Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a targeted part of the Social media optimization allowing users to mark, store and manage web pages through an online bookmarking process on the internet. In other words, social bookmarking allows users to store links to various web-pages they have surfed within private groups & shared within networks. As refined the storage, social bookmarking facilities also allow users to view their saved links chronologically & categorically.

Social bookmarking in itself is a viral process where links/tags are also promoted through web feeds to users who can have access to newer bookmarks. The basic principal of the exercise is to allow a user to maintain & share his personal database of web-pages online for continued references. As additional facilities with the social bookmarking website, the users are allowed to comment, tag, share, import & export their bookmarks from the internet.

Ø  Benefits of Social Bookmarking :

v  Increased Traffic - As more and more people read your bookmarked blog post/ web article and vote for it, the more popular it becomes & the traffic to your site increases.

v  Increased Visibility & Branding - Submitting to Social Bookmarking Sites puts your blog/website out there in front of millions of people, increasing your visibility ten notches and getting you more branding.

v  Get more Links - Each of these Popular Social Bookmarking Sites see tremendous volumes of traffic on a daily basis, if your blog/website has good content on it, chances are that several of these users will link to your content, thus getting you relevant links which will ultimately lead to an increase in your Rankings in the Search Engines.