Social Bookmarking Advantages: Quick Indexing, Backlinks, Traffic Generation
You must be aware of the term ‘bookmarking’. It means you can save the addresses of web pages, which you like and intend to visit in future, in your browser. The major limitation of this bookmarking method is that if you want to access your bookmarks from other computer, it is not possible.
Social Bookmarking has overcome this limitation. Now, instead of saving bookmarks on a browser, it saves bookmarks on the Internet. This helps you to access your bookmarks from any location and also allows you to share them with your family and friends. You can keep your bookmarks as either private or public.
Since this method of bookmarking on Internet allows easy management and access of bookmarks, it has become very popular. Many people use social bookmarking web sites to get information and knowledge on a subject. This has given opportunity to businesses to market their products and services through these web sites.
Key Benefits of Social Bookmarking
Quick Indexing: The fastest way to have any webpage or site visited by the search engines and indexed is by submitting them to any of the popular social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Propeller and others.
Traffic Generation: There is more to bookmarking your pages online than just getting indexed; you are also guaranteed some traffic from these sites as soon as you submit to them. Since you will also be tagging (or submitting them under your niche keywords), a lot of the traffic from these sites are also very targeted.
Quality Backlinks: Another key benefit of social bookmarking is that you get anchor text one way backlinks to your site and search engines regard these bookmaking sites as authority sites, also most of the bookmarking sites have high PR which means you get quality backlinks to your site.
Improve Search Engine Rankings: As I mentioned above submitting your sites to various bookmarking sites give you quality backlinks which in return improves your rankings in the search engines and you receive more trageted visitors from search engine result pages.
Difference Between Dofollow and Nofollow Backlinks
The main difference between dofollow and nofollow backlinks is that dofollow backlinks are crawled by search engines and your site gets credited for a backlink while nofollow backlinks are not crawled by search engines and therefore your site is not credited with a backlink.
Which Pages to Submit to Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking is a great way to get backlinks to your inner pages. If you have a small site than bookmarking all your pages will help each page rank better for their specific keyword term in the search engines. However if you have a huge site than bookmarking the most important pages along with your home page can be the best strategy for better rankings in the SERP.