Now that you’ve sent a social trade, this tutorial will take you through completing it.

Below, the system indicates that there is one pending social link. Click on “Add Social Links”.

That will bring you to the review page. From here, you can see the date the trade was created, the site it is from and its details, and who created the trade. To begin, click “Add Bookmarks”.

The bookmarking process is the same for each social site – simply bookmark the link, then use our link checker to ensure that it was done properly, and complete the trade. For this example, we will bookmark on Digg.

Above the bookmarking window, LavaLinx gives you all the details you need to add the link – the URL, title and description of the page you are bookmarking. This page had already been inserted into Digg, so we simply have to click “Digg”.

Now we hit the “Check Bookmark” button in the bottom right corner.

Our system will let you know if it has been added properly. If there was an error, you will see a warning with some troubleshooting tips on how to correct it. Here it says the bookmark was added properly, so we’ll move on to the next step.

We have our link bookmarked and we are ready to hit Complete Trade.

Now, if you were to return to the admin page, you would see it a completed social trade.

Now that you have your accounts set up, you are ready to start trading social bookmarks with other LavaLinx users. First, login to your LavaLinx account.

From here you can click “Manage” on a particular site, or you can go straight to the “Create Social Trade” button in the bottom corner of the screen.

This will list out all pages that are available to trade social bookmarks with, starting with those most recently added. It also lists the “Type” of trade.

The “Bookmarks Remaining” is the number of remaining times you may bookmark that particular page. The “Social Accounts” lists the number of social accounts that site has available to bookmark your site.

Select the page you would like to bookmark and hit “Social Trade” on the right column.

Social bookmarks are different than link trades. With link trades, relevancy is key, but with social bookmarks, you will want to use variety. This will show the social sites that you are interested in a multitude of topics, which will help your social account appear more natural.

The next screen lets you select which page of yours that you’d like them to bookmark.

Click on the page you prefer and hit “Next”.

Now you are able to choose the page of theirs that you will bookmark. Here there is one, so select it and hit next.

Then, select the user you would like to bookmark your page. We have this feature for sites that have multiple users on one account.

On step four, you get to choose which social sites you and the other webmaster will bookmark these pages on.

LavaLinx has a counter on this section that ensures it is an even and fair trade. If you select an uneven number, our system will remind you that you must select an equal number of sites from each side.

When you’ve selected the social accounts you want, click next and you will be taken to the review screen. This is where you will look over the trade for any errors. Hit back if you need to fix anything, or if you’re finished click “Submit”.

You are now finished with creating a social trade, and it has been sent to the other webmaster for review.

In our prior post, we discussed how to create social accounts. We also touched on how to link social accounts:

If you have more than one LavaLinx account, you can select which accounts you would like to use a particular social site on. For example, lets say you add Digg as a social site. You have it on your main account, but you don’t want it on your secondary account. This is where you would navigate to change that, and vice-versa; If you want to bookmark on a secondary account site, you will need to go to [the Social Boomarks] page and link your social account with it.

This quick tutorial will go over in detail how to link up your social accounts with all of your LavaLinx accounts. Below, we have five social bookmarking accounts created, however in the bottom left box, you’ll see that there are zero of five social bookmarking accounts currently linked. To change this, click on the “Manage” tab of “Linked with (your account name)“.

Now you can see our five social accounts, our username, and a check box on the far right side.

Check the box of whichever social accounts you would like to have linked to this LavaLinx account. We’ve checked three. By selecting these, you are indicating to LavaLinx that during social trading, other LavaLinx users may request trades to your site using those selected social accounts. It also enables private bookmarking on those accounts.

You will NOT be able to bookmark on a social site if it is not linked. For example, you can see the Delicious and Reddit are not checked, so you would not be able to save a bookmark on either Delicious or Reddit for this LavaLinx account.

If you return to the Social Bookmarks page (middle button on the top navigation), you can see that we now have three of five social accounts linked with this LavaLinx account.

You would continue linking whichever social accounts you prefer on each LavaLinx account.

