Does anyone here use bookmarking software?

jeffwend · 01-01-07, 05:25 PM

I have recently starting running bookmarking software and must say, I like it. It works while I am at my day job, while working on the computer, and it works while I am sleeping.

I have only been using it for about a week and in that small amount of time, I have seen increased traffic and links coming to a couple of my brand new site.

I run the bookmarking software with about 6 accounts so that I am not working one too hard. But, I still am concerned of over using this tool.

Have any of you had much success, or been penalized for using bookmarking software?

Elizabeth26 · 01-02-07, 02:34 AM

What is bookmarking software? Is it for driving traffic to your website?

jeffwend · 01-02-07, 07:03 AM

Wikipedia says: "Bookmarks are pointers — primarily to URLs — built-in to most Internet web browsers. The primary purpose of bookmarks is to easily catalog and access web pages that the web browser user has visited or plans to visit, without having to remember the page URLs or rely on other computer programs."

Many, many years ago, there was a single way you could bookmark a page: using the browser's Bookmarks/Favorites menu. But this option wasn't so good. What if you use more than one browser? What if you use more than one computer? What if you have too many bookmarks? Then you have to import/export them or find a software to do that for you.

Now we have online solutions like del.icio.us or Google Bookmarks. del.icio.us offers you public bookmarks (by default), while Google has only private bookmarks. I think Google is on the right path as bookmarks should be private and searchable. Unlike del.icio.us, where you can only search the descriptions, Google Bookmarks lets you search the page content. But no solution is good enough

Bookmarking has increased my traffic a little bit, and it also helps some of my less popular sites show up on search engines through websites like de.lic.ious and ma.gnolia.

aquariancore · 01-20-07, 08:25 AM

I would like more information myself. How does bookmarking software on you computer increase traffice to your site.

Silhouette · 02-08-07, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jeffwend

I have recently starting running bookmarking software and must say, I like it. It works while I am at my day job, while working on the computer, and it works while I am sleeping.

I have only been using it for about a week and in that small amount of time, I have seen increased traffic and links coming to a couple of my brand new site.

I run the bookmarking software with about 6 accounts so that I am not working one too hard. But, I still am concerned of over using this tool.

Have any of you had much success, or been penalized for using bookmarking software?

This is the first I have every heard of bookmarking software. Is it costly, and why and who
do you think might possibly penalize you for using it?

SeeMe · 02-08-07, 07:37 PM

I think that you might somehow be penalized in the SEO process if the software is considered doing something unethical. I'm not very familiar with the software, so I don't know how it's viewed by the search engines.

weber · 05-24-07, 11:49 PM

I have used bookmarking sites but not a bookmarking software. Maybe, if you have your own bookmarking site, installed your own bookmarking software, your traffic will really increase with the right promotion because more and more people are finding bookmarking sites to be very good source of traffic.