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Social bookmarking is a way for people to identify web pages and then save them for later use. It’s also a way for users to share these links to everyone or to only those they choose, so others may enjoy and benefit from them as well. The categorizing of links can be done in a traditional folder style format or a less formal tagging process, so the link can be found when searched on a particular relevant term.
A social bookmarking site is available and accessible to its users from any computer and affords a user the ability to access key sites and information from anywhere in the world. No longer is a users favorite sites list limited to its own computer.
Bookmarking your own sites pages can generate traffic and incoming links to your site. Social bookmarking provides a powerful way to reach a targeted audience very quickly. Many of these sites employ a voting mechanism, which allow users to vote for favorite bookmarks. The most popular web sites, stories, videos, etc are then ranked according to the number of votes and displayed in special sections of the site for other users to view. A popular post to a social bookmarking site can bring large volumes of targeted traffic to a web site at no cost.
Social bookmarking sites are by and large free to join and very easy to use. You can join a site and begin bookmark your favorite sites in minutes. Many web sites now offer users the option of bookmarking the site at the more popular social bookmarking sites by clicking on an icon, which takes the user to the bookmarking site, and prompting the user to login, or if already logged in, a user can immediately post the site to his bookmarks.
Bookmarking internal pages of your web site on social bookmarking sites can help your overall search engine ranking as well as bring traffic. If the bookmarking sites employ a “do follow” code structure, the link to your page will be picked up by the search engine spiders and count towards the pages ranking, and your sites overall ranking. This can be very valuable to you.
There are thousands of social bookmarking sites. Utilizing them to drive traffic to your site and build links that help your search engine rankings is an incredibly effective way to insure your success on the Internet. |
