How social bookmarking site gave me the listing I wanted

It’s gratifying to see the listing I wanted just by social bookmarking my sites. Have you ever thought the kind of leverage you give to a website when you bookmark it for your reference? Or simply when you stumble upon an interesting website, and decide to have fun with it, it might slowly be making its way to the top. If you can lend a hand to other websites in getting a better listing, then why not do it to your own, the way I did it?

Here are a few short and quick tips to get a listing through bookmarking sites.

1. Open an account in the popular bookmarking site such as Technorati, Stumbleupon, Digg and Del.icio.us.

2. Add your website URL under the option my website.

3. Decide judiciously which category your website should fall in, and categorize according to its relevance.

4. Add some tags to your website with the major keywords, so that whenever there is a search for that keyword, your website would be listed.

5. Add the bookmarking buttons to your website, so that whoever visits and likes your website, can add it to his favorite, easily.

6. Some bookmarking sites such as Technorati offer the ping option. When your ping your website from these sites, their spiders crawl over your website all over again. Ping your website once you submit it.

7. Ping at regular interval when you add some new content to your website. If you don’t have anything new to add, do some minor editing and ping it.

8. Describe your website in the best possible way, with a good blend of keywords, in the description box.

9. Add your own website to your website.

10. Participate in the forums and leave a mark of your website behind. Socialize with other people in the community and spread your message.

11. Link yourself to the popular blogs or website within the bookmarking community.

12. The final and most important tip is something you should follow first if you are yet to go ahead with your blog or article. Write a catchy headline and have a genuine blend of keyword in your body copy.

Since Google loves the bookmarking sites, these tips should definitely help you to get a listing you want.