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What is Social Bookmarking?
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.
In social bookmarking websites, users create and store bookmarks of their choice. These bookmarks can be viewed by others and that let them know about new services and latest concepts which are making news