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If you’re not submitting your blog posts, articles and web pages to social bookmarking sites, you’re missing out on a lot of link-love that Google looks fondly upon.

You see, my Search Engine Myths Exposed report makes it clear that you don’t have to get links from related sites to rank (known in the SEO world as “themed links”). As long as the links come from quality pages, Google will happily count them toward your ranking.

Social Bookmarking sites currently have a lot of value in Google’s eyes. Google seems to love sites that rely on democracy to decide what deserves the highest rank (thus their own link-based algorithm). By submitting your pages to these sites, the links will often get crawled and applied to your ranking very quickly — often within a few days.

I’ve been giving my pages an extra boost by submitting to a few dozen bookmarking sites myself, and I’ve seen rank increases to the tune of 3 to 5 ranking points on Google’s first page of results for my chosen keywords.

I can’t share the keywords with you because the sites are in the 3WayLinks.net network, and it’s against the terms to share that information. Suffice it to say that the keywords are competitive enough to provide hundreds of visitors per day with my current rankings. That’s one of the things I love about 3WayLinks.net — it provides a solid link base on which to build your rankings for tougher keywords.

A couple of great tools to use when submitting to SBMs are SocialMarker.com and OnlyWire.com. SocialMarker.com makes the process of submitting your sites semi-automated, whereas OnlyWire.com fully automates the submission. Both are good tools that are worth looking into (and both are free).

When submitting your pages to social bookmarking sites, set your title tag to the keywords that you want to rank for to get the most value from Google for your links. If you’re interested in generating traffic from the bookmarking sites themselves, you’ll want to modify your titles to be appealing to viewers as well.

For instance, if you want to rank for the phrase “old time radio”, just set your title to “old time radio.” But if you want to draw visitors, “Old time radio – Thousands of free MP3 shows!” would work much better. Keep in mind, though, that you sacrifice some link value when the link to your site is not your exact keywords.

If your site is brand new, vary your titles so that the links pointing to your site do not all contain the same keywords. If your site is already established with lots of links, a few dozen links with the same link text is not going to be a problem, and it’s safe to just use your main keywords as the titles.

If you’re hoping to draw visitors from social bookmarking sites to an AdSense revenue site, keep in mind that visitors at bookmarking sites are notorious for never clicking on your ads. If your only form of revenue on the site is AdSense, you might want to word your titles for maximum SEO value and forgo the visitors directly from the sites.

Let me close with another good social bookmarking experience. A friend of mine setup a site that he wanted to rank for a “low hanging fruit” set of keywords (razor targeted for great conversion rates, but without getting hundreds of visitors a day). He asked for my advice, and I offered to submit his site to the social bookmarking sites for him.

He agreed, and I did so. At the time of the submission his site was stuck on page 3 of Google’s results. A few days later he freaked out because his site disappeared from the rankings (this is typical when a new site gets a bunch of links quickly–your site will often disappear while Google recalculates your ranking). But about a week after that his site jumped onto page 2 of Google. Not long after that he was on page one. Now he’s one happy camper, and it was thanks to social bookmarking links!

So when you’re out looking for places to get links from, don’t forget about social bookmarking sites. They won’t perform miracles with your rankings, but they certainly give a solid boost.

Note : A few comments below made an important point. Don’t overdo your submissions or some of the bookmarking sites may ban your account, IP or domain from submitting to them. I personally only submit to each of the sites a couple of times per day, spaced out over the day.

I’d love to know what you think! Please leave your thoughts and questions in a comment below.

Source : Jonathanleger.com