Web Writing101: "I'm Digging this Article!"- Attain Inbound Links by Social Bookmarking.

Posted by Lima Al-Azzeh Dec 4, 2008

This final installment of the “Attaining Inbound Links” series is something we’ve discussed in an earlier limelight post. However, to expand on that previous post, perhaps it isn’t enough to add social bookmarking widgets to your article, in hopes that readers will want to recommend your site.

Marc Bitanga wisely advises that writers still need to do their part in being recommended. Apart from writing interesting articles, it is important that writers build a community on social bookmarking sites. Digg.com is a popular site that encourages “diggers” to share and discuss content with members and non-members, thus creating a network of people who encourage one another, and recommend each other’s sites.

Once you write an article, submit it to a social bookmarking site and then encourage your network of friends to recommend your article. This is bound to increase your site’s popularity rankings thus exposing your content to many more readers. Avoid clicking on the widgets at the bottom of your article yourself, this can be seen as an unethical SEO trick.

Once in a while, consider submitting your article to Stumbleupon; a site that recommends other neat things to check out on the web, though results are often less targeted as the site is meant to mimic “channel surfing”. While this may not always be a reliable source of traffic, it definitely can help to get your content out there in the web to be found by interested parties.