Social Bookmarking is Useful for SEO??

[Geniemagic]

Is Social bookmarking really useful for SEO..Many places i have read , i don't think they feel that its too much important..Please clarify...

[jane brooke]

Social bookmarking is ver useful for SEO...It helps in building links....

[sam]

Social bookmarking is a prominent off page optimization technique.... It is very useful for seo in terms of generating lot of secondary traffic... Major sites are Digg, Stumbleupon, Del.ici.ous...Do use it...

[ruth cowdrey]

    Some ways in whihc social bookmarking help:
* Promotion Tool - Firstly, we (SEO/Webmasters) have got an another free, simple and advanced tool to promote web pages.
    * Easy and Fast Indexing - Generally, all social bookmarking sites have good traffic and fast search engine indexing. So, if we submit our URL / web page in a website which continuously crawled by Search engines, we can also get easy and fast indexing for our websites.
    * Extra Traffic - Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users. By this, site can get more traffic from the web.
    * Web Popularity - If your post or bookmark is useful to other members, then surely they will also bookmark it and will you get extra point to your bookmark. All Social bookmarking websites have this process of voting. More and more votes you get, more popularity you will gain for the web page.

[jane brooke]

Yeah .. I agree with Ruth...Social bookmarking helps in indexing quickly....

[Jin tanner]

It helps SEO due to its immense popularity of being in front page. This also increases traffic to your sites. In long run, number of inbound links to your site will increase and regard you as a link reference. Social bookmarking uses this method of increasing traffic as their media platform with the viral marketing campaign.
Therefore, social bookmarking is a great way to increase traffic and potential customer to your website. But in order o be successful social bookmarking, you are required to provide the content that worth and has value in it.

[robin]

Benefits of social bookmarking:

    * Helps your site get indexed faster
    * Achieve a high amount of natural incoming links
    * Creates a presence in online social communities for your targeted verticals
    * Builds traffic from alternative sources
    * Influences traditional media


For more check out the following :
http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archives/2008/04/a_marketers_gui.html

[Geniemagic]

thanks everyone for their useful responses

[bankmarket]

I am not sure but do social bookmarking sites have do-follow or no-follow links...

[Klones]

We cannot overlook that Microsoft and Google are/were partners of Digg, Yahoo owns Del.icio.us and AOL runs Propeller (Netscape). These social services also offer API’s and are completely open to search spidering, which makes these variables mentioned above available to search engines for the taking.

[lina]

Good posts everyone..i would like to add few advantages that i feel should be there:

1. Defining Quality : If someone takes the time to bookmark a site, it usually has some quality to it.

2. Measuring Quality : Essentially if more users bookmark a page, the more quality and relevance that site has. A site with multiple bookmarks across multiple bookmarking services by multiple users is much more of an authority than a site with only several bookmarks by the same user.

3. External Meta Data : Users who bookmark sites tag them with keywords and descriptions which add an honest and unbiased definition which is created by the public and not the owner of the site.

4. Co Citation : Social bookmarking sites tend to categorize sites and pages based upon the tags used by humans to describe the site; therefore search algorithms can classify these sites with their peers.

[ruth cowdrey]

good one lina...

[Geniemagic]

hey thanks a lot for your responses...