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Social Bookmarking and its Importance
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27-01-2009 | 
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Loading ...Social bookmarking is defined as:
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
taken from Wikipedia
The idea of Social bookmarking is to share plugworthy material with the public whether is it links to pages, links to pictures, links to music and more. Social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Delicious (aka Del.icio.us) allow internet users to receive the traffic they need by submitting their sites to the proper categories related to their post and seek out others with similar interests.
Benefits of social bookmarking:
- More traffic
- More links directing to the site/ post/ page
- Ability to find out more on same subject
- Ability to actively bookmark other websites you enjoy
In using social bookmarking, it is somewhat like a super link exchange that you can automatically add to. Think about it, the more you bookmark a link, the easier it can be found. However, do not abuse the system and submit a link one too many times. For your friends, you would be able to use it as a way to share your favorite sites. You blog, then bookmark the post, and the site allows others to be able to find your entry. You can bookmark other sites, which is great! I recommend that if you bookmark the site, then do not forget to tell the blogger that you did and why you did it. It is always nice to know a reader’s feedback on anything within their site! Try it! There are tools for blog content management systems like WordPress and even regular code (whether javascript or php) you can place on your site to allow people to bookmark your content. 
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Usually when I find an enjoyable post or blog, I just subscribe to the feed (which only became a habit recently too). Maybe one day I’ll start digging and stumbling, but for now, I’ll pass.
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Subscribing to feeds are okay, but only do so much. The ability of rss is to be able to get live updates in your browser of those you bookmarked.
When you bookmark a site even your own, you are increasing your chance of exposure for your site or the site you visited. Inreturn, you are sharing those with others and yourself. With RSS, you are only sharing it with yourself.
It is also a great reference say in case you forgot to backup your computer and you bookmarked those sites online.
I’ve just never had much of an interest in social bookmarking sites. I suppose they can be useful, but I don’t use them. In fact, there are a lot of things that I don’t use that most people do: MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and sadly even Wordpress! I’ll stick to my good ol’ FanUpdate script!
FanUpdate is not really a secure enough script. It is convenient though. It is not about being a trend. Social Bookmarking has been around for a while. It is able trying to get the traffic. I started a Facebook account and know I will not use it much. I have a MySpace account and that is also rarely used except for testing new layouts I have made.
It is more about trying to get the linkage and exposure to your site if you wish for people to read. Despair is not doing it, plugsites are not, and those are trends. Social bookmarking is something that ties in with SEO and will matter when it comes to searching for your site.
However, it is also a choice. I did not think much of it 2 years ago and implemented it last year.
I’ve known about the social bookmarking for awhile. It’s a great tool for bloggers. I use it mostly for my favorites, but I’ve also added some links. Most of them were links that people requested to stumble or digg.
Didn’t know what it is. Not really sure I understand it. Time for this old dog to do some research, I gather…
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