Social bookmarking is an important part of your search engine optimization campaign. Most social bookmarking site has a voting system which allows the user to rate it as they like or dislike it. For a story to get to the front page, it must has a lot of votes from the users. Just like the social bookmarking site, Google also rank a website based on the amount of votes it has. The more votes a site has, the higher it can rank on the search engine. Therefore, if your content become very popular on the social bookmarking site, it will also rank well on the search engine.

To get people to vote, you must write good content. You can write a blog post and encourage the readers to vote for your post. If you own a Wordpress blog, you can install the social bookmarking plugin so that user can bookmark it whenever they want. For website, you can install the social bookmarking widget from Addthis.com. If your readers are loyal to you, they will support you and help you to bookmark the post. You must not force the readers to vote your post. Instead, you can persuade them to do you a favor. In this way, your readers will bookmark the post out of their gratitude to share it with others. By doing this, your post can reach a high vote count. If your readers help to bookmark your page, you can write a thank you post to thank them.

Many readers don’t know what is social bookmarking about. If you want your readers to social bookmark your post, you can write a post to teach them how to social bookmark. Once your readers learn about it, they will understand the social bookmarking button that is available on each post.

If you have friends, you can exchange social bookmark with them. You will help to social bookmark their page. In turn, they will social bookmark your page. If you have a lot of friends, your post can reach to a high vote count. You can conduct the social bookmarking session with your friends once every 2 weeks. Before starting the social bookmarking session, be sure to provide them with the title, descriptions and keywords for the content. You can create a little variations for the title and descriptions so that the search engine to prevent duplication problem. Using variations for the titles and descriptions makes the social bookmarking process look more natural to the search engine. The more natural the social bookmarking process seems, the higher it will rank on the search engine.

Your content must be original and written by you. You should never use content from other site unless you get their permission. If you are using content taken from an article directory, you should provide a link back to the site and the article directory. If you hire a writer to write the content, make sure all the copyrights are transferred to you. If your content is not original, other people may report you as spammer when it is posted to the social bookmarking site.