subject: Traffic Generation Through Social Bookmarking [print this page] Traffic Generation Through Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites by their very nature are a source of very wide subject matter. Therefore the links from such a site are considered legitimate and acceptable by the search engines. You generate traffic by the people going to your website via the link. And, you can even join or start a group on a specific subject to help strengthen your position.
Backlinks are simply links on other peoples site pointing back to your site. The more of these you have, the higher your site will climb in the rankings. For example, say you like something I wrote about on my blog. You then write about it on your blog or website and include a link back to my article. There you have it. That's called a backlink. Submitting a duplicate article to 50 or 100 article submission sites will only get you 1 backlink because Google can spot that it's the same article, however, if you make enough changes to it each time you submit it Google will class it as being a completely different article and give you 50 or 100 backlinks and Google rankings are all about backlinks.
However, social bookmarking sits somewhere between these two areas as sometimes social bookmarks appear as just a link with maybe a short comment whereas other times, they carry a more detailed description or review of your website. All SEO techniques are designed to meet requirement of search engine algorithm, hence it becomes easy for bots to determine quality of your article. IF your content is king, bot will automatically detect it, once visitors start clinking on your link in search engine result pages, Google will be sure that your articles are great.
Generating these links takes time and effort, but the rewards for doing so are incredibly huge. However, there are a few specific details that make your backlinks more effective and doubly rewarding. Selecting the right anchor text for your backlinks is also an important step. The best approach is to use your keywords as the anchor text as Google assigns a high value to the actual text.
Social bookmarking websites are basically sites that categorize and store 'bookmarks' - think of them as posts. A bookmark is a posting - the information you put on the site. In your bookmark you tell something about yourself and include a link back to a specific website. Social bookmarking sites are highly regarded by search engines because of their disparate but focussed content and tag search functionality. Having more keyword links that are relevant to your site will result in higher ranking.
