What's social Bookmarking?
Basically, Social Bookmarking is the collective action of bookmarking (“tagging”) and the sharing of internet links and resources by the entire internet community.
It is the way for you to share your favourite bookmarks with others.
This new emerging trend, called “Social Bookmarking”, is taking
the internet by storm. Social Bookmarking is quickly becoming
one of the biggest concepts ever introduced to the internet.
Social Bookmarking is a
fantastic FREE & great tool for:
- Generating high quality backlinks to your sites
- Promoting your web
presence
- Reaching more customers /new
networks
- Link building method - free!
- Social Bookmarking is also the best method for getting the search engines to spider,
index, and rank your websites or blogs, because it delivers such high quality inbound
links from authority sites pointing to your sites!
Social Bookmarking is now used by and powering countless extremely popular web services, such as Technorati, Del.icio.us and Flickr to name but a few.
How Does social bookmarking work?
All the different Social Bookmarking Services
allow people to upload, store, bookmark (“tag”) and share
everything from photos to news stories to links of interest.
Naturally, social bookmarking search services enable amazing targeted searches according to tags, instead of keywords or key-phrases you'd normally 'Google'.
The main difference would be that instead of algorithms deciding what's hot you and I and everyone else humane does it.
Social bookmarking involves the use of Tags - subjects,
categories, or words assigned to various Objects. An Object is
often a link (URL) to a particular webpage relevant to the Tag it is
assigned to. However, an Object can also be any relevant piece of
data or information (like MP3 files for instance).
Let’s say you found our cool webpage about “outsourcing”. Using a
service like Del.icio.us (a popular social bookmarking service), you
can assign one of our webpages (the Object) to a Tag called “outsourcing”,
which will then appear on your own personal Del.icio.us page.
Then, you can share your personal Del.icio.us page with your
friends, family, or anyone you wish… and they’ll be able to see
your collection of bookmarks along with their assigned tags.
You can even add more bookmarks as you discover new,
interesting websites. Then you can “tag” those new bookmarks
with different words (ie. “offshore”, “call centers ”, etc.) and they’ll appear
on your Del.icio.us page.
You can utilise social bookmarking services like Del.icio.us in a
number of ways to promote virtually anything...
For example:
- You
can put up a resource page and give it to your customers.
- You
can share it with others and have people link to it.
- You can
put links to your new or existing websites on your Del.icio.us page to get
inbound links from an authority site (Del.icio.us).
Frequently Asked questions:
What exactly do i need to know & do now?
There are a few social bookmarking / tagging manuals:
The Tag and Ping Tutorials - very in-depth tagging tutorial with rich examples, insider's know-how and cool profit ideas. Recommended read and a must-have tutorial for making the most out of tagging and social bookmarking sites.
Tagging Secrets - another tutorial that's available online, less expensive, but we haven't reviewed it.
how can i easily social-bookmark (Tag) your site?
We offer Socializer. What's the Socializer?
The Socializer allows you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems.
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