Ever since social networking sites like Facebook,Twitter etc became popular more people are using their vast services to their advantage. Some of the common use of their social networking sites include promoting your business(online and offline), website or even your blog. This is where social bookmarking comes into play. By Social Bookmarking we simply mean that we can share a link that we like via Social Networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, Digg etc. Social Bookmarking is one of the key features in publicizing and popularizing your blog especially in the initial stages.
Social Bookmarking is vital. Whenever your vistors comes across something interesting in your blog or website they can easily share the link with others or save in their Delicious or Digg accounts. Many of you do not realize that Social bookmarking is a form of generating backlinks to your own website. Morover the more your content gets shared on the web, better will be your Search Engine ranking according to the latest Google Panda Algorithms.
In order to make the most out of your social bookmarking services i am going to give you certain tips by which you can maximize these free services.
In order to make the most out of your social bookmarking services i am going to give you certain tips by which you can maximize these free services.
- The most fundamental part of using Social Bookmarking is to determine the right place to place these links in your website or blog. According to surveys conducted blogger generally tend to put these bookmarks at the end of every blog post. This is simple logic as people who reads a complete post and who wants to share the story can find the buttons at the bottom pretty easily. Also you should notice that websites with lots of articles in their homepage tends to have these bookmarks on the top right side. Some of the websites have advanced javascript that lets the bookmarks hover along the side of a webpage even if you scroll down.
- Make sure that you choose the bookmarks that people use the most. These include Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg and Email. These are the essential 6 social bookmarks that you must have in your website. You can add many other bookmarks other than this as you wish.
- Make a Facebook Page of your site and always Add a Facebook like button to your website or a blog post. Liking and Sharing in Facebook both posts the news in the Facebook wall. If you know a bit of HTML then you can customize the Facebook button to your liking.
- If you like the social bookmark set i am using right below this post then you can get it here.
- Get 30 sets of custom social bookmarking logo design sets to suit your website theme here
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