Social bookmarking is when you store, organize, search or manage bookmarks of your webpages in the Internet and this can be done through the social bookmarking sites where there are several in the net. Social bookmarking can help in your search engine rankings because when you bookmark you create a back link and we all know about the importance and good recognition of links by the search engines.
When you post your link to your blogs or articles with any of the social bookmarking sites you have socially bookmarked these contents. And if you bookmark all the contents you created in these you can have a lot of back links that are all good for the search engine optimization of your site.
You can have these back links when you bookmark on those sites using “do-follow” in their links, and these are real links because the more popular sites have several followers. When these people gain access to your content pages, you can have more possibilities of getting back links to your sites.
What you need for your social bookmarking efforts is a site that provides valuable information to viewers, a compelling title that can really attract viewers’ attention and the keyword phrases. After you included the links at the bottom of your contents, there you go with your social bookmarking efforts and you will just have to wait and experience the surge of links back to your website.
But you have to be careful also if you do a lot of bookmarking and ensure that you do not only bookmark your own website but also other related websites as you surf the internet. Your account may have chances of being closed if you are only bookmarking your own and be branded a “self promoter”.
Some popular sites in the Internet are Digg, Del.ecio.us, Folkd and many others where you can have access from any computer connected to the web. And what is beautiful with this source is that you can bookmark even the pages of your website which is not also practical.
With social bookmarking you are sharing your contents with the general public or practically all other users of the Internet. By bookmarking your best articles, blogs or just any other best contents you have these pieces which can be of help to other users also and this can make them link back to you.
The idea of social bookmarking is telling others what you have seen, observed or what you liked with the contents you have viewed, and all these are on the Internet. And if you have drawn the attention of the Internet community you can have enormous amount of back links and traffic to your site.