We’ve been scouring the internet for all social sites that we can use in LavaLinx. Does anyone have suggestions or favorite social sites you use most frequently? Please comment and leave suggestions below.

There seems to be a surplus of social networking websites everywhere, some with amazing traffic, others with barely any. I think creating your own social site is all the rage right now. It’s a great way to create revenue through Adsense or banner ads. Another huge benefit of hosting one is the content is user-generated. Most SEO-ers believe “Content is King” so user-generated, possibly daily, is even better. There are a few sites out there with plugins to make your own social site (such as Pligg) or you can create a subdomain through Ning.com. And there’s always Squidoo, where you create your own ‘Lens’ on your topic of choice. Am I missing any? Let me know if you have created your own site and how it’s going so far.

Let’s round up some general guidelines for LavaLinx users and social bookmarking…

Tagging. This is not referring to graffiti lettering on the side of trains or abandoned buildings. Tagging is a great way to spread out the information you want to share with a wider variety of people within the social site. Think about it. With every ‘tag’ page, someone will be able to find your bookmark on that page. Basically the more relevant and descriptive your tags are, the better your site will be found by those who are looking for your product or information, and thus the more traffic you will see from social bookmarking.

With that said, sometimes for work we’ll slip in our keyword phrases we want to optimize the site for. This isn’t always the case, but yes sometimes we do it. We’re trying to work with the system. Now I’m not saying everyone should flood the tags with all of the keywords they are going after. Please don’t do that! Too many tags listed is a pain for the other users, whereas some bookmark sites will only allow a certain number of tags. Please keep this in mind.

Make sure to give at least a few tags when adding a new social page in LavaLinx. Plus, including the proper title you want and description helps everyone out as well.