What is Social Bookmarking and how can it play into your web site and SEO strategy?

To make this easy and painless, Social bookmarking is an easy way to remember web pages on the internet. It organizes and helps you find stuff that is relevant and faster. You tag any website easier and essentially you can find it faster the next time you are browsing. Ever wonder what that that bookmark at the top of some web pages does.. well you’re about to find out.

A very important piece  is additionally, social bookmarking enables you to collaborate with users across the web and share your bookmarks with them. Powerful… tag them with key words that are descriptive.

It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

How Social Bookmarking Works:

Ideally you will want people to find your website which they will want to bookmark using the bookmark utility. ( as seen in photo above right, great to include this technology into your website optimization). Adding social bookmark links to your blog or web site makes it easy for readers to save and share your content and believe it or not part of Google’s algorithm uses Social Bookmarking for your rank. Yes part of the google algorithm (although not officially mentioned by google, it is believed)

The Benefits of Social Bookmarking:

More Targeted Traffic:

• Since bookmarks are categorized in tags, the goal is to get targeted traffic from people searching within a particular tag

Faster Search Engine Indexing

• Most Social bookmarking sites have authority, when the search engine spiders visit these sites, the links will be crawled often.

Higher Search Engine Ranking

• Backlinks and one way links are a great way to getting higher search engine rankings. Social bookmarking provides a way to get relevant keywords to your site

Better PageRank

• Having high PR Social Bookmarking sites linked to your site will improve your site’s PR. Having a high PR (Page Rank) can help lift your SERP’s.

Social Bookmarking Sites To Increase Page Ranks

Website optimization and promotion is a time consuming ongoing task. A wise man Thomas Scotto of the former president of the NYPD and NAPO once said to me when we were in a marketing meeting, and I quote, “If you wink at a pretty girl in a dark room you might as not wink at all”. The meaning behind that is, you can have the best product or idea, if you do not market it know one will no it even exists. You could have the best website in the world, but if nobody knows it’s there, it might as well not be. Most of us are well aware that to get high rankings in searches a website must have lots of good inbound links. Quality counts so they must be relevant

Here is my collection of some dofollow social bookmarking websites which really worth having a link.

1. Digg – This is one of my favorite.
2. StumbleUpon – Believe me this is the site which can boost your traffic up to 10k+ within 24 hours.
3. Del.icio.us – This is one of the most popular social bookmarking site.
4. Reddit – This is again one of the popular one.
5. Simpy – This is nice and have dofollow tags. So really worth having a link.
6. Propeller –AOL’s Propeller has become a great social bookmarking news community tool which is considered an ultimate authority by Yahoo Search and passes link juice in its news story profiles.
7. Sphinn – This is a great place to share your article if u have Search Engines related website or blog.
8. Search All In One – This is a dofollow social bookmarking website. Good for backlink purpose.
9. Google – Allows users to save and create bookmarks in their Google toolbar that can be accessed anywhere online. Google is getting more social by the day, so take advantage of their Google
10. Cloudytags - A unique word analyzer connects to your page, gets all the words and suggest you the real tags your site is showing to the world.
11. Furl -  Like Delicious, LookSmart’s Furl.net is one of the first social bookmarking sites and considered an authority by the major search engines. Listing your sites in Furl will lead to traffic from organic rankings and its popular page drives traffic.
12. Slashdot - The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues
13. Technorati - Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section.

Social Bookmarking: Definitley is “Rockin”