Thursday, August 7, 2008

Promote Your Site With Social Bookmarking

By Anson Hall


When you are promoting your website, you will try various ways to drive traffic to your site. You may submit your site to various web directories. You may also put your site link in the signature file in forums. As a matter of fact, one of ways to promote your site is by social bookmarking.

You will certainly know what a bookmark is. However, you may not know exactly what social bookmark is. In fact, they are some free sites which allow you to share your favorite sites.

You will bookmark the sites you love. In fact, your web browser will certainly provide you the function to bookmark your favorite sites. However, the problem here is that you will not be able to access to your bookmarks if you are not using your computer. To this end you may want to access the bookmarks somewhere else.

To this end you may use the social bookmarking sites to stored your favorite sites or the sites you find useful. The advantage of using a social bookmarking system is that you can access your bookmarks anywhere and anytime.

You will be able to share your favorite sites with all the other web surfers. Of course you can make your bookmarks private. Yet you may certainly let others read your bookmarks if you do not make them private for you only.

This is how you promote your site using the social bookmarking system. You will be submitting your website to various social bookmarks. Since all other web surfers can read your bookmarks, they will also see your site and this will help to promote your site.

In fact, you will get a lot of traffic from the social bookmarking sites if your site can be displayed on the home page of the social bookmarking site. You may wonder why this will happen. As a matter of fact, when your site is submitted by a lot of users to the social bookmarking site, the bookmarking site may put your site in the first page.

If you are currently trying to optimize your website, submitting to social bookmarking site can help to do the off page optimization. You need to submit your site to a social bookmarking site and make it to be visible public. When you do this, you will gain a link to your site. This will help for your off page optimization.

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