Social Bookmarking & SEO
The notion of social bookmarking turned hugely trendy thanks to sites in the manner of Deli.cio.us and Digg. The idea is that an article or blog is collected, put away and then labeled to be categorized later on by relevancy. The material provided by social bookmarks is often seen as more relevant for most users because the information is provided by humans. Its value is voted on by human viewers rather than a search engine coming up with results founded on keywords. A points plan is also exercised with stories on social bookmarking portals and to add a greater personal aspect to it.
Social bookmarking, the major ones, and the Digg clones and Delicious clones can bring waves of audiences to your portal. Marketing your portal through social bookmarking is easy, as long as you have suitable and useful information. The bookmarking world will recognize its usefulness and rate it and thus generate better popularity through the bookmarking services. Your portal’s viewership can rise exponentially thanks to social bookmarkers.
Aim for the niche market that is closest to your site. Attempt to to get in touch with to those bases that will have viewers who appreciate the information, and therefore can push it up and generate hype around it in the bookmarking world. You can also generate back links to your site by attaching URLs to your material. This may not mean anything in terms of SEO asset as some social bookmarking software implement a ‘no follow’ method, attaching tags to your links. However visitors could still view your site and bring popularity to the attached links.
Nowadays with hundreds of social bookmarking services, it is important to try to get linked into one in some way. The possibilities from there are limitless as you increase your viewer base and earn points among the community of your site.
Since hundreds 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.