Social bookmarking is another popular way to get some great backlinks pointed to your site. If you don’t know what I mean by social bookmarking, here’s a quick explanation. Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to search for bookmarks of various resources online. They can be a search engine in their own right.
People will bookmark a page or post they like to a variety of sites like Digg, Reddit, or Tagza for others to find. These sites are crawled often from the search engines so it’s easy to see why marketers like to use these sites because it can help get their site indexed really quick.
On a side note though, there are a lot of people who abuse this and spam these sites for backlinks, forcing the webmasters to constantly change their security procedures. Now that I’ve said that, we can use these sites as a tool without being shady.
When used correctly, they can help to bolster our rankings as well as possibly drive more traffic to our site if our bookmark becomes popular and lots of people click through to our site.
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