Is Social Bookmarking Really for You?

Nov 14, 2009 by Tech-Digit

Social bookmarking is searching, managing and consolidating web pages that you have found interesting and you want to easily access in the future, and then sharing them.

It is the same with the function of “favorites” in your computer when you have a web browser up. But the difference is that it is not only you who can access these links but also those people you have selected to share these links with. These people may be a specific group, certain people, members of a networking community, etc.

This started gaining its popularity in 2007. One of the main reasons for its popularity is because it is also being used as a marketing tool. This is done because as you add a bookmark available for a chosen group of people, you are giving them the chance to click on that bookmark and get linked to a specific website. And as we know, for a webpage or website to simply be visited is already a big deal of advertisement. As you give these web pages the opportunity to be easily accessed through your site, you are opening doors for them, thus you may get profit through it. This is reason why some experienced marketers use automated social bookmarking software to automate the process and gain a ton of traffic from these sites. You too can benefit from this, and to save you time I’ve put a list of social bookmarking sites below which you can sign up for free and start promoting your own web site.

Websites that operate like social bookmarking are community sites, sites for social news, social media and social networking. But actual examples of social bookmarking sites are furl, twitter, del.icio.us , blinklist, reddit, fark, ilike, mog, sphinn, newsvine, stumbleupon, technorati, propeller, meneame, dzone, clipmarks, pligg, kaboodle, bumpzee, ma.gnolia, rollyo, jaiku, 9rules, startaid, shoutwire, bluedot, gather, simpy, nowpublic, plugim, stylehive, spurl, blinkbits, librarything, blogmarks, netvouz, diigo, wink, corank, popurls, mister-wong, blackflip, rojo, shadows, bloghop, rawsugar, listible, thoof, tailrank, wists, bibsonomy, plime, xilinus, yoono, searchles, hugg, citeulike, kuro5hin, spotback, spotplex, fazed, kinja, claimed, clipfire, linkroll, bmaccess, abbogy, oyax, gravee, butterflyproject, myhq, wirefan, ikeepbookmarks, a1-webmarks, connectedy, sitejot, linkatopia, myvmarks, getboo, mylinkvault, urlex and so much more.