Use Delicious to Improve SEO

Nov 23, 2009

Using Bookmark Sites such as Delicious can improve your website SEO efforts.  Delicious is a social bookmark website, meaning it allows you to store and share favorite website pages as bookmarks in an account on the web instead of inside your computer’s browser. There are several advantages of using bookmark sites such as Delicious to improve your website SEO.

One advantage is that you can access your bookmarks from any computer whether you are at home, at work, or on your friend's computer.

Another advantage of using Delicious is that you can choose to share your bookmarks with others.  Delicious has the option of selecting private or public viewing options.  So, you can choose whether you would like to keep each bookmark private, only viewable by you, or public to share with others.

You can also find other people on Delicious who have interesting bookmarks and add their bookmarks to your saved selection.

Delicious is great way to discover key words people use to describe your website, which can help you improve your SEO efforts.  Tags are one word descriptions used to organize and help you remember what each website page is about that you bookmark.  Popular Tags are what other people have tagged a page as, and Recommended Tags are a combination of tags you have already used and tags that other people have used.

The keywords of the tags people use when they save and bookmark your website are viewable and display next to the page title.  Reviewing these tags is a good way to verify and validate the key words you are using to target within on-page SEO, as well as gain insight into new keywords you may have overlooked. 

You can also look at the other bookmarks of those Delicious account users whom have chosen to save your website.  Most likely, you will find similar competition sites here, and you can look to see the search terms they are targeting on their website.  To find people that have bookmarked pages from your website, simply conduct a search in Delicious by entering your site URL.  You can also do a specific search to find the most popular bookmarks tagged with a specific keyword, by typing delicious.com/popular/“tag.”  You can use this information to compare what competition is doing, so that you can learn how you can improve your popularity and have more people saving links to your website as bookmarks.

Finally, after publishing a blog post you can add it to your Delicious bookmarks and encourage friends to bookmark your posts as well.  Thanks for reading.  Feel free to share or make a comment. 

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