What is the definition of Social Bookmarking?
Bookmark is whereby a page in a book that one is reading is marked. One can simply return to that page that they marked and this is the common definition of bookmark.
Personal bookmarks can also mean this.
Social Bookmarking is a way of sharing a web property (webpage, video, blog post, article, or something else on the World Wide Web) with others. It’s therefore is a method of labeling a vital resource so that it can be located by others and yourself at a later point in time?
Below are 3 good points to socially bookmark your blog posts, videos, articles or any other content that you have written.
Remember to go through these reasons, for some EXTREMELY important reasons to bookmark other web properties as well.
1) To Get Good Quality Backlinks
When it comes to search engine optimization techniques, social bookmarking is great “off-page” since it gives backlinks (inbound links) to your web property. The number of quality websites linking to your web property is one of the things search engines look at when they want to make a decision on where to rank your web property.
For your rankings to be high in search engines for a reserved keyword (or tag)
Look for the many high quality and heavily trafficked Social Bookmarking sites which will provide backlinks to your web property.
To get a list of 65 High Quality Do-Follow Social Bookmarking sites and 5 Social Bookmarking sites that are well known, go to http://www.techiemania.com/list-of-65-dofollow-social-bookmarking-sites.html
2) Social Bookmarking sites can Give You Targeted Traffic
When submitting a URL to a Social Bookmarking sites, you will need to add some descriptions and tags, along with the URL.
So, a person discovering this link will get a good idea of what it’s about, and click on it if they are interested. This is a great method of achieving targeted traffic since guests from Social Bookmarking sites most often than not only visit the site if they see that the content is fascinating or important to them.
3) Use Social Bookmarking to Get Repeat Visitors
If you want someone to return to your site again, tell them to socially bookmark your article so they can find it easily. If you have posted an article that will add value to your readers, request them to bookmark it so that they can find it easily gain.
4) You can Easily Share your bookmarks with others
Some Social Bookmarking sites allow you to share your bookmarks through an RSS Feed. Delicious.com and Digg.com allows you to do this. You can give the RSS feeds to people, and when that feed is entered into a Feed Reader (for instance Google Reader), then the Website properties you’ve been bookmarking can be viewed with ease.
Reasons for You to Socially Bookmark Other People’s Web Properties.
1) The Social Bookmarking sites were designed for you to Bookmark interesting web properties you come across,
so you can easily find them again. So, if the ONLY web properties you bookmark are your own, it’s highly likely that
your social bookmarking account will be shut down. This would be very devastating particularly if you’ve had the profile for long with quite a number of links on it.
Sign into Your Social bookmarking account and bookmark sites that belong to other people that you don’t own.
You can bookmark sites that haven’t been submitted yet, or look for the most favorite posts/pages on the social bookmarking account that have already been submitted, and give them some more push. You can do that on many of the bookmarking accounts like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Delicious, Propeller, Twitter and many more.
2) If you are part of a Tribe Community, then bookmarking your tribe’s website properties helps them get traffic and backlinks.
This is all part of the pooling process, and it will assist you with NOT getting your account restricted by the social bookmarking sites.
Can you imagine if one of your sites or your tribes’ sites gets onto the first page of Digg.com? You can get a lot of traffic from that.
NOTE: ONLY bookmark things you are inclined to, and you are satisfied and can recommend to your followers and friends to these social sites.
Reasons NOT to Use Automatic Bookmarking Software.
1. Some plugins on your blog will automatically bookmark your site everytime you write a post so be very careful about this.
A number of plugins will try to bookmark the similar blog post whenever you alter (edit) the post.
This can happen without your knowledge and your bookmarking account can be closed down for violating their terms and service.
2. Indicate only one lot of Tags (keywords) and one representation for All the bookmarking sites you send to your URL to especially when using services like Social Bookmarker or Onlywire.
This can be seen as “spam” because ALL sites are receiving your description and keywords at the same time.
Plus a number of the bookmarking sites accept “Tags” and “Keywords” that are in different formats such as commas or spaces. If all your tags are submitted in the same format, they will not look as if you want them to on some of the bookmarking sites.