Social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon help internet users/webmasters store and share their bookmarks.

There are several benefits that your website can get by participating in social bookmarking sites. In this post, I will list the different website elements (traffic, backlinks, etc… can anyone give me the right term for it?) that can be improved by social bookmarking sites. After reading this post, you will (hopefully) be able to use social bookmarking sites efficiently.

Website Traffic

Your website’s traffic can be tremendously increased by social bookmarking sites. Just submit your website to a few of them and people will come across your site. If they like it, they’ll “vote” for it, and your site will be receiving much more traffic.

Receiving “votes” from other users will put your site in a higher position in the social bookmarking sites. This means that it’ll appear more often when people are looking for sites that match their interest.

In StumbleUpon, members have a network of fans/friends. The more fans they have, the more their “voted” websites are exposed. So if you want your site to appear in people’s browsers frequently, ask people to add you as a friend (subscribe to your pages). Just please don’t spam. If some people subscribe without you asking them, it’s because they really like your bookmarks. Be thankful for that.

The same goes with Digg. The more diggs your articles get, the higher they rank. If your article is liked by many and it is in Digg, they can vote for it so that more and more people can read it and visit your site.

Backlinks

Social bookmarking sites are great sources of backlinks. If you submit your website/article to one of them, your site/article gets direct links, so they are counted as inbound links or backlinks.

Your site will also get backlinks from the members’ profiles since they display the websites that a member has voted for. So basically, the more votes you get, the more backlinks you receive.

Now add this to your to-do list: Write very good content and submit them to a lot of social bookmarking websites

Search Engine Optimization

These social bookmarking sites can help with SEO. They provide backlinks which increase your Google PageRank and traffic. They also help your site get indexed faster by the search engines.

So what are you waiting for? Submit your site to those social bookmarking sites and take advantage of them!

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