UK retailers can use Share A Bargain for advertising shops, both offline using the 'local' category and online shops, but there are rules! Remember that this website is used by people looking for bargains, so the best way to it to post a shop advertisment is to highlight your best discount items and bargains, or to let people know about special offers and sales that you are running. People vote for the things they like, and stories with more votes get a mc more prominent position on the site, on their sub-category and main category pages, and even on the homepage for the most popular.

Anyone can sign up for a free account and submit as many 'bookmarks' as they like, but if you abuse this by submitting identical listings, by submitting listings about large numbers of items that are not considered by admin to be 'bargain' items, or if you in any other way go against the spirit of this site then you risk having you account closed and all of your bookmarks deleted. However, if you stick to these simple rules then Share A Bargain can be a great source of shop advertising which is available free for large and small retailers alike.

Making The Most of Share A Bargain for Your Business

There are a number of ways that you can maximize the benefit to your business of using Share A Bargain. Submitting quality stories with a well thought out description is the best way, but you might also like to think about building links to your stories information pages from other websites. A good way to do this is to use the 'add to' button that will appear under your story to add it to other social bookmarking websites like digg. Another good way to build links is to write short articles about subjects related to what you are selling and then submit them to article directories with a link in the 'author bio' section. For more information take a look at this Article Marketing Guide. These links will get direct visitors to the page, but they will also help us to get your listing into googles search results for people looking for the products that you have to sell. You can also link from profile pages on social networking websites. Another good way to promote your bookmarked stories is to get involved wih he community on Share A Bargain, voting and adding your favourite bookmarkers to your friends list. It's a good idea to take a look at the groups that we have before you start submitting bookmarks, and either join relevant groups or even start your own; this way you will be able to add your submissions to the groups that you have already joined or created right from the start. You my also want to take a look at the 'Request a Bargain' section, as someone might be looking for exactly what you have to offer.

If you are operating in North America then please visit this US Store Advertising page instead.