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If you are associated with digital marketing, you must have heard Social Bookmarking. It is an SEO practice used by many SEO practitioners to gain valuable links and traffic from high PR sites.
In this article through this Q&A conversation, I’ll try to explain everything in detail that you are looking for.
Q: What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is an online service provided by many online platforms (like Mix.com, Scoope.it, etc.) where you can bookmark your interesting web pages of any website so that later you can access them easily.
When you read any book, you mark your pages, lines, paragraphs so that next time when you return, you need not search again.
Bookmarking is a similar practice, where you bookmark your interesting web pages and arrange them in a library. So that next time when you return, you don’t need to put any extra effort into searching for those articles again.
Q: Benefits of Social Bookmarking?
There are mainly two benefits that we get from Social Bookmarking sites.
1) User Engagement
On many platforms, internet users go to consume the content of their choice. Through Social Bookmarking we get relevant users (*who have any interest in our business) they come to our site through these Social Bookmarking sites.
2) Link Benefits
Through these high PR Social Bookmarking sites, you can get many DO-FOLLOW and NO-FOLLOW links. These link passes a good amount of link juice to your website and helps in increasing your SEO score to rank higher in SERP.
Q: How do Social Bookmarking Sites differ from Social News sharing?
Social New sites primarily focus on sharing news-related items and try to engage users in the current matters by displaying the recent news prominently on their website. Their key focus remains on engaging those audiences who consume current news and engage by sharing, commenting, participating in discussions.
Whereas Social Bookmarking Sites differ from Social News Sites by promoting only content that gains more popularity among users. Those discussions which have higher audience engagement come at the top of the discussions. A new user landing on these Social Bookmarking sites can easily see and participate in these highlighted discussions.
Q: Why use Social Bookmarking sites when you can make a bookmark library in your own PC browser?
Nice question. This question has raised in my mind also when I started social bookmarking for keeping a track of articles/blogs/webpages which I wanted to consume later.
I had the facility to add Social Bookmark in the browser of my computer. But I made accounts on these Social Bookmarking Sites to find what others talking about the topics which I was interested in. These Social Bookmarking sites work, for better than Search Engines.
I got suggested topics from these Social Bookmarking sites that were connected to my interest which I have left off.
FREE High PR 10 Social Bookmarking Sites: Practically tested for link building
DA: 92
Main Traffic: INDIA then US
This is a high PR Social Bookmarking site. Here in the following image, you can see a search box. You just have to paste the URL you want to bookmark and click the subsequent arrow button and you are done.
Every created scoop will redirect to that URL which you have used to create the scoop. For a Free account, you can create 50 Scoops.
DA: 94
Main Traffic: US
Pinterest is a great high PR Social Bookmarking site. It is totally free. You can create n numbers of BOARDS (categories) and keep your created and linked pins in these boards.
While you create the pins there you get a place to place the URL on which you want to drive the referral traffic.
Pinterest also gives an option to link your Website/Blog. This option is clearly visible when you are login to your Dashboard. The same is also shown in the following image.
DA: 88
Main Traffic: US
Tumblr: A high PR website which is my favorite. It is also free, and here you can make n number of posts in a single day, and not only that you can schedule the posts for the future as well.
Like other Social Bookmarking sites, this platform will also ask you to add tags. So that your post can get more views.
DA: 89
Main Traffic: US
Diggo is a high PR free social bookmarking site. On this platform, you can also add images, PDF, Notes. All posts will be added to your library. If you want to share your posts with your contacts you can easily do that through sharable links.
DA: 90
Main Traffic: US
Reddit is an amazing platform for social sharing. 50% of the total visitors of this site are from the United States only. The website has around 1.3B monthly visitors. On Reddit, posts can be made under any community which is relevant to your posts. These communities are called “sub-reddits”.
Those posts which get more engagement and votes come on the trending list. Reddit can be a good source for getting referral traffic.
DA: 78
Main Traffic: US
It is a growing community of people of various interests. Good posts get good engagement. This is again a high PR site that allows posting images and articles. Post gets live in few seconds, but if found promotional will get deleted, and the account will get blocked. So on this website links are to be placed relevant and with caution.
Those posts which get more engagement and votes come on the trending list. Reddit can be a good source for getting referral traffic.
DA: 92
Main Traffic: US
The website has main traffic from the US and has an amazing figure of 266 M visitors per month. Imgur allows Image and video uploads. In the description, section links can be pasted and that would be clickable also. So from Imgur, you will get not only referral traffic but No-Follow link as well.
DA: 88
Main Traffic: Taiwan (China) then the US
This is a good PR social bookmarking site. Which has the main traffic from Taiwan. This site has a very simple interface. In the following image, you can see the dashboard. You just have to put the URL in the “Plurk Box” as indicated in the image and that’s all. Your Plurk URL will get live on the dashboard.
To create a better Plurk you should add images and tags along with the URL.
DA: 90
Main Traffic: US
This is a 90DA high PR social bookmarking site, having the main traffic source as the United States. On this site, you need to create a magazine of your choice and keep relevant URLs within that magazine. Every post is termed as flip.
DA: 88
Main Traffic: US
Last but not least minds.com is my favorite. The platforms offer many ways to publish your content. All your posts can be grouped into your profile. That you can check anytime later on. You can also publish a Blog, Image, Infographics and share the same with the community.
In the post, links can be posted easily that will give not only referral traffic but No-Follow links as well.
