Social bookmarking is a new trend in search engine optimization, which has gained recognition as part of a new type of website optimization, termed “social media optimization (SMO).” Social Book marking, also referred to sometimes as “social bookmarketing”, is the term used for bookmarking sites on the web and sharing them with friends. It is similar to bookmarking a site on your pc, in the “favorites” of your web browser.

There is an increasing number of websites available on the web that provides this as a free service for bookmarking your sites or blogs on the web. These sites are known as social bookmarking sites. Once you have created a free account, you may begin adding bookmarks to your account. The advantage is that once you have bookmarked any site then you can access them from anywhere on the web, and also share them with friends.

So how is social bookmarking useful for SEO you ask?

Social bookmarking sites are “tag based”- which means you can “tag” them with keywords so your visitors that bookmark your site can find them easily later. Search engines index these tags, as well as the link, so you are essentially getting free one-way links from high-traffic sites, with all of your keywords attached to them! It is a great way to get your website visitors working for you. However, choosing proper tag names is critical and plays a very important roles if you want to truly get social book marking to work for you in your search engine optimization process. The interesting thing is that there are no limitations for the number of tags you can attach to your link. The extent to which you declare tags will allow for your site’s information to be stored. Additionally, when someone bookmarks your site, the bookmarking site checks the tags to see if the link already exists. So by periodically changing your bookmark tags, you can get multiple links with different tags on the same site. In other words, your site will be stored in different pages and you will get links from the different pages of the same sites.

Because these sites are regularly crawled by search engines, your site will most likely also be crawled more often by having bookmarked links on these websites.

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In the last year or so, social bookmarking’s popularity has skyrocketed. Although social bookmarking has actually been in existence for more than 10 years, only in the last 2 years or so has it’s popularity picked up with many people. This has affected the online entrepreneur greatly. He can’t not use this popular service to get free traffic!

Hundreds of ebooks and articles have been published, all of them discussing how to use social bookmarking to get potential leads and customers. No doubt it would be possible to read all of them, but as long as you concentrate on certain key principles, you can use social bookmarking as a useful weapon in your traffic arsenal.

A crucial component of social bookmarking is tagging. By tagging your blogs with the keywords you are targeting, users can find your blog easily. These users will also be targeted, as they are interested in the topic you are discussing.

Once you have published your blog, you can then ping it using services such pingoat.com to get a flood of traffic quickly. This process has been called ‘blog and ping’ and it’s very easy; it dosen’t take more than 2 minutes to ping it with many blog directories. Your blog will appear on many websites which have a high traffic flow, guaranteeing you visitors.

All in all, social bookmarking is a really effective way to increase your web presence without much effort. All it takes is a little updating to your blog every week, and you will be guaranteed a steady stream of additional traffic. It should be your only traffic source, but it is certainly a useful one!

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Earlier i wrote a post on how traffic from Reddit / Digg influences your Adsense eranings. The main idea is that you get lots of traffic, but no clicks, and your main goal is to get backlinks to improve your page rank.

I got to reddit homepage several times, and it helped to improve my page rank and position in Google search results. Here are some tips i experinced myself and also read at other blogs.

1. Unique article.
The article or post you submitting shouldn’t be a copy of somebody else’s - you’ll get no votes for that.

2. Understand what people like.
Your article should be helpful, or funny, or amazing. If it’s “how to do something” post, than it really should help dummies and maybe pros to “do something” better than they do. But you can also be successful with some funny pictures, stories or videos.

3. Choose demanded topics.
Posts like “How to make Daft-Punk-style bassline in Reason” won’t get a lot of attention. The most popular Reddit topics (according to statisticsfreak) are:
- politics (30%)
- internet and PC (18%)
- bizzare (12%)
- social & other (10%)
- science (9%)
- entertainment (9%)
- bussiness (5%)
- tech (3%)

For Digg it’s:
- indusrty news (33%)
- apple (15%)
- software (13%)
- designs (10%)
- linux / unix (7%)
- hardware (6%)
- gadgets (5%)
- programming (4%)
- security (3%)
- tech deals (2%)
- mods (2%)
- news (3%)
- sports (1%)

4. Write attractive headlines.
This one is not easy, a lot of articles are written about writing good headlines, even for reddit and digg. Well, some advices from me are:
- Make Top 10 Lists.
- Make “How to” Posts.
- Write simple, catchy headlines (though you can make big headline to attract attention by it’s size).
- Use names (Apple, Google, George Bush, Paris Hilton, etc).

Making a good headline won’t give you votes, you can only get them by providing quality content, but it can make more people click your link before it disappears from the 1st page of “new” section.

5. Understand the timing.
It usually matters at what time of the day / week you are submitting. No figures here, because my readers are from different geographical zones, but try to submit right before a lot of users are going to visit reddit / digg.

