What is a social bookmark?


A social bookmark is a type of social medium that is used to save, classify and share links on the Internet.

It is very common to be browsing the Internet and find pages that, due to the content and theme they have, are especially interesting to us, and that we want to save so that we can either continue reading it later because we cannot complete it at that precise moment, or due to the need to be able to consult it other times at another moment in time.

Social bookmarks allow you to organize saved pages, resources, and links based on categories or tags . This makes it easier to locate the pages once they are stored.

Another very important feature of social bookmarks is the possibility of sharing these saved pages with other users and being able to resort to other sources and networks that other users have stored by categorizing and tagging, based on comments and votes and, therefore, providing greater credibility. to the stored pages.

Main social bookmarks

The main social bookmarks are:

  • Menéame
  • Tell me
  • Digg
  • Stumbleupon
  • Reddit
  • Delicious
  • Memorize me
  • Enchilame
The SEO impact of social bookmarks

Social bookmarks contribute to web positioning.

When we write a new article or publish a new page, we can share it on social bookmarks, categorizing and tagging it in an optimized and strategic way. This new page will be published instantly among all the users who are subscribed to that social bookmark, category, and tag.

This type of strategy means that many more users can have access to the new page or article, access it and can share it and, better still, link, creating a natural link building.

The link building remains a very important factor in SEO positioning, and even if it occurs naturally from other articles or pages on the same theme, in which we talk about the same topic.

At present, it is useless to create artificial links from pages that have nothing to do with our website or article in question, or from directories.

Google is much more demanding and rewards pages that receive quality links, that is, that come from pages with authority, that deal with the same topic and that have naturally linked our website, understanding that in this way it contributes much more value to the user, who sees the information expanded from one page to another.