Social Bookmarking Explained
What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a method in which users share, organize, and manage bookmarks of web resources. The trend itself has taken off because of how search engines evolved in judging data and catering to traffic trends based visitor algorithms.
Benefits of Social Bookmarking
1. Indexing:
The quickest way to have a website or particular page indexed into search engines without the search engine having to come to you.
2. Traffic Generation:
The links that will be submitted will generate traffic. Since you will also be tagging (or submitting them with meta-data (keyword), the traffic will also be targeted to users trying to find similar information.
3. Personal Branding:
Most of the social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon also give you the opportunity to develop your own page on their site. This is more like a more developed profile that you can use to list all your Brand web pages, post links to your sites and even publish content on any topic about the brand that you may be involved in.
4. Quality Backlinks:
Creating inbound links with relevant information will help point visitors back to the site thus showing the search engine how popular the site is which will increase the results. Think of the main site as the Sun and the planets are the sites that are back linking. The Sun will be the most powerful because it is the source of which is pulling them inward.