Social Bookmarking: A Great Tool for Webmasters

Social BookmarkingNowadays, Social Bookmarking services are the most popular source for webmasters to drive visitors and traffic to their websites. Social Bookmarking let’s the users to save and manage their favorite bookmarks online on internet. It has been made in such a way that users can tag them with keywords and share them with others and watch their bookmarks. Also, you are able to keep the bookmarks private and share them with your friends and family only.

This all started in the year 2003, when Del.icio.us launched the Social Bookmarking Concept so that people can enjoy their bookmarks online. But, now there are so many sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Technorati, reddit and Raidx.co.uk that offer social bookmarking services. These sites feature the most popular and recently submitted bookmarks. Social bookmarking has now become a popular tool to webmasters for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Social bookmarking can easily make your website popular and produce more traffic. That’s why; webmasters take more interest in social bookmarking sites to have maximum social bookmarks of their websites so that people can visit them more.

Important tips for webmasters to get maximum social bookmarks for their websites:

  • Webmasters should always offer links to popular bookmarking websites so the viewers are easily able to bookmark their favorite websites and web pages. If you search Google for social bookmarking scripts you will find many scripts that are available for websites which permits users to bookmark your website easily.
  • In order to get your website bookmark by other members of the social bookmarking sites, you must also bookmark your own websites and ask your friends and family members to bookmark it. You must register an account with all popular social bookmarking websites and bookmark all your web pages with appropriate keywords and titles.
  • On bookmarking sites, you can also exchange links with many websites that are relevant to your sites niche. Many webmasters bookmark your websites if you bookmark their websites. However, nowadays social bookmarking sites don’t allow you to exchange your bookmarks with other webmasters but you can still find your own ways.
  • Participate in the social bookmarking websites and create a huge friend’s list. Many times people visits their friend’s profile and bookmarks the websites if they like it. Also, you can ask the members of your friend’s list to view your newly created pages and they might bookmark them. Commenting on other’s bookmarks will help you to increase your profile as well as your websites popularity.
  • Bookmark yours as well as other similar web pages because, when the traffic on the websites you have bookmarked goes high, yours will also increase at the same time. Similarly, if the link value of all the pages you have bookmarked goes high, the link-value of your websites also increases.
  • The last and very important tip is that your website should contain unique and fresh content. This is because, if your content is good and impressive, then only the visitors will bookmark it or else they will never return to your website again. May be you have done extensive search engine optimization or have created hundreds of bookmarks, but if your website don’t have unique and good content there will no further bookmarks and traffic on your website. Remember that Content is the key to Success.

Work on the above social bookmarking tips properly, sit back and watch traffic coming to your website.

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How to Generate Good Traffic via Digg

digg-logoEveryone knows that if they want to get their blog/website visible and well-known by people, then social bookmarking via Digg website is must.

What if nobody visits your website? What would be the value of your web site?  If you have fewer visitors it means you have a very bad traffic, and obviously if you don’t have any traffic your website will not give you any benefit.

Every webmaster has a common target to achieve a high Page Rank (Aka PR) and to top the search engines. Many webmasters spend huge bucks on those pricey marketing strategies and buy links to get high PR links. Buying links could increase your PR but, it cannot give you a large amount of visitors.

How to Digg?

Digging is very easy, just log into your digg account, submit your each story to digg and try to select an exact category for your story. Once you’re done with the submission of the story it will get display on most recent story page.

To get your story on the front page of Digg, you need some digg’s i.e. a number which increase when some digg users suggest your story. You will get more visibility on digg, if you have more digg points. If someone who already have digg many stories, and that person is one of the top digg users, he digg your story then you will be directory gone into his digg list. And then you will have a backlink from high PR page, because your story will be more visible on digg pages.

Story content is the most important thing you should work on. Just think of before posting, why viewers would like to digg your story? Hence, you should add some interesting content and effective keywords in your article which attracts a user to dugg your story.

Dugg from your website

Add a Digg it button in the end of your articles once they have been submitted to digg.com. The reason to add the digg it button at the end of the article is because most people put the digg it button on the top of article which is not very much useful as readers will always dugg after reading the content. So the button should be inserting on the right place at the end of article.

Once you received about 10 dugg’s from the top 100 digg users, you will receive some good traffic from digg website. Also, you can follow these useful Digg tips.

  • Always remember friends are the key. To expose your story faster add at least 20 friends on Digg
  • Request your friends to digg your posts and do the same for them in return.
  • Once you get to the front page about 20 times, it gets easy to attract the users towards your story.
  • So your aim should be the top most diggers who posts and digg’s a lot.
  • Create attractive titles like why, how, etc. Example: “Why Linux is the best OS”, “Top 20 reasons why Linux is the best Operating System”, “How to tweak Linux”
  • Be careful with digg as many blogs are banned
  • Don’t waste you time on digg groups as they are not much effective
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