Social Bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public website and tagging them with keywords. It is one of the most convenient methods to get high rankings and make the website visible and also ensures a good volume of relevant traffic.
If you are doing a lot of bookmarking you should be very careful not to just bookmark your own websites, since there is a chance that you will be detected as a self promoter and the account may be banned or closed. You can bookmark websites like Wikipedia and other information related sites.
Though most of the social bookmarking sites have nofollow links but there are social bookmarking sites out there that give dofollow links, which means that if you craft a piece of content and title it with the keyword phrase you need, you are getting a free link with the correct anchor text.
According to Search Engine Journal, social bookmarking services can help search engines in a variety of ways:
- Backlinks: You may get a backlink when you bookmark a page on your site, since many bookmarking sites use “dofollow” in their backlinks
- Fast Indexing: Bookmarking can help get that page indexed in the search engines quickly
- Tags with keywords: Most social bookmarking sites allow you to use tags. You can list your target keywords in these tags and this can help your ranking for these keywords
- Increased quality: If more users bookmark a page, the more quality and relevance the site is perceived to have
But remember not to misuse the technique by submitting every page of your site, try to be judicious and think about what pages of your site may be helpful and of interest to others.
Some of the Social Bookmarking Websites are:
1. Digg
2. Delicious
3. StumbleUpon
4. Reddit
5. Squidoo
