If so, would you please bookmark my site www.fit-dc.com in your browser(s). I am a small gym in washington DC, and I am having a hard time getting rankings. Any other tips on how to improve my rank?

no it is not true… because bookmarkings is a local setting on your computer– and it does not effect the search engine servers. (search engines can’t access all of the computer in the world to find if the site is bookmarked or not)