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Social Bookmarking Advantages and Disadvantages

Social Bookmarking is one of the major part of SEO techniques to promote your website online. The basic reason for bookmarking a post/site is to generate traffic. Book marking is nothing but saving a website in your browser toolbar [in your local PC]. We always bookmark our favorite sites in our browser, so that we can easily retrieve them when needed. Social Bookmarking is also the similar way, but in this case, you save all your bookmarks in the website itself [not in your local PC]. With this technique, you can retrieve your favorite sites from anywhere in the world using the internet. These will be indexed and ranked well by search engines thus sending you more traffic. Apart from the traffic, it also gives back links to your site.

How to do Social Bookmarking?

There are plenty of sites providing these book marking services such as Digg, Face book, Twitter etc…

1. First, you have to create an account in these sites.
2. After signup, you will be given a special code which you can place in your blog/site. When you place these scripts in your blog, you can notice small icons at the bottom of every post. So, when a visitor comes to your site, he will bookmark your site by just clicking those small icons placed at the bottom of your posts.
3. You can also directly bookmark your URL in those sites where you will give your title and a short description [Don't forget to leave a link back to your site].
4. In this way, you can use the social bookmarking services.

Note that the post i.e., rated well by others will be given more importance in the search results. Always try to be creative when choosing titles.

Advantages of Social Bookmarking

1. The main advantage of this book marking is the Search Engine Optimization. Because, these sites are highly search engine optimized, a link from those sites will help your blog to rank better.
2. You can experience the immediate traffic when you use these book marking services.
3. Also, the theme of these services is that you can place your favorite websites list in one place and browse whenever & wherever required using the internet.
4. It is the best place for promoting, because now-a-days, so many people are gathering at these book marking sites.

Disadvantages of Social Book Marking

1. The main advantage is itself a disadvantage. That means, your site goes out of the search results as quickly as it enters the search. Because of the number of people adding bookmarks daily and due to this reason, old bookmarks will be pushed to old pages when new ones are added.

We can covert this disadvantage into our advantage by adding fresh bookmarks every time.

So, Start bookmarking now and get instant traffic to your website or blog.

Article Source : Radha Krishna Reddy @ EzineArticles

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