3 Reasons Why Social Bookmarking Works So Well
It seems that there will always be debate over how social bookmarking should be done and whether or not it is even worth doing.
As with anything, there are going to be people on both sides of the fence on this subject.
To help this along, let's take a look at 3 reasons why social bookmarking does work, when done properly.
1) Social bookmarking is the process of adding links to social sites that lead back to your websites.
While not all sites use what is known as a dofollow link, which may prevent search engines from caring about the link, people can still see the link and click it if they choose to.
While having the search engine love is great, I personally would rather have the link in front of human eyes then being probed by bots all day long.
2) Social networks and bookmarking sites have tons of people already on those sites.
This is where the traffic is already located.
You have tons of people who are actively looking at other bookmarks.
This means they are interested in knowing what you like, what you have to offer and what interests you may share with them.
This is the entire principle behind being social.
People inherently like to share things they like with other people.
3) The nature of the community.
Social networking has a viral component.
For better or worse, when one person likes or even dislikes your site, they have a tendency to tell people.
The more people they tell, the more traffic you receive from those people who "check it out for themselves".
Even record companies know that there is "no such thing as bad press".
When a record company or band is in the news their record sales skyrocket.
It because people are curious and need to see it for themselves.
When properly done, social bookmarking your site and content pages puts your work in front of the masses.
This can be done literally overnight.
If your content is good, funny, original or controversial, then it could circle the globe in a matter of hours and generate hundreds of thousands of hits in a day.
There have even been complete servers that have crashed due to the overwhelming amount of traffic from a key content piece.
While your bookmarks may not generate a million hits today, it may over time generate additional traffic above what you get now.
If you have tried social bookmarking your site to gain traffic, but have not seen an increase, then consider changing the way in which your doing your bookmarking.
As with anything, there are going to be people on both sides of the fence on this subject.
To help this along, let's take a look at 3 reasons why social bookmarking does work, when done properly.
1) Social bookmarking is the process of adding links to social sites that lead back to your websites.
While not all sites use what is known as a dofollow link, which may prevent search engines from caring about the link, people can still see the link and click it if they choose to.
While having the search engine love is great, I personally would rather have the link in front of human eyes then being probed by bots all day long.
2) Social networks and bookmarking sites have tons of people already on those sites.
This is where the traffic is already located.
You have tons of people who are actively looking at other bookmarks.
This means they are interested in knowing what you like, what you have to offer and what interests you may share with them.
This is the entire principle behind being social.
People inherently like to share things they like with other people.
3) The nature of the community.
Social networking has a viral component.
For better or worse, when one person likes or even dislikes your site, they have a tendency to tell people.
The more people they tell, the more traffic you receive from those people who "check it out for themselves".
Even record companies know that there is "no such thing as bad press".
When a record company or band is in the news their record sales skyrocket.
It because people are curious and need to see it for themselves.
When properly done, social bookmarking your site and content pages puts your work in front of the masses.
This can be done literally overnight.
If your content is good, funny, original or controversial, then it could circle the globe in a matter of hours and generate hundreds of thousands of hits in a day.
There have even been complete servers that have crashed due to the overwhelming amount of traffic from a key content piece.
While your bookmarks may not generate a million hits today, it may over time generate additional traffic above what you get now.
If you have tried social bookmarking your site to gain traffic, but have not seen an increase, then consider changing the way in which your doing your bookmarking.