Social Bookmarking To Make Your Blog Successful - An Insight

Social bookmarking has become the favorite way for search engine optimizers to increase page rank for their websites while attracting increased traffic hits. Given the importance of social bookmarking, it would be worth to understand what actually is social bookmarking? How are the social bookmarking sites helpful in making your blog a success?? How do bloggers get increased traffic hits to their blogs via social bookmarking??? How do these sites help bloggers to make money from their blogs????

What Is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is an online method of storing, organizing, sharing and searching bookmarks of selected web pages. A bookmarking site allows members to save links they have an interest in, as well as sharing them with others web users. These links are generally viewed;

• In chronological order
• In order of popularity
• By selecting a specific tag
• Randomly

Starting of Social Bookmarking Sites

Before 1996 internet users, in order to remember their favorite sites, had to bookmark the sites in their browsers or had to make a list of urls. The bookmarks were personal and were not allowed to be shared with other users or friends online. However, in 1996 itLists was launched which helped the users to share their bookmarks online. Companies like Backflip, Blink, Clip2, Hotlinks and Quiver were next to join the league but failed due to the dot com burst in 2001. In 2003, del.icio.us started its bookmarks sharing site with a difference. The difference was that bookmarks could be arranged or found based on the tags. The concept of del.icio.us expanded very quickly and motivated companies like Simpy, Furl, Stumbleupon, Netvouz, Diigo, Digg, reddit, Newsvine to join the league and introduce enhanced features in social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking Brings Traffic

Users on social bookmarking sites are enabled to bookmark the sites they like based on some related tags. Some social bookmarking sites also allow the users to vote for the sites that they like most. Websites having very good content can expect to get most of the votes and visits of the members of these social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon, etc. have potential to send thousands of visits in as less as a week to the most voted websites.

How To Benefit From Social Bookmarking?

Getting featured on the most popular tags or getting big number of votes on social bookmarking sites can do wonders for your blog traffic. Now the question is how to get featured on popular tags or to get highest votes for your site?? Following tips can be helpful.

• Write interesting and useful content on your webpages.
• Use attractive, funny, interesting pictures in your blog.
• Bookmark other people's site and invite them to do the same for you.
• Have a big network of friends on these sites and request them to bookmark your pages while you do the same for them.