Social Bookmarking is an important way to draw traffic to your website. It is also a good way to keep track of all the wonderful websites you encounter. When you link to one of your favorite useful sites on the web, you are in effect giving that site a “kudo,” “point” or “vote.” This vote translates to Google that the info on the site is valuable. So, the more votes you get, the better your website or blog’s traffic will be and the more valuable the site will become. Your website will also gain higher rankings when it is noted on various social bookmarking sites by more than one person.

Social bookmarking is basically a way to organize web content. You tag content of any web page, web site, blog or profile page using keywords you deem relevant for future reference. While there is no standard list of keywords to use when social bookmarking, it is helpful for communicating with search engine spiders. It’s also good to see how many others found the same web document interesting.

Social bookmarking is a good tool for search engine optimization because, “the more often a web page is submitted and tagged, the better chance it has of being found.” (Wiki) Beware, however, of overdoing bookmarks to a single site. The bookmarking sites are monitored to penalize and potentially ban those websites that engage in spam tactics. Don’t cheat, don’t overdo it and have fun!

Social Networking Sites

When the Internet gave way to social bookmarking, it also gave way to another opportunity where one can effectively execute his work from home. In particular, the huge benefit cited with social bookmarking for Internet marketers is its contribution to haul in traffic for the online entrepreneur’s site or business. The various social bookmarking sites like “Delicious”, “Digg”, “Propeller”, “Technorati”, “Stumbleupon”, to name a few, are useless if they don’t bring you huge amounts of targeted traffic. So, it’s best if you make sure that you are making the most out of these social bookmarking sites.
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Michael V Lawrence asked:


Social bookmarking sites are sites in which you can apply for a free membership and share web pages, articles and posts with other members. When joining, you are usually allowed to create a profile for yourself in which you can include a bio and links to your own site(s). If you created content or read something that you feel others would benefit from, you mark the site through your social bookmarking site for others to read. You can also browse content saved by other members.

As a blog owner, I immediately joined the top social bookmarking sites. I not only marked my own posts and sites but also others I felt that are providing quality content. I would routinely browse through the latest marks by other members and see what type of content they are saving.

I immediately began to see huge spikes in the traffic to my blog(s). At times, I would often see my first visitor before I was able to switch back to the window I was viewing prior to bookmarking my post. I would check my analytics and see a huge rush of visitors. I was really excited. I began to play around with the titles of my posts in an effort to gain more visitors. I found that if I titled a post like a news story the traffic was very high. I continued to do this for weeks.

I thought that this was great until I dug deeper into my analytics. When I looked deeper, I found extremely high bounce rates. Bounce rates are the percentage of people who exit on the page they landed on (meaning they read what I bookmarked, if that, and did not browse the rest of the content on my blog). I started to look at the referrers and the bounce rates and I found that 85-90% of the visitors from these sites bounced immediately, not good for someone trying to build a blog readership. I began to ask around in forums and found that many agreed with my findings because they experienced it themselves.

This is not to say that social bookmarking does not have its advantages because it does. You can drive hundreds, if not thousands of visitors to your blog, article or site. Maybe you will get some returning visitors or even a subscriber or two. Over time this can add up for you. If you expecting a great amount of “quality” traffic social bookmarking isn’t the answer. However I do not suggest ignoring these options for building some long-term subscribers or returning visitors.

Bookmarking Service

Vanessa A. Doctor asked:

Social bookmarking is a unique method for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In this system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share.

The bookmarks are usually public, however depending on the service’s features, they may be saved privately, shared only with limited groups of people, or be shared only inside certain networks. Social bookmarking is a unique organizational process that goes further by making public the list of sites that you frequently visit. It is also the process of organizing your “favorite” websites, such as the ones you would like to re-visit. You can also bookmark them on a special social bookmarking website.

How To Attract More People To Your Site

Here are a few things to consider whenever one is interested in attracting increased traffic from other interested social bookmarking members.

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tdmatte asked:


I hired a programmer to create a software program for my small biz. I would like to add a download link to my web site and use paypal for payments. How do I protect the software so not just anyone can download it. I’m worried about search engines finding it and returning it in results, and I’m also worried about a user ‘bookmarking’ the webpage and giving the url out to people. Any suggestions appreciated.

Social Networking Sites