Apart from bookmarking on cloud and visiting it from anywhere, users of social bookmarking can see what other peoples from around the web have liked and bookmarked. Almost every social
bookmarking site allows it’s users to browse the most popular bookmarked contents. Most of these bookmaking websites have a search option integrated, so that users can search for what most other people with similar taste to them have found cool.
Social bookmarking is an owner-oriented SEO trick to boost the traffic of a website. That is to say, it’s something commended by the SEO gurus very highly, and if used in a proper way it can boost total traffic by a whooping 50%. These days, any site that comes up within the top 20 of google almost inevitably has a good amount of social bookmarking history. We do not say this; researchers do.
Using proper bookmarking method will highly increase the chance of a greater visibility to the search engines. To add as bonus, a good number of visitors will come to the site from the social bookmarking sites as well without the help of a search engine. So, what are the proper ways to use social bookmarking for a traffic boost?
Simple, and easy. Having well-followed or popular accounts on popular social bookmarking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ is the key. Give some time in these websites, socializing. If you do not have much followers on Twitter or have only a score of people on your Google+ circle, just go on increasing the numbers. Create cool stuffs like an excellent blog post or an awesome image, and share them with friends or unknowns over these social bookmarking networks. Make sure the contents are really enjoyable; it’ll make people trust you. These activities will enhance your reaching ability to a much larger number of people without the help of a single search engine.
And once you have turned yourself into a Facebook celeb or a Twitter diva, it’s now time to play big. Create good contents in your site, share them on all these social bookmarking sites with backlink to your site and see how many times they are re-twitted or shared. Anything amazing or cool will be shared again and again, and your traffic will explode, all you could ask for.
One thing to look after: people trust you to be an entertainer, and you must not break it. A popular man may twit a useless link or two for traffic, but this will certainly hamper further gains. Remember – people go on social bookmarking because they find and share cool stuff there, to get entertained. This has been the purpose of social bookmarking for a long period of time, and while you may use it for your advantage, you should not make things for traffic only.