Building Backlinks with Social Bookmarking

By Tom P Kearns


As a naturally gregarious species, we humans still cater to our required "me" moments. Obviously, that most social of places, the internet, has a term called "Social Bookmarking. This is fairly new to the web but it is definitely a trend and a strong one in its development as a preferred link building tool.

What is social bookmarking?

What a preferred link building tool does is store and manage websites and web pages for you. You probably already round up and save links to your favorite sites. Then, you can find them with no trouble and share them if you want to. A social site offers web feeds to the social bookmarks as prepared by tag groups. What is "social" about this is that these building sites allow others to view your bookmarks. You are giving others the opportunity to be tagged, thereby upping the number of users who can now see pages that are of specific significance without having to undertake extensive searches on their own. At the same time, the user-tagged web pages they have saved on the social bookmarking preferred sites appear instantly as soon as a fresh tag is supplied.

Needle in a Haystack

There is a reason why social bookmarking is a preferred link building tool, as apposed to linking through blogs or linking other places. Typically, algorithms are used to define the significance and importance of a website and its contents; however it is different for social bookmarking. This preferred link building tool works with search engine "spiders" that find particular tagged content. It is executed by real people who actually comprehend the content of the source.

Bookmarking has the advantage over blog linking in that it has very easy access to any reader of your site. By adding a simple button to your web site people can easily add your site to their social bookmarks to be shared with the world(and more importantly search engine spiders). Social Bookmarking can work as a team with SEO (search engine optimization) increasing the volume of traffic to websites with specific tagged words. Social bookmarking also has the prospective of being a web site's back link. This help search spiders make it to the site more easily and enable them to creep and catalog the site more often.

An extensive search over the net to find the exact thing you are looking for is not an exhilarating experience. Think social bookmarking, with its visible buttons to click effortlessly, to take all those searchers to your webpage making them happy campers. These tags also allows these folks to amass those sites they want to revisit. By enabling them to use their own words, they can now use them to make the retrieval process a piece of cake.

De.licio.us, google bookmarks, buzz, stumble, digg and oh so many more are some of the social bookmarking sites taking up cyberspace right now. You do not have to pick just one. Use them all. Bookmarks make your site better. More bookmarks make it more so.




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