In order to create social bookmarking exchanges through LavaLinx, you will need to first set up your social pages.

Let’s begin by navigating to the Social Pages section. (If you missed that tutorial, you can review the social page navigation instructions). Here is a screenshot of the page you will be viewing.

Click on the add button and you arrive on to the area where you will input your page data.

You’ll notice there are two sections on this page: Add Social Page and Link Information. Let’s take a look at each of these individually. Here we have the Add Social Page information box.

First is the “Name” field. It is important to keep in mind that this is NOT the name of the page you want bookmarked. That section is the “Title” which we will get to later. The “Name” field is for your own personal records, so you can easily track and manage different pages without the need to put in a full title.

You may have the Name and Title fields be the same, or different. That is all personal preference. The example we are going to use will use a different name.

Next, we move down to the URL. LavaLinx will pre-populate the URL based on which account you are in, so all you need to add is the last segment of the URL.

For example, instead of adding:

http://www.lavalinx.com/seo-links/easy-ways-to-gain-reliable-twitter-followers/

We simply add

seo-links/easy-ways-to-gain-reliable-twitter-followers/

The “Expiration Date” is a feature that we’ve added exclusively for those posts that may be time sensitive. You will want to use this feature on a holiday post for example, to make sure that users don’t bookmark this page past the time it is relevant for. To set an expiration date, simply click on the calender image and select the end date. When the time runs out, LavaLinx will automatically disable the page from receiving bookmarks.

For the page we are adding, the content isn’t time sensitive so we’ll just leave the expiration section blank.

The Status is where you select if you would like the page enabled or disabled for social bookmark trading. You can always come back to this page and modify the status at any time.

Tags are one of the most important items to add. These are the tags that users will add to their social accounts when bookmarking your page, so it is important that these tags be relevant.

Last, we have the Social Bookmark Type. Shown with a dropdown box, this feature is more complex than it appears. By selecting one of the options listed, you are giving our system the information it needs to know which sites will or won’t accept that article. This could keep you from being banned in social sites that might not accept that type of article. Here are the options you have to chose from.

Let’s choose Article/Blog Post as our social bookmark type.

Now, we have all of the first section filled out properly. Take a look for grammatical errors and add any information you may have left out.

You are now ready to move onto the next section. If you look below the Add Social Page section, you’ll see the Link Information segment.

There is a sentence above the Title. This is to remind you that the information you put for these fields will be the details that other people use to bookmark your page. The Title will become the hyperlink. One thing to note about the title is you want it to be viral. Try to write something that people will want to click on. If the original post title was boring, this is where you can change it up a bit and make it more interesting.  Questions seem to do well, but you can also use hints, put “quick tips” or anything denoting a list that people might be interested in.

Now, we’ll move onto the description. You will find more benefit from a short, intriguing description, than you would from a long informative one. Remember, you want the reader to click on and vote up your page, so it needs to look as appealing as possible. By not giving away all of your details, the reader will then have to go to your page if they want to know more.

You’ve now filled out the entire form. It should appear like this:

The last step is to hit the Add Page button at the bottom right of the screen.

You’re finished! Now you can go back into your list of social pages and your new page will show.