Mouse Engine Optimizer

You have all heard of (and used I hope) about the online bookmarking and tagging services such as del.icio.us, stumble and digg by now right? Well these offer a great way of giving your blog entries a kick start on traffic, especially if you have built up a decent friends network on any of those services.

If you haven’t seen this one then I’d like to introduce you to a bookmarking service called ma.gnolia. It is very similar to all of the other services in that you can bookmark things, tag things, have friend networks, yada-yada-yada. One thing to note is that the interface has a very sleek Web 2.0 look and feel, but other than it’s pretty much the same. Well… almost.

The one thing the I liked about this service is that it gives you a blog interface to display your bookmarks to the world! This is what my ma.gnolia bookmarks blog looks like. While setting up your account it even gives you time to run over to Technorati and claim your new bookmarks blog, then gives you a place to enter the embedded claim code to make it all legit. Cool! Now if I bookmark one of my blog posts using my ma.gnolia account it shows up as another blog referring back to my blog entry. Not only is this a straight up backlink, but it helps as a blog link in Technorati’s authority ranking as well.

Extra credit: If you are using FeedBurner (and who isn’t?) then there is a Ma.gnolia FeedFlare widget in the catalog. So you can have this right along side your posts on the site and in your feed ready to go. This has the added benefit that if anyone else using this service happens to bookmark you using the widget… kudos!

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