Have you ever sent a friend or colleague a link to a website that you thought was interesting or useful? Perhaps something in the news, or an article you’ve read that you wanted to pass on. That’s social bookmarking and it’s a great tool to use to promote your business on the Internet. But how?
There are many social bookmarking websites across the Internet. These allow users to create connections with other users through the content they produce. Say that you write a blog post or article for your business, you can give the option for other people to share it using one of the main social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon. Those articles/blogs/content that are quickly bookmarked by lots of people, rise to the top of the Social Bookmarking sites and suddenly you have lots of interested traffic going to your website.
1)Instant Traffic
Articles that get more than 25 votes within the first 15 minutes of being on a site will quickly rise through the ranks of the social bookmarking website. If the articles or blogs that you write for your business end up on the first page of one of the main social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, you’ll get a vast amount of traffic instantly. That’s got to be good for business!
2)Referrals and Recommendations
Social Bookmarking is a great way to get attention from a diverse audience of potential customers or clients. Users can look at each other’s bookmarks and this creates a sort of social referral system. Users can also recommend content to each other and the more recommendations that your content receives, the higher it ranks. Again, all this referring and recommending brings more traffic to your website.
3)Backlinks
Google and the other Search Engines love quality backlinks from popular websites and backlinks that come from the top Social Bookmarking websites. Social Bookmarking encourages people to spread the word about your content and spread links to your website along with it!
4)Discussion and Feedback
Discussion of your article promotes the contribution of content to your website. It allows you to hear what people think about your thoughts and ideas too and that encourages further discussion. All of this interaction creates SEO-friendly content that will help you to attract more visitors to your site!
5)Free Promotion
Social Bookmarking really helps to promote your business. But best of all, it’s completely free. All you need to do is add content and you can add as much or as little as you want. Your only limitation is the amount of time that you have. People talking about your articles, blogs, videos or podcasts is good for bringing other people to you, and again, that’s free and it’s great for business.
Social Bookmarking is a free way to create tons of instant traffic and gain great SEO value through the content that you create. When you create high quality relevant content, you get high quality relevant traffic.
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