SEO Step-By-Step Guide – 175. Social Bookmarking Success

Today almost every website engages in social bookmarking but unfortunately not all of us are equally successful. Though we would like to be highly successful, down the line we make some mistakes that turn the entire process against us. Whether it is social bookmarking or any other SEO strategy, we cannot go against the basic principles of SEO. So we should always keep to search engine friendly approach.

The first point to take note is finding the right set of social bookmarking sites. Today we have hundreds of them strewn all over the internet. But not all of them are as popular or as effective in spreading the word across. You should have a complete database of all the popular social bookmarking sites and keep updating it regularly.

Secondly, when you decide to book mark your website in social bookmarking sites, find as many unique titles as possible for each bookmark but make sure to keep them keyword rich. Remember, most of the social networks and social bookmarking sites have nofollow attribute in place so your efforts on bookmarking will be only to get more traffic and to get your brand name flashed all over the worldwide web. So without having the right headings for bookmarks you cannot get the attention of the online community. So pay attention to your social bookmarks’ titles.

Social bookmarking does not give you room for writing long articles in most situations. So you need to master the art of writing short and crispy content for your bookmarks. The bookmarks should have appropriate tags wherever possible so that they can come up in the search results.

Do not focus just on the home page while using your links in the bookmarks. Try to distribute the links of inner pages too so that you get equal visibility. Always add bookmarking button in your own content so that those interested can easily book mark your content.

Provide useful content to people so that they can bookmark your pages and not just you bookmarking them. While submitting your news article or other content, do not submit outdated information. This will only waste your time because people are looking for hot news and when you give them that, they will flock to your site through your bookmarks.

Never make substandard posts. Always check for correct grammar and spelling. If you cannot ensure quality in your posts, then you cannot also expect the required results. People like good stuff and give them what they like to be successful.

Do not ignore comments submitted on your posts. Respond to them politely and try to engage in discussion and that is one of the ways of getting popular.

Never underestimate the importance of social bookmarking; you can indeed get highly positive results with focused approach.

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