Is it Worth Paying For a Social Bookmarking Service?
If you've read anything about SEO and are interested in bringing more traffic to your sites you probably know all the benefits of social bookmarking.
But the simple fact is that it is so very time consuming that using a social bookmarking service can sometimes appear attractive.
Let's simply consider what benefits your web site can gain from using social bookmarking.
More visibility for your site Well the first benefit is that your site is very simply introduced to a wider audience - many social bookmarking sites have huge audiences who use these sites as their primary source of web information.
If your site becomes popular on one of the big bookmark sites it can lead to a huge increase in traffic.
It's not only web pages from your site you can bookmark - if you are using article directories to bring traffic you can bookmark your own articles to help them rank highly and bring visitors in from this route as well.
Many more links Links - the more links the better - links from social bookmarking sites are great fodder for the search engines.
It can be very difficult gaining links for a new web site from conventional sources but adding your pages manually or via a social bookmarking service can bring your great rewards in traffic and pagerank.
Now of course many of the sites have different rules and some even instigate the 'no follow' tag for unranked links.
But the simple fact is that if you're going to generate lots of traffic to your site anything that can increase the visibility of your website is going to bring rewards.
The problem is of course time - there are literally hundreds of social bookmarking sites of all different sizes - but all have one thing in common they could be bringing you lots of traffic and potential customers.
Unfortunately they have another thing in common it can take hours to submit links to these directories and if you have many sites and pages you want to submit it can take forever! So whats the solution? Well you could of course use a social bookmarking service which will take a page or a selection of pages and submit them to hundreds of social bookmarking sites.
The costs for this sort of service can vary a lot - so it's worth shopping around if you go through this route.
You also have to be very careful as always with doing anything in bulk as far as the search engines are concerned - slowly, gradually and organically that's what the search engines prefer - so going from 0 to 200 links in one day is a risky tactic.
But perhaps my main problem with using a social bookmarking service is the lack of control - the best method of submitting to these sites is definitely individually by hand - you can choose your own tags, profile names etc - basically you hand over all this control to the submitter if you use a service.
My tactic has been extremely successful for me and uses a combination of methods - I will usually submit to one or two very big sites manually and then use of the best kept SEO secrets anywhere and no it's not automated submission.
But the simple fact is that it is so very time consuming that using a social bookmarking service can sometimes appear attractive.
Let's simply consider what benefits your web site can gain from using social bookmarking.
More visibility for your site Well the first benefit is that your site is very simply introduced to a wider audience - many social bookmarking sites have huge audiences who use these sites as their primary source of web information.
If your site becomes popular on one of the big bookmark sites it can lead to a huge increase in traffic.
It's not only web pages from your site you can bookmark - if you are using article directories to bring traffic you can bookmark your own articles to help them rank highly and bring visitors in from this route as well.
Many more links Links - the more links the better - links from social bookmarking sites are great fodder for the search engines.
It can be very difficult gaining links for a new web site from conventional sources but adding your pages manually or via a social bookmarking service can bring your great rewards in traffic and pagerank.
Now of course many of the sites have different rules and some even instigate the 'no follow' tag for unranked links.
But the simple fact is that if you're going to generate lots of traffic to your site anything that can increase the visibility of your website is going to bring rewards.
The problem is of course time - there are literally hundreds of social bookmarking sites of all different sizes - but all have one thing in common they could be bringing you lots of traffic and potential customers.
Unfortunately they have another thing in common it can take hours to submit links to these directories and if you have many sites and pages you want to submit it can take forever! So whats the solution? Well you could of course use a social bookmarking service which will take a page or a selection of pages and submit them to hundreds of social bookmarking sites.
The costs for this sort of service can vary a lot - so it's worth shopping around if you go through this route.
You also have to be very careful as always with doing anything in bulk as far as the search engines are concerned - slowly, gradually and organically that's what the search engines prefer - so going from 0 to 200 links in one day is a risky tactic.
But perhaps my main problem with using a social bookmarking service is the lack of control - the best method of submitting to these sites is definitely individually by hand - you can choose your own tags, profile names etc - basically you hand over all this control to the submitter if you use a service.
My tactic has been extremely successful for me and uses a combination of methods - I will usually submit to one or two very big sites manually and then use of the best kept SEO secrets anywhere and no it's not automated submission.