Your social bookmarking profile is more important than you may think!

One of the reasons that social bookmarking is such a great tool to drive traffic to your site, is the fact that they all seem to have extremely high Google page ranks. The problem is that Google ranks pages, not sites. So a PR 7 site, more than likely will not have a PR 7 on the page where you are adding your bookmark.

In order to really benefit from these high PR sites, you need to have a back link on a highly ranked, trusted page. Finding the exact right PR page is not easy to do, except on the page that you dominate yourself. There is only one page on a social bookmarking site that you dominate without question. That is your own unique page that displays all of your own bookmarks.

By focusing on improving the authority and rank of that page, all your bookmarked pages that are showing on that one page will benefit. Let’s talk about the strategy to follow to make that happen, because when you start out new on a social bookmarking site, the PR of that page will be 0. The good news is that improving page rank is easier than you think, and it is entirely in your own control.

Like for any other page on the web, the ranking of your bookmarking page depends on links. You need to build backlinks. The more backlinks the better. You can build internal links from within the social bookmarking site itself and you can build external links from the sites where the content resides that you bookmark.

To create external links you submit articles to article directories such as ezinearticles, submit press releases, create content for web 2.0 properties etc. etc. In all these pieces of content you incorporate a link back to your bookmarking account page.

To create internal links you should add bookmarks regularly. Each bookmark points back to your social bookmarking account. If the social bookmarking account has groups, you should look for groups with a high PR group page and join. You should look for high PR pages and provide comments. Last but not least, find users who already have a high PR account page and befriend them.

Last, but not least, I should mention that you should always make sure that your profile page is filled out entirely, so that others who like your contributions can add you to their list as well.

When you follow the above advise you will find that your social bookmarking account page will get ranked by Google fairly quickly and this will give your bookmarks more importance in the eyes of the search engines. This, in turn, will result in better rankings and more traffic to your money sites.

To your success,

Social bookmarking:
  • Print
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Blogplay
  • LinkaGoGo
  • LinkedIn
  • Ping.fm
  • StumbleUpon
  • blogmarks
  • Blogosphere News
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  • Me also have learned some very important facts from this site which will be very much important for me. Thanks for the wonderful writing.
  • Hey Karin,

    I'm learning some great stuff from your site. Thank you! I guess we all have our specialties and it is very hard sometimes keeping up with it all. You have an excellent way of explaining some of these great tools and it is very much appreciated.

    Thanks again for sharing your expertise!
    Dave and Dawn
  • Hey Karin, great site! Thanks for sharing this social bookmarking information with us. I'm wondering if you suggest the use of OnlyWire to automate bookmarking? It's fast and simple, but also doesn't hit all of the sites you recommend.

    Maybe the best philosophy is to use OnlyWire in conjunction with the other valuable sites that are not included with the OnlyWire submissions?
  • Thanks Karin for the great tips. I never thought of the real value of social bookmarking sites in this way before.
    Look forward to share more great things with each other.
    Make it a great day!
    God Bless,
    -ed
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Social bookmarking is the link building tool of today. None of the other ways to build links bring in the same amount of traffic to your website or blog that social bookmarking does.