Social Bookmarking & SEO

The concept of social bookmarking turned vastly trendy thanks to portals such as Deli.cio.us and Digg. The theory is that a page or web publication is collected, filed and then indexed to be sorted later on by pertinence. The information brought in by social bookmarks is mainly seen as more germane for many users because the information is supplied by humans. Its pertinence is decided by genuine visitors instead of a search engine providing results based on keywords. A points system is also used with stories on social bookmarking portals and to add a greater human side to it.

Social bookmarking, the major ones, and the Digg clones and Delicious clones can add waves of audiences to your portal. Promoting your site through social bookmarking is effortless, as long as you have suitable and practical things to share. The bookmarking world will recognize its usefulness and rate it and thus generate better hits through the bookmarking websites. Your site’s viewership can rise exponentially thanks to social bookmarkers.

Target the niche market that is relevant to your portal. Try to connect to those communities that will have audiences who appreciate the material, and as a result can push it up and stir up hype around it in the bookmarking community. You can also generate back links to your site by attaching URLs to your material. This may not be worthwhile in the area of an SEO asset as some social bookmarking software implement a ‘no follow’ policy, associating tags to your links. Still visitors could still view your site and bring name to the attached links.

These days with hundreds of social bookmarking services, it is worthwhile to try to get linked into one somehow. The possibilities from there are endless as you increase your viewer base and gain points among the community of your site.

Since tens of thousands of webmasters 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.