Thursday, August 7, 2008

Can Social Bookmarking Help You

By Anson Hall


When you are promoting your website, you will try various ways to drive traffic to your site. You may submit your site to various web directories. You may also put your site link in the signature file in forums. As a matter of fact, one of ways to promote your site is by social bookmarking.

You will certainly know what a bookmark is. However, you may not know exactly what social bookmark is. In fact, they are some free sites which allow you to share your favorite sites.

When you are surfing on the web, you may come across some sites which you like or you find useful. You may bookmark them in your web browser. However, you can only access you bookmarks in your own computer. As a result, it will be a good idea if you can access the bookmarks virtually anywhere.

To this end you may use the social bookmarking sites to stored your favorite sites or the sites you find useful. The advantage of using a social bookmarking system is that you can access your bookmarks anywhere and anytime.

What is even more interesting is that you can share your bookmark with the others. If you set the bookmarks to be visible to the public, other web surfers will be able to see your favorite sites.

The idea of public bookmarks will help you to promote your sites. When you submit your site to a social bookmarking site, other users of the bookmarking site can see your bookmark and also your site. People will visit your site when they feel interested.

Besides, when many people add your site as their favorite site, it will become a popular site and it may be shown in the home pages of the social bookmark sites. And it will certainly drive a lot of traffic to your site.

As a matter of fact, social bookmarks can help to improve the link popularity of your site. When you bookmark your site, there will be a link to your site. This will certainly help to boost your search engine ranking in the long run.

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