Social
Bookmarking- Why It Helps SEO by Christine Abbate
Using Social
Bookmarking sites are a really
great way to promote your website or
Blog. They are becoming one of the best marketing tools today,
especially since they have very useful tools and features that users
can utilize to improve their search engine optimization. What is Social
Bookmarking? Social
Bookmarking allows users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks
of web pages. This enables Internet users to access and add their
favorite bookmarks from any computer. Personalized, informal tags are
used to organize bookmarks instead of the traditional browser-based
system of folders. These sites measure the
popularity of a given
website as compared to all other sites that have been submitted to its
system. So you can see what bookmarks are favorites to a lot of people.
Learning new things is easy and effortless with social bookmarking
sites. Everything on these sites is someone''s favorite -- they''ve
already done the work of finding it, so all you have to do is look!
Some common bookmarking websites are Digg, del.icio.us, Furl,
Technorati, Blinklist, Reddit, and Spurl. Why would I want/need to be Socially Bookmarked? There
are lots of uses to social bookmarking- such as sharing your favorites
with friends, family, coworkers, and anyone else. Groups can create a
shared account to collect and organize bookmarks that are useful to the
entire group. For example, if you''re planning a group vacation, you all
can collect bookmarks and review what everyone else finds. Creating
wish lists on social bookmarking sites is also a great idea to get the
word out to people you know. Make a birthday list by shopping online,
saving your "wishes" as a bookmark and tell your friends/family to
check it out from their computers!! Whatever the use for sharing
information, social bookmarking can save a lot of your time. And today,
time is so precious! Why is Social Bookmarking good for SEO? Due
to the immense popularity of social bookmarking websites, being on
their front-page, you are increasing your traffic to your website. In
the long run, the numerous inbound links to your site will increase and
regard you as a link reference, thus you have increased your link
popularity and efficiently increased your rank. Between your high
traffic and increased link popularity, social bookmarking websites use
this method as their media platform with a viral marketing campaign to
their advantage by doubling it with link baits. You win in more than
one way!
Overall, social bookmarking is a great way to
increase traffic and potential customers to your website. Just keep in
mind, in order to be successful in social bookmarking, you must provide
content that has value and worth bookmarking! About the Author Christine
handles SEO, SEM, usability and standards-compliance for NewSunGraphics
(www.newsung.com) a New York firm offering Search Engine Optimization,
Search Engine Marketing, web design using full CSS layouts and all
things web design/development. NewSunGraphics offers extensive services
at affordable prices to a growing list of successful and happy clients.
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