subject: Social Bookmarking as Part of an SEO Campaign [print this page] Social Bookmarking as Part of an SEO Campaign
If you and your business are new to the world of Search Engine Optmimisation, you may have just only come across a few of the terms. Among this dictionary of terminology is social bookmarking a tool which can help you improve your web presence.
Social bookmarking allows web users to store, manage and search bookmarks of web pages under tags or keywords through social bookmarking sites, such as Delicious or Digg. The invention of these sites mean you can now access your bookmarks from any computer and can share your favourites with everyone, if you own a public profile. Thus social bookmarking as you can imagine is a great tool to use to optimize your website socially.
Social bookmarking is a great way to drive traffic to your website, as they help search engines, such as Google, find and rank content through the links used. Thus, the content is then promoted on the web. The links, however, must be well placed on social bookmarking sites in order to for Google to rank you highly, and in consequence drive more traffic to your website.
All you should need to do is carefully place your link(s)in and then your web address should spread to other sites. As you become more popular, other social bookmarker users will hopefully add you website to their bookmarks and as this happens more and more your websites search engine ranking will improve.
When social bookmarking it's important that you keep your bookmarks to a minimum for your own pages. Just add the homepage, rather than all of them, as adding too many of your own pages may be considered as spamming. Like an article, keep your bookmarks useful and informative.
Using social bookmarking will allow you to increase your external links to your website, enabling the possibility of more traffic being driven to your website. As part of an SEO campaign it works nicely, however, it does need other SEO tactics to drastically improve your ranking and website's traffic.
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