Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, view, and share their favorite websites with others. The best known site is http://del.icio.us/ (owned by Yahoo!). Delicious can also be considered a “link blog”—someone just posting websites they think are cool or interesting.
Del.icio.us can be a great resource to help you determine what keywords people associate with your site. You can look up the del.icio.us history for your website to see how many people have tagged it on their del.icio.us page.
- Go to http://del.icio.us/url.
- Type in the URL of your website.
You’ll not only see the number of people who saved your website to their del.icio.us page, but also what keywords they used to tag, or categorize, your site.
These results, located in the “common tags” box in the upper right-hand corner, could help determine some good keywords for search engine optimization because it reveals what sort of words people associate with your website or business. The larger and darker the word, the more times that word is used as a tag to identify how they categorize your website.
My thanks to Michael Pranikoff (http://del.icio.us/michaelpranikoff) for this information from his PR seminar “PR in a Web 2.0 World.”
Jenny
The point about seeing what words others have tagged to your site is an interesting one and good for feedback. Generally I agree, delicious is huge, but I've never seen much traffic come from them. The most has always come from either Reddit, Digg or StumbleUpon... they're still fairly ethereal though... a lot of traffic one day, but none the next...
Posted by: Dave | February 24, 2008 at 09:11 AM
Good stuff, thanks for the idea!
Posted by: Travis J. Lehr | April 16, 2008 at 05:18 PM
So with the right keywords we can increase the search engine traffic.
Thank you for this idea.
Posted by: Steven Davies | April 24, 2008 at 03:52 AM
Your site has excellent content and information. I'll be returning often...
Thanks!
Al
Posted by: Al Walker | April 24, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Although the keywords are great tags for search engines, content is also an important criteria for SEO. Of course, you want to use (not abuse) your keywords in you content as well!
Posted by: carolyn | April 25, 2008 at 01:34 PM
Can anyone point me to some more articles on the subject?
I've messed around with it, but never seen much traffic from it.
Posted by: HermitMoney | May 02, 2008 at 11:43 AM
I'm new to del.isio.us and didn't know about the information you recommend. Thanks for the tips they were very helpful.
Posted by: shawn | May 15, 2008 at 01:38 AM
Nice post.
@carolyn: I invite you to my website for social bookmarking information.
Thanks!
Posted by: Carlos | July 24, 2008 at 04:40 PM