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Written by Marcus Schroefel on March 12th, 2008

Social Bookmarking Sites What Can They Do For You

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The concept of Social Bookmarking developed from the idea that regular Internet users would automatically bookmark their favorite websites on their own PC as a way of making sure that they kept all their favorites in the same place.

But, what could they do when they were not at their own PC? How were they to find or access their favorite websites then?

So, according to Wikipedia:

“Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public..”

So, the first important thing to note is that these bookmarks are ‘usually public’, so that if you do decide that a website is a favorite of yours, then other people can see that, and they can check it out too.

Furthermore, when the first social bookmarking sites became popular, they did so by coming up with a different way of classifying the site that people were listing, according to a relatively informal system of tags, rather than the more traditional ‘folders’ system that most people were using on their
home or office computers.

So, a user could (and still can) add a favorite to their social bookmarking site list of favorites, and then choose their own tags for that site.

This tagging system allows sites to be found by social bookmarking site members by searching on a chosen tag, and the sites often include information about how popular a particular site is as judged by the number of people who have already bookmarked it.

Some sites even provide web feeds (RSS) for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags, so that subscribers can automatically become aware of how many new viewers a site has, or how many sites have been added to the tagged group in question.

Some of these social bookmarking sites have become very popular indeed, with the more established sites like Del.icio.us and even relative newcomers to the ‘game’ like StumbleUpon having achieved Google Page Rank of 8.

You can get a huge Top List of Social Bookmarking Sites with Google PR and Alexa rankings here.

The important thing is not a long list of site URL’s. The important thing is to really grasp and understand what these sites can do for you and your blog.

The first thing that you must do with these sites (using the list of 55 above) is to register for an account with each.

Then, every time that you make a new posting to your blog, you simply submit the post to the site in question.

Your posting and site address will generally appear on the home page of the site in question immediately after you submit it.

How long it then stays there is entirely dependent on the popularity of the bookmarking site itself, and to at least some extent, also on the time that he posting was submitted.Related Web2Marketer Posts:

• Will Social Bookmarking Sites Really Drive Masses of Traffic to Your Site
• The New Social Google - Google Adds Friends List, Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine
• Squidoo – #1 Authority Social Networking Site
• How to become an Authority in Any Niche
• Video Sharing Sites

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