Social Bookmarking

What is Social Bookmarking SEO?

Social bookmarking is a great traffic-boosting search engine optimization (SEO) strategy because it’s easy, effective and trendy. In recent years, online marketing has gravitated away from true-and-tried ad and affiliate marketing toward the rapidly growing world of global social networking. Content and links that are openly shared with other Internet users literally have unlimited growth potential. For example, one link can quickly multiply and reach thousands of desktops across the world if one user passes it on to others, and those users in turn do the same, and so on.

Usually social bookmarking sites are free and you will be able to submit as many links as you want once you have created a free account to their site. If you are not interested in investing a lot of money on SEO, then you should really try using social bookmarking as one of your link-building methods along with your other tactics.

Essentially, a social bookmark is a link that people post to social websites for others to see because they find it interesting, valuable or cool. In a way, social bookmarks are just like the bookmarks you already have on your private computer. The difference between the two is that social bookmarks are saved to the web where they can be easily shared while private bookmarks are saved to your own browser. Because social bookmarks can be passed on indefinitely, they have the potential to reach a much wider audience and generate significantly more traffic than other online marketing methods.

Benifits of Social Bookmarking

• Search engines index top social bookmarking websites, which can automatically help your own website climb higher in search engine results.

• By bookmarking your pages, you are creating backlinks to your content, which is great for increasing your page rank (PR).

• Posting high-quality social bookmarks with smart niche tagging is a great way to generate targeted traffic to your website.

• Social bookmarks can help unknown businesses and new start-ups build a unique and recognizable brand.

• Submitting your links to the most popular social bookmarking websites is free.

• Because you don’t have to pay to get great results, social bookmarking is a risk-free strategy.

• Your content can go viral if enough users find it interesting enough to share.

Top 10

Top 10 article submission sites -

Article sites that don’t need sign-up

http://www.webpronews.com/, Page Rank: 7, Alexa Rank: 14,536
http://www.qarchive.org/, Page Rank: 6, Alexa Rank: 1,786
http://www.articlecity.com/, Page Rank: 5, Alexa Rank: 41,377
http://www.articlebiz.com/, Page Rank: 3, Alexa Rank: 92,151
http://www.selfseo.com/, Page Rank: 3, Alexa Rank: 49,086

Register and submit article sites

http://www.ezinearticles.com/, Page Rank: 6, Alexa Rank: 333
http://www.articledashboard.com/, Page Rank: 6, Alexa Rank: 42,902
http://www.articleclick.com/, Page Rank: 4, Alexa Rank: 42,147
http://www.articlemarketer.com/, Page Rank: 4, Alexa Rank: 41,411
http://www.goarticles.com/, Page Rank: 3, Alexa Rank: 18,786
Top 10 Press Release submission sites -
Some of the best paid press release directories are:
Prweb.com – PR7, Alexa 1,826 Compete Rank 2,708
PRLeap.com – PR5, Alexa 37,288 Compete 106,168
24-7 Press Releases (Recommended!) – PR5, Alexa 12,205 Compete 38,727
Pressat.co.uk – UK Press Release Distribution

Here are the top ten free press release distribution sites:-

1. Free-Press-Release.com
2. PRLog.org
3. ClickPress.com
4. NewswireToday.com
5. Express-Press-Release.net
6. Free-Press-Release-Center.info
7. TheOpenPress.com
8. PressMethod.com
9. PressBox.co.uk
10. PRFire.co.uk

Top Ten Directory Listing :-

1. Best of the Web
Paid Submission $149.95 USD (Renewed Annually) or
$299.95 USD (One Time Fee)
Submit: http://botw.org/helpcenter/submitcommercial.aspx

2. Gimpsy - Active Sites for Active People
Submit: http://www.gimpsy.com/gimpsy/searcher/suggest_compare.php

3. GoGuides
Submit: http://www.goguides.org/info/addurl.htm

4. Google Directory - Powered by the ODP
Submit: Use the Open Directory Project

5. JoeAnt.com
Submit: http://www.joeant.com/suggest.html

6. ODP - Open Directory Project - dMOZ
Submit: http://dmoz.org/add.html

7. Skaffe - The International Directory
Submit: http://www.skaffe.com/info/addurl.php

8. WebSavvy Directory
Submit: http://www.websavvy.cc/add.php

9. Yahoo! Directory - Paid submission review $299.00 USD (Renewed Annually)
Submit: https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/

top 10 bookmarking sites :-

1 | Twitter
15 - eBizMBA Rank | 250,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 30 - Compete Rank | 5 - Quantcast Rank | 9 - Alexa Rank.

2 | Pinterest
31 - eBizMBA Rank | 120,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 42 - Compete Rank | 16 - Quantcast Rank | 36 - Alexa Rank.

3 | Reddit
295 - eBizMBA Rank | 16,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 705 - Compete Rank | 64 - Quantcast Rank | 115 - Alexa Rank.

4 | StumbleUpon
416 - eBizMBA Rank | 15,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 950 - Compete Rank | *150* - Quantcast Rank | 150 - Alexa Rank.

5 | Delicious
869 - eBizMBA Rank | 5,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 1,396 - Compete Rank | *870* - Quantcast Rank | 342 - Alexa Rank.

6 | digg
1,314 - eBizMBA Rank | 4,100,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 3,137 - Compete Rank | 430 - Quantcast Rank | 375 - Alexa Rank.

7 | FARK
1,728 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,850,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 2,045 - Compete Rank | 1,019 - Quantcast Rank | 2,120 - Alexa Rank.

8 | Slashdot
1,805 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,700,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 2,335 - Compete Rank | *1,825* - Quantcast Rank | 1,254 - Alexa Rank.

9 | Folkd
2,367 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,600,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | NA - Compete Rank | NA - Quantcast Rank | 2,367 - Alexa Rank.

10 | Friendfeed
2,380 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,500,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 4,053 - Compete Rank | *2,400* - Quantcast Rank | 686 - Alexa Rank.

Penguin update 2.1

Penguin update 2.1 

For companies that have been hit by the Penguin update, one common theme appears to be a severe lack of natural links :

Five common issues these sites are all facing:

1. Paid text links using exact match anchor text: For companies that want to rank for a certain term (such as “red widgets”) one way to accomplish this is by buying links from other websites with that exact matching anchor text. This is against Google’s guidelines, as Google would consider this a paid link that exists solely to manipulate Page Rank, rather than to provide any value to visitors.
2. Comment spam: Two things proved problematic for websites trying to unnaturally rank for specific keywords: signatures in comments that contained exact match anchor text; and people who used a Spam user name (e.g., Best India SEO Company) as exact match text.
3. Guest posts on questionable sites: Although guest post are a legitimate way to earn links to your site, sites dinged by the Penguin had links pointing to their website from sites filled with low-quality articles where the focus was on the anchor text rather than the content.
4. Article marketing sites: Thin content featuring links with exact match anchor text were another common factor among affected sites.
5. Links from dangerous sites: Do you have inbound links from sites that have been flagged for malware, numerous pop-ups, or other spammy issues? This was another factor that caused websites to lose their Google rankings, so links to and from web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” are a danger.