Social bookmarking ( A complete guide with 500+ bookmarking websites )

is social bookmarking really work in 2022? What most people think about Social bookmarking? this is a technique to building links, am i right? But in this article i will let you know amazing and how it works with SEO ( Search Engine Optimization )

Hello Friends, My Name is Rahul jangid and I’m a web developer, content writer, and most important I’m a farmer also this is my short introduction, let’s go with our article.

Before creating any backlink on a social bookmarking website, it is very important for us to know how it will affect our website, So let’s know about this.

But Before knowing about Social bookmarking , we should know what is bookmarking, so let first know about bookmarking.

What is Bookmarking?

Bookmarking As its name suggests, mark a book so that we know how much we read the last time that book. in the simple word bookmarking is a technique to access our old work fast.

What is Social Bookmarking?

This is the process of tagging a web page with a browser-based tool so that you can easily visit it again later. but now they’re transformed into dynamic online communities where users not only share links, but discuss and develop groups based on shared relevancy.

What is the purpose of social bookmarking?

While surfing the Internet, the user bookmarks some websites on the browser to read or refer to later, but what happen if the browser crashes, then you will lost your all book marked data. A good way to see the website later is to bookmark it online. You can bookmark that website on a website providing bookmark service on the internet.

Social bookmarking was started with this purpose but now its a technique to building links and increase domain trust.

What is Social bookmarking websites?

These websites are sites on which users share their articles, photos, videos etc. Because there are many benefits of submitting your content to those sites.

What is Benefits of Social Bookmarking?

#1 Increased search engine visibility and brand awareness

The biggest advantage of doing social bookmarking is that it increases the search engine visibility and brand awareness of a website, blog, company, etc. let’s understand it through an example.

Suppose we have two blogs, the first blog does not have any backlinks, but the second blog has backlinks from 100 different high authority websites.

Whenever the crawler bot/spider comes to our blog, it will crawl and go away. But our second blog on which we have made backlinks from 100 different websites, whenever the crawler crawls those websites, he will also get the link of our website, that will increase the awareness of our blog.

#2 Quick indexing

The second advantage of this is that it decreases your indexing time, it mean crawlers index your page fastly. it will helps search engines bot/spiders to crawl your website link which is available on bookmarking websites.

#3 Increase Traffic

When you share your content on social sharing sites the chances of your content going viral will be increases. Once your content goes viral you will see that your traffic has increased to a great extent.

Make sure you are not limited to posting your content on one site. we have to post on multiple sites to increase traffic flow.

#4 Improve SERPs

Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) are the pages that search engines show in response to a user’s search query. Social Bookmarking improve the PageRank and SERPs of the sites.

The more people that have access to your great content, the more likely that your content will go viral.

What is Disadvantages of Social Bookmarking?

#1 SEO ( Search Engine Optimization )

Most of the social bookmarking sites have very high spam scores, taking links from such websites make crawlers treat high quality backlinks as poor quality links. Taking a backlink from such a website has a bad effect on the SEO of our site.

#2 Tag structure ( Tag Based System )

The biggest disadvantage of social bookmarking is that it is a tag based system which means that when we post an article, images, videos, we have to keep in mind that the tag we used is from our category. so that we can get maximum traffic from these sites. tagging wrong information on these sites may mislead user.

#3 Spamming

Having the freedom to create your own tags carries a high risk of being spammed. Spamming can also prevent the user from finding the actual website. Therefore, whenever we share our link on any website, we must keep in mind that what is the span score of that site.

#4 Collusion

As we know that in today’s digital world scammers are present everywhere. So there may be scammers who have a large group of people to submit bookmarks and control their tags.

Most of the users visit a website thinking that it has been bookmarked too many times, this website will have some good information. But scammers take advantage of such a thing, they bookmark their website on different websites and confuse people.

How to Do Social Bookmarking?

First we have to find such a website where we can add a link to our websites. In this article, I have prepared a list of such high authority websites for you, where you can earn a lot of traffic by sharing your website’s article images etc.

In this order we can do social bookmarking, follow these simple steps.

• Select a social bookmarking website
• Upload links, images, videos etc.
• Use Tags
• Use for SEO

As we know that many users wants to learn about Social Bookmarking, but they don’t know how to start it. Today, I’m going to share with you a powerful guide about it. When I was start learning about this for the first time, I had to face a lot of difficulties.

Like: How to find social bookmarking sites, how to check social bookmarking sites authority and many more.

Before sharing your link in any social sharing website, we should keep the following things in mind so that our website is not affected badly.

#1 Website Domain Authority

Domain Authority, which we call DA in short term, is a term/service created by MOZ company which aims at rating websites within 1-100. Domain Authority plays a very important role in SEO

#2 Spam Score

Spam Score is a type of Rating System, in which we show the Spam Quality of any domain or website. Spam score is very important for SEO. And it is made by MOZ company.

How to check spam score?

There are many website to check website spam score but I usually check spam score by using websiteseochecker.

A simple Guide to check Spam Score:

Step1: Open you web browser search spam score checker or just click above URL websiteseochecker

Step2: Place your URL inside the text area and tick the Google captcha and hit the check button. We will get all the information about that website such as Domain Authority, Page Authority, Spam Score and many more information as we have shown in the screenshot.

#3 Website Content

While doing social bookmarking, it is very important to keep in mind that the content of the website on which we are adding our link should be similar to your category. If we understand in simple words, then there should be a category related to your website on that site.

By sharing your link in any category, the user will not get the content that he wants, this will increase the bounce rate of your website, due to which Google can also pay penalty for your website.

Top 20 Social Sharing Sites 2022

S.NO	Site Name	DA
01	Google Bookmarks	100
02	linkedin	98
03	vk	96
04	Facebook	95
05	myspace	95
06	Pinterest	94
07	Instagram	93
08	Twitter	93
09	digg	93
10	Scoop.it	92
11	Slashdot	91
12	GetPocket	91
13	Reddit	90
14	Flipboard	90
15	Stumbleupon	90
16	Diigo	89
17	Steemit	89
18	Plurk	88
19	Tumblr	87
20	dzone	83

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