Social Bookmarking: Share Your World, Forget Search Engines

Social bookmarking is nothing less than keeping and maintaining your favorite on-line Internet pages in one place. If you own content like articles, photos etc it can be shared with other users through bookmarking sites. Because the bookmarks are public you get the social dimension as well since others can also see your list of favorites.

The whole concept of social bookmarking has now become increasingly interactive. Users share their favorite Web Pages through tags. The tags provide a whole new dimension to social networks. It is very easy to connect with people sharing common interests with the help of tags.

Social bookmarking offers an alternative to search engines like Goggle, while search engines rely on algorithms to provide relevant information; social bookmarking enables it by sharing of knowledge which can be discovered easily. Imagine the popular search terms such as health insurance and mortgage, search engines have great difficulty displaying relevant results due to the large number of websites.

Social bookmarking makes the process easier. It is difficult to fool the social bookmarking website due to its user driven character. If someone tries to manipulate the website like Digg, he is instantly buried by fellow Digg users if they think the content does not offer value and is intended for promotion only.

Social bookmarking websites have enormous power in terms of traffic. If the story manages to reach the front page of Digg, a website can experience the avalanche of traffic in just few hours. Digg has the ability to direct as many as 50, 000 users to more than 100, 000 users in short duration.

A person who is active on social bookmarking website StumbleUpon just has to share his link with his network of friends which will ensure steady flow of traffic to his website. Another advantage of bookmarking a website is that it creates a back link which increases the authority of the website.

Search engines give more weight age to the links originating from these sites. Hence, a website can obtain higher rankings through social bookmarking websites.

Digg, Del.ico.us, Reddit and StumbleUpon are popular social bookmarking websites. These websites are driven by users and hence command high respect. Time magazine had aptly commented that ?EURoeIf Google was reference library, Technorati was the coffee house. Time Magazine did not salute Technorati for nothing. It is social bookmarking websites which enables the users to search highly relevant information with simple use of tags.

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  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • co.mments
  • Current
  • FriendFeed
  • LinkedIn
  • Live
  • MySpace
  • NewsVine
  • Ping.fm
  • Posterous
  • Propeller
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Twitter
  • Yahoo! Bookmarks

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