Web Development & Design

Offering Link And Bookmarking Code To Web Users

Posted in Web Development & Design by Click Consult on 16th of October, 2008

With social media on the up, websites benefit greatly from offering excellent web design as well as the development of high quality content that will attract links and bookmarks from users. The benefit of gaining links not only comes in the shape of surf through traffic but can also help drive traffic from search engines. Similarly, bookmarks and social tags can drive traffic from the icnreasingly popular vein of social media and social networking websites.

Unfortunately, no matter how good the quality of your content, unless you assist users and other website owners in providing these links and tags they're unlikely to be forthcoming. As part of your web design and further development you should consider the addition of link code as well as an array of social bookmarking buttons.

Including link code within your web design not only offers other website owners a simple and effective method of linking to your site but it also gives you a much greater degree of control over the keywords that are used. This provides benefit to your search engine optimisation campaign with control that is otherwise difficult to exert.

The social Internet, or web 2.0 is all about sharing and networking and many social networking and social media sites can be used to drive targeted traffic to your own website. Once a user has bookmarked or tagged one of your pages, the social site will promote that page with other users. Including social buttons in your web design template affords every page this potential advantage.

For more information, please see the following blog section: About Web Design.