

I closed my system down thinking that I had cleaned it up. When I restarted it I thought everything was normal but when I tried to get onto the internet I was bombarded with adverts for porn sites, gambling and all kinds of things. My browser had been hijacked and I was being redirected to various website.

I discovered that these sites were all being fed to me by something called 'adjuggler'. I tried several Adware removal tools including Adaware but nothing worked. Each time I restarted my computer it was back again. I eventually found something called Superantispyware which removed the problem.

Use your favorite search engine and type in this search phrase “Social Bookmarking Networks”, and then visit several and look around, so to get an idea about the place, people and topics that are popular. If the network is free to join and the place meets your approval, then join.

After you first join, take time and setup your personal profile page anyway that you want, but remember that your profile page is an extension of your personality. If you are a professional in your field and want to build a network for other professional, then you personal profile page should reflect your professionalism, too.

Since most all social bookmarking networks are build on the simple premise of discovery and sharing your discoveries with the community, it is advised to start locating interesting websites, photos (avoid pornography), videos, music and articles, and start posting (bookmarking) your finds to the community website. This demonstrates your ability to be active and contribute to the network in a positive way.

Making friends on social bookmarking is a very easy thing to do. Just click on another member's screen name or photo, and then read over their profile page and interests, and then if you have something in common invite them to be your friend. You can also make friends easily by simply seeing what other members liked your discoveries and ask those people to be your friend.

The more friends that you make, then the more successful your network can ultimately become and that is the name of the game. Plus, social bookmarking websites are an excellent place to discover new subjects that you might find interesting enough to write about that is if you are a writer.

How did I do this you may ask? On a free blog site (that does not publicise your blogs for you) I put up 20 blogs of similar length and in a similar subject field. I then entered these blogs into different social bookmarking sites and monitored the results. This is far from the perfect experiment but the results were such that I was able to draw up some clear winners out of around 20 bookmarking sites.

Shoutwire

Out of the 20 sites I tested shoutwire came 4th. Not only is it good for getting traffic but it's easy to sign up to, easy to submit new things to and easy to receive comments on making it a very handy site to have as a favourite. One tip to bear in mind with shoutwire is that it doesn't let you choose specific tags so try and be as accurate as possible with categorisation

Digg

Digg came a close third and was equally as easy to use as shoutwire. Not only this but digg does allow you to customise tags so there is a much broader use of tagging available. Definitely one worth favouriting

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon at first didn't appeal to me as it forced me to download a toolbar which generally I am against. However I found that by hiding my toolbar whenever not using stumble upon it actually speeds up the process of favouriting your sites as there is no need to log in or type URL's. However this is another site that does not allow custom tags, possibly why it is in second place

Del.icio.us

This site won not only on page views but on practicality as well. It has the ease of use of stumble upon combined with custom tags leading to a very high page view count for very little hassle. Every blogger should have this toolbar installed even if it's hidden most of the time.

Now it is important to bear in mind that these results were only found for 1 category of blog however I am confident that the results can be generally replicated for many different categories, why not give it a try!

Note: For this article I am only going to say MySpace but when I say it I mean all the websites like it. (Facebook, etc.)

1. Getting Obsessed with MySpace

    This is horrible. One, you don't have any time to focus on important like your job or school work. And another, what happens when MySpace starts to lose money and completely shuts itself down. You'd go insane! What about if your computer is broken and you no longer have access to MySpace. You'd go insane!
   Here's a link to video proof of a kid's MySpace obsession.

2. Who Are Your Friends?

   One of your friends could very well be a child molester who is 60 years old and is ready to strike. I do have to admit to MySpace doing a good job at working with people to help prevent this, but you never know. Always know who you are you are talking to.

3. Can't Talk To Your Friends Face to Face?
   

   There is no emotion in typing stuff. Yes, I know what emoticons are. But when you do have to talk to someone for something important you can't just type " :) ". It's better to talk in person than anything. You can't even have emotion in your voice when typing. Get off the computer and talk to your friends in person!

4. Language Arts Grades Will Surely Go Down

   With all off youre "lolz" n' " r u hear yet," you forget to write the real thang on that midterm. im sure the teacher has no idea what u r saying. when almost everyone messages each other (unless its formal), they dont care if they mispelled a word. im sure they never type appostrophes.

5. Lack of Exercise
   

   I'm sure if your sitting at the computer "talking" you will not be active and your eyes will get worse. Go out, take a walk with your friend and have a chat. You are talking, you get excersise, and you aren't sitting at a computer screen.

MySpace: bad for teens, bad for America!

As a writer, I routinely use social bookmarking networks to promote the articles and reviews that I write. Recently, I learned about and joined a relatively new social bookmarking network called Yearblook that not only allows its members to bookmark their favorite blogs from around the net and in addition win money for the most popular bookmarks that they submit to the network.

