Social Bookmarking is nothing but adding your favorite bookarmks on Social Bookmarking websites in order to make them accessible from any where on the Interent. You can also share your bookmarks with others on the Interent and make your bookmarked website popular in social media.
The most famous social bookmarking websites Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, diggo, newsmarking etc. These websites are mainly used for their own favorite lists to create and share with friends.
In Social Media Optimization (SMO) we add our favorite links to the bookmarking websites.
What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is one of the most interesting elements of social media. In social bookmarking sites, a large group of users determine which sites are regarded as interesting and place them on top of search engine result by regular visit.
Some search engine optimization experts think that websites like Del.icio.us is used as a source used by Google to determine how important a website is. This would be the listing of a website within Google co-determination.
Users who compile the lists in the social bookmarking websites do this to create a favorite list of their favorite websites. They keep it in a website so that they are independent of their physical location (and the specific computer), always the favorite at hand. It is possible to organize bookmarks in a browser such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, but they are only present on a specific computer. In addition, it is not possible in Internet browsers favorites to share with other users. The expectation of many people that databases of social bookmarking websites will be used in future by other websites.
Now a days social bookmarking become an integral part of SEO. It is used for web site promotion purpose. People bookmark their site in various social bookmarking websites and when many searchers visit their site, it become popular and can be visible in Google top 10.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites-Part II
Social Bookmarking is an integrated part of Search Engine Optimization. This is the main way to get more quality traffic and make your site on the top of search engines like Google, Yahoo etc.
Some great tips for social bookmarking
Never submit old news
Submitting old news is of no use. It will not attract readers. But you can post article on basic idea, 'how to' which are always hot and demanded article.
Check your facts
Your article fact should be relevant with article title and don't give any wrong information. Always keep yourself updated with your topic before start writing. Otherwise you ma gate negative votes.
Check you spelling
Try to avoid spelling mistake and grammatical mistake because it gives a bad impression to your readers and many sites don't allow to edit your post later.
Popular Topic
Sometimes great content also not able to push you on the top of search engine.
One possible reason could be that your stories are about unpopular topics. So try to write about some hot and popular topics to attract more readers.
Link to related article
One of the ways to keep Your readers longer on your site is to have links to Related Articles / Popular Articles that can draw their attention to other stuff on the site and make them read more than one article.
RSS feeds
RSS feeds can help you to get huge traffic. Many people who come to your site and like it, may subscribe to RSS feeds. So, you need to put these in visible places.
Do not use automated submitters
Automated submitters often have malware in them or are used for stealing passwords and your story can be banned if you use automated submitter.
Respond to comments on your stories
Always respond to commends on your stories. This is a good way to make friends and hold your readers.
Prepare your server for the expected traffic
you should host your site on a reliable server that does not crash twice a day and should cope with massive traffic.
The snowball effect
Snowball effect means once your story get popular in any major and popular site this usually drives it up on the other big and smaller sites.
An additional benefit of the snowball effect is that if your posting is interesting and people start blogging about it, you can get tons of backlinks from their blogs.
In Part I you can get some more interesting tips.
Some great tips for social bookmarking
Never submit old news
Submitting old news is of no use. It will not attract readers. But you can post article on basic idea, 'how to' which are always hot and demanded article.
Check your facts
Your article fact should be relevant with article title and don't give any wrong information. Always keep yourself updated with your topic before start writing. Otherwise you ma gate negative votes.
Check you spelling
Try to avoid spelling mistake and grammatical mistake because it gives a bad impression to your readers and many sites don't allow to edit your post later.
Popular Topic
Sometimes great content also not able to push you on the top of search engine.
One possible reason could be that your stories are about unpopular topics. So try to write about some hot and popular topics to attract more readers.
Link to related article
One of the ways to keep Your readers longer on your site is to have links to Related Articles / Popular Articles that can draw their attention to other stuff on the site and make them read more than one article.
RSS feeds
RSS feeds can help you to get huge traffic. Many people who come to your site and like it, may subscribe to RSS feeds. So, you need to put these in visible places.
Do not use automated submitters
Automated submitters often have malware in them or are used for stealing passwords and your story can be banned if you use automated submitter.
Respond to comments on your stories
Always respond to commends on your stories. This is a good way to make friends and hold your readers.
Prepare your server for the expected traffic
you should host your site on a reliable server that does not crash twice a day and should cope with massive traffic.
The snowball effect
Snowball effect means once your story get popular in any major and popular site this usually drives it up on the other big and smaller sites.
An additional benefit of the snowball effect is that if your posting is interesting and people start blogging about it, you can get tons of backlinks from their blogs.
