Social Bookmarking & SEO

The concept of social bookmarking turned very popular thanks to sites in the manner of Deli.cio.us and Digg. The idea is that a page or blog is assembled, put away and then indexed to be categorized later on by pertinence. The information brought in by social bookmarks is often perceived as more pertinent for many people because the reference is given by humans. Its value is voted on by human viewers instead of a search engine providing results founded on keywords. A points scheme is also put in place with stories on social bookmarking portals and to bring in a more intimate human aspect to it.

Social bookmarking, the major ones, and the Digg clones and Delicious clones can contribute tremendous audiences to your portal. Promoting your portal through social bookmarking is easy, as long as you have suitable and practical information. The bookmarking community will acknowledge its practicality and rate it and thus create greater hits through the bookmarking websites. Your site’s audience can develop greatly as a result of social bookmarkers.

Aim for the niche market that is relevant to your portal. Try to connect to those communities that will have audiences who appreciate the information, and therefore can push it higher and generate buzz about it in the bookmarking world. You can additionally build back links to your portal by attaching URLs to your content. This may not be worthwhile in terms of SEO advantage as some social bookmarking software exercise a ‘no follow’ rule, attaching tags to your links. However users could still view your site and bring name to the attached links.

These days with dozens 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 website owners 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.