What Is Social Bookmarking and how can it help promote my site & drive traffic?

What is social bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is the technique/activities to get very good backlinks, huge traffic along with branding, promotion and indexing privileges. If you are an SEO or digital marketing person, you must know about it.

Benefits of social bookmarking sites?

 Once you complete your on-page optimization, your next step should be taking care of off page optimization. In this, you can start with social bookmarking. You should begin with submitting web pages to social sharing sites or blog posts or social bookmarking sites (SBM sites) as it has so many benefits.

1. Bookmarking is the fastest way to index your blog post or website in search engines- Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc.
2. you will get quality backlinks.
3. Submission to top social bookmarking sites helps to generate new relevant traffic.
4. Submitting on high PR or DA bookmarking sites, your blog post can go viral.
5. It will improve your domain authority.
6. It will reduce the bounce rate.
7. It will help in blog categorization.

Top 5 social bookmarking sites list 2019:

1. Reddit :

Reddit is one of my favorite bookmarking websites. It is not easy to submit your blog post or sites on Reddit. You need to re-submit others’ Reddit posts and upvote– it will improve your Reddit karmas. you can submit your blog posts very easily, read subreddit’s rules before posting on it. Meanwhile, try to add a few posts of famous websites or add current news related posts so that people comment or upvote your posts.

2. Mix :

The Mix is a new content discovery platform that incorporates pretty much everything that Stumbleupon had. The mix allows people to find, collect and share content they like. To submit a blog post on it, you need to first create an account by registering via your, Facebook, Google or Twitter account.  With the iOS share menu, you can submit posts from any iOS app.

Follow the similar steps that you would take to add a page to a Collection. Paste the URL you want to submit and tap Post. The mix is for healthy sharing of information, so do not spam or request for Collections’ exchanges follow or/and comments. don't insert your business name, URL or address in comments.

3. Bizsugar :

Bizsugar is the reputed website to publish your blog post on. You need to be very careful while submitting a blog post on Bizsugar.

• Submit a reputed and high authority website’s post in a relevant category.
• Upvote and comment on others’ published posts.
• if your profile is strong enough, try to submit your blog post.
• Write a meaningful description, creative title and choose the appropriate category.

4. Scoop.it:

 Scoop.it is one of the best places in content marketing. Here you can bookmark your blog post or can create an article with backlinks to your blog. I have tested both of them. It has premium and free plans. You can use both as per your requirement. A premium plan has few extra features. its DA (domain authority) rankings are high, so it’s extremely good for building backlinks.

• You can build a community.
• Share, like and comment on other’s posts.
• Write catchy headings with targeted keywords.
• Add images in your scoop article.

5. Pinterest : 

Pinterest is not only a bookmarking website, but it is the most popular graphical content distribution reputed social media website. Here, you can discover content on any topic and most of the content will be in graphic (graphical) format. And the best part of it is that anyone can easily use Pinterest.

After creating an account on Pinterest, you need to follow a few categories. Choose as you will get their pins. you need to create a board with keyword rich board title, description and choose the relevant category. You can invite others to pin on your board.

Find related pin boards and join them. Here, you can’t join directly, an invitation is needed to post on a group board. For an invitation, you are supposed to follow the admin of that group, repin his/ her pins and wait for him to notice you or you can also send him a personal request message.

Don’t promote your blog post in groups all the time. Pinterest has a good source of traffic for those who have rich graphical content like designs, themes & infographics.