Share Your Website Feature

iAuto Feature: Share Your Website

Optimizing web pages for Google and other search engines is not enough for a successful SEO effort. An effective concept for your online marketing has to be more comprehensive and must include the community-building component. In addition, our classifieds software offers the right tool for that, a Share Your Site feature (available in iAuto and iLister 4.5.0, iRealty 4.6.0 and above).

The Share Your Site feature caters for search engine optimization tasks for your site. It is a community-based website promotion tool allowing visitors to add your website to their online shared link directories via a number of most popular "Add To Bookmarks" widgets. Your website is being promoted and made more popular by your visitors.

Why is it so important to have your website added to social bookmark directories?

First, this helps drive more traffic to the relevant content on your website via the word-of-mouth aspects of the social bookmarking. Each person who adds a link to your site using a social bookmarking website contributes to enhancing the awareness of your website content.

If you are familiar with SEO, you know that the more links you have pointing to the content on your website, the more traffic and buzz you will obtain. Therefore, it is important to build as many external links to your website as possible. Each post on anyone's account on any of those Social Bookmarking services counts as a link to you. Consequently, social bookmarking is one of the most effective ways to improve your website rankings.

Second, social bookmarking is a networking activity. Networking allows regular people to save and categorize personal collections of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take shared bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collections, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others. It is basically a personal knowledge management tool (para based on the Wikipedia.org article on social bookmarking).

We provided the ability to add link icons from various social bookmark services pointing to your website. The Share Your Site feature will help you to:

• Increase a number of recurring visitors
• Increase traffic to your website via bookmark sharing
• Increase link popularity and page rank for your website

We made a selection of some of the most popular social bookmarking websites for you.

Logo	Name	Google PR
	Digg.com	7
	Reddit.com	8
	Del.icio.us	8
	Stumbleupon.com	8
	Google.com/Bookmarks	7
	Technorati.com	8
	Blinklist.com	7
	Twitter.com	8
	Facebook.com	8
	Mixx.com	3
	Ma.gnolia.com	4
	Myweb.yahoo.com	7
	Windows Live Favorites	9

You can add other links from your favorite engines by editing the relevant template file.