Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking & SEO
Social Bookmarking refers to the use of websites like Digg, Sphinn or Furl where you can submit links to articles or webpages that are of interest to you for other users to read. Many users find these sites very useful to find information that they're looking for and from an SEO perspective, to syndicate out information. Social Media Optimisation is beocming a huge part of SEO, and social bookmarking is part of the SMO process.
Search engine optimisation is about promoting a website and submitting links into these social bookmarking sites is a perfect way to spread the word.
Benefits of Social Bookmarking
- Traffic Generator - any of these popular bookmarking sites that are linking to your site will gain you traffic if the article is interesting enough for readers to click through
- Inbound Links - Submitting a webpage into the directory will give that page a link and possible PR from the article website, depending on their setup. Some websites allow you to link using keywords which is extra helpful for your off page optimisation
- Brand awareness - Especially important for start-up's, you will need to ensure that your company name is all over the internet and this is a great way of doing it.
- Free SEO Technique - With everything changing constantly and SEO projects getting more expensive by the day, anything SEO is a definate plus! It is another box to check and is useful for search marketing so don't think that because it's free it's useless- that's not the case
Social bookmarking websites will categorize articles into topics so that you can search for relevant information or simply view the latest posts/ most popluar to see what other users are viewing. Social Bookmarking and SMO as a whole are so popular at the moment you can't miss out so if you don't have the time to do the work yourself then do call our SEO specialist team who will be able to help out.
