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Including Social Bookmarking Submission In Your Link Building Efforts
May 19th, 2010 | Posted in SEO.If you want your sites to rank high in the search engines you need to create backlinks. Social bookmarking submission is a great strategy for doing this because you have complete control over the links and you can easily create a steady flow of them.
What Content To Bookmark?
Generally speaking you can bookmark just about any significant content that you like. For example, if you have a blog you could bookmark most of the blog posts and if you had a static page you could bookmark the individual pages though there’s a few exceptions. You want to make sure that you are proving value in some way with the content you bookmark – this makes them viable to be shared. Therefore don’t bookmark pages like your about page, privacy policy etc.
How To Bookmark For SEO
The reason that we include social bookmarking submission into our link building efforts is that it allows us to create a large number of backlinks to all of our content pages. However the value of these backlinks can be vastly affected by how you create the bookmark. In general there are three pieces of information that you need to provide along with the URL and they are the title, a short description and some tags.
Bookmarks usually use the title that you enter as the anchor text for the backlink so this is your most important field. Make sure you know in advance what keyword phrase you are trying to rank for and then work that into all of the bookmark details – the title, description and include it as a tag. Note that the title you enter doesn’t have to be the same as the title you have in the content you are bookmarking. By ensuring that your bookmarks are keyword-optimized you make them more relevant and they carry more value as backlinks in the search engines.
Bookmarking Frequency
Google and most other search engines monitor the frequency at which backlinks are created and if a large number are created all at once they are not as effective as a steady drip of new links coming in over time. Therefore it is best to bookmark your content on a regular basis rather than all at once. If you’re bookmark a site containing a lot of existing content then perhaps spread out the bookmarks to just one per day.
Of course you also need to consider the number of bookmarks you will create to each page. There’s no need to bookmark at just one site as there’s thousands to choose from! You can create as many as you have time for and if you are short on time then an invaluable asset is an automated social bookmarking submission tool which can create all those bookmarks for you. But you need to exercise caution, if that tool creates a great many backlinks all in one go you may not receive much benefit. Be sure to use a tool such as IMAutomator which will drip feed your submissions over a number of days and submit the bookmarks automatically for you.
Where to Submit Your Bookmarks
Finding sites to submit to is relatively easy as there are so many. Try googling the search term ‘dofollow social bookmarking sites’ and you’ll be sure to find several large lists of them. However not all bookmarking sites are equal. Those that are ‘dofollow’ are preferable to those that are ‘nofollow’ and the higher the page rank the better. Of course if you’re using a social bookmarking submission tool such as IMAutomator, that has many sites built right into it so you don’t need to go to the effort of finding them.
IMAutomator is a free tool that automatically builds backlinks to your website. It is a social bookmarking submission tool that submits your bookmark to many sites in a completely automated fashion and also allows you to drip-feed your submissions over several days which looks better to Google.
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