Monday, July 4, 2011

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking web sites offer users convenient storage of their bookmarks remotely for access
from any location. Examples of these sites include del.icio.us, digg, Reddit, and so on. These sites usually
allow these bookmarks to be private, but many choose to leave them public. And when a particular
web page is publicly bookmarked by many users, that is a major positive contributing factor in the
ranking algorithm of the search function on a social bookmarking site. Ranking well in these searches
presents another great source of organic traffic. Furthermore, if a web page is bookmarked by a large
number of people, it may result in a front page placement on such a site. This usually results in a landslide of traffic.

Many blogs present links to streamline the process of bookmarking a page. As is typical with facilitating
any action desired from a web site user, this may increase the number of bookmarks achieved by a page
on your web site. And it is a very common SEO practice with much effective results.

These little icons make it easy for people browsing a web site to do some free marketing for you — in
case they like the content at that particular URL and want to bookmark it. There are many free APIs on the web like addthis (personal favorite) which allows you to add the icons of almost all the social bookmarking websites on the internet.

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