subject: Using Social Bookmarking to Get Your Site Indexed [print this page] Using Social Bookmarking to Get Your Site Indexed
Social bookmarking is a great way to get your site indexed in the search engine. Of course, there are other ways which you can use to get your site indexed such as article submission, directory submission and etc. If you use article submission, your article must be indexed in the search engine before your site will get indexed. It will be harder to get your website indexed through article submission because you have to post the article to a lot of directories.
The easiest way to get your site indexed is to social bookmark pages from your site. Social bookmarking sites are frequently visited by the search engine spiders. The search engine spiders are always at the social bookmarking site because the visitors post new content every few minutes. If you want to get your site indexed within 1 day, you should submit the article to Digg. Digg is a very popular social bookmarking site that receives tens millions of visitors per month. By submitting your site to the Digg social bookmarking site, you will get huge exposure for your business. You will see tremendous traffic being redirected to your site if you do it correctly.
If your site has a few pages, it can easily get indexed by submitting the homepage. If your site is not indexed, you can submit one internal page to Digg. If it is not indexed for some time, it may indicates that the site has lousy content. If you use duplicate content, you should remove it. You should replace the duplicate content with a unique content. Search engines can crawl the web and find the site that has the same content with yours. Once it detect that you are using duplicate content, it will ignore your site so that it won't get indexed. You cannot use duplicate content from article directories or another website to build your website. If your website uses duplicate content, no one will want to visit. If you don't know how to write a good content, you can hire copywriter to write it.
If your site has a lot of pages, it can be difficult to get it indexed. You must consistently social bookmark the pages for 1 2 weeks. Propeller can also be used to get a site indexed. The search engine frequently visit Propeller so new content will be picked up quickly. StumbleUpon is another great social bookmarking sites. StumbleUpon allows you Thumbs Up your favorite webpage. StumbleUpon is very strict. You should not submit multiple post per day. If the moderator finds that you frequently social bookmark at StumbleUpon, he will remove some of the posts. StumbleUpon can drive a lot of targeted traffic to your site if you know how to write an interesting title and description.
When social bookmarking your site, make sure you read the submission guidelines. By reading the submission guidelines, you know what is allowed and what is not allowed on the site. In this way, your post won't be removed from the social bookmarking site.
