Social Bookmarking 101

A Simple Guide To Being Productive On The Internet

Social bookmarking is a surefire way to improve your productivity on the Internet. Most online businesses are finding out how social bookmarking can improve their venture, giving their Internet marketing strategies a much needed boost to increase their online presence and accessibility.

What Is Bookmarking And Social Bookmarking?

Bookmarking is a term used when an individual tags a Web site on their own respective Web browser. If you think that a page is interesting enough to merit another visit, you can just bookmark it on your application to be opened later on without needing to look for it again.
Social bookmarking has the same concept above except that it is on much grander scale than storing your tagged sites on your own computer. Social bookmarking involves tagging sites into your Web site that can be accessed by those within your network -- or if your feature permits, to the rest of the people in your social bookmarking community. But in what way can this benefit your Web site for it to be productive on the Internet?

Boosting SEO Results

We all know for a fact that search engine optimization (SEO) can boost your Web site's traffic by making it appear on the top ranks of search engine results. In fact, you might be hiring an SEO professional or you can do it on your own to implement on-site SEO strategies to increase your ranking.

But other than doing it on-site (which simply means that you are modifying your own Web site for SEO), you can practically go off-site to increase its probability to be in the top ranks -- this is where social bookmarking comes in.

One way to increase your rank in search engine results through other than keywords is through your page rank. Your page rank will increase with the number of links that is propagated on the Internet that points back to your site. In social bookmarking, you are practically tagging sites that are accessible to the rest of your network. The more people that bookmark your site into their own, then you can easily say that your page rank will increase as well.

You can implement a social bookmarking strategy that involves telling other within your network to bookmark your site in theirs, if you bookmark their site in yours. This is like a link building concept used in basic SEO. The more people that tag your site, the more successful your online venture would be -- in terms of reputation and profit.

Vanessa Arellano Doctor
wirefan.com