Bookmarking: A Del.icio.us tool for Search Engine Optimization

September 16, 2007 – 11:52 pm

In todays world, people are not just limited to their personal computer for internet access. They can do it from their palmtops and mobile phones from any corner of the world. Such users need some place where they can bookmark their favorite website urls, not just on their PC’s browser but some where online. Del.icio.us (a yahoo owner bookmark site) is one of the most popular bookmark service provider where users can not only bookmark their favorite web pages but can also share them with their friends.Other popular bookmark website are: Furl, Ma.gnolia, Google bookmarks.

Service providers like addthis.com help you to add a very simple and customizable button tool to your web page or blog that enables the visitors on your website to submit your page to these bookmarking websites with just a click of mouse.

Bookmarking for SEO:

1) Bookmarks like del.icio.us are home to huge traffic as visitors get references to quality website links in different categories called tags. So if you have such a good content on your website that you can make visitors to actually bookmark your page, you can divert good amount of repeated traffic from such bookmark websites to your own.

2) Many websites refer to these bookmark websites to evaluate the page ranking of the bookmarked sites. More the bookmarks, better the content and higher goes the PR . Ain’t it Del.icio.us ?