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Information you need to know about Social Bookmarking
Filed Under (Tips) by Socialmatic on 02-05-2008
Social bookmarking is a list of favourite site you visit, not just your favourite sites but also sites u want to share with others. In addition, submitting sites online can allow you to retrieve it using any computer, not just your computer.
When u submit a site into your social bookmarking site, other users online wanting to find the information related to your site, can find it easily without needing to see any unnecessary information. In another words, when you search for site at search engine, you can easily find site that other users had viewed, this would means that the site definitely worth looking at.
Get Started!
Go to the search engine and look up for social bookmarking site and the results will show up many different sites. Viewed each site and see the differences between them, and joined the one you think is good for you. Most of the social bookmarking sites are FREE to register. After you have register, is time you submits URL of your favourite site, REMEMBER to add tags to your site that best describe the site.
What is tags?
The meanings of tags are actually same as keywords, which actually helps in describing the site. Hence, once visitors enter keywords of their findings and it matches with your tags, your site will automatically appear as the results of their findings.
Getting Traffic
Site owners often wanted to get more traffic to their site; hence social bookmarking site is often used to help in getting traffic. However, how do they actually help in getting traffic?
First was to join one bookmarking site and submit a site to there. Check the popularity of the bookmarking site, as is important that there are users that actually visit the bookmarking site so as to visit your site. Therefore, by doing this it actually helps in gaining more traffic to your site. Remember to place a link at your site which will allow your visitors to go back to the bookmarking site, so they can bookmark your site. As when more people bookmark your site, the more popular your site going to be. In addition, make sure that the page leading to the bookmarking site from your site is set to open in a new window. In this way, visitors can still view your site after they have bookmarked your site.
Lastly, do not submit the sites will irrelevant site. Make sure that the site that you submit are relevant and in advantage for your visitors, you probably would not want to attract traffic to a page that the content are nothing, in this way you could get yourself banned from the bookmarking site. In addition, visitors will not keep visiting the site again after their first visit. So bookmark only pages that you think is worth adding to your favourites!
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