Bloggers LOVE Social Bookmarking

Why Bloggers Should Say “Thank You” To Social Bookmarking

How do you use social bookmarking with your blog? Well first you would need to setup some accounts with the the popular social bookmarking sites. Examples of social bookmarking sites are Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, and Technorati. Generally, these sites would only ask for a user name and a password and a real email address.

Once you have created an account, what can a bookmarking site do for you?

Well, you will be able to store, organize, and share your favorite websites on these bookmarking sites. It is pretty much like bookmarking, only that you do not have to save the bookmarks on your PC but on a bookmarking site, and you can easily share them with your friends. In effect, a website that you have bookmarked will potentially be bookmarked by your friends and your friends’ friends, thus creating an increased traffic for the website.

Why do bloggers love social bookmarking?

If you maintain a blog, and you want to have visitors and readers, you can take advantage of the social bookmarking sites’ ability to drive traffic to your blog without spending spending lots of time, money and effort.

After signing up to various social bookmarking sites, you can bookmark the page of your most recent blog post it each of those. You can then give it a title, briefly describe it, and tag it with appropriate keywords. Tagging is very important as it allows other users to find your post by keyword. When you have bookmarked a page of your blog, you do not only get a free link to your post, you have also made your site findable by keyword.

The social bookmarking sites actually create a page for each tag that you associate with your blog and this tag page is spidered by the search engines, giving you a one way link to your blog post.

Internet users tend to use these social bookmarking sites for research because they give specific results, one of the advantages of these sites being