Echo Effects of Social Bookmarking

As I’ve been carefully targetting a narrow set of niche keywords, I’ve been monitoring the resulting changes in the top 30 ranking websites.

Just as before, I’ve been able to quickly grab several of the top placements for my keyword phrases.  Results are showing up where I own four of the top 10 and fifteen of the top 30 searches on my phrase - because I’m using a series of five blogs on Wordpress.com, a series of five indepenantly hosted websites and a blog on LiveJournal.  In addition, I’ve been posting summaries of my blog posts to three document and news release websites. 

After all these co-ordinated posts are completed, I’ve been following directions and bookmarking the articles and the article summaries with ten or twelve popular social bookmarking sites.

I started to see by blog posts appear in the top search results first. Soon these listings are overtaken by the new release sites - and I’ve been enjoying several of the top 10 placements.  After a day or two, my hosted website pages begin to show in the top 20 to 30.  To my delight and suprize, within another day or two, I begin to see even more top rankings because of the “Echo Effect” of Social Bookmarking.

The ‘Echo Effect’ occurs when the RSS feeds from these Bookmarking sites are picked up by other sites and blogs around the internet.  Google is indexing these feeds, giving my campaign more top rankings and more links back to my original article, resulting in an echo effect of even more website traffic.

Of course… this gives me lots of new ideas…