Social bookmarking websites are the online websites where users can add, annotate, edit and share bookmarks of web documents, images, video, blog posts and webpages. It also helps to connect with other users and find useful information and bookmark it for future use. Submitting our content to these social bookmarking sites helps us to increase brand awareness and drive more traffic to our blog.
Here are the 15 most popular social bookmarking sites which will help to bring more traffic to your website
1. Twitter
Twitter is a website where users can tweet short 140 character messages. It was founded on March, 2006. It currently has around 300 million users worldwide and nearly 500 million tweets are posted every day. We can favorite, re-tweet others tweet and we can also create lists to group relevant twitter users or subscribe to lists created by others
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2. Facebook
Facebook helps you to connect, share and chat with people, friends and relatives worldwide. The site was founded on Feb 4, 2004 and was opened to public use by 2006. Sharing content on Facebook can give an immense boost to the traffic intensity to your blog. We can create pages based on the categories you prefer and also create groups to connect with relevant people to share and discuss on any topics or techniques.
Page Rank: 9 Alexa Traffic Rank: 2 Domain Authority: 100 Page Authority: 97
3. Google +
Google Plus is owned by Google Inc. and was launched in June, 2011. The major audiences at Google Plus are males between the ages 24 to 36. The number of Google Plus users, as of March, 2015, stands at 300 million. Google Plus+ allow users to share content, images and video. We can also create Google communities which is similar to Facebook groups in which we can connect with relevant industry people and share information
Page Rank: 9 Alexa Traffic Rank: 2 Domain Authority: 100 Page Authority: 96
4. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is mostly used by business professionals and is an excellent platform for like-minded individuals, entrepreneurs and professionals to connect with each other. The site was started on May 5, 2003 and currently has 364 million users. We can create company pages to showcase the information about the company, post regarding any job opening, create groups to connect with relevant industry experts. It also allow us to post content in Linkedin as a pulse.
Page Rank: 9 Alexa Traffic Rank: 14 Domain Authority: 100 Page Authority: 97
5. Pinterest
Pinterest is an image sharing website and was started on March, 2010. Pinterest has also become one of the major contributors in bringing traffic to blogs and websites. Pinterest is widely used by women than men. We can create various boards and pin the images over it whichever you like to share it. Like Share options in Facebook, we have “Pin It” option to share it.
Page Rank: 9 Alexa Traffic Rank: 40 Domain Authority: 100 Page Authority: 97
6. Tumblr
In Tumblr, users can post their blogs and can also read blogs written by other persons. Tumblr has been a prominent and significant traffic-driving source to blogs and bloggers are actively involved in it. Started in Feb, 2007, it currently encompasses 243.3 million blogs.
Page Rank: 8 Alexa Traffic Rank: 42 Domain Authority: 98 Page Authority: 96
7. Reddit
Reddit is more like an online bulletin forum where users can post content, either texts or photos, and can vote up or down a certain post. The platform was founded and started on Jun 23, 2005.
Page Rank: 8 Alexa Traffic Rank: 32 Domain Authority: 99 Page Authority: 95
8. StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon was started in November 2002. The platform finds and suggests websites, photos and content to its users and users can rate and vote them. Digital Marketers and bloggers alike use StumbleUpon to submit their content and it provides guaranteed traffic back to the blog.
Page Rank: 8 Alexa Traffic Rank: 304 Domain Authority: 98 Page Authority: 95
9. Delicious
Delicious enables users to find content which has been bookmarked by other users. It was founded in 2005. The bookmarks posted to Delicious are not private and can be viewed by public but it can be changed to private viewing.
Page Rank: 8 Alexa Traffic Rank: 2430 Domain Authority: 98 Page Authority: 96
10. Buzzfeed
Founded in 2006, Buzzfeed also serves the purpose of gathering more audience for your blog. The website has an audience of over 200 million and showcases content across various categories such as entertainment, politics, lifestyle and etc.
Page Rank: 8 Alexa Traffic Rank: 113 Domain Authority: 91 Page Authority: 93
11. Digg
Digg is a news sharing website where news article are categorized and shared with its users. It was formed in November 2004 and has over 14 million visits per month. Getting featured in the first page of Digg brings huge volume of traffic to your blog content.
Page Rank: 7 Alexa Traffic Rank: 898 Domain Authority: 99 Page Authority: 96
12. Slashdot
Slashdot also provides services which are similar to that of Digg and it was formed way back in 1997. Users can submit summaries and links of news articles and other content and can even start a threaded conversation.
Page Rank: 7 Alexa Traffic Rank: 1695 Domain Authority: 94 Page Authority: 95
13. Diigo
Diigo is a multi-tool for personal knowledge management which allows the users to share content, bookmark webpages, use social annotations and join relevant groups and community and talk with relevant people to gain more information. It was launched in July 2006 and currently this has more than 7 million registered users.
Page Rank: 7 Alexa Traffic Rank: 2312 Domain Authority: 92 Page Authority: 91
14. Newsvine
Newsvine is a great place to have strong discussions, create good content and share interesting content. It was launched in March 2006 to created awareness and spread news around people. Currently this website attracts 40 million unique visitors per month.
Page Rank: 7 Alexa Traffic Rank: 5858 Domain Authority: 92 Page Authority: 73
15. Scoop.it
Scoop.it helps you to share and curate content to get more visibility and discover many new interesting content from various industries. It was launched in Nov 2011 and it attracted more than 75 million people within 18 months after the launch and now the site has over 1 million registered users.
Page Rank: 7 Alexa Traffic Rank: 978 Domain Authority: 86 Page Authority: 89
These are the websites which drive lots of traffic to the blog or website. We should make sure that we have a complete profile on social bookmarking websites, stay transparent, unique and interesting so that we can build our own followers which will definitely help in bringing traffic. Promoting our blog links in social bookmarking sites is one of the ff page search engine optimization practice to make the blog post get indexed in search engines faster which will help in ranking higher in search engines.
5 Comments
Really very informative post. Most social sites are working but not all. I am submitting my site to all these working sites before one month and its very impressive. Most of the sites are submit my link with do-follow.
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Great platforms for bloggers it will help them gather more audience and help their blogging efforts and keeping them motivated.
Thanks and keep sharing!