by Veena Krishna
Social Bookmarking is a comparatively novel practice but has caught up very fast in popularity among the Internet users. It is used to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages that users want to store or share. These bookmarks can be public or private based on the service and can be shared with everyone or within a selected group or network. Bookmarks can be viewed chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly.
Users can manage their bookmarks with informal tags or put them in folders which make it easy to search and view the bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. It is also seen that many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.
Services like ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, etc. Make the concept of social bookmarking even better and popular for everyone who is an enthusiast of internet.
Few very trendy and famous social bookmarking sites (along with their Alexa ranking) are:
digg.com (108), google.com (1), stumbleupon.com (275), mixx.com (797), i-am-bored.com (4,984), addictinggames.com (518), yahoo.com (3), myspace.com (11), facebook.com (2), technorati.com (639), aol.com (35), and twitter.com (13)
Social bookmarking can introduce the sites that you own or you like to others with relevant tastes, can drive traffic to your site. Also creating unique and original content everyday can be difficult, and not to mention expensive. But if you want daily content for free, it is very simple to get. All you need is a simple RSS feed combined with the proper bookmarking tools, and you can easily get the latest news and developments of your particular niche, directly to your website.Bookmarks show how a site is perceived, and when these sites allow voting, they also show the engines how people feel about the quality of the website.
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[...] Social bookmarking sites contain many links to a wide variety of sources. You can make use of these sites as a promotional tool, but you’ll need to offer something that attracts readers despite the competition. To do this, you need to offer material that is worth reading. If you do not have material that is worth reading, the users you attract will simply leave your site and never return. They should be enticed to come back. Spend time on your content. [...]
[...] are a lot of social bookmarking sites that have a lot of amazing content. Users are constantly finding new resources through them. You [...]
[...] are a lot of social social bookmarking sites that have a lot of amazing content. Users are constantly finding new resources through them. Before [...]
[...] Social bookmarking sites contain many links to a wide variety of sources. You can make use of these sites as a promotional tool, but you’ll need to offer something that attracts readers despite the competition. To do this, you need to offer material that is worth reading. If you do not have material that is worth reading, the users you attract will simply leave your site and never return. They should be enticed to come back. Spend time on your content. [...]