Saturday, May 17, 2008

Social Bookmarking

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is the latest craze in cyber world. It is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata. It is a powerful tool in promoting a website.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. Social bookmarking is the same as you bookmark any website/page in your browser. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. So it doesn’t matter which computer you use, you always have your bookmarks available with you.

Many social bookmarking services provide web 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.

Social Bookmarking Websites

There are plenty of them and they keep on appearing ever other day. Some of the most popular ones are present below this post.

You may try this:



This free service is designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.

It can help you spread a link on 47 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!

  • It helps you get a lot of backlinks.
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This runs smoothly on all major web browsers, but we recommend downloading and using Firefox.



Precautions

These social websites are playing by their own rules and if you violate them, your account will be closed immediately. Following are some of the precautions to take

1) Don’t bookmark useless website which is of no use to you or general public. However you can bookmark them as private

2) Provide a useful comments. Comments like “Excellent” or “Awesome” are not appreciated.

3) Don’t spam. Don’t start bookmarking each and every page of the website.

4) Provide keyword/Tags/Labels etc while bookmarking. If there are categories/subcategories options available then use them.

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