Social Bookmarking! The Best Way to Get Traffic and Links

Written by Vincent Nickerson Friday, 15 April 2011 12:33

Social bookmarking software would be any software designed to get you more social bookmarks to your sites. Using software to increase the number of social bookmarks is an effective method of creating backlinks. But if done incorrectly, or too aggressively, it can lead to more problems than its worth, so I will cover three methods that I recommend that are safe, effective, and long term.

Social bookmarking software would be any software designed to get you more social bookmarks to your sites. Using software to increase the number of social bookmarks is an effective method of creating backlinks. But if done incorrectly, or too aggressively, it can lead to more problems than its worth, so I will cover three methods that I recommend that are safe, effective, and long term.

The best way to get bookmarks is the old fashioned way, by real people bookmarking your site because they like it. So the best software you can have is one that makes that process easy for the human visitor by including sharing options on your site and blog posts. If it's easy for them to bookmark your site, chances go way up that they'll do it. Obviously, if your site isn't any good, nobody will have a reason to bookmark it, so make sure you are providing great value to your visitors or you're wasting your time.

The next best form of social bookmarking is personal bookmarking. Open accounts with the leading social bookmarking services, and bookmark everything you like. As long as you are bookmarking a variety of things, you can also bookmark your own sites and blog posts, and get those precious backlinks and natural visitors in a very safe and easy way.

The third type of social bookmarking software would be a purchased application or online service, that will help you get bookmarks from other people, or from fake or alias accounts that you create yourself. Of these two types, I prefer a service that involves a large community of other real people, who have some incentive to go and bookmark each others stuff.

Of the two, I prefer the second method, as it provides more natural bookmarks from real people. The first type is tedious, risky, and frankly, a pain in the neck.

So these three tips, of installing sharing options, bookmarking your own stuff, and using a natural bookmarking type of service, will ensure you great backlinks and long term natural traffic to your websites.