Social Bookmarking & SEO

By agriyamarkit

The concept of social bookmarking became hugely popular thanks to sites such as delicious and digg. The idea is that an article or blog is collected, stored and then tagged to be sorted later on by relevancy. The information provided by social bookmarks is often seen as more relevant for many users because the information is provided by humans. Its relevancy is decided by human viewers rather than a search engine providing results based on keywords. A points system is also used with articles on social bookmarking sites, to add a greater human aspect to it.

Social bookmarking can add tremendous viewership to your site. Marketing your site through social bookmarking is easy, as long as you have relevant and useful information. The bookmarking world will recognize its usefulness and rate it and thus create greater hits through the bookmarking websites. Your site’s audience can grow exponentially thanks to social bookmarkers.

Target the niche market that is relevant to your site. Try to connect to those communities that will have viewers who appreciate the material, and therefore can rank it higher and stir up buzz about it in the bookmarking world. You can also build back links to your site by attaching URLs to your content. This may not mean anything in terms of SEO advantage as some social bookmarking sites implement a ‘no follow’ policy, attaching tags to your links. However users could still view your site and increase popularity to the attached links.

Now days with hundreds of social bookmarking websites, it is important to try to get linked into one somehow. The possibilities from there are endless as you increase your viewer base and gain points among the community of your site.

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