Social Bookmarking - A Guide To The Process

By Author: Michael Luciano
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Before we get to the meat of the matter, what is social bookmarking ? Social bookmarking is the method of gaining links from social bookmarking websites which should probably increase your serps rankings as well as your organic and referral traffic.

Social bookmarking websites consist of a community of people who are ready to tag and rate and " favorite " your website, which shall help in improvement of your traffic. Most of the social bookmarking websites are based on a broad niche, and shall accept any category of websites. You just have to choose the right category when you make a submission. There are certain others that fall under a specific niche, and unless your website fall under such a category, the chances of your website living up in such social bookmarking websites are slim.

The advantages of social bookmarking are many. Unlike website directories, they can drive massive traffic to your website within a short time. While in its peak time, a website that get into the homepage of Digg was guaranteed to receive a million hits within 24 hours. You shall not be limited to one link like in a directory. The ...
... more people who bookmark your website, greater shall be the links that you receive. Most of these social bookmarking websites have a dedicated community who are ready to rate your website and tag them, which shall be an encouragement for others to visit your website. Your website shall receive a surge of traffic if it get into some popular pages within those websites, as most of the algorithms that drive these websites depend mainly on the number of ratings. So the concept is simple - Greater the number of people who rate and bookmark your website, greater shall be the traffic that your website receive.

While thinking about social bookmarking websites, its quite natural to think about which social bookmarking websites to submit. One look through Google, and you shall be convinced beyond doubt that they are tens of thousands of social bookmarking websites. But the sad fact is that most of them are Pligg websites. The average lifetime of a pligg social bookmarking website is one month. So if you bookmark your website in a pligg website, chances are that they are gone within a month. Also, most of the spammers and scammers engage themselves with pligg websites, and most of them are used for spamming activities. Hence Google have reduced their importance over the years, and in my professional opinion, its better to avoid social bookmarking submission with pligg websites.

If you need to do social bookmarking submission, you do not have to look beyond the favorites - StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg, Reddit. These 4 social bookmarking websites drive most of the bookmarking traffic, and its imperative that you submit a bookmark to all these 4 websites. Though its been noted that Digg is in a declining stage, it can still drive good traffic, and a good link is hard to find. When it comes to StumbleUpon, rather than spamming with links, I suggest you take time to build your account and gain followers, and they shall do the rest of the job for you. To sum up, wherever you bookmark your website, you should never avoid these top 4.

The author of this article is associated with Link Popularity Inc., a renowned company providing social bookmarking submission services to clients. To know more, log on to sitelinkpopularity.com.