Profitable Mommy Blogging

We’ve already covered StumbleUpon in our series on Social Bookmarking. Now we are heading to one of my favorites for bookmarking: Delicious. I have to admit, I was completely turned off to this site by all the dots: del.icio.us. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it so I didn’t even want to figure out what it was. I’m so sad I waited so long!But very glad they moved away from the former format and are now simply Delicious.

Here’s how it works.

Delicious, like other social bookmarking sites, stores links you save. But there are some features that make me like it more than others. First, I can create my own tags for the links. This is important to me because I can group links together in a way that makes sense to me or that represents how I plan on using the links in the future. Second, you can choose if a link is stored publicly or privately.

Let me illustrate the beauty of Delicious with a personal example.

My mom has an online business selling a product. It’s a rather expensive, but highly beneficial, product that takes a lot of interaction with a client before a sale is made. She has numerous links that she shares with people regularly containing pertinent information regarding her product and the need it fills. She also happens to be visiting us in Tennessee this week, without her laptop. As she has tried to conduct business while here, she has spent extra time looking for those links again because they are all saved on her laptop which she didn’t bring.

I explained Delicious to her and she immediately recognized what a time-saver it would be to have access to your favorite links from any computer. This is one more way to feel the freedom of blogging for income. You’re not tied to a location nor are you tied to your own computer. Feels great, right!

How it affects traffic

Many people need to bookmark your post in Delicious before it makes the front page and really brings in traffic. Vandelay Design recently published a post on using social bookmarking sites to increase traffic. He shows a great strategy for getting to the front page of Delicious, among other beneficial places to get your post showcased. I suggest reading his post and following his strategy.

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