Social Bookmarks
Social Bookmarking Button Tips for Mac Webmasters
There's alot of value in placing Bookmarking - Sharing Buttons on your websites. It encourages site visitors to do alot of your SEM - Search Engine Marketing legwork FOR YOU.
Here's an example of AddThis Analytics showing how often my sites, pages or posts were bookmarked by site visitors. Additional reports there also tell me WHICH content was bookmarked and an indication of WHERE as well.
A Bookmarking Button presents options for visitors to bookmark, print, email - and more importantly - Socially bookmark your content across the social web of sites like Digg, Delicious, Twitter, FaceBook, Yahoo Bookmarks, StumbeUpon, MisterWong and more. The value in this is significant: your backlink profile becomes much more 'organic' in nature, since it isn't always you whoring your own sites.
Bookmarking Buttons help build backlinks to your sites under other people's accounts, often with them modifying your Title, Tags, Description or Keywords to thier liking. When vistors do that, it helps naturally diversify the keywords used in links back to your site, enhancing the long-tail profile in words and ways you might not think of. This is important because we all have our own 'SEO Blinders'.
My two favorite bottons are AddThis and OnlyWire. Another popular button used widely across the internet is ShareThis - These are ideally placed alongside the specific content you want shared -- or placed in every single page's sidebar. While there are many other Bookmarking Buttons available - there's an advantage to using these 3 most popular ones: Your site visitors will feel more comfortable interacting with them. Familiarity breeds usability.
You want sharing buttons on every page -- not just on your Index / Main page. This will encourage Deep-Linking to your site and content. It's also possible to embed social Bookmarking Buttons into your site's CSS or HTML code to present the button inside the body of every individual Blog post as well.
Here's an example of AddThis Analytics showing how often my sites, pages or posts were bookmarked by site visitors. Additional reports there also tell me WHICH content was bookmarked and an indication of WHERE as well.
A Bookmarking Button presents options for visitors to bookmark, print, email - and more importantly - Socially bookmark your content across the social web of sites like Digg, Delicious, Twitter, FaceBook, Yahoo Bookmarks, StumbeUpon, MisterWong and more. The value in this is significant: your backlink profile becomes much more 'organic' in nature, since it isn't always you whoring your own sites.
Bookmarking Buttons help build backlinks to your sites under other people's accounts, often with them modifying your Title, Tags, Description or Keywords to thier liking. When vistors do that, it helps naturally diversify the keywords used in links back to your site, enhancing the long-tail profile in words and ways you might not think of. This is important because we all have our own 'SEO Blinders'.
My two favorite bottons are AddThis and OnlyWire. Another popular button used widely across the internet is ShareThis - These are ideally placed alongside the specific content you want shared -- or placed in every single page's sidebar. While there are many other Bookmarking Buttons available - there's an advantage to using these 3 most popular ones: Your site visitors will feel more comfortable interacting with them. Familiarity breeds usability.
You want sharing buttons on every page -- not just on your Index / Main page. This will encourage Deep-Linking to your site and content. It's also possible to embed social Bookmarking Buttons into your site's CSS or HTML code to present the button inside the body of every individual Blog post as well.
