What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is the practice of saving, storing and managing your bookmarks online. By saving their bookmarks online, users can then access them from any computer and even share them with other people. Social bookmarking has become very popular among everyday internet users.

Social bookmarks are usually stored with tags, in others words: single words that describe a webpage, making it very easy for people to search for similar bookmarks or even find the bookmarks they have saved. Social bookmarking can also be a very effective link building technique. However, many overlook it because they consider the links as low quality links.

Social bookmarking links shouldn't be considered as low quality links because search engines know the social bookmarking websites very well. They visit them every single day, searching for new webpages to index and rank. They know that when a lot of people bookmark a specific webpage, they should visit it, index it and certainly rank it better.

Social bookmarking links will not only drive direct traffic to your website but also help it get better search engine rankings. Many use the same link building techniques, and search engines know about most of the tricks. Social bookmarking is considered by many internet professionals as one of the most underused link building techniques.

The most popular social bookmarking websites are Digg, Delicious, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Diigo, Propeller, Mister Wong... among many others. All these websites are very large websites crawled by search engines every single day. They are some of the most visited websites.

The more people bookmark your website, the more chances it has to be found by search engines. We thus strongly suggest you to submit your website to all the social bookmarking websites mentioned above, but also get your colleagues and friends to bookmark it as well, so the links really gain in value.

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