Social bookmarking is a great way to easily start building one way inbound links to your website. There are a few things that I have found out that I wanted to share with you from my use of social bookmarking over the last several months.
- Don’t waste time using automated software or services. All the sites have worked to defeat the use of any automated entries with catchpas and other scripting techniques including even sensing the time and quality of your submissions.
- Don’t add all your bookmarks on one day. I space mine out on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday schedule with one link per service per day.
- Use your top pages or blog posts that are on viral newsworthy topics to generate incoming traffic.
- The sites that generate the most traffic for me are Reddit and Stumble Upon. I use others, but in my referrer logs these are the most active services that send me website traffic in addition to links.
One more tip I use SocialPoster.com to make this labor intensive process of adding bookmarks a wee bit easier.
Social bookmarking is still a new service for us, but we are finding that for link generation it does have value and is less expensive for the client than article marketing.