Social Bookmarking Sites – Unique Way Of Sharing With Friends And Making Money
by Gary Malone

Have you ever wanted to share details of your favorite website with your friends from around the world because you found it informative? Have you wanted another option than sending an email marking all of them every time? Well, if you did, then there is good news for you. Social bookmarking sites are the right solutions for you.

The birth of online bookmark sharing can be dated back to the year 1996 when itList was first launched. This was the first site which featured public and private bookmarking. With the improvement in technology, this concept also gained prominence and the first website which made the concept of social bookmarking site formal is del. Icio. Ous, which is now called “Delicious”. Today, there are many websites which are dedicated to social bookmarking.

In the year 1993, the site itList was launched. This site was the first one to feature private and public bookmarks. This was the stepping stone to the concept of social bookmarking sites. In the year 2003, the company del. Ici. Ous built on this concept and came up with the first social bookmarking site. Since then, there has been no looking back and today there are many players in this field, with each of them being extremely popular.

So why do you need to bookmark on a site, why not on your computer directly? Well, the answer for this is that when you bookmark your favorite website on your personal computer, you cannot share it with your friends easily. However, when you bookmark them on the social bookmarking sites, not only can you view it, but you can also share this information with your group of friends.

You can categorize your bookmarks into various categories. The benefit of doing this is to make the process retrieving information a cake walk. All you will need to do is go to the relevant section and look up for the site. To make it even easier, you can rank your bookmarks so you which is the most relevant and helpful when you need information. This will also be helpful for your friends when they look it up. You can also view the bookmarks of your friends if you need help.

Another benefit of social bookmarking sites is that you can make money using them. Many entrepreneurs who come up with websites can use these sites to reach out to people. This is also termed as affiliate marketing. This concept will help them reach out to a larger section of people very fast and advertise and market their products thus bringing in business.

The opportunities of using social bookmarking sites to your benefit are limitless. It is up to you to think out of the box and see how you can make money from it. The social bookmarking sites that are dominating the Internet today are digg. Com, StumbleUpon. Com and reddit. Com.

Nowadays, social bookmarking plays a vital role in online marketing as well as in driving relevant traffic to your website. As business owners and online marketers, you can probably enumerate some of the famous social bookmarking sites, but do you really know how they work?

Social bookmarking is an online system provided for online users who wish to save, manage and share links of their selected web pages with the use of metadata or tags. It is a means of storing bookmarks of your favorite sites to another website, tagging them with appropriate keywords based on their content, and sharing them with other people who may also find them interesting. This process is also known as Folksonomy.

Bookmarks are usually displayed to the public, but users can also set their viewing options so the links can be saved privately or shared only with selected groups. The authorized people can generally view the bookmarks by category or tags in sequential order.

Unlike search engines that present the hierarchy of resources based on the number of external links pointing to them, social bookmarking uses a bottom up method where resources are ranked based on how many times they have been bookmarked by users. Furthermore, tags on these sites may be considered as unbiased since they were added by public users while search engines make use of algorithms to interpret the content of a resource.

For beginners, you may think of this strategy as a disorganized SEO technique, because the keywords have no standards and the tags are not structured. But once you get the hang of it, you will soon realize that it is a powerful marketing strategy for driving traffic to your web site.

This new technology improves the users’ web browsing experience, in some ways transforming it into more of an online social gathering, for want of a better phrase. By allowing users to send bookmarks and share information with friends, these sites have developed into social search engines, but with the added bonus that you do not need to scan through the mountainous results of a search engine just to uncover what you have been looking for. By merely going to a social bookmarking site and selecting the tag that corresponds to your content, you can immediately find your desired results.

With huge exponential growth and the increasing popularity of blogging, social bookmarking has turned out to be an excellent tool for online marketing. Aside from the easy recovery of information, people are also attracted by social bookmarking’s user-based set up that acts as an online community which in turn unifies people with related interests and ideals. Millions of people are now joining these communities, hence, social bookmarking can be your ticket to successful online marketing campaigns.

If you are running a website and do not fully utilize this valuable, free search engine optimization technique, you are missing the big picture. By joining the popular sites, you can attract large numbers of visitors to your website as well as attain a number of relevant back links to improve your search engine placement or ranking.

Do not throw away this great opportunity by losing your potential customers, take action now, set up your website and join the top 10 PR rated social bookmarking and tagging sites out there. Then write an interesting article or add some valuable content, and sit back and watch it spread like a virus on the Internet, bringing many more site visitors to join your lists and buy your products.

