Social bookmarking became popular as a tool to share your favorite websites with others on the internet. However, the growth of ecommerce over the last few years has meant that almost all elements of the internet have been commercialized to a certain extent. So, it’s no wonder that social bookmarking too is being used as a way to create links to your website, easily and that too for free. There are a lot of websites that allow you to use social bookmarking for link building, but you can only use them to enhance your website’s popularity and page ranking, if you know how to use social bookmarking.
Here are some secrets to using social bookmarking that you may be interested to know:
1. There are lots of sites, but it is not advisable to join every one of them. The key is to join the most popular ones, which can provide you some useful back links to your site. Signing up is a fairly easy process and so you can start using social bookmarking in quick time.
2. The key is to create ‘deep links’. You can create links to the internal pages of your website instead of just putting the link to your homepage in every social bookmarking site. This can be effectively done by means of submitting relevant content and blogs to these sites.
3. Most of these sites allow you to set up a profile. Use this opportunity to place at least one link along with anchor text in the profile. This can improve the overall value of your link considerably. If a site allows you to place more than one link then it’s even better!
4. In order to get maximum mileage out of social bookmarking, interlink your social profiles on various sites. This type of link benefit is also known as ‘link juice’. In order to utilize link juice, you can avoid sites which use ‘nofollow’ tags and other search engine optimization barriers, which stop you from interlinking your profiles.
5. It is also important that you use the best social bookmarking sites on the net. Some of the sites that can provide great link benefits are:
• Digg.com: this site provides you the opportunity to place multiple links accompanied by anchor text in your profile. You can also submit your articles here and gain popularity among other members. In due course you can gain many links too!
• Technorati.com: your blogs will get picked up by this site but you won’t get the benefits of anchor text. You also have to add a code to your website in order to be able to get a link.
• Google: If you have a gmail account, you can make it work for link building too! Don’t be surprised because, Google allows you to add links to your homepage as well as internal pages.
• Mister Wong.com: this is another immensely popular social bookmarking site that allows you to add multiple links and anchor text.
Now that you know these secrets to using social bookmarking for link building, you may be raring to go and try them. So, why wait any longer?
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