Social Bookmarking : How to index your blog articles fast

This is a world wide phenomena on the Internet : social bookmarking networks. There are several types of social bookmarking networks over the Internet and the main difference is the way the users interact with each other. In social bookmarking communities it’s all about sharing links. And the main advantage of the social bookmarking is that your articles will be indexed by Google faster.

What is Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking involves web communities that share websites, blogs, articles, news and anything else that they’ve found on the Internet. Even thou the more bookmarks you get the better, if you have at least one bookmark your page will be found much more quickly by search engines : the reason is because these sites are crawled daily for more content by search engines. Having friends on these social networks can help you market your bookmarks, share informations with people that have the same interests and maybe find some potential clients.

Websites that offer social bookmarking

First of all you should visit addthis.com to get a piece of code for a button that you can place it on your web pages or in your template if you are using a blog or a CMS. This way anybody that comes to your website can bookmark your page or your article if he likes it. Having this facility on your website is essential in getting bookmarks because it automates the process a lot. You have to be careful because there are some websites that have the nofollow attribute to their links : so it’s useless bookmarking to them. There are many websites that offer social bookmarking and with addthis.com you’ll get the most important ones. I don’t have accounts on all but I often use Google bookmarks, Yahoo Bookmarking, Delicious, Reddit, Digg, Technorati for blogs or Stumbleupon.

Advantages of social bookmarking

The most important advantage that I see in this is that your articles or web pages will be indexed much more quickly by search engines because these websites are crawled daily. You can easy check for this by creating a Google alert on the keywords targeted in your article and see if you receive it. You’ll check two things with that : the first is if the page has been crawled by Google and the second one is you’ll find if your page is really targeting the keywords you wanted.
Another important advantage from social bookmarking is that it can get you web traffic, if used properly. By “used properly” I mean that you have to be patient and fill all the fields on a website about the page you want to bookmark and place it in the correct category. Having the proper description and the proper tags set to your bookmark can make the page to be found on searches for those tags. But if you subscribe to the wrong category or you do not provide the appropriate tags then your work it’s useless.

Conclusion

Social bookmarking can help you in getting your article crawled by search engines faster then usually and also can get you relevant web traffic if used properly. It’s up to you if you want to use this social networks just for fun or you want to put them to real use and market your business.