What is Social Bookmarking?
Social Bookmarking allows you to have one place where you can add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. There are many bookmark management services, at the end of the blog there is a list of the top 15 Social Bookmarking sites..
Many social bookmarking services provide 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. It helps to promote your sites by networking with other social book markers and collaborating with each other.
These services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features.
How Can You Use It To Your Benefit?
For individual , social bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. Institutions including businesses, libraries, and universities have used social bookmarking as a way to increase information sharing among members. Social bookmarking has been also used to improve web search.
Social bookmarking have been used by some to a tool to use along with SEO to make their website more visible. The more often a web page is submitted and tagged, the better it cab be found. Spammers have started bookmarking the same web page multiple times and/or tagging each page of their web site using a lot of popular tags, obligating developers to constantly adjust their security system to overcome abuses. because social bookmarking generates backlinks, social bookmark link generating services are used by some webmasters in an attempt to artificially improve their websites' rankings in search engine results pages.
Found this article very interesting to say the least. It is good to use social bookmarking to your benefit. There are tons of little ways out there to get more visitors to your site sooner then later. When you get a chance please read the rest of the article by Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
Here is a link to The Top 15 Social Bookmarking Sites for 2013.
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites
https://www.facebook.com/MarketingSMG
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