How to Use Social Bookmarking for Remarkable SEO Results
By AndreaKalliAmongst marketers, some opinions are strongly held. From ideas about traffic conversion to myths about search engine calculation methods, marketers often hold themselves to patently untrue ideas. One such idea is the thought that social bookmarking traffic is worthless. From Digg to Reddit, Delicious to StumbleUpon, the audiences on offer through social bookmarking are wide and varied. While there may be relatively little direct marketing potential on offer, there are hundreds of ways to optimize your search engine ranking through social bookmarking websites.
The first, and most direct way, is to simply submit your website to gain popularity and potential links. All you need for this is a website, a social bookmarking account, and some content that has the potential to generate a massive amount of buzz and attention. Social bookmarking websites are good at smelling spam, so if your website is entirely commercial, you might find yourself having a hard time converting submissions into powerful links using this method. However, any links are good, and social bookmarking links are still worth the time, even if they do not spread.
The second method is to spread your links yourself, through a series of social bookmarking accounts and disguised resources. SEOs have been using social bookmarking as a link-networking tool for years, and it is still a highly lucrative resource. Using multiple proxies, and sometimes even multiple computers, you can create several social bookmarking accounts and use them for the sole purpose of submitting your own links.
Of course, you are unlikely to generate any spread links with a new account, but that is not the point of this strategy. Instead of focusing on viral content, this method brings non-viral, ultra-measurable SEO influence as a major goal. You control every single bookmarking account, leaving you with the potential to generate hundreds of backlinks in a very short amount of time.
There is a third way to create social bookmarking power, and it is a little indirect and sneaky. Social bookmarking websites love quirky, unique content, but sometimes that content does not exist in uninteresting yet profitable niches. If you can submit content on an interesting topic, let it generate a large amount of interest, and then modify your linked-to page, you can push something that’s particularly lucrative right to the top of the rankings, all by secretively changing your social bookmarking links.
Of course, these indirect and slightly devious methods present you with a real risk of having your content, and eventually your links, removed from social bookmarking websites. It all comes down to your business’ priorities — innovative businesses might value a wave of traffic more than a potentially small short-term issue. No matter which form of social bookmarking SEO you decide to pursue, all can generate massive amount of links in relatively short amounts of time, and all are incredibly valuable to SEO marketers. Look beyond the immediate effects of social bookmarking traffic, for there are hundreds of ways to turn attention into SEO power, regardless of where you operate.
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3 Comments
June 9th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Andrea,
This was a really good post. I especially found it interesting and useful where you stated “simply submit your website to gain popularity and potential links”
as a new comer developing an internet marketing blog, I was overwhelmed with all the “noise” once I joined up with about 30+ socail bookmarking sites!!
I used OnlyWire to submit various posts and articles I had created…not exactly sure what happened next…but I did get an influx (albiet small) of subscribers within a few hours.
I enjoyed your blog and from the many comments you have not only provided great service to people over the years but to many of them you have been almost like a “family friend”.
This type of business relationship is one I want to strive for as in this way I will have helped a lot of people, created some life-lasting friendships and made my fortune along the way.
you are an inspiration to me Andrea…thanks for that
June 17th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Thanks Peter! I appreciate your comment.
August 14th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
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