Does Social Bookmarking Help SEO?

Posted: Monday, April 2nd, 2012 by | Filed under: , , , ,
Social Bookmarking Sites

Social Bookmarking Sites

Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to organize and manage their bookmarks of online resources. Social bookmarking for SEO companies is not only for organization, but a help with creating backlinks and increasing the visibility of the website across a number of platforms.

For SEO, social bookmarking sites are helpful in that every time you add a bookmark to a social bookmarking site, you create a backlink. Backlinks are one of the most important pieces to the SEO puzzle. Over time, by adding and building the number of backlinks to your website, you can help increase its PageRank and ranking in many search engines, especially Google.

Websites like Delicious, StumbleUpon and Digg provide users with the option to “vote.” If your content is of good quality, voters can vote your link up, which can result in a good amount of traffic. Quality traffic to your website is very valuable and for many, can turn into potential leads. Read more …

Can Pinterest Help SEO?

Posted: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 by | Filed under: , , , , ,
Image bookmarking

Image bookmarking

If you haven’t heard by now, Pinterest is one of the latest social networking websites drawing attention in the social media world. Because of the visual attraction, users are flocking to the latest social site. Pinterest offers a social bookmarking feel, in the sense that you pin your favorite things, like you would bookmark your favorite urls on sites like Delicious and Digg.

Now, SEO specialists are also figuring out the newly popular website and using it to their advantage. Here are some of ways Pinterst can help SEO: Read more …

Link Building Takes Time

Posted: Thursday, February 16th, 2012 by | Filed under: , ,

 

Link Building

Link Building

Link building is a process that takes time and patience, well quality link building that is. Quality link building is done manually and there aren’t any shortcuts. SEO companies with knowledge of the different search engine strategies know that submitting your website to a number of internet directories isn’t going to cut it.

Like building takes time, which means it’s a long-term project. Most SEO companies require their clients to sign 12-month campaigns because SEO takes time, and the link building process does as well. Quality links are important. Submitting your website URL to a handful of directories isn’t going to build your backlinks. Most likely those directories are junk and you won’t gain anything from them.

Instead of using those meaningless directories, seek out relevant websites that you can work with. Depending on your client’s industry or focus, you can reach out to certain websites and businesses and discuss opportunities with one another. Yes, this is going to take time, but the value you can potentially get out of relevant relationships is work that extra quality link. Building relationships with these websites will benefit you in the long run. Read more …