Basics in Maximizing Your Social Bookmarking Effort

Social Bookmarking has become a big method to boost your SEO efforts, with all of the hype on social media and the explosion of many social networking sites. Now many people use social bookmarking simply for interesting stories or big news headlines. But its also very effective to use to give your own website or blog a nice boost in rankings and traffic.

I'll discuss a few ways that you can make your social bookmarking more effective and worthwhile. Whether you are someone who submits a bookmark to a handful of social networking sites or someone that submit to hundreds, why waste your effort if you are doing them poorly. Most people have the misconception that when doing social bookmarking for SEO reasons they simply use keywords as their titles, an example would be "Dog Cages"... This is not a good idea because first your bookmark's look like spam and does not fully describe what the bookmark is about. An better example would be to use something like "Dog Cages - Finding the right size for your dog", or with latter part of the title being relevant to the bookmark.

If you use the above method not only will you ensure your bookmark will not be deleted you will also get more exposure and possibly direct traffic from that particular social networking site. Another mistake some people make is not making a description for their bookmark that is relevant to their bookmark. When making the description simply describe the specific URL you are promoting in 2-3 sentences.

Another important step to take is put some effort in your social networking profile, its best to make your profile public and fill out all the details about yourself and upload a picture of yourself. This will really help when people look at your bookmark and can see that you take effort in your social bookmarking and you are simply not doing it for extra backlinks.

Lastly did you know that most people think that you can only use social bookmarking for a blog post, news article or even video. Well you can even use social bookmarks for your own website, if you have hundred's of inner pages on your website you can bookmark every single one of them. If you do this it is a great way to get pagerank to your inner pages and also increase the amount of traffic you will receive.