You Have to Do Social Bookmarking!

Digg, Hubpages, Propeller, Squidoo, StumbleUpon, and other similar websites are the important must-haves for all e-marketers in today’s e-business. Anyone can bring in up to 100 visitors daily and slowing increasing the numbers by just creating a site on one’s own domain and posting some pages to various social bookmarking sites. At the end of this article you will know why social bookmarking works and of course how to do social bookmarking.

Search engines like Google are less likely to go for new sites and instead they very much have preference for older sites. An older site implies a higher chance for it to contain contents that are appealing to search engine users.

Keeping in mind that search engines’ main objective for their existence is to always offer the very best search result and you will realise that new sites are do not prove themselves to or rather are less likely to meet that objective.

This hence poses a problem for people who create new sites every month or every week. When search engines tend to give higher ranking for old sites, many are looking for solutions to achieve publicity and create internet traffic to your website

What can we do then? Firstly, get into Web 2.0. Enter Squidoo’s website. Squidoo allow you to set up mini websites on its platform. Squidoo sites are given high ranking in search engine results and also, Google does not see your action of setting up mini websites as a creation of a new website.

Alternativley, ‘Digg-ing’ a webpage on your new site can bring people to your website. Even though it does not result in your website appearing on search engine results, it raises the possibility of your Digg post having a high ranking in search engine results. This in turn leads to visitors seeing your Digg post and from there linking to your website.

Tapping on the idea of viral marketing, we can hence use Web 2.0 platforms like Digg, Propeller and StumbleUpon to create traffic to our new website and increase our website’s popularity.

However, it does not mean that any kind of content will appear on the first page on Digg. Only certain content will appear on the first page as Digg users come from a rather restricted demographic. Having a website that touches on the common content found in Digg will certainly help you build massive traffic through the favouritism votes by people for your website.

Niche bookmarking sites like HealthRanker have come out recently and they are also relatively easy to use. The entire idea of social bookmarking require skills and tactics that plays around with the online system and knowing how to use these to market your website will be beneficial to you.