Social Bookmarking 101
In the new Web 2.0 world, the fastest way to drive great amounts of traffic to your website on a consistent and growing basis is through social bookmarking.
Social bookmarking services are part of a larger conversation where everyone is allowed to vote and participate through adding interesting links to bookmarking sites and further commenting or voting up or down based on the person's experience of the site marked. With social bookmarking, it allows individuals to leave a trail of sites visited for others to follow. If a site is well liked, it will receive a favorable review, a vote up and in turn a ton of traffic from various sources.
These tags work like keywords. The better reviewed and rated the site is, the more people who add the site to their bookmarks the more traffic gets directed to the site. Previously it was page ranking that generated the most traffic for a website and while it is still a major factor when it comes to traffic generation and direction it is not the only thing that can drive traffic to your website.
The difference between using social bookmarking sites and using a search engine is simply the size and method that is used. Social bookmarking sites usually have a more concentrated based for searching. This means that it is faster in locating specifics. If you are looking for a particular subject on a search engine you will pick up any site which has the keywords that you are looking for. Because bookmarking sites are smaller in terms of the searching base you have a greater chance of finding what you are looking for.
Just as there are a number of social networking sites there are also a number of social bookmarking sites so there are plenty of places to place your website and be able to share in what you have to offer. The point is to make sure that you diversify. Do not just rely on page ranking. Do not just rely on search engine optimization or PPC advertising. Make sure that you are doing the best you can for your website.
This includes using a wide variety of options that have only recently become available. Things like viral marketing, video websites, social networking websites and using social bookmarking sites. Consider all the different aspects to marketing a website and be sure to incorporate as many as possible into your strategy.
All of these things combined are what helps to create a website with a high level of traffic generation and a constant flow of new potential customers. Posting to all these sites can be a challenge. To make the process ease something called widgets were created in order to assist people in posting. This allows for people to simply click on an icon and post the link to their account in the social bookmarking or networking site. This is of great benefit and allows for a large number of sites to be placed quickly and effectively with the least amount of hassles. It is designed to be as easy to use as possible. It is one of the things that is making it one of the most popular ways to generate traffic in this new Web 2.0 environment.
Most people, however, will use the larger sites and bookmark their sites, filtering them through the use of specific tags that others can search on. Tags are very easy to use and take a place like Technorati and breaks it down into interest-driven sections that only those people who are interested in will search on and find your website.
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