Saturday, September 24, 2011

Social Bookmarking Sites


Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. It is a powerful tool in promoting a website. Social bookmarking sites allow you to manage the bookmarks on-line and Conduct searches for information based on other people's findings rather than search engines’.

Uses of Social Bookmarking Sites
  • It can be accessed from anywhere & everywhere.
  • It makes it easier to search data as it is organized and categorized by the user.
  • It allows user to search data, which are not necessarily indexed by search engines.
  • Search is made easier as it facilitates ability to tag web page / site.
  •  As user voting plays an important role in getting a high vote, chances of appearing in search results are increased.
  • Social bookmarking sites get the natural links i.e. if people like your story, chances are they will publish it in their forums, blogs etc. with your website URL. Hence, your website will get the natural links.
Benefits of Social Bookmarking:
  • Social bookmarking service is very useful to increasing the traffic for your website.  The bookmarked websites are visible and accessible to everyone online. Because of its ease of accessibility to everyone surfing the internet, it becomes easy for them to find their way to your home site through the bookmarked websites. It had proved to be a very great way to build one way back link.
  • Submitting to Social Bookmarking Sites puts your blog/website out there in front of millions of people, increasing your visibility ten notches and getting you more branding.
  • Each of these Popular Social Bookmarking Sites see remarkable volumes of traffic on a daily basis, if your blog/website has good content on it, chances are that several of these users will link to your content, thus getting you relevant links which will ultimately lead to an increase in your Rankings in the Search Engines.
  • Social Bookmarking can really be a time-consuming process with you being required to create an account in each site before submitting your page to them manually. We have made things easy for you, just sign up, enter the page you wish to submit and we do the rest for you, saving you plenty of time in the process.

Popular Social Bookmarking Sites
  • Delicious: Delicious is a social bookmarking site' and it has more than 3 million users and 100 million tagged items. It allows user to tag his stuff as well as find other people's stuff. Delicious is a free site and can be used by anyone who has an access to the Internet
  • StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon is the web discovery service that allows people to discover great websites recommended by others with similar interests. More than 20,000 advertisers are using StumbleUpon to promote products and services.
  • Reddit: Reddit is a social bookmarking and news site. It allows users to submit articles, vote on them, as well as get engage in discussions. From SEO point of view, Reddit can prove to be an essential site as the article / websites voted up to the front page usually receive a great deal of traffic.
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