Sep 4 2007

Increase your web Traffic thru Social Bookmarking

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Social bookmarking is a relatively new area on the internet, yet at the same time is an exciting marketing and awareness phenomena. Now everyone is joining the bandwagon and has spread like wildfire among web users and alike.

Social bookmarking is now one of the best techniques we can use to promote our website and increase the flow of traffic. If you’re not yet involved and want to drive traffic to your website then it’s about time to get started.

The first major player that started the social bookmarking phenomena in 2003 was Del.icio.us. Since then, hundreds of newer, more improved social bookmarking services have been started, with the most popular among the following: Technorati, Google Bookmarks, Digg, Furl, Newsvine, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Yahoo,Live Bookmarks,MyWeb, Ask, Blogmarks, Facebook, Netscape, Slashdot and Backflip (there’s more and i am sorry if i missed you out)

With these familiar bookmarking services they have the ability to deliver thousands of targeted visitors to your site within a quite short span of time, sometimes even within hours of your page being bookmarked.

Visit a few of the more popular social bookmarking sites, among these are for example are Digg, del.ici.ous, Furl, and Yahoo.

I will now try explain by using lets say Digg as an example.

So when they click the digg button below your post they will go to Digg’s website and enter there username and password, after which the person has the opportunity to comment. Therefore if many people Digg your posts you will have a lot of links pointing back to your site. This helps to increase your traffic when someone goes to Digg to search an relevant topics.

Social bookmarking can be utilized to obtain multiply one-way backlinks, announcing new pages on your web site and gaining traffic.

Among the other benefits of using social bookmarking:

Quicker search engine indexing

Majority of the big social bookmarking sites have excellent PageRank, ranging from 5-8PR. Spiders from search engine visit these sites quite a lot, that your links will be crawled almost immediately.

Increase in targeted traffic

Since your bookmarks are categorized into different tags, you will get relevant traffic from people searching within a particular tag which will lead them to your site.

Improved search engine positioning

Obtaining good quality one-way incoming links is the number one factor to getting higher search engine rankings. Thru social bookmarking, you can get ‘keyword’ links to your site. By obtaining more keyword links that are relevant to your site, will result in higher ranking

Improved PageRank

By having high PR social bookmarking sites connected to your site, it will improve your own site’s PageRank.

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