It’s become clear over the years that social media sites play a big part in getting traffic to your site as well as ranking them in the major search engines. One type of social media that can help your ranking and traffic is social bookmarking.

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage websites they’ve visited and would like to revisit in the future.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved as private, shared only with specified people or groups or shared only inside certain networks. The group you decide to share your bookmarks with can see them chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, and groups or other social network features.

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

Due to its popularity, some users have started using it as a tool for getting websites to rank higher in the search engines. The more often a web page is submitted and tagged, the better chance it has of being found. Spammers have started bookmarking the same web page multiple times in hopes that the search engines will count the links and help their site rank higher in the search engines.

It’s tactics like these that cause the search engines as well as social bookmarking site owners to make changes in order to combat the spammers. The main problem is that Google cannot ban sites for social bookmarking because they have no idea who’s doing the bookmarking.

Other words if Google started banning the sites, the spammers would start bookmarking their competition. However they have started ignoring bookmarks that appear to be less than legit which has caused the spammers to have to make the accounts look more legit.

It’s the never ending war.