I became interested and started browsing the net to know about social bookmarking the other day when a friend of mine used the term once in an informal chat session. Social bookmarking is the latest cry among the Internet users.
Social bookmarking is the process with which you can store the link of a web page online for your personal use. You can share the links with a specific group of people or within a certain network. You can also share the access among public and private domain.
This is one of the most updated versions of the net savvy people storing and organizing the website while browsing the net. The people of your network with which you have shared the link can organize chronologically or categorically or through the tags. Some of the popular social bookmarking sites are Del.icio.us, Stumble Upon, Digg, Reddit, Slashdot.
There are certain advantages of the bookmarking process. While you are searching for any information with the help of the search engine spiders, it is a computer software generated action; while listing of book marked sites to find the information is a human action where none other than you is operating the whole system.
In case of social bookmarking, the classifications of the websites are done manually. Here the concerned people understand the web contents and the kind of information you are searching for unlike the web site spiders that determine the meaning and present the search result to you through search engines.
This social bookmarking process is not only help for the users but also an effective tool for the webmasters to get higher page rank and thus attracting more and more traffic to the sites.
With the social bookmarking system, a website is ranked in accordance with the number of times it is being searched by the Internet users. Thus it plays a boost to increase the traffic of your websites. It is always better when people other than you book mark your sites. With the system you are connected with other people concerned with the social bookmarking. Cooperation from all the fellow bookmarkers is really necessary for increasing traffic.
The book marked page also offers you the unique opportunity to exhibit the RSS feeds, newsletter subscriptions, affiliate marketing in some of the visible position on your web page. People viewing your web page often subscribe these services and your site gets more and more traffic.
In my next post I will brief you on how to actually use this service. But till then don't forget to carry on with your traditional Directory Submissions.
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