Yearblook is going to publish a book that is based on the most popular blogs submitted to Yearblook. The blog that receives the most number of votes during a 24 hour day will be published in the book that Yearblook is going to publish, so that the blogs will endure time itself in the real offline world. Yearblook claims that they will reward the most popular blog bookmark with publication in their book, one winning blog for each of the 365 days of the year.

Upon my first visit to Yearblook, I noticed the clean appearance of the website's homepage. It originally reminded me of another social bookmarking site called DropJack because of the color scheme and page layout. There was not any cluttered pages or hard to find navigation tabs to hinder the experience.

The registration process only requires a user name, current email address and a password. Really, it only takes a couple of minutes to signup for a free Yearblook user account.

Like with most other social bookmarking sites, Yearblook allots their members space to add a personal profile page and other tools to manage the member's own activities when using Yearblook.

Yearblook members can participate in a monthly contest where Yearblook rewards one Yearblook member and one blog writer a cash reward based on the most popular blog submission for the month. The winning Yearblook member will be rewarded a $50.00 cash prize and the winning blog author will receive a $50.00 cash prize for the blog that receives the most number of votes during the month.

I have not been a member of Yearblook for a very long, but so far I have not experienced any major problems with the submission process or using any of the member tools that are provided to all members. Although, Yearblook does warn that there could be some bugs to flush out of the system, because of its new status.

Yearblook is currently not near as big or popular as other such social bookmarking networks online, but that should not be a reason not to give it a try. All websites and new businesses had to start small, before they got where they are today. These smaller networks gives members the opportunity to share their ideas with the webmaster(s), so to build a better network that everyone will enjoy for years to come.

Triond publishes the photos in a website called Picable. In Picable, all photos are grouped in various categories such as nature photos, automobile photos or animations. Unlike Triond, Shareapic has no specific category to upload photos. When you sign up Shareapic, the first thing you need to do is to create your photo galleries. You need to group all your photos in order. If you want, you can create subcategories. Since Shareapic pays for only photo uploading, it is more popular than Picable. When you write “pay per photo uploading” onto your favourite search engine, you are definitely going to take the results of Shareapic not Triond. This is one of the drawbacks of Triond. But, of course, there are several advantages of Triond.

The major advantage of Triond is that they pay the users more than Shareapic. Shareapic pays the users 22 cents for each 1000 visits. However, the rate of Triond varies between 45 cents and 55 cents. As average, it is 50 cents. That is, Triond pays twice as much as Shareapic.

Shareapic only uses PayPal as a payment processor. Unlike Shareapic, Triond pays not only by Paypal but also Check and Western Union. If you live in a country where Paypal doesn't make payments, then it is nothing to make money by Shareapic since you never take those banknotes in your hands. This is one of my reasons which I prefer using Triond to Shareapic.

Promoting photos in Triond is easier than the photos in Shareapic. I've taken better stats for Triond up to now. I've added the same photo to both Triond and Shareapic. After being published, I promoted the same photo in Stumbleupon. The results were utterly different. In 3 days, my photo in Shareapic was shown only 270 times but the same photo in Triond was shown more than 1200 times. When I took the results in payment base, the results were completely diverging. I earned only 6 cents by Shareapic, but I made 60 cents by Triond.

The main advantage of Shareapic is that you should place your own Bidvertiser and Google Adsense codes under your photos. This means extra money for your pocket since Bidvertiser and Google Adsense advertise their links in your page.

In a nutshell, I side with Triond because I make more money with them.

First of all you need to become a member and download the tool bar which holds all the controls you will need to use this social network.

Stumbleupon has no front page. The tool bar allows you to rate website that you visit (including your own) and you simply click on the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" buttons according to your preferences. You select preferences and click on the "Stumble" button to see sites that might be of interest to you. This tool bar is simple to install and it tracks what you have seen, and what you prefer, so that you get to see what you want when you "Stumble". You don't have to provide any information that you don't want to when you install this tool bar.

This is the way to add a site to Stumbleupon. Simply click on the "thumbs up".

If you are trying to increase traffic to your article, blog or website, you need to improve on this. The more sites you visit and give the thumbs up to, the more sites of this type you will be given when you click on the "stumble" button and the more often your own relevant sites/articles will be given to other people. This will increase the number of visitors you have.

You can add you own sites too by simply clicking on the "I like It" button on the tool bar, but over use of this might get you barred from the site, so take care.

Add lots of friends because your friends will be given your latest website/additions when they "Stumble" and friends are more likely to give you the "thumbs up".

When you add new websites and pages try to add them to the right category so that the "Stumblers" seeing them are more likely to be interested in them and so more likely to give them a "thumbs up". For example, if you write about computers and you add your new article to the sports section, you are very likely to get a lot of "thumbs down" reactions because the people seeing your article or blog, are expecting sports orientated pages to come up.

