Social Bookmarking – Link Building the Web 2.0 Way

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Website owners resorting to SEO (search engine optimization) for promotion know the importance of link building. Building backlinks for your site is even more important than onsite optimization these days. It is common knowledge that more backlinks a site has, higher the site ranks on search engines for a specific search term. Imagine how profitable your online business would be if more targeted people were to find your site and visit.
 
While SEO is time consuming, it is often free or costs low. Due to being a low cost method of promotion, smart online business owners are wisely taking advantage of this method to promote their sites and to make money online. Social bookmarking is a method of Web 2.0 style link building and promotion.
 
What is Web 2.0 and why it is important to build backlinks using Web 2.0 sites? Well, Internet is not what it used be 10 years back. If we look around, we see everything changed and so did the internet. While traditional methods of link building still works to some extent, utilizing current generation of Web just puts more weight in your link building campaign. Social bookmarking sites are all Web 2.0 sites for which using this method of generating backlinks can help you a great deal.
 
In case if you are wondering what social bookmarking is and how you can use these social sites to build backlinks, there are thousands of social media sites out there where you can setup an account and bookmark your sites or links of your interests. These bookmarking sites are often public meaning they get visited by lot of people each day. So these bookmarks are not only giving you backlinks to your site, but also sending the most precious traffic to your site as well.
 
Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Reddit, these are few most popular social bookmarking sites where you can bookmark your story pages. Other registered members can vote on your story shooting your submission to the top if your submission manages to get a lot of votes. It is important to spend some careful time crafting your submission details which is very vital to your success.
 
All the social sites are categorized by topics where you will need to submit under. They also allow you to add your title, description, tags (keywords), and URL. Make sure you use your primary keyword in the title and description and use few of your top related keywords as tags. This way you will have a chance to come up on search results when people within the social network searches for any terms related to your site.
 
Not only people will find your site if you can submit properly, you link building will be more effective as you will get more relevant backlinks from a page were other related sites are listed.
 
In order to submit URLs to these social bookmarking sites, you will need to register first for free accounts. Then you just login and submit your site under the right category. More bookmarks you can make, more people will find your site and more traffic and backlinks you will get. You just need to search the web to find as many social sites as you can get so that you can submit to them.
 
It is however extremely time consuming to keep searching for these social sites and find out how many of them you can submit to. It also takes a lot of time to register with them as you cannot submit without registration. It is ideal that you spend some time initially to find as many sites as you can so that you can put a list together.
 
Once the list is made, next step is to start registering with these sites one by one. Keep a spreadsheet with the list of sites including their login information. If you find that you have to devote more time than you can manage or find the entire process simply boring, you have the option to hire an SEO Company who can do the submissions for you.