Social Bookmarking - Manual Or Automated Submission?


by Victor Taylor - Date: 2009-03-15 - Word Count: 391 Share This!

Social Bookmarking is a powerful and effective website promotion strategy.

Social Bookmarking websites are places where you can store your 'bookmarks' or 'favourites' online instead of on your PC or laptop etc but more importantly, they let you share your bookmarks with other people.

Millions of Internet users search for information on a daily basis through these Social Bookmarking Websites. Naturally, when it comes to promoting your website, the idea of bookmarking is to post links back to your own website pages on these traffic heavy sites.

You need to specify several keywords and categorise your bookmark link. People can then search, find and even vote on it.

People add links to their own websites at social bookmarking websites all the time because they are fantastic for getting: More Targeted Traffic; Faster Search Engine Indexing; Higher Ranking in the Search Engines and Improved PageRank.

How do you use Social Bookmarking sites to do this?

You have to join plenty of Social Bookmarking sites for it to work at all - and submit your URL along with keywords and a description at each one.

Of course, creating your accounts and adding your links, keywords, descriptions etc at the numerous bookmarking sites manually is VERY TIME CONSUMING. Then, each time you add more links you have to again manually login to your account at each and every site and add your page's URL, keywords and descriptions. What a drag!

The obvious answer is to use some kind of automation software but there are several problems with using social bookmarking software...

Is using automated software a good idea?

Many of the social bookmarking tools are designed to spam the bookmarking sites. This will raise a red flag; the site owners will ban your accounts and might even ban your IP address.

Some are extremely limited and/or not designed to bookmark websites. Many that are designed to bookmark websites are unnecessarily expensive or have steep monthly fees.

Another problem with a lot of automation programmes or submission software is that you will be bookmarking the same title, keywords, description etc across all bookmarking sites. This means that your content is duplicated and search engines will not pay any attention to your links anyway.

Summary

If you make sure you use a quality, efficient software to automate your Social Bookmarking you will definitely reap the rewards of more targeted traffic, faster search engine indexing, higher search engine ranking and better PageRank.

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