A highly useful and very popular search system has developed with the advent of the recent Web 2.0 technologies.

This is of course the phenomena known as social bookmarking.

When the end user is locating resources that are relevant and useful to them, they are bookmarking it which usually means that the information is valuable. Social bookmarking works on the principle that if an information resource has been bookmarked, it then has some use, and then it’s value could be shared.

It works on a similar principle to the normal bookmarking systems built into most browsers. Once a user brings up a website or page that they find valuable, they then bookmark it. That bookmark however is made on a social bookmarking site, rather than on the user’s PC. These sites hold vast collections of bookmarks that are shared and distributed around the world.

The bookmark is tagged, which is where some words are entered that describe what the bookmark link is about, so that the information can have searches made against it.

Social bookmarking has similarities with a wiki, because the system’s users manage the tags that accompany the bookmarks. Like a wiki, inaccurate tagging information will be filtered out over time, making the bookmark collection highly relevant to the subject being searched for.

Social bookmarking has picked up a semi-scientific phrase, known as folksonomy. This is effectively a mash up of two words: folk and taxonomy.

Taxonomy is a methodology of scientific classification and identification. By combining the word folk, the idea is to allude to a system of group classification and identification.

However, when compared to taxonomy, there are a couple of problems with this community-based method.

Due to it being a collaborative system, there is no solid and determined way for defining a common language. This effectively means that the vocabulary used for the tagging is different each time for each individual user. Since each person could define each word in a different way, the search relevancy can sometimes be lowered because of the different interpretations in language.

In addition, defining the parent/child relationships can be tricky. Bookmarking a word such as “animal” and “dog” will not show that “animal” is higher up in classification than the word “dog”.

Social bookmarking has also become very popular with fringe Internet users who distribute spam, who will promote potentially illicit sites by tagging them with popular keywords. The owners of the social bookmarking sites have a continuous battle with spam distributors to keep the system clean and used for its intended purpose.

Regardless, social bookmarking has found itself to be a useful method for locating relevant and humanly validated information on the Internet. This human validation alone can cause it to be a better resource than some search engines, because search engine results are validated by a computer and not a person.

Should you be a producer of legal and valuable internet based information and would like to investigate social bookmarking as a method to put the spotlight on your work, it may well be a highly valuable tool to utilize. However, it has been known to consume the submitting users time quite viciously!

The advent of internet has made huge changes in our life. Our networking, interactions, work culture, the speed at which we work; almost just every aspect of our life has been touched. It is our life itself that is impacted because we see a startling difference in both our professional life and also personal life thanks to the internet.

Year over year, more and more people are getting hooked to the internet. Hence it is a powerful foundation on which many new businesses are being established. Various options are being explored like never before and some of them are turning out to be the perfect formula for moneymaking. Many online services are being introduced each day and one among them has been the social bookmarking service that has been around for quite a while.

One may wonder what this hue and cry is all about when it comes to social bookmarking service. It is useful but at the same time extremely simple to understand. Anyone who has the habit of using the internet frequently may have used the bookmark facility a number of times. By bookmarking your website, you are saving its location locally so that the next time you want to visit the website you can access it easily via the bookmark rather than hunting for the site. The same holds good with social bookmarking too. The only basic difference is that when using a social bookmarking service, you will be saving the bookmark on a website rather than locally on your computer.

The next obvious question would be why use a website at all when you can make do with a bookmark on your local machine. When you save information locally on your PC, it is not possible for you to access it from just anywhere in the world. You get dependent on the PC for your bookmarks. This rule is broken when using a social bookmarking service. You can access the website from anywhere in the world and hence you are not dependent on your PC anymore. Further, when you think in terms of business, this works out to be very lucrative. When you get your website bookmarked using the social bookmarking service, you can be sure that the traffic to your website is bound to increase and increased number of hits means an increased income for you! If you have a network of friends and want to share your favorite websites with them and also view their favorite websites, there can be no simpler solution than the social bookmarking service.

If this sounds impressive and you are raring to bookmark your blog or website, you can do so in a few simple steps. Find a site that provides social bookmarking service, like the twitter or facebook and create an account there. When you have registered, as an indication you will find a small icon at the end of every post. Any visitor to your website can now bookmark it by simply clicking on the small icon. So go ahead, explore and have fun!

