Thursday, March 19, 2015

Why Social Bookmarking is important in SEO?

 Why Social Bookmarking is important in SEO?
Social Bookmarking is a method or idea of getting valuable back links. A place where one can actually store or post your website link or deep links(not on all sites) and give users a detail information about your website. There are many visitors who visit this Social bookmarking sites to search the information. Keyword (aka Tags) needs to be specified to categorize your bookmark. Please see the  DoFollow Social bookmarking site list which helps to create a backlink.


 Why we need to do Social Bookmarking?
  Getting Traffic: As bookmarks are categorized into different keywords you will get more traffic from the people who are searching the particular keyword. Most of the Social bookmarking sites are well reputed and authoritative sites hence people prefer such sites to do their searches.

Crawling: As said earlier most of the bookmarking sites are authoritative sites hence search engine spiders crawls such sites very often and so are the chances of your links getting crawled frequently.

   One Way linking: Just like Directory submission and forum, Social bookmarking is also one way linking. You have to just enter the Meta tags on the social bookmarking sites, there is no need to update their link on your website. Also your site might get higher ranking by search engine as due to social bookmarking sites you can get unlimited “Keyword” links to your site.

 Getting good page rank: Every one wants to get their site on top with a high PR and Social bookmarking sites can help you a lot. If you do a submission of your website link to a high PR Social Bookmarking site, your site too will get an increase in PR.

 Why Social Bookmarking is not the first option for SEO?

   Time Consuming: Social bookmarking is very much time consuming. You have to enter all the data manually. Many sites do not accept the links unless you are registered to that particular SB site. Some SB sites also allows to add deep link and imagine how much time it will take to update such links manually.
  
  Spam Tools: There are many tools in the market where you can just enter the details into that tool and the SB sites, your data will automatically get uploaded on SB sites. Not all tools are trust worthy, there are many social bookmarking tools into market which are designed to spam the SB sites as such tools creates multiple accounts and have them bookmark the same URL. The accounts or IP address will get blocked if its done from the same IP address.
 
  Price: Some bookmarking sites are paid site and not preferred by most of the SEO as they want to do the bookmarking from the free sites. Not only the SB sites but also the SB tools are very costly. The fees charges for the SB tools are very high hence not recommended by the SEO's.
 Here are some do's and dont's of the social bookmarking as shown above. Now its upto you how you want to add your site details. Hope you must have liked it and have learned how and what steps to take while doing a social bookmarking.











The importance of social bookmarking for SEO

It has been said that although you have excellent and quality posts on your site, when no one knows that it exists, your site is dead. When you don’t have an audience to read and interact with your posts, creating a site to inform, promote or express your thoughts and ideas doesn’t serve its purpose.

So, in order for your site to be readable, search able and be visible in the web community, you need to know Social Bookmarking?

What is Social Bookmarking? I know you will definitely be asking it, especially if you don’t have any background on SEO.

Social Bookmarking- it is a method or way to establish a web presence. In the simplest definition, it is an effective platform or tool to “advertise” or promote your articles, videos, images and the site in general. You can also use this to search for other sites with similar niche as yours to build a relationship with them.

In SEO, where your web presence is crucial to achieve higher rankings, social bookmarking is one effective method of “off-page” optimization which is an SEO term of optimizing their site outside of their web page.

Why Social Bookmarking is Crucial in SEO? Here, are some important points on why you “must” consider bookmarking you posts:

importance of social bookmarking

To Justify Existence. If you want your message on your blog to cross different shores, and not just limited to your close friends and family, you must promote it, unless you want it to be private. The blogosphere will know that your site exists if it is present in social bookmarking sites. It is also a way to determine that you are an active blogger and that you know how to promote your site effectively. Social bookmarking is just a basic SEO. Having a website, at least you know the basics of SEO.

To Increase Traffic. Bookmarking sites are easily indexed or crawled by search engines. If you bookmark your post, people from that bookmarking site can visit your site quickly through the link to your post, thus will increase your site’s traffic. And if they find your site very informative, for sure they will become your subscribers.

To Create a Community. The longer you are bookmarking quality posts and interacting with fellow niche bloggers, you can create a group or community which is a good start in building an authority site. If you are promoting a product or a service on your site and bookmark it, your chance of getting customers and referrals is high. In other words, you can enlarge your market by reaching your customers and potential customers globally.

Quick Tip: The web is a community of different genres and races. It would be very difficult to fit in if you don’t know where and what category you should bookmark your site. So, make sure to bookmark your post on the right category.



To Help in Branding your Site. If your regularly bookmarking posts to social bookmarking sites, people can easily recall your site’s name. Some bloggers who find your post interesting because it is timely, funny, unusual or even challenging, will likely to re blog it, or promote it to other social bookmarking sites. This will help in establishing a brand name of your site. More so, the more friends or followers you have, people deemed you as professional and authority author or blogger.

To Spread News and Alerts Quickly. Since, there are millions of people are also bookmarking their posts daily, hourly or even in seconds, it is a great tool to spread news or update quickly.



To Increase Backlinks. This is the most important factor why SEO marketers are doing bookmarking. Getting backlinks can’t happen instantly unless you will be paying someone or purchasing a machine that can generate backlinks quickly. Back linking is an important factor in SEO, and one of the essential determinants in search engines in calculating the rankings. To get natural backlinks, your posts must rank on the front page of the social bookmarking sites. In order for you to be on the top page, your posts should have more votes from people on the social bookmarking site. A popular post is also called a viral post. And search engines always look up on viral posts.

Quick Tip. Bookmarks that are not popular, or have minimal votes in the social bookmarking site, doesn’t help in getting a good ranking.

The best thing about social bookmarking is that most of the legitimate sites are “FREE” and is not limited to bloggers alone but is accessible to all who have a website domain.

Here are the Top TEN Social Bookmarking sites of 2011 ranked according to the number of users.

1. Twitter

2. Digg

3. StumbleUpon

4. Reddit

5. Delicious

6. Tweetmeme

7. FARK

8. Slashdot

9. Friendfeed

10.Clipmarks