Wednesday, September 12, 2007

How Does Social Bookmarking Affect Google Ranking?

If you are an online entrepreneur then it is imperative
that you promote your site well. And no internet marketing
or online promotion strategy is completely successful
without a high ranking in the search engines, especially
Google. One of the most effective ways to boost traffic to
your site is to get into social bookmarking.

It is now a revealed wisdom that in order to get high
rankings in search engines, a website must have lots of
quality inbound links. And social bookmarking is one of the
most effective ways to do just that. It is a web-based
service that allows users to store or save lists of links
to various web pages that they find useful. Other users
with similar interests can view the links by topic,
category, tags, or even randomly.

These social bookmarking sites have the potential to direct
hundreds or thousands of targeted visitors to your site
within a very short time. It is also evident that higher
and more successful Google Ranking might be done on the
basis of those pages that users find interesting on social
bookmark sites.

To promote your site and business to specific target
audience, you must begin submitting articles to the social
bookmark sites as soon as you can. Make sure it has good
content also, so that others will want to link up with you,
and you will be listed on many other pages as well.

Page rank is a statistical assessment used by Google that
signifies how popular a site is on the web. Google assumes
that when one page links to another site, it is in fact
casting a vote for the other site. More votes imply more
popularity of the site. Also, the ranking of the site that
is casting the vote determines how important the vote
itself is. Google calculates a site's importance from the
number of votes cast for it.

The fundamental concept behind social bookmarking is that
when thousands of people get together, bookmark their
desired sites, and employ explicatory tags to each page
that they bookmark, some websites will ascend to the top as
being more popular. Other users in the network then refer
to those pages. Consequently the posting of the links
multiply. This in turn amplifies the Page Ranking.

Successful social bookmarking is a definite key for high
Google ranking. Hence it is just not enough to get the URL
of your site into the pages of social bookmarking sites.
You need to take care of proper content and avoid spamming.
You have to focus on getting more traffic by following some
essential tips.

-Quality content: Since users are the determiners in the
case of link referrals it is extremely essential to have
proper content. Interesting topics that can attract a lot
of targeted users is what you should aim for. Make sure
that your information resources have high visibility on
your site.

-Search engine Optimization: You must follow the search
engine optimization tips to make your article accessible to
a user. Keyword optimization and target ranking are some of
them.

-Social bookmarking buttons: You must make it easier for
users to bookmark you. It means that you should create
links that keep the number of clicks to a minimum while
guiding the user to your page.


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