Social bookmarking has literally taken the internet world by storm. Social networking sites have mushroomed everywhere and social media has become the biggest thing of today. Social bookmarking represents a way to connect to users and be remembered by your customers in an exponential manner.
What is social bookmarking?
Let’s explain this with an example. You’re browsing the internet and suddenly come across this site that has exactly what you are looking for. You simply love everything about the site right from the layout, design to the content of the site. Now, you want to remember this site and store it so you can keep visiting the site from time to time. You may want to add it to your favorites (in your browser) or you could choose to social bookmark it! What that means is that you use social bookmarking sites like Stumbleupon, Reditt, Digg etc, to bookmark the link of a site that you really love! Then when you want to revisit the site you simply look up your bookmark and voila – you can go back to your favorite sites again and again!
It’s public!
Yes, when you bookmark a site that you really like your bookmark is freely viewable by the public. This is really great because other people with similar interests as yours will find your bookmarks interesting as well. So, they check your bookmarks and bookmark your sites as well. Then these people recommend these sites to their friends and so on. Thus, you can well imagine the kind of exponential effect this has on the internet. Very soon, almost everyone will be talking about the sites you bookmarked!
Sorting is so easy!
One of the great things about social book marking is that you can organize your bookmarked sites so easily! Let’s say you have bookmarked 50 different sites and now you want to lookup sites which deal with ‘auto spare parts’. You can do an easy sort with this keyword and only those bookmarked sites show up which contains these keywords. So, basically, with social bookmarking you not only get to remember links to your favorite websites but also get to organize them based on their category!
How does it help in promoting your business?
Imagine if your site was to get bookmarked by one user online. This user then uses his or her blog or site to recommend your site to other users and so on. It’s almost like a ripple effect where hundreds or even thousands of users online start to bookmark your site. Also, when users bookmark your site they will want to check back on your home page link. That means you get plenty of incoming traffic to your site! Plus, social bookmarking is given high preference by popular search engines like Google. It is because social bookmarking is all about the human touch. The ranking and bookmarking of sites is done by humans which lends any site tremendous credibility. So if your site was to get bookmarked on StumbleUpon or Digg then your page rankings automatically go higher up!
Considering all the benefits of social bookmarking you might want to do it yourself but that’s not a great idea! You need access to tools and manually submit your site to social bookmarking sites. No software can do that because it’s all about the human element. This is why you need a social bookmark submission expert to do it for you!
In my experience Digg, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us, Propeller, Technorati, Reddit are the best social bookmarking sites.
I know of a few social bookmarking tools that make Social Bookmarkings much easier and efficient.
Socialmarker (best in my opinion)
Socialposter
Onlywire
Wordpress social bookmark plugin
Sociable is a wordpress social bookmarking plugin which allows you to list out all the popular social bookmark sites after each post on your blog. Thus your users can use some social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Digg etc, to bookmark your blog.
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