Social Bookmarking & SEO
The concept of social bookmarking turned vastly favored thanks to sites such as Deli.cio.us and Digg. The theory is that an article or blog is collected, filed and then indexed to be classified later on by pertinence. The information brought in by social bookmarks is mainly seen as more pertinent for most audiences because the information is given by humans. Its relevancy is voted on by real people instead of a search engine coming up with listings founded on keywords. A points scheme is also used with articles on social bookmarking sites and to add a greater human aspect to it.
Social bookmarking, the major ones, and the Digg clones and Delicious clones can contribute excellent viewership to your site. Marketing your portal through social bookmarking is simple, as long as you have relevant and practical information. The bookmarking community will acknowledge its practicality and vote for it and thus create greater popularity through the bookmarking websites. Your site’s audience can grow exponentially as a result of social bookmarkers.
Target the market slot that is closest to your site. Try to connect to those communities that will have audiences who understand the material, and therefore can rank it higher and generate hype about it in the bookmarking world. You can additionally build back links to your portal by linking URLs to your material. This may not be worthwhile in terms of SEO advantage as some social bookmarking software implement a ‘no follow’ policy, attaching tags to your links. However visitors could still use your site and increase popularity to the attached links.
Nowadays with dozens of social bookmarking services, it is important to try to get linked into one somehow. The possibilities from there are endless as you raise your viewer base and gain points among the community of your site.
Since hundreds of thousands of website owners are looking 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.
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