Social bookmarking is an excellent segment of Web 2.0 that you can use to get more traffic to your website.
These websites are basically services that allow users to bookmark their favorite sites all over the web. You can make use of this by bookmarking your own sites as well as sites that you find to be interesting.
Use Digg.com
Digg is one of the most popular social bookmarking sites there is. The best thing is that Google absolutely loves Digg right now. The point of Digg is to enter interesting stories from around the web. You can digg your own site and have other people digg it too. If you’ve written some really great content, the chances are good that other people will want to “digg it”. You’ll get traffic from the Digg visitors, as well as a great backlink to your site.
You can even invite people to Digg your story by asking them to on your page, like this example: HYPERLINK “http://www.MarketingComics.com/”www.MarketingComics.com (on the bottom, you’ll see a button that says “Digg this”.)
Use Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us another social bookmarking site that is very popular. It works similarly to Digg — when you bookmark your content in Del.icio.us, you’ll get visitors to your website.
Once again, just like Digg, this‘ll give you a backlink to help boost your rankings in the search engines. Remember — whenever you use these social bookmarking websites you want to focus on your keywords and make sure your content and descriptions are relevant to your website.
Use other social bookmarking sites.
It’s in your best interest to make sure you submit to as many social bookmarking sites as possible over a certain period of time. It might be a good idea to use software or websites that can help you bookmark your sites automatically, because it can be incredibly time consuming to do it all manually.
After all, there are a ton of social bookmarking sites out there.
Some websites you can add bookmarks to include:
OnlyWire.com
SocialPoster.com
Some software you can use includes:
Bookmarking Demon
Autosocial Poster (for WordPress blogs)
Spread your links out.
There are people who believe that they can just bookmark their site like crazy and get good rankings. Actually, that may be true for a little while, but the search engines quickly catch on. People who are lucky enough to get their sites to the top of the search engines through spamming the social sites often see their sites fall way back down to the bottom.
It’s a much better idea to bookmark over a number of days to make things look more natural. Remember that the goal of all search engines is to create the best user experience possible. They know that if more people are linking to you, the chances are good that your content is worth it. As you bookmark your site you are getting the word out in hopes that other people will soon start noticing your site’s worth. Your traffic will increase over time as a result.
Bookmark other people’s content too.
There are several different reasons why you want to bookmark other people’s websites as well as your own. The first reason is because the social bookmarking sites will catch on quickly and ban you if all you’re doing is bookmarking your own content. Another reason is that these are social sites by nature. The more you participate, the more return you will see.
Explore these sites. You really find some great websites in your niche. In fact, you might even find some potential link partners or JV partners.
You can even have friends in some of these sites (like Digg). That means if you are linking to their content, they are likely to come along them link to yours as well. The more people who bookmark your content, the better off you are.
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