It’s become the big mummer, social bookmarking sites are flooding the market. Why?… because they are becoming popular way to communicate with people of similar interests, within seconds. Not only can you reach so many people at one time, you can share your views, thoughts, articles and bookmark them all for you to share with others of a like minded nature.
There are a good number of very good SEO’s who avoid the social bookmarking scene like the plague. To them it is a time waster that would better be spent gathering higher quality backlinks. They are right. Social bookmarking is not for those who are trying to make adsense blogs, for those who want clicks on ads since the traffic you get isn’t targeted to your product like it would be in Google. What it is good for is if you are trying to build an email list, or just get overall more traffic to your website and possibly try to create a community. That is the power of social bookmarking.
Let me start off by saying that social bookmarking isn’t necessarily good for selling things. It’s not the best way to get clicks, sales, or signups, nor is it the best way to SEO your site. You aren’t getting targeted traffic like what you would get from Google. What it is good for is getting the word out about your content, drawing traffic, and possibly going what is called ‘viral’ which means your website gets its 15 minutes of fame as thousands upon thousands visit it for a few days. If you have optimized your newsletter signups well, you might manage to get a hefty boost to your email list and rss subscribers.
So, if you do this right, and I mean right then you can attract a lot of people to your article, video, post, blog or what ever. By creating good links and corresponding with people with the social network system, you can make a good money online. There are to many sites to mention here, but You Tube, Digg, Delious, Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon are some of the main ones to begin with. If you started with these sites alone, then you have a great chance of being elevated to the heights of social bookmarking, reaching a large audience.
So, social bookmarking isn’t the end-all answer to your SEO needs, but it is one avenue to explore in an overall optimization strategy.
There are literally thousands of SB sites out there. Too many to keep track of, much less post to. The best thing to do is focus on one or two major social bookmarking sites as your core submission sites, and one or two niche social bookmarking sites specific to your niche, and just use an automated or semi-automated bookmarking service to take care of the rest. More on that later.
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