What Is Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is a system for users to manage, organize, search and manage their favorite web pages. Users save links to web pages and share it with other people. These accounts are usually open to the public, or can also be privatized too and only shared with groups, friends, family, networks, etc.
There are tons of social book marking pages, such as Digg.com, Delicious, Reddit, Newsvine, and many more.
So why do people generally use Social Bookmarking? Simply because it’s easy to add your favorite websites for others to share, plus it increases traffic to your website. The more people you get to bookmark your site, the more visitors you’ll get too. Another benefit of Social Bookmarking is that your website receives an outbound link too. If you have 20 pages of content on your website, why not submit all 20 of them to Social Bookmarking sites? Just remember though, the key to getting great rankings on search engines is to build links slowly. I know if you’re just getting started in affiliate marketing, building links slowly is a challenge. When I first started out, I wanted to spend 8 hours a day submitted links to my site. Trust me on this, the slower the better. Affiliate Idol will show you how to get excellent rankings and some great techniques when it comes to building links with Social Bookmarking.
Social Bookmarking is an excellent tool to use to get the rankings that you need, plus it’s a fairly new way to post.
The popular thing a few years back was directories, but eventually Google decided that they didn’t like directories, so ranking this way was harder than before. Submitting your webpage to a directory doesn’t require any articles to be on the site, therefore it doesn’t make for quality websites, according to Google. It’s ok to use directories here and there, but if you add your website to a bunch of directories, you’ll wish you never did. You rankings will go down the toilet, and the potential for making money with your website will flush into the World Wide Web sewer system.
The key to ranking well with Google isn’t just adding links to Social Bookmarking sites; you also need to have quality articles with original content. The days of cutting and pasting an article to your website are gone. Write your own original articles and you’ll have no problems ranking well with Google.