How These Semi-Automated Social Bookmarking Submitters Will Help You…

…getting yourself an easier and faster way to social bookmark lots and lots of your own blog’s favourite URLs….. WAIT…!

…DON’T go just yet! Maybe you’ve heard posts about multiple social bookmarking before and in the end you spotted that they’re just listing icons and you still needed to click on each of them and typing the same URL, description, tags over and over again. This time, it’s different. I promise !

Let’s just get on with it. These are the social bookmarking tools I’m going to show you:

• Social Marker
• Social Matic
• Social Poster

Starting with my favourite, Social Marker.

Social Marker works either by a bookmarklet or a widget. They even provide a WordPress plugin for your blog. Let’s say, you’re on the Social Marker’s page itself and you want to bookmark the page.

You can click the bookmarklet and it’ll bring you to Social Marker’s main page. It’ll load itself with the title and the URL of the page you’d bookmark.

You can see that the “Title” and “Link” fields are pre-filled according to the page you wanted to bookmark previously. The next thing you need to do is fill the “Text” with the page’s description, and certain tags you’d like to associate with the page.

Then, still on the same page, you’re given options to choose which social bookmarking sites you want to use.

If you click on “All”, it’ll submit your page to all listed social bookmarking sites you can see. “Dofollow” means only submitting to those excluding “rel=nofollow” on their link attributes.

When you’re done, click “Submit” just on the upper right corner and the magic starts here….

The next page will automatically load each of the social bookmarking’s page you selected previously, continuously. For example, you chose “Furl”, “BlinkList” and “MisterWong”. The first page you’ll see is Furl’s submission page (if you’re not logged in to Furl, you’ll see a login page). But in the “background”, Social Marker continues to load BlinkList’s and MisterWong’s submission page (you can see it on your browser’s status bar). This is how the submission page looks like (click for a larger view):

You can see that almost all the fields are automatically filled by Social Marker. However, on this page, Furl’s “Keywords” field isn’t filled up yet. You can easily do it by clicking on the “Tags” field on the bottom right of the page. This field contains anything you’ve typed earlier before you start submitting your pages. Just click on it and it’ll block the entire text box. You only need to copy and paste it into Furl’s “Keywords” section. Click “Save” and “Next” to go to the next one (in this case, “BlinkList”).

Remember when I said that Social Marker continuously loads the pages? Depending on your internet connection, the “BlinkList” submission page should have been loaded by now. And also on the previous page (in this case, Furl’s), you don’t have to wait until the saving process is through. You can click on “Save” and “Next” in a straight line since Social Marker will finish the saving process in the “background”.

As you can see above, all the fields are perfect. So you can just “Blink” and click “Next”, continue to “MisterWong”.

You can also click “Back” to see if previous submission went through successfully or not. When you’ve finished the last submission (“MisterWong” in this case), you can close the window and go for another page to bookmark . Semi-automated and no typing at all.
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