manige3e |
10-10-2015 01:53 PM |
Before we get to the meat of the matter, what is social bookmarking? Social bookmarking is the method of gaining links from social bookmarking websites which should probably increase your serps rankings as well as your organic and referral traffic.
Social bookmarking websites consist of a community of people who are ready to tag and rate and " favorite " your website, which shall help in improvement of your traffic. Most of the socialbookmarking websites are based on a broad niche, and shall accept any category of websites. You just have to choose the right category when you make a submission. There are certain others that fall under a specific niche, and unless your website fall under such a category, the chances of your website living up in such socialbookmarking websites are slim.
The advantages of social bookmarking are many. Unlike website directories, they can drive massive traffic to your website within a short time. While in its peak time, a website that get into the homepage of Digg was guaranteed to receive a million hits within 24 hours. You shall not be limited to one link like in a directory. The more people who bookmark your website, greater shall be the links that you receive. Most of these socialbookmarking websites have a dedicated community who are ready to rate your website and tag them, which shall be an encouragement for others to visit your website. Your website shall receive a surge of traffic if it get into some popular pages within those websites, as most of the algorithms that drive these websites depend mainly on the number of ratings. So the concept is simple - Greater the number of people who rate and bookmark your website, greater shall be the traffic that your website receive.
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