I admit it. Early in my blog I made the claim that Stumble Upon was worthy of your attention!
So okay, I still believe that but new data from AddThis, a social bookmarking tool, reveals that Google Bookmarks is more popular than I had believed.
Social bookmarking is a form of Social Media Optimization. In really no way similar to Search Engine Optimization, SMO is the practice of making it easy for your audience to bookmark, save, and share your content. It has been suggested that social bookmarking sites are being accounted for in search algorithms as an indicator of popularity so while very different from SEO, one may support the other.
So are your priorities straight? Are you even engaged in SMO for your site, adding bookmark links to del.icio.us, digg, and Yahoo! MyWeb? Did you overlook perhaps the best opportunity to get started? Check out AddThis which created a single button which makes it easy for your audience to bookmark your website, business, or blog, and subscribe to your feeds.
Did you realize the Windows Live reader was so big?
Oh, and, Add This
So, what is your source for those percentages?
I’ve heard 100 diggs is worth 1,000 clicks to your site but can’t validate that
Anyone know how valuable links from social bookmark sites are to SEO?
Sorry Michael, I could have been more clear, the data is from AddThis; a record of usage through their platform.
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