Why You Need to Start Social Bookmarking NOW (and Continue in the Future)

There is a little known secret that many of the savvy attorney Internet marketers share and you can be one of them.

Social media and blogging are important to creating a strong online presence, but if you are willing to take it one step further you will dominate the Internet. When people search your name, or a topic you have written about, you can give yourself a better chance of showing up on the first page of Google.

What’s this big secret that will capitulate your ranking on search engines? It is social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking isn’t Complex
Social bookmarking might sound like a time consuming and complicated process, but it is actually the opposite. It is the practice of saving bookmarks to specific Web pages. There are websites that store your bookmarks for you and allow you to create tags (or labels).

Here is another explanation from Wikipedia.org: “In a social bookmarking system, users save links to Web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.”

Why Social Bookmarking is Worth Your Time
Social bookmarking websites, such as Delicious, Reddit, Digg and StumpleUpon, give you the opportunity to bookmark your favorite websites. Social bookmarking has been known to quickly push a blog post to the top of search engines. Also, social bookmarking creates a lot of “link juice,” and can help create more backlinks to your website. You can visit our link building page to learn more about this important factor in attorney SEO.

How to Approach Social Bookmarking
The first thing you need to do to get started is to create a free account with various social bookmarking sites. However, don’t get carried away. Simply choose a handful of social bookmarking sites that you will be able to focus on. When creating your username, consider incorporating some keywords.

You should bookmark often, but bookmark other Web pages besides your own. You don’t want to be viewed as a “spammer.” You should always be on the look out for content to share.

If you need assistance creating quality content for your attorney website that you can bookmark, we can help. We have a team of professional writers who can draft well-written content that search engines love. Contact us today at 888.886.0939 or fill out our online form.