Hi frds i m in new seo field. Tell me what is different between social bookmarking and directory submission. Which is very helpful
Social bookmarking is like keeping your favorite webpage, there are various sites available where you can bookmark your favorite urls and can share them with your friends. Directory submission is one of the important off page activity. You can submit your site to quality web directories in order to get back link from them. If your site get quality back links it will rank better in search engine result pages.
These are SEO techniques for getting backlinks. Directory submissions take time to approve however social bookmarking is instant.
For list of directories and other resources. check out in this section - Directories -Solicitations & Announcements
Social bookmarking is like bookmarking webpages that you like and might want to revisit. Directory submission is submitting articles to directories. They both yield backlinks and traffic.
Social bookmarking is better then directory submission but for more back link you can use both for your website
Social bookmarking is sending your site to the likes of Digg and Reddit, since the search engines regularly crawl those sites, the more they find your site on them, the more quickly they index them, directory submission, on the other hand submits your site under a category in a directory
both are parts of SEO. and ways of link building. you can get one way links from them. Social media links are like links from social networks like dig, stumble upon etc. and directory links are one way links.
Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to store, classify, share and search Internet bookmarks. Social bookmarking is a new technique to attract visitors to your website through marketing your website in popular social networking websites and thereby attracting visitors to your website. It provides you with backlinks or inbound links to your site. Social bookmarking helps search engines find content through links thus providing a channel for the promotion of content. If you manage to place your links on do-follow social bookmarking websites. Directories are web search tools compiled by human editors. When sites are submitted to the directories, contents are edited manually by editors and are categorized and listed under one or two relevant subject categories, and people can search for information using different keywords and phrases. Directories are considered to be the actual source of information because information provided is focused and specific to search parameters.
Social bookmarking is the just make a list of favorite website and resources over the Internet. While Directory is the way to build back links for given page.
Regardless of the difference you should try send both types of backlinks to your site. Create as much of a diverse backlink diagram as possible.
Social Bookmarking is a process of bookmarking your url in a site. It serves as the window of your site. It helps in adding backlinks and driving traffic to your site while Directory is submitting your links in a site. It helps in indexing your site especially in newly ones.