Instant Website Traffic with Social Bookmarking

If you are new online, you may be wondering what are social bookmarks. Fews years ago, the only way for you to keep a list of your favorite sites is to bookmark them using the "Favorite" button on your browser toolbar. The bookmarks that you save help you go to those sites again easily instead of typing the whole website URL. The bookmarks are stored in your local computer hard disk, which means that you can't access your favorite sites or share them easily unless you are using your own PC. This is where social bookmarks come into play.

Social bookmarks such as Digg, Stumble Upon & Delicious allow you to save your favourite websites online and categorize them. Each category can be tagged using multiple keywords of your choice. Since the bookmarks are posted online, you can share them easily and even allow visitors to rate the usefulness of your bookmarks.

How do you get instant traffic by bookmarking your own website

The idea behind social bookmarking is that if you find the links useful, others may benefit from them too. So if many others enjoy visiting your bookmarked site, they will rate your bookmark and even share it with others. The higher the rating, the more popular that site will become. So you get viral and instantaneous traffic since people are generally interested in top news.

How social bookmarking can increase Search Engine Ranking

Search engines such as Google and Yahoo typically list the most relevant and recent websites on search results. This is known as indexing. If you want more traffic from Google, you have to try to have your site rank higher in the search results. One way of doing this is to increase the number of backlinks to your website. This is to say that if there is a large number of websites link to you, Google's algorithm will determine that you have relevant and authoritative content, hence a higher index in search results.

One way of obtaining backlinks is to submit your website to social bookmarking sites. If you submit to many social bookmarking website, you are automatically generating backlinks to your website. That will surely increase your Google indexing.

Besides creating backlinks, it is also easier for people to find your website when they do a search for similar type of information on a social bookmarking site. Another advantage for listing your website on popular social bookmarking site is there is potential to get large amount of traffic especially if your site is highly rated. This is because your link will appear on the front page of the bookmarking site where hundreds of thousands of people visit daily.

The importance of tagging

Tags are short phrases used to describe your bookmarked link. To ensure that your website gets maximum exposure, it is a good idea to tag your bookmarked link with phrases ( or more commonly known as keywords) that has high search count. For example if your website talks about diet pills and you tagged your website as "weight loss tips", anyone who types in that keyword phrase will find your page. This is not just for the social bookmarking site, your webpage may also appear in the search engine results too.