مستخدم:McentireMeagher190
Social Bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and webpages to various "link aggregator" or social bookmark sites, including Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. Social bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity pretty quickly, but they generally have a couple of common features:
1. Users can submit links which other users can browse, providing a good way to expose your content.
2. Links get into large pages of lists, that are normally very easy to navigate, and are also usually divided up right into a "main page" of the best links of the day, and various sub-sections which help you to get exposure in more relevant circles.
3. Links usually can be "voted on" to determine which links have more airtime on the front page of various sections. The more votes your links get, the harder traffic they get.
4. Some sites, like Digg, attach a weighting to certain actions and users, so a person who submits popular links will have a vote that carries excess fat.
5. Most social bookmark submitting site users are fairly jaded when it comes to the internet, and will ignore stuff that aren't interesting, funny, or very entertaining. This isn't a place for your boring press releases.
6. Most bookmarking sites usually have some kind of "social" element to them, allowing users to generate profiles, have a friends list of other users, etc., with the aspiration of getting users to share content between themselves.
These are the basics, so let's check out how best to approach social bookmarking. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, but bear in mind that Reddit itself requires a great deal of familiarity with its culture before you are able to submit links that anybody even selects.
Choose your niche
Social Bookmarking - Submitting a write-up on growing bonsais to the front page of Reddit won't do you any good - you'll get 30 visitors maybe, none who will buy your products. But submitting it to /r/bonsai, although it only has around 1,100 readers, will probably garner you more attention from interested people.
Ironically, submitting to /r/trees could have much less of an effect, because /r/trees is committed to marijuana culture. The lesson the following is: know your subreddits.
Write an appealing title, and use a photo
Social Bookmarking - Standard newspaper/advert headline formats fail to work too well on the net, because everyone has become safe from them. Instead you should think of a clever title that interests people enough to learn more about what you're writing, or otherwise promise pictures of cats.
Most bookmarking sites incorporate a thumbnail from the page you're linking to, a treadmill you provide. Take the trouble to do this - it generates higher click throughs.
Keep at it, and make your links easy to share
Social Bookmarking is about persistence, so if nobody selects your first link, make another article, make a more clever title and attempt again. Put a social bookmark creating widget on your website or blog, and encourage people to share your articles. If you've submitted them already, and they've accounts, it only takes a second to click an "upvote" or "like" button.
Basically, having links to any or all of your articles on half dozen Social Bookmarking sites is great for SEO.