Social Bookmarking Explained

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If you have been involved with blogging then you probably have seen something about the term Social Bookmarking.

What is Social Bookmarking and what is so special about [tag-tec]Social Bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking websites categorize and store 'bookmark links'. Millions of people are searching for information on these Social Bookmarking sites. So to get traffic to your website you should post links back to your web page on these Social Bookmarking websites.

You will need to specify some tags (better known as keywords) that will categorize the bookmark to your site. Other people can search, and vote for your bookmarked site. Social Bookmarking is very viral and can quickly help generate traffic by sharing links.

Some benefits of Social Bookmarking are:

Highly Targeted Traffic

Since your bookmarks are categorized according to your tags, your traffic will be from those searching for those particular tags (or keywords). They will click on your bookmark link and visit your site.

Fast Search Engine Indexing

Most of these Social Bookmarking sites have high page rank. The search engine spiders visit these sites very often so your links will be crawled almost immediately!

High Search Engine Ranking

Social bookmarking is a great way to generate quality one-way incoming links, one of the main factors to higher search engine ranking. With Social Bookmarking, you can get unlimited 'keyword' links to your site. Having more keyword links that are relevant to your site will result in higher ranking

Better Page Rank

With incoming links from high-ranking Social Bookmarking sites will improve your site's page rank. With a higher page rank, you can link to your sites and improve their ranking too!

Onlywire.com has semi-automated tool that will bookmark a few sites at once but you still may want to bookmark many, many more. You can also visit some of the more popular sites by clicking on the green "share this" icon and the other icons shown below this post.

If you really want to take it to the next level, and automatically signup for the most popular social bookmarking sites, and bookmark your blog posts and web pages automatically then check out Bookmarking Demon.

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