6. Submit to sub-categories.
There’s a much lower competition at sub-categories, so you can get more attention. Submit your articles to the main reddit page and to the sub-category.

7. Check grammar.
No comments on this, i hope it’s understood.

8. Make friends.
Add people to your friends list, vote for their stories, post comments. It can make people pay more attention to what you do, espescially if you are serious about getting traffic from reddit / digg.

9. Up-to-date info.
Be sure that your article is based on “fresh” infromation.

10. Be patient.
Perhaps you won’t make it right now, try different stories, headlines, topics and time of the day. Getting to the top of reddit is quite easy, but don’t be disappointed by a failure.

How to get to the top of Reddit / Digg

One of the free website traffic crazes at the moment is to
piggyback on a high traffic website like Squidoo. The
advantage of this tactic is that normally it would take
months and sometimes years to do successful search engine
optimization by finding high quality links to your website
to gain good rankings. By employing this free website
traffic technique you could literally be receiving targeted
traffic within a few days as your pages get indexed by the
search engines.

You need to use tools like Wordtracker and the Overture
search suggestion tool. Choose long tail keywords that have
little to no competition which also generate traffic. Then
you need to build your Squidoo lens. Squidoo is a network
of user generated lenses. Squidoo is a very easy way to
build a single page on a topic that you are an expert on.
The main purpose of a Squidoo lens is to recommend so as a
lensmaster you could use feeds, abstracts, lists and links.
The pages usually gets indexed within several days
resulting in free website traffic.

There are four simple steps you need to take to build your
Squidoo lens and start receiving free website traffic in
several days. The first step is that you need to define
what your lens is about. The second step is you need to
define what you primarily going to do with your lens. The
third step is to define your lens title, your link where
your lens will live, choose a category for your lens and
indicate whether your lens is x rated or safe for children.
The final step is to choose keywords for your lens that
will be included in the meta tags for search engine
optimization.

Use this technique and get hundreds or thousands of
visitors from free website traffic. Squidoo also splits the
advertising revenue with the author of the lens - 5% goes
to charity, 45% to Squidoo and 50% to the lensmaster. Build
a significant number of lenses and you could be earning a
substantial income from Squidoo.

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Any favorite page or link you want to refer again & again? Want to bookmark it Online? Leave your favorites aside and now access your bookmark anywhere switching to social bookmarking service.

What is Social Bookmarking? Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Bookmarking, on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. In other way it is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.

These social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet or Intranet. You can also bookmark services specialized to a specific subject or format - feeds, books, videos, music, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. - can be found.

Something about its startup The concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Social bookmarking dates back just a couple of years, when sites like Furl, Simpy, and del.icio.us began operating. Other social bookmarking sites include de.lirio.us, an open source version of del.icio.us, and citeulike, a social bookmarking site for academic papers. Social bookmarking is particularly useful when collecting a set of resources that are to be shared with others. Anyone can participate in social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking Services The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind.

Here is list of social bookmarking services:

Yahoo, Delicious,Digg ,Fark ,Feedster ,Reddit ,Blinklist ,Buzznet ,Citeulike ,Connotea ,Findory ,Furl ,Linkagogo ,Magnolia ,Simpy ,Spurl ,Technorati ,Backflip,Blinkbits ,Blogdigger ,Blogmarks , Co.mments,Shadows ,Wists ,Blog Memes,Feedmelinks ,OnlyWire ,Scuttle and Smarking

An article on Brain Bubbles - Social Bookmarking lists out top 30+ social bookmarking services analysis, URLs, features & ranking with details.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

1. First of it is done by people than any software thus provides meaningful and relevant resource.

2. Social bookmarking makes people communities on similar interest and topics.

3. This provides for semantically classified tags, which are hard to find with contemporary search engines.

4. It is better way to share resources efficiently

5. You can dig further around your concept and find new insights.

6. Creates related taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community and group of people.

People who are interested in knowledge sharing, knowledge management & research, social bookmarking has become favorite. What’s about you?

Jay

Knowledge Management & Research

If you come across a website, or even just a web page, that you want to return to at a later date you bookmark it. Before the days of social bookmarking, you would bookmark this on your computer by adding it to your ‘favorites’, or some other system that held a record on your computer.

However, let’s say you did this on your works computer, then got home and tried to remember the name of the site. You can’t, and you can’t even access your bookmark because it is on another computer. You have to wait until you have access to the computer that the bookmark is stored on. This is when you wish you had stored the information on a social bookmarking site. You can access that from any computer, since the information is not stored on your computer, but in public space on the social bookmarking site.

When you make a bookmark on your personal computer, you save the address of the website you are interested in. However, when you do so on a social bookmarking site, you save the web page address and tag it with keywords. To do this you have to register with the SB site, then you can store bookmarks in the form of URLs and also tags, or keywords, that lets you find the sites later. You can designate some bookmarks as public sites, so that others using the same keywords can access your bookmarked sites to which you have allocated the same tags.