With the ever increasing popularity of social bookmarking website, its number has even exploded today. This only means that the competition is getting tighter and each bookmarking site has to come up with better features and benefits to make it on the top. With the ever expanding number of bookmarking sites, your choice will somehow narrow down to a matter of features and tastes. Thus, it is wise that you weigh things up the edge of one bookmarking service as compared to the other.

This is very helpful for you to know what service fits your needs and what bookmarking site will work best for you. If you are new in the world of bookmarking, you should understand that each social networking site is different and cater to different audiences. Thus, for you to have a good concept on what bookmarking sites you should go, this article will tackle the top 5 bookmarking sites.

Below are the main players in the social bookmarking service along with the profile of their typical users:

1.Digg.com – Digg is the most popular bookmarking site that is greatly centered on its community of contributors and its website. It provides a democratic element to social networking. Once a user “digs” or bookmarks a site, web page, or a story in the internet, it is submitted to the Digg service, where it will be open for other users who can “dig” it. This in turn casts a vote in its favor.

The more “digs” that a site receives, the more coverage it can get and the privilege to be at the top of the site’s front page are the reward. What makes Digg at the top of the list are its 25 million unique visitors a month. It has the greatest audience share with 65% male between 25-34 years of age, with a household income of 30k and 100k.

2.Propeller.com – This is the second largest bookmarking site following Digg. It has over 5 million unique visitors monthly. 3.6 million (62%) of which is from the U.S. It has also attracted a male biased audience of 54% that are at the age group between 45-54 and 55% of visitors belong to people with 60k household income.

3.StumbleUpon.com – The popularity of Stumble Upon can be credited for its innovative and yet familiar approach in bookmarking. It works by giving its users the opportunity to “channel surf the internet”. This means that users are given the power to navigate the internet and discover new sites. It works like a TV channel, where you can easily flick through TV channels. Behind this seemingly refreshing random selection is a system that is so powerful, it can directly tap into the previously served content’s reponses.

4.Reddit.com – This is a news sharing focused site, very dissimilar with its more popular sibling – Digg. Like Digg, Reddit also works by listing bookmarked sites and then allowing them to be voted for or against by users, moving it either up or down the ratings. Like Stumble Upon, it works by learning your tastes and demands the more you use it. This in turn makes personal recommendations of linked bookmarks depending on your previous responses to contents served upon you.

5.Del.icio.ous.com – This is the one of the oldest social networking sites and Quantcast classifies it as a top 5,000 site that has maintained an audience of about 1.1 million visitors. It is well known as a heavily subscribed social bookmarking source. The sheer number of users participating to its folksonomy makes it a powerful tool for anyone interested to tap into social networking.

There are other equally good featured social networks around the internet that offers diverse social bookmarking tools. Whatever bookmarking services, users are guaranteed with one common benefit and that is to leverage their navigation on the web.

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The word on the street lately is that social networking is in trouble. Networking site MySpace is, for all intents and purposes, the only successful site, with more than $20 million in ad sales this year and plenty of long-staying subscribers.

Social network fatigue is getting worse with every new site that comes along and it doesn’t have to. In the very near future, you won’t go to social networking sites to interact with your friends, every single site will have social networking built in, Web 2.0 is here.

Social networking has a lot of problems as both a business and a cultural phenomenon. To start with there is generally no true business model. This can vary a bit from application to application but most are vying simply for eyeballs and hoping for Google ads to pay the bills until some large firm make them an acquisition offer they can’t refuse.

Web 2.0 is about to be distilled down to the corporate space level, allowing employees to interact with each other in a similar way as members of a social networking site. However, instead of sharing information about movie stars, music genres and cool websites, users share information about work related matters, such as projects and staff skill sets.

Social networking is laboring under the inescapable weight of the dot-com curse (you have to find the money). No matter how cool your idea is, it’s dead on arrival without an actual business plan. At least, that’s the theory. If that’s true, though, why has blogging, which seems like a neat idea dependent on interest but without a concrete revenue stream, managed to not just thrive, but really dominate the Web.

Social networks are this year’s “next big thing.” Facebook is so hot that it’s theoretically valued at $15 billion. Because it has allegedly reinvented something huge: the way human beings interact in their social cliques and circles. With the advancement in technology and the ability for every web site to become a social networking site, it all can only get bigger.