In Part I you can get some more interesting tips.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites-Part I
Social Bookmarking is an integrated part of Search Engine Optimization.
Some great tips for social bookmarking
Pay attention to your Headlines
Your headline is the first thing users will see from your article, so if you don't make it interesting, your chances of getting to the front page are small.
Write a meaningful & short description
A meaningful description plays an important role in traffic generation. Try to write brief description with main keywords.
Have a great first paragraph
Make the first paragraph of your site/blog interesting so that after reading it reader get interest to read the whole content.
Content is king
The first paragraph is not everything. Try to make whole content interesting and meaningful.
Make it easy for others to vote / bookmark your site
It is best when other people, not you, bookmark your site. You can add HTML code for bookmarking logo at the end of the article, so if users like your content, they can easily post it.
Know when to submit
Many people say that they get more traffic around 3 p.m. US Central Time. Also, working days are generally better for best traffic result.
Submit to the right category
Try to select best category for your site. In some social bookmarking sites they provide a option to add new category. If best suited category is not there then you can add your own. But remember category is very important.
Build a top-profile
Try to build a realistic profile. Posting links to interesting articles on other sites is vital for building a top-profile also.
Cooperate with other social bookmarkers
Many stories make it to the front page not only because they are great but because they are backed up by your network of friends.
Submit in English
Most popular social bookmarking sites don't allow to submit anything in a language different from English . Because majority of users are from English-speaking countries and they don't understand exotic languages.
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Some great tips for social bookmarking
Pay attention to your Headlines
Your headline is the first thing users will see from your article, so if you don't make it interesting, your chances of getting to the front page are small.
Write a meaningful & short description
A meaningful description plays an important role in traffic generation. Try to write brief description with main keywords.
Have a great first paragraph
Make the first paragraph of your site/blog interesting so that after reading it reader get interest to read the whole content.
Content is king
The first paragraph is not everything. Try to make whole content interesting and meaningful.
Make it easy for others to vote / bookmark your site
It is best when other people, not you, bookmark your site. You can add HTML code for bookmarking logo at the end of the article, so if users like your content, they can easily post it.
Know when to submit
Many people say that they get more traffic around 3 p.m. US Central Time. Also, working days are generally better for best traffic result.
Submit to the right category
Try to select best category for your site. In some social bookmarking sites they provide a option to add new category. If best suited category is not there then you can add your own. But remember category is very important.
Build a top-profile
Try to build a realistic profile. Posting links to interesting articles on other sites is vital for building a top-profile also.
Cooperate with other social bookmarkers
Many stories make it to the front page not only because they are great but because they are backed up by your network of friends.
Submit in English
Most popular social bookmarking sites don't allow to submit anything in a language different from English . Because majority of users are from English-speaking countries and they don't understand exotic languages.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
How to bookmark
Social bookmarking is a method to bookmark, organize bookmarks on the Internet. It is something similar to bookmarks which you do in the browser but social bookamarking is more advancaed and they provide a lof of other features such as you can store the bookmarks, organize them in groups/categories and the most important of all your bookmarks are available all the time as long as you are on the Interent.
In order to get maximum out of your overall Internet Marketing effort you can also utilize Social Bookmarking Services to promote your website. For successful online marketing you have to make your site popular. Social Bookmarking is one way of SEO to make your site popular.
There are a lot of bookmarking websites like diggo , digg , technorati , newsmarking etc. You can bookmark your site there.
How to Bookmark
For that first you have to create yahoo or google account. These accounts are used for verification. After that you have to create account in those social bookmarking websites.
In each bookmarking websites you will find bookmaking option in form of "submit new article" , "submit new story" etc. You have to select those options. In those you will see ,they are asking about some details like title , tags , description etc. In title you have to give suitable title for your website. In tags option you can give meta keywords of your website and in description give meta description. In tags , try to give relevant and important keywords. Don't repeat same keyword again and again.
In order to get maximum out of your overall Internet Marketing effort you can also utilize Social Bookmarking Services to promote your website. For successful online marketing you have to make your site popular. Social Bookmarking is one way of SEO to make your site popular.
There are a lot of bookmarking websites like diggo , digg , technorati , newsmarking etc. You can bookmark your site there.
How to Bookmark
For that first you have to create yahoo or google account. These accounts are used for verification. After that you have to create account in those social bookmarking websites.
In each bookmarking websites you will find bookmaking option in form of "submit new article" , "submit new story" etc. You have to select those options. In those you will see ,they are asking about some details like title , tags , description etc. In title you have to give suitable title for your website. In tags option you can give meta keywords of your website and in description give meta description. In tags , try to give relevant and important keywords. Don't repeat same keyword again and again.
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