Zosap Social Bookmarking Service

Why do we need a social bookmarking Service?

When people are searching for something on the web, more often than not they go to a search engine like Google. If your website does not appear on the first page - or at least the first three pages of the search result, then chances are you won't be noticed at all. How do search engines find your site? They give credit to the number of links that social bookmarking sites give to your website. The more links you get on social bookmarking sites, the more sites link back to you website, the higher you move on the search engine result page.

If you want your website to be popular, social bookmarking is absolutely essential.

But what is Social Bookmarking in the first place?

It provides you with backlinks or inbound links to your website. And it also helps increase traffic to your website. Eventually it will help increase your sales and decrease your cost per acquisition.

This happens because social bookmarking helps market your website in a viral manner. People share content and urls with each other, along with comments about websites. If your website is looked upon favourably, then the word of mouth spreads, and you get more traffic.

Also, if you remember to stick to your particular branding - your particular niche, bookmarking websites will brand you accordingly, and that makes it easier for you to get recognition in your chosen field. People start relating your website to that niche, and that will help increase traffic to your website.

These are a few websites that are good for social bookmarking:

Digg.com - is a popular social networking site - you can post articles that you've written on it, or any content that you might find interesting form anywhere on the net. If people like it, they 'Digg' it, recommend it, comment on it, etc, and you have a platform to give a link back to your website. The more popular your articles are, the more you get 'Digged' and the more traffic your website gets as a result.

Delicious.com - is another social networking site for storing and sharing of bookmarks. Here, again, the more bookmarks you get, the more popular your website is.

Stumbleupon.com - is pretty straight-forward, which allows its users to recommend websites, pages, photos, videos, and just about anything that the web community finds interesting. You can easily recommend your website, maybe ask friends to recommend it too, and even add comments about your website.

Facebook.com - is a social networking site that connects millions of its users to each other. This site is as useful as word of mouth is in advertising.

Twitter.com - is a micro-blogging service where people post short messages known as 'tweets'. In these tweets, people often recommend webpages for their 'followers' to view. This is another good way to get noticed.

Do take out time to market your website on social bookmarking websites - the more you market your website, the better it is for you. If not, you might end up with a really great website which nevertheless doesn't get any visitors.