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Now this offers some interesting possibilities regarding traffic promotion. If you can make your bookmarks public, so that everybody else using the relevant keywords, or tags, can find your bookmarks, what are you going to bookmark first? Yes, you’ve got it! Your own website and web pages of course! You tag each page on your site with the keywords relevant to the page, and not only those that are registered with the social bookmarking site will find your web pages, but also anyone surfing the internet with those keywords, since you have the bookmarks ‘public’, meaning that they can be viewed not only by the whole social bookmarking community, but also by everybody using the internet.

As long as you provide content on your web page relevant to the ‘tag’ you have used to bookmark it with, then you are not spamming. The visitors to your web pages will be targeted since it is they who used the keywords to reach you. It is just as if they had reached you by means of a search engine, and social bookmarking sites are becoming so popular that if you are not using them you are blocking your business from a huge potential customer base.

It is estimated that more people are now using social bookmarking sites to find information than are using Google. This is due the ‘rubbish’ sites that are now proliferating on the internet in spite of the efforts of the search engines to down-list spammy web pages. A lot of this is due to the excess influence that links have on Google listings. It is still possible for content-free sites to be listed in number one position for a keyword simply due to the number of links they have managed to secure.

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Until the search engines solve this problem the social bookmarking sites will continue to grow, and if they take too long they may be too late. Google and the rest of the search engines may die and be superseded by social bookmarking sites. That is the growing trend at the moment that seems to have been missed by those that will suffer most: the search engines. Lost customers are difficult to regain.

There are now many social bookmarking sites, where only a year ago there were few. The original ones include del.icio.us, furl, spurl and blink. They provide a very powerful means of accessing information that does not rely on corporations such as Google listing web pages, but simply list all the sites that others feel worthy of visiting. It is ‘peer listing’ if you like, with all the spammy and useless sites that the likes of Google list being excluded.

All that can destroy it are those that use these sites for their known ends, and spam them with their own web pages. Perhaps a peer auditing system could be use to search them out and eject them. However, if you want to know what you should know about social bookmarking, it is simply this: unless the major search engines wake up, one day this is how all information worth knowing will be stored and retrieved, so start learning how to use these sites to promote your own website now. Everybody else is starting to do it.

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Social bookmark sites like Digg.com and del.icio.us are becoming more and more popular to the average person browsing on the net. This is the kind of goldmine that all webmasters and Internet marketers should be looking out for.

Whether you just want to get your pages indexed faster or you want to release a viral web page or video, social bookmarking your pages pays off in the long run.

Just about every niche known to man has a ‘sub-niche’ that has the potential of becoming extremely viral. The beauty of social bookmarking is that it is very simple. Just by using a simple submission service like OnlyWire.com you can submit all of your web pages to a long list of social bookmark sites.

This will not only give each page some quality incoming links, it will provide the potential of your page becoming viral.

If your website or blog is in the entertainment niche and you have not been using social bookmarking sites then you have been missing out even more than other niches. People love to see viral videos, pages, pictures etc. Just come up with something that is really cool, put it on a web page and social bookmark it.

You can literally receive thousands of visitors a day just from one single viral video or web page. You cannot social bookmark your pages more than once with the same username and IP but if your page really stands out, many others will bookmark it for you.

So, next time you create a new page on your website or blog, go to OnlyWire.com and mass submit it to the list of social bookmark sites listed there. Once you are done with that, go to Digg.com and do the same, as Digg is not in OnlyWires site list.

You may also want to think about bookmarking the articles that you have submitted to the big articles sites. This will increase the exposure and potential for a viral page of each article.

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Social bookmarking is a way to for users to store lists of Internet resources that they find to be useful for them. They can be accessible to a public or a specific network of people. They are stored by category, tags, or randomly. Some social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks that are associated with certain tags and ranks that other users have bookmarked them with.

The implementation of keywords by some groups allow for easier access by grouping those with similar words together and in relation to other keywords. Social bookmarking has grown to become very popular and with that services have been added. It offers more than sharing bookmarks, but readers and viewers can share rating, comments, can import and export, add additional notes, reviews, email and website links, feed subscription, create groups, social networks, and much more. They are a way to store, share, search links, and classify information.

Social bookmarking has become somewhat of a small circle of friends and family online that share the same interest. It can provide information specialized to one subject or books, music, videos, map locations, coupons, parenting information, great school information, and more can be found. Social bookmarking reminds me of an online community to share information with others. It serves as a center hub to locate subjects, information, and ideas from others who have the similar concerns and needs you do. It helps in finding information without having to “search” for it. There are many social bookmarking on the Internet finding one today and see what you can learn!

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