Thursday, March 18, 2010
Social Bookmarking For Added Traffic To take great advantage of the tremendous traffic potential of any social bookmarking site, certain steps should be taken to make your campaign effective. Before a site is bookmarked, care should be taken to ensure that the site is properly optimized for the search engines; if not it can limit the effectiveness of the social bookmarking campaign.

If your site lands front page on the bookmarking sites, you will produce a large increase of traffic to that site. The following will give ways you can utilize bookmarking to drive an insane amount of targeted visitors to your website.

A catchy headline is important as it is the first thing a visitor will see. It must grab the reader's attention without being very long. Using action verbs in the title, or using words, such as "how to," will also draw in the readers.

Using a meaningful description that relates well to your content is important. Do not use sentences that are too long, and do not lie in that description.

The first paragraph should be captivating, because if you were able to catch the reader's attention with the title and the description, you want to hold that attention in the first paragraph also. If this paragraph is not well written, the reader will promptly leave the page.

The content of your site should be both relevant and original, since bookmarking sites place a priority on quality content. The information provided on the site should be the relevant and required information readers will want to read.

Keywords are of great importance here also. People searching the bookmarking sites, will use keywords to obtain the information they are looking for, as they would when searching the search engines. Insert these keywords in the body, the title and in the description.

Be sure to proofread your content for grammatical errors, spelling errors and the correctness of your facts. Submit your link to the correct category, so that your information will be easily found by those searching the targeted keywords you have chosen.

Articles should be submitted to the articles directories for more visibility, and the links from these directories will provide another good source of even more traffic, if the content is relevant, interesting and good. Try to avoid boring, old news topics as this will not hold the reader's interest.

Your site should include a good sampling of relevant articles, to provide the readers with the information they are looking for, and entice them to come back again and again.

Proving newsletter subscription options and RSS feeds will keep the site interesting for readers. Be sure to make them easily visible on the site. Provide bookmarking buttons on your site, to help the readers bookmark your site, and position those buttons where they will be easily seen.

Bookmarking should not be used to just create links to your sites, because this behavior is not considered natural bookmarking. In the natural bookmarking account, a variety of sites will be bookmarked. So in the link building, links should be built on social sites linking to a few web properties, and not just to your sites.

After the social bookmarking submissions are completed, you will need to make sure the search engines are aware of them, and you achieve that by pinging the bookmarks to ping sites like pingomatic. These ping sites are constantly crawled by the search engines, and the spiders will follow these links back to the social bookmarks and will index them.

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