One of the great advantages of social networking services is that they significantly reduce the effort of keeping in touch with friends and keeping contacts updated. This allows users to share and backup content when they are on the move, share calendars, and to make it clear when they are available for a phone call. Enabling consumers to automatically communicate their location to their contact base is a risky move, and one which is meeting with initial resistance due to privacy concerns.

There is a lot to be said about web2.0, as networks develop so does the information about you get easier to obtain, your habits and the type of people you hang with. So you need to be carefull of posting photos of you and your semi-clad friends boozing it up late at night could sink your chances with a prospective employer, who will no doubt be snooping around for this very type of incriminating evidence. But the good far outweighs the bad. No doubt all the blog, Facebook and MySpace mentions are helping.

What will likely happen to social networking is that some applications will survive on a more modest basis than now, others will morph into some new next big thing. True hard-core social networkers will jump to more advanced technologies that eliminate the riff-raff. In the meantime, 70 percent or so of most social networking functionality, (the really useful functionality) will be sucked into the dominant social networks like MSN and Yahoo.

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When backlinking is done with the help of Bookmarking Demon, your websites will have a dedicated traffic flowing in, as your website would have the best of the rankings on the search engines results.

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The main advantage of Bookmarking demon is that it is almost fully automated. Once it is setup and the post links added, it can post up to hundreds of social bookmarking sites every time you create a new webpage and post it.

Creation of accounts are also automated, which otherwise would take a great amount of time. Bookmarking Demon also avoids spam by reel your posts and submit a limited amount of posts to some of the social bookmarking sites. This tool also helps you to increase the number of one-way backlinks to your website. Bookmarking Demon certainly saves a lot of valuable time, which you can utilize in other business and in bookmarking your personal blog posts and other websites & webpages.

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It can be tricky to predict what content will perform well on social bookmarking websites. The interests of our democratic populace are widespread and constantly changing. Webpages, podcasts, and images which are deemed more newsworthy, humorous, or intriguing often steal the spotlight. Knowing how to present content on social bookmarking websites can help internet marketers stand out. There are many options for making connections on social bookmarking sites. To find the best you need to take your time and surf around. Once you have researched the best way to start is to set up some social bookmarking accounts that you can use regularly. StumbleUpon is one of the most popular of the social bookmarking sites which is both powerful and easy to use. First you need to create an account and then create a toolbar interface. All that’s left to do is click on the Thumbs Up icon in order to recommend a website. This can be done for any websites you own and you can also ask your friends to give you the Thumbs Up. In addition to these ratings you can also add comments about your website. Social Bookmarking Does Not Include Spamming In their first enthusiastic rush on a new social bookmarking site, many newcomers begin submitting their every webpage and blog to the site in hopes that strangers and friends will find their content so compelling, they will in turn visit those pages and bookmark them. This is not necessarily a good approach. Submitting your own content is fine in moderation and, after developing the trust of other members. Finding content that is compelling, useful, timely, or very entertaining to share with others often gets a better result. Over Sharing Can Cause Friends to Turn Away Regular participation on a social bookmarking site is important in order to develop and maintain relationships or a following. However, sharing numerous bookmarks each day can result in other members ignoring your content unless it’s really outstanding. The Term “Friends” Has a Meaning Just as in any social circle, it’s important to reciprocate and give back to those who help you along. Becoming involved in your friends’ success is necessary if you want them to care about your own. You can share bookmarks that interest them, visit their pages and blogs, bookmark some good ones, and share the love through whatever reward system is in place on that particular social bookmarking site. Another easy way to give back if you share a complimentary or overlapping niche is through referencing their work in your blog (and including a link) or trackbacks. Anonymity Won’t Cut It Although you don’t have to use your real name, you do need to have an online personality. Establish yourself as knowledgeable, successful, fun, or something. You want people to be interested and you want them to begin to trust you and what you have to say. Your online personality and reputation must be established and maintained to succeed. The other part of this social bookmarking tip is about familiarity or recognition. I tend to keep the same screen name and avatar throughout the various sites I use. I want my friends to be able to easily follow me where ever I am. If I spent time developing a reputation that makes people take an interest in me, I want that to follow me where ever and when ever possible. Sometimes a different approach can work, particularly if you’re working in different niches. Keep in mind that social websites vary and appeal to different audiences. Study the social website to determine the kinds of stories that attract the most attention and interest. If it were easy to predict what would be successful there would be a whole lot of rich people in the world. Determining what will or will not be successful in business is not an easy task, and the same is true for predicting what will be most effective when it comes to social bookmarking.

