Using Social Bookmarking for SEO: How
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Hi guys,
how do you guys really use social bookmarking for seo? in terms of lets say really trying to optimize the domain in general for authority, etc, do you submit blog post to diff social bookmarks, etc? Whats the best strategy you've used?
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Agree with EGOL. if you can create some amazing linkbait content - think viral, creative, or awesome infographic you could in theory leverage this to a short burts of traffic, inbound links etc. depending on the site and content you could leverage on digg, reddit, stumpleupon, etc. the problem with these social sites is that you typically have to be an active member to start leveraging links and information for real value.
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I don't think much of social bookmarking. Instead I think of social sharing.
If you have a fantastic new piece of content. One that is best-on-the-web for its topic. Submitting it to a social sharing site such as slashdot, digg, reddit or stumbleupon could bring a LOT of traffic. If your article becomes popular on one or more of these sites you will get a LOT of visitors, lots of tweets, likes, bookmarks, etc.
The results can be impressive, with extremely popular content getting over 100,000 visitors in a single day - often crashing your site if you are not on robust hosting or dedicated server. There is even a special name given to this type of traffic wave - the slashdot effect.
It is not easy to have this quality of content. I spend up to a week or more on a single article and only have a few that get the slashdot effect per year.
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Another thing that everyone should do is make social sharing easy. One way to do that is by using AddThis.com buttons (or a similar service) on every page of your site.
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