Use tags and keywords and keep these as relevant as you can so that when someone "Stumbles" your pages, they get what they expect to see. More information on keywords and tags is available in here.

In my opinion, before participating in any social bookmarking network it is important to understand what they are and how they are different. Some social bookmarking networks are dedicated to serious Internet content while others accept just about anything else that its members have found interesting to bookmark and share with other members that are in their networks.

What is social bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a unique service allowing its members to save, review and share websites, articles, photos and music that they discover on the Internet. Once a website is discovered, then the social bookmarking member can write a review about the website and share it with the rest of the social bookmarking community that they belong to. If a website has already been discovered by another member, then in this case the other members can visit the website and later write their own review as well as vote on the website either up or down depending on the impression that the website had left on the visitor.

How many social bookmarking services are there on the Internet?

There are hundreds of social bookmarking services on the Internet, but right now there are only a handful worth participating in, because of their size and popularity. Not all social bookmarking services are created equally and if marketing is the purpose for joining, then targeting the biggest and most popular of these services is the way to go.

How can I locate these social bookmarking services?

Really they are quiet easy to locate using search engines like Google, Ask or any one of the hundreds of other search engines available to the general public on the Internet. Try using keywords like “Social Bookmarking” or “Social Networks” when conducting a search while using your favorite search engine. Search engines respond more accurately when using descriptive keywords that are more precise or focused on the actual subject that is being searched for.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is one of my personal favorite social bookmarking websites and the community is very friendly thus making each visit more welcoming. The members can invite other members to join their friends' internal networks or just be a fan of another member's website discoveries. The types of bookmarks that are added vary from very serious to light and humorous.

For Marketing Purposes

StumbleUpon is an excellent social bookmarking service for bookmarking anything light and humorous or top 10 lists that are useful and entertaining. There are much better social bookmarking services for bookmarking more serious articles, videos and websites than StumbleUpon.

Digg

This social bookmarking service is by far the biggest and most popular on the Internet and its members reflect all of the signs that any wildly popular website on the Internet has shown and that is there willingness to spend countless hours reviewing, discovering and sorting through the junk websites sometimes submitted by its members, so to discover a real gem. Digg members are very serious people and it sometimes reflects in a negative way as to how other members are treated by their fellow members. Digg is not always the nicest place to visit, but it is by far the best website to visit and submit new content to, if you are a Webmaster or blogger wanting to increase traffic to a website or article that you like and want to share with millions of other potential visitors.

For Marketing Purposes

Digg is a social bookmarking service that generates millions of page views per month and attracts new members from all four corners of the world. Use this website to Digg more serious websites, articles, videos, music and photos. Submitting poetry is a waste of time and doesn't generate much traffic or interest from the larger Digg community.

Blue Dot

While this is not the biggest or even the most active of social bookmarking service on the Internet, it is one of the best to learn your way around a social bookmarking space at your own pace. Members at BlueDot generally are very nice and like to share humorous bookmarks as well as serious natured articles and photographs. It is a waste of time submitting poetry or short stories here at BlueDot, because they do not do well here on this website.

For marketing purposes

BlueDot is not your run-of-the-mill social bookmarking site as humorous bookmarks rules the day at BlueDot. Eager members can quickly build a social friends network consisting of hundreds of like-minded members in just a few weeks, thus increasing the sheer number of potential visitors into the thousands. Building a private friends network is the key to attracting and earning the respect of new readers and visitors from around the world in a short period of time.

Fark

Fark is quite unique as it is a social bookmarking service where members bookmark mostly odd, weird and humorous websites, articles, videos and photos. Visitors and members will not find too much serious natured websites or articles here at Fark. The community is pleasant to interact with, but remember this is a serious community where laughter fills the air and jackasses are quickly put into their place.

For Marketing Purposes

Use Fark to submit any odd, weird or humorous articles, photos, videos or websites. This is really not the place to bookmark anything of a serious nature, because it is not the reason that its members or visitors choose to visit this website. Submitting anything of a serious nature is a waste of time, but the weirder the bookmark content is, then the better for this website and your marketing efforts.

Shoutwire

This is an excellent website for anyone who enjoys political or religious articles, photos, videos and websites. Although, other types of bookmarks can be discovered here at Shoutwire, it seems that the majority of bookmarks are political or religious in nature and that is fine by me, because I personally enjoy this type of thing every once in a while. Members are able to review and leave comments on their own bookmarks or for other members' bookmarks, just like the other social bookmarking websites.

For Marketing Purposes

Use this bookmarking service to bookmark your favorite political or religious article, photo, video or website. Although, members can bookmark non-political and non-religious photos, articles, videos or websites that they like, the bookmarks that attract the most viewers are political and religious ones.

Ebizmba

Use this website to locate the top 30 social bookmarking sites and their overall rankings. Great ways to easily and quickly obtain the marketing information that you need to know.