Social bookmarking is one of the easiest ways to get one way backlinks to your site or blog. It is a Web-based service of process where users can make as well as save links. It is a more and more favorite method to place, sort out, rank, and also share online resources.

Social bookmarking websites are the sites that allow users to share news, photos, videos and other interesting content with the world. They work on a very basic principle. If you have anything interesting to share, then you simply post a link to the content (article, video or a photo) on these websites and other users who are surfing the websites will be able to see them.

Social bookmarking services such as del.icio.us let you save and store your preferred online resources in a single area that is accessible from any computer having an Internet connection. All you have to do to organize your web links would be to assign keywords (tags) that will help recall the link when you need it.

The importance of social bookmarking websites goes beyond mere ‘social’ reasons. It is on of the ways one can use to generate some bit of traffic to his or her site because anyone is allowed to share any website including those owned by you. It is also a source of backlinks and you are advised to use the keywords in your site in describing it when adding it to any bookmark site.

Social bookmarking on the internet is a means for Web users to share, arrange, lookup, and handle bookmarks of their websites. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren’t shared, just bookmarks which reference them. Bookmarking guide generate increased traffic to the weblogs by creating fundamental awareness to the articles.

Social bookmarking is services on the web that let you create and save links that are pointing back to your website. All you need is a title, description, and a tag. This will make it easy for everyone to view it and share it with others as well on the internet. It is a must that you bookmark your website very important to get the word out that your site or post is live.

Social bookmarks are most effective when used in conjuncture with some of the other search engine optimization services, such as article submissions, professional link building. Also, like in the case of other similar services, social bookmarking submissions rely on two factors when used to optimize a website, quantity and quality.

For submitting links to Social bookmarking web sites, you will need to create individual accounts. Also, you will need to participate actively in updating bookmarks to reap the Search Engine Optimization benefits of this process. If you cannot spare time for all this, it is best to hire a Social Bookmarking service that will submit your web pages and articles to major sites like Dig, Delicious, and Squidoo.

If it is controversial or current events, it will get your traffic up, especially if your friends vote in favor of it. This is now used a lot by Internet marketers. If it is sales related a lot of people will vote it down. It is great for targeted traffic. Good for back links, and search engine loves back links.

Social bookmarking sites have been existed since many years ago. They are extremely effective in promoting a product and service. Both large and small business often uses social bookmarking sites as an alternative to advertising in the media. The cost for the advertisement spots in the media such as magazines can be expensive. Commercial advertising is even more expensive. Small business who has just launched wants to lower the cash flow so they use social bookmarking site to promote their company.

Social bookmarking allows you to share the URL with other users on the internet. Many social bookmarking sites receives a large amount of traffic every day. When you submit your URL to the site, it will be visible to the users around the world.

Social bookmarking sites are often used by webmasters who have launched a new site. Before a new site can get indexed, it must have some backlinks. The backlinks represents votes for the site. Google wants to rank websites that are useful to the users. If the site has no backlink, it means no one has vote and recommend it so Google will be less likely to rank it. Google loves sites that frequently update their content. Social bookmarking site is one of those sites that frequently receive new updates from users who are making submission. If the social bookmarking site is very popular, the spider will always visit it every now and then.

Digg is a famous social bookmarking service that is known for its ability to get a website indexed quickly. If you have just launched a site, you should submit it to Digg. You only need to submit to Digg once. To speed up the indexing process, you can submit your URL to the Google search engine.

If you want a post to rank on the front page, you must make it interesting so that people will want to vote for it. You can create content about an strange news that has never been published on other site. If you want, you can create a humorous post and submit it to the social bookmarking site. The picture bookmark can also rank on top of the social bookmark front page. For example, you can bookmark a cute or funny picture of a gorilla.

Social bookmarking is a great way to get free one way backlink to your site. The more backlink your site has, the higher it will rank on the search engine. In order to take full advantage of the social bookmarking site, make sure the link is dofollow. Dofollow link means that the site wants the search engine to crawl it. Nofollow link indicates the site does not want to have anything to do with the link. The dofollow/nofollow terms were invented by Google to overcome the overwhelming spam in the blogging world. Though some social bookmarking is nofollow, they are an excellent tool for marketing the product because it has high traffic volume. Submitting to the site will make your product get instant exposure to the people from around the world.