What is social bookmaking? Social bookmarking can be explained as the practice of saving bookmarks to a website and tagging with keywords. Bookmarking is simply saving a specific website address in your browser that you wish to visit later. Social bookmarking can help optimize sites, most of which are done through the tags associated with them that allows them to be included in search queries done over the web.
Through providing social bookmarking links you will firstly attain back-links from social media websites whilst driving traffic to your website at the same time. The shared items will then appear on your own unique shared stuff page with descriptions and tags that you associate with the bookmarks.
Visitors to social bookmarking sites can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that registered users have created and saved. Social networking websites are getting a lot of attention these days including Digg, del.icio.us and MySpace. Users may not know how a library book is categorized but most users have used the Internet, social bookmaking or wikis enough to click on the subject headings for a more precise search.
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming. This is because you need to open an account individually with the respective social bookmaking site and submit the descriptions and tags of your website one by one to them by logging into their websites.
In this case, you can use the free service from socialmarker.com. It is a website to help you submit your website’s title, url, site description and tags in faster submission speed. This will reduce your time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website. It offers free service for 49 bookmaking sites.
Let me show you how to use the free service from socialmarker.com.
- Firstly, you still have to open an account with the social bookmaking site individually. For a newbie, I will suggest you to open an account with the recommended Bookmaking site. You can have the list of recommended Bookmaking sites by clicking the Bookmaking tab. Once you have familiarized with the submission process, you can select which bookmaking site you want to do submission.
- Then, open a new file with Microsoft Word. Type the descriptions and tags of your website. Normally, tags are the keywords. Copy the description of your website and paste into the Text box. Next, copy the tags of your website and paste into the Tags box. Besides, you have to key in the title and Link(URL) respectively. Finally, click Submit tab which is on the top right corner.
- Next, you will be directed to the social bookmaking site one by one. They will ask you to key in the information of the descriptions and tags of your website. Once you have finished with one bookmaking site, click Next tab which is on the top right corner to go for another bookmaking site.
In summary, the reasons why social bookmaking is important to your website are :
- It helps to promote your website.
- It helps you get a lot of back-links to your website.
- It helps you increase your website’s traffic.
- It helps you increase your website’s page rank.
- It helps your website indexed by Google faster.
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