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Alternative Techniques For Using Social Bookmarking In Your Online Business

For the past several years the rise of social bookmarking as a flexible tool for SEO and marketing has had a huge impact in IM. It is an approach that is specifically used for backlinking; or search engine optimization strategies. However, there are long-term strategic methods that may be used at the more heavy weight bookmarking sites. It generally is a matter of your particular business goals and perhaps what is attractive to you. Yes, bookmarks can be stored in your account at bookmarking sites, even though they have become social centers for lots of people. Plus you are able to tag your bookmarks with your unique search phrases which can help with some search engine optimization but it tends to be temporary.

Google took a great deal of the power out of high PR bookmarking sites when it seemed they (perhaps) let the various sites know that their dofollow link attributes were causing issues. Seems people were able to rank highly from sites like Digg and a few others. No, I don't have any secret information about the real reason those sites modified to nofollow. However it is intriguing, and we all realize how Google is or can be.

Make no mistake about what is feasible at high PR bookmarking sites when you take a different approach with them. Most people who use them for backlinking tend to create very thin profiles that offer no value to the particular community. However, I am knowledgeable of people who do take a couple more minutes developing their profiles. Profiles that have appearances of being legitimate will do a greater job for you and have a good chance of passing a review. Plus, when you do this you are contributing something to the site, and you can keep high quality bookmark profiles for years.

Also think about your ability to use the RSS feed functions available with a meaty profile with good content in it. There is certainly SEO value with a good RSS feed; not to mention RSS directory submissions you can do. Consider the extra benefit of more coverage for your links in those feeds. But you do have to take care and exercise caution so you aren't over-promoting because that could cause loss of subscribers to your feed.

What you want to do is maintain a balance between promoting your money sites/offers and offering good quality content that your subscribers will appreciate. The more often you do that and actually do a little bit of networking, you'll gain more coverage and trust-rank, so to speak, at these sites. You can have a few minutes each day to spread your good will at these sites, and that won't take very long plus it is a good investment.

Ultimately, how you approach using bookmarking sites in your personal business is your call. We all possibly realize most marketers only want the off page SEO value with bookmarking sites, and that is cool. Maybe you can try it at just one strong bookmarking site and see how you prefer the results.