Why
do I need to submit my website to Social bookmarking
websites?
Increasingly social
bookmarking is becoming the default way for
web users to find out about other useful websites
in real time. If someone posts a message about
your fantastic website on a popular social
bookmarking website such as Twitter then within
hours and sometimes literally minutes, that
'tweet' may very well have gone 'viral' and
been redistributed to thousands of followers
who in turn pass the message on, which can
lead to very substantial increases in web
traffic over a short space of time. You could
view things in terms of old fashioned networking,
although rather than meeting with face to
face associates you are harnessing the power
of the internet to distribute your services
to a global network of associates. Even Google
has recently got in on the act of social bookmarking
with its new Buzz service linked to its free
Gmail email service, having seen the likes
of Twitter and Facebook reach many millions
of active users on a daily basis.
What do I need to provide you with to submit
my website to social bookmarking websites?
Most social bookmarking
sites work on the principle of registered users
'tagging' websites they've found useful with
words or phrases that describe the website,
for example a comedy store website might be
tagged with the keywords 'humour' 'comedy' and
'stand up' which when other people add to these
'tags' a user generated list of words become
associated with the website. You can send us
3 unique tags and 3 titles which will be used
to submit your website. Almost all social bookmarking
websites operate a registration process in order
to reduce spam. We will register an account
on your behalf to all the social bookmark websites
submitted to so that you don't need to worry
about authorising accounts and remembering multiple
passwords. Of course if you are already a member
of popular social bookmarking websites such
as Twitter anyway, feel free to tag and promote
your website as well as the more individual
members flagging up your website the better.
Isn't social bookmarking a bit of a fad
that will be forgotton about this time next
year?
Maybe so, previously
popular social bookmarking websites such as
Myspace have seen a fall in active users but
other websites such as Facebook and Twitter
have become so prevalent that they've become
part of popular parlance and it's not uncommon
to hear people using them as verbs - 'tweet
me' for example. If you are looking to seriously
promote your website then overlooking social
bookmarking websites is a big mistake. If anything,
search engines including Google are giving increasing
priority to websites that are tagged by multiple
users simply because of the fact its a very
natural way of internet users to express their
favourite websites. The more frequently a website
is tagged by different users then the higher
the search engines will regard the website. |
