Social Media Optimization (SMO) using Social Bookmarking
Social Media Optimization (SMO) or Social Bookmarking is a new tool within the search engine optimization professional toolbox. Social Book Marking, is the term used for bookmarking sites on the web and sharing them with friends, peers and family members. Have you ever booked marked a site using your browser by adding it to your favorites? It’s that easy, but now you can share those bookmarks within a community of friends.
These are some popular social bookmarking site.
http://www.foxmarks.com
http://www.del.icio.us
http://www.digg.com
http://www.furl.net
http://www.myweb2.search.yahoo.com
http://www.simpy.com
http://www.blogmarks.net
http://www.feedmarker.com
http://www.lookmarks.com
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Most of these Social Bookmarking services are free of charge. All you have to do is create a free account or install a browser plug-in at which point you can begin adding bookmarks to your account. The cool part is now you have the chance to share them with friends at the same time being able to access them from any browser window.
Let’s look at why social book-marking is so useful for SEO purposes?
Social bookmarking sites are “tag based”- which means you can “tag” them with keywords so your visitors that bookmark your site can find them easily later. Here comes the good part, the Search Engines actually index these tags at the same time the spider the link, which means you are getting a free one-way links from high-traffic sites. Remember your keywords are attached to them, so choosing the proper tag name is critical it plays a very important role in your book marking campaign
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Not to mention it’s a great way to get your website customers/surfers working for you. In addition when a visitor bookmarks your site, the Social Bookmarking services checks the tag to see if the link already exists. One way to make the system work in your favor is to changing your bookmark tags. This way you can get multiple links with different tags on the same site. Pretty cool huh? Because these sites are regularly crawled by search engines, your site will most likely be crawled more often.
So get out that start playing with those social bookmarking services, its funs and easy!