Social bookmarking is an online service that enables users to store, add, and share links across the internet. In another word, social bookmarking is a system of saving bookmarks to a website and ‘tagging’ them with Important keywords.
The social bookmarking sites are free to use but require registering. after one time registration, you can begin bookmarking saving sharing web page links. SEO experts use social bookmarking sites for search engine optimization, create do-follow backlinks, improve website ranking in search engine results pages(SERP), and get more traffic, index new websites.
Some most popular social bookmarking sites are google+, Pinterest, xing.com, scoop.it, Reddit, Digg, delicious, StumbleUpon.
How to use social bookmarking sites:
- Before bookmark submission, first, create a strong profile with your image and company URL.
- Do not create multiple profiles on the same website.
- Add bookmarking toolbars/browser extensions for( chrome, IE toolbar ) using it’s you can easily promote URLs.
- The last step, submit a URL with a title, description. use title and description carefully, because search engines can crawl and index your URL.
Why use social bookmarking sites:
Advantages (benefits) of social bookmarking sites:
- SEO experts use social bookmarking sites for search engine optimization. Some webmasters use social bookmarking sites to create do-follow backlinks to improve their websites ranking in search engine results pages (SERP)
- Your submitted URLs in social bookmarking sites will be indexed quickly in search engines(Google, yahoo, bing).
- Get more traffic and a high PR do-follow backlink to your website. Social bookmarking websites can boost your website’s Alexa rank.
- Social bookmarking technology offers knowledge-sharing solutions and a social platform for interactions and discussions.
Disadvantages of social bookmarking sites:
- Bookmarking sites can be crawled and indexed by search engines, so you must not overuse low quality (low quality = low page rank + low trust rank) (high quality = high page rank + high trust rank) social bookmarking sites to create too many backlinks to your website.
- All social bookmarking websites don’t provide do-follow links, some can be no follow types.
- There is no more disadvantage of doing social bookmarking.
Top 20 social bookmarking sites to get quality links and traffic
1 | Facebook
2 | Twitter
3 | Pinterest
4 | Google Plus+
5 | Tumblr
6 | Reddit
7 | StumbleUpon
8 | Digg
9 | MetaFilter
10 | Newsvine
11 | Folkd
12 | FARK
13 | Scoop.it
14 | Slashdot
15 | Delicious
16 | youmob
17 | news back
18 | netvouz
19 | bookmarkgolden
20 |backflip
Conclusion: The positive effects of social bookmarking for publishers of news sites, blogs, and other websites are outstanding.
Also read: Profile Creation For SEO
Read more:The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on Search Engine Optimization Techniques
