10 Steps To Increase Website’s Visibility Using Social Bookmarking

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With the growing trend in social bookmarking, Internet users and bloggers have a better chance to increase their visibility on the Internet. Today you can have access to almost all the bookmarking sites with a Sign Up. With this said we will share a 10 step process to increase your website’s visibility and traffic using social bookmarking.

Understand What Makes It Happen

The most important thing you can do to ensure that you will get more visibility through social bookmarking sites is to understand how these sites work. Social bookmarking is a simple process and consists of a website where many users can save and also share the bookmarks that they create. Bookmarks can be organized in different ways and other users can view these bookmarks and choose to visit them as well.

The More Popular, The Better

When choosing social bookmarking websites that you want to become a part of, make sure they are popular ones. There is little point in connecting your site with a social bookmarking site which has only a few visitors per day.

Start Bookmarking Your Stuff

 

Once you have successfully joined one of these sites make sure that you forward your own pages and blogs to the website. Be careful when doing this as you do not want to be seen as a spammer. Also feel free to add and bookmark other pages that you enjoy.

Keep The Tools Handy

On your own site, ensure that the process of bookmarking is made simpler by employing social bookmarking tools and widgets. With these widgets visible on your page people are more likely to bookmark the page since all it requires is a click.

Be Generous

Another useful thing to do is bookmark pages from those sites that have bookmarked yours. Not only are you increasing their visibility but by increasing the other site’s popularity, you are in turn also increasing your own.

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Share What is Fresh and Hot

Make sure that the content on your blog or on your pages is fresh and fun. If it is either out dated or not interesting people are unlikely to bookmark it and also unlikely to visit again. On the other hand appealing content which has been well written is more likely to be bookmarked and will also have the visitor coming back for more.

Settling for Peak Time

The timing of your post on the social bookmarking pages is also crucial. Consider the area within which you are and your readers as well. On the majority of the sites, your post will stay on the front page for only a matter of hours. Making sure that you get the front page when the site has its highest amount of traffic will confirm that the maximum possible number of people is able to see your post and bookmark or visit it.

Avoid Creating Confusions

Make sure you know where you are posting, no point in posting a photography related page in the cooking category. Sort out your pages beforehand so you put them in the right category. By doing so only people with similar interests or tastes will see the content and are therefore more likely to view it as well.

Stick to a Language that Everyone Speaks

For the majority of the big names in the social bookmarking business, English is the primary language. If you are posting on one of these networks it is advisable to stick to English as your primary language, most readers will be expecting to see posts in English. This way you can be sure that everyone visiting is capable of reading, and will therefore be interested in reading. If you plan on using a different language you may want to use a different social bookmarking platform that may be region specific or caters to a specific niche.

Do Not Neglect

Make sure you keep visiting your pages. Any of your content can receive attention, unexpectedly and do not post and forget about any content. It is a good idea to look back at all your posts so that you may actively take part in any discussion that may be happening about it. Readers often have questions and serious discussions can also take place, as a reader it is always great to hear from the writer themselves and know that you can communicate with them.

These are a handful of useful social bookmarking tips that you can put in to practice and get successful in increasing your website’s visibility. If you are still new to this then you may want to consider bookmarking sites such as Delicious for posting your content. Delicious is a free forum, and even though it may look it a little complex to use, it is quite simple once you get the hang of it. It also offers a large variety of features which other sites charge for.

Another good option is Diigo. This is also a free service though if you pay you can have all the adverts removed.  The best thing about Diigo is that there is no word limit on the description that you write about your pages.

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Pinterest is another good service which is visually quite enjoyable with its many images that are attached to the link. It is easy to pin images and linking URLs to those images. When linking images to a URL make sure the images and URLs justify each other.

StumpleUpon is another social bookmarking website with its own unique features. Using StumbleUpon for social bookmarking purposes can bring in a lot of traffic to your site.

In a nutshell, it is an easy task to bookmark your pages to increase visibility but make sure you choose the right tags, interesting topics and useful contents to make sure you do not bug away potential visitors.