Are you tired of the hassle that comes with creating social accounts? If so, LavaLinx’s unique social account creation could help you. From this section, you are able to create, delete, modify and  add multiple social accounts that will accurately and efficiently track the number of social bookmarks received for your pages.

To begin, log on to your LavaLinx account.

Next, click on the “Social Bookmarks” tab in the middle of the top navigation bar.

That will bring us to this page, where you will come to manage your social accounts. Let’s take a look at each individual section of this page.

The first box states the number of Social Bookmark Accounts you have created (seen here, the number is zero). It also gives you a number of how many public and private social accounts you may create.

We have over eighty-five social sites in the system that you can create accounts for.

Social pages are the pages which have been categorized as sites, pages, news articles, posts, images or videos for use in social bookmarking. Here is a the tutorial on how to add social pages.

There is actually more to this next box than it appears. If you have more than one LavaLinx account, (not social account), you can select which accounts you would like to use a particular social site on. For example, lets say you add Digg as a social site. You have it on your main account, but you don’t want it on your secondary account. This is where you would navigate to change that, and vice-versa; If you want to bookmark on a secondary account site, you will need to go to this page and link your social account with it.

Let’s add our first social account. Click on “Manage” or the number (currently zero)  on the Social Bookmark Accounts box.

You are now viewing a list of all social sites that we’ve added to our system. Currently, there are eighty-five, and this number is continually growing.

Select a social account to add, and click “New”.

If you don’t currently have a profile with the selected social site, you may click the “Setup a ___ account” which will take you directly to the page where you create your profile. When you are finished with profile setup, simply close the window and return to LavaLinx.

LavaLinx gives users the discretion of choosing what they would like to use a particular social account for. Even though some sites such as Myspace and Facebook are private automatically due to their setup (which will show up as N/A, without the option of a drop-down box), you may opt to make other profiles private if you would like to only bookmark your own material on them.

Now just enter your username and hit “Save”. Or if you prefer not to add that account, you may hit “Cancel”.

Remember when we talked about LavaLinx having the functionality allowing you to track multiple social accounts? After you add your initial account, you have the option to add another.

We’ll just keep ours at one. Now you can see that we’re finished adding this social account.

If you return to the Social Bookmarks page, you will now see that we have one social bookmarking account, and we have one of one social accounts linked with this LavaLinx account.

You’re all set up and ready to create trades.

Private bookmarking is a feature LavaLinx added for two reasons: One, it gives users the ability to bookmark their own pages if they desire to do so. The second, more important reason is due to the setup of the individual social sites. Some sites, such as Facebook, don’t give users a public account. This causes a problem with SEO and the link value of your bookmark, as the search engines are not able to view your account and therefore they cannot view your links. A different situation is where sites such as Twitter and Myspace change the URL of the hyperlink to a redirect or shortened URL, both of which negate the SEO value, and make it nearly impossible for those links to be verified.

To create a private bookmark, you will need to navigate to the social pages section.

Once there, select the page you would like to use, and hit “Bookmark”.

You are now on the page where you can bookmark your social page. Notice that the details on the social page are exactly what we entered in our Adding a Social Page Post.

To begin, click on the bookmarking hyperlink in the frame. This example is “Bookmark on Digg”.

This will then pull up the screen where you can bookmark the social page, all without leaving LavaLinx. (Keep in mind there are some social sites that require the bookmark to be made in a new tab. Whenever this is done, you will add the bookmark, close the tab and return to LavaLinx to mark the trade complete.)

The screenshot below shows how the social site will appear in LavaLinx.

Hit the button indicated on the site. For this one, it is “Digg”. For others it may simply be bookmark, vote, like, or save.

You will see now that your vote has been tallied.

The bookmark has been added.  Hit “Mark Complete” at the bottom right of the screen.

The next screen indicates that you are done bookmarking this page on the selected social site. You can continue bookmarking this page on whichever social site you prefer by clicking on the social site image.

If you return to the Social Pages section, LavaLinx will now show that you have one self bookmark done for this page.

You are now finished with the private bookmarking process! We hope this tutorial has been helpful for you.