Social Bookmarking & SEO
The concept of social bookmarking turned hugely favored thanks to portals such as Deli.cio.us and Digg. The theory is that an article or web publication is collected, filed and then tagged to be sorted later on by relevancy. The material provided by social bookmarks is often seen as more pertinent for many audiences because the information is supplied by live people. Its value is voted on by genuine visitors instead of a search engine providing listings based on keywords. A points plan is also exercised with stories on social bookmarking sites and to bring in a more intimate human side to it.
Social bookmarking, the major ones, and the Digg clones and Delicious clones can contribute tremendous audiences to your portal. Promoting your portal through social bookmarking is simple, as long as you have relevant and useful information. The bookmarking community will recognize its practicality and vote for it and thus generate better hits through the bookmarking websites. Your site’s viewership can develop exponentially as a result of social bookmarkers.
Aim for the market slot that is closest to your portal. Try to get in touch with to those communities that will have viewers who appreciate the information, and as a result can rank it up and stir up buzz about it in the bookmarking community. You can also build back links to your site by linking URLs to your content. This may not mean anything in terms of SEO advantage as some social bookmarking software exercise a ‘no follow’ method, attaching tags to your links. Still visitors could still use your site and increase popularity to the attached links.
These days with hundreds of social bookmarking websites, it is important to try to get linked into one somehow. The possibilities from there are limitless as you raise your audience base and earn points among the community of your site.
Since tens of thousands of people are seeking to get their website indexed very quickly, running your own social bookmarking site has proven to be very profitable by some. However, the days of creating a general social bookmarking site are over and the money is in the niches such as the finance niche, health niche or even local news niche.
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