Social bookmarking has also emerged as a search engine optimization technique and is used widely. This service allows users to collect and organize the pages they like at one place where they can see them. Friends also have access to these pages so that they do not have to share it manually. Whatever you bookmark, your friends can see.
What is social Bookmarking
Using bookmarking websites is easy. You just create a profile and continue to add friends that match your interests. When you visit a page and like it, just bookmark it and keep in a related category. Earlier bookmarking was a feature provided in internet browsers, which still exists. In that case, only you or someone else that uses your computer and the same browser can see it. In social bookmarking, you can share your favorite links with your friends. Many students or people interested in a particular subject resort to social bookmarking.
Benefits of Social Bookmarking
You can exploit this service to your benefit by creating a profile and sharing all links to your company as bookmarks. This results in increased traffic and new pages are also cached quickly. When you save a bookmark, the website often asks you to write some description of it and add some tags so that they know what the web page is related to. When someone searches for that tag, those links show up. If you want your website to be indexed quickly, add it to a number of bookmarking websites. This results in higher ranking as well.
The credibility increases manifold when there are people other than you who are bookmarking your pages. There are many other benefits of including social bookmarking as a part of your search engine optimization campaign. Many users find it easy to search on a bookmarking website and not a search engine. Because of this they get websites recommended by some of their friends which makes them more comfortable with it.
How to do it effectively
Any search engine optimization technique can be effective or ineffective based on the way it is applied. Same applies to bookmarking. Some care is to be taken while writing the description and tags while bookmarking. The tags should be same as the selected keywords for SEO. Try to use the keywords towards the beginning of the title of the bookmark. Remember that it is a social bookmarking site. That means you need to be social, make friends and see what they are sharing. Build relationship with other users on your website so that they will take more interest in what you have to share. Be sure what you are sharing is of value to them. This is not difficult if you have open ears and a willingness to do what is needed.
Social bookmarking is a very effective method not only to improve search engine rankings and receive higher traffic but also to create a huge fan base. The most famous websites for bookmarking are Digg, Delicious, stumbleupon, Reddit, Google bookmarks etc which will get you the best results. If you want more numbers and build links, there are hundreds of other bookmarking sites too.
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mm… Do you think this will still be a good search engine optimization technique after the Penguin update? I mean, those links are quite easy to get.
In my opinion, i’m just not sure anymore. What i still will continue doing is submitting blog posts to the social world. I wouldn’t do this as a backlink method but to let my followers know that i have a new blog post.
For the penguin update, i’m still waiting for Google to correct there mistakes when you search for make money online. Penguin needs some tweeks because webmasters still complaining. I’ll have a beer over this tonight. I’m going to the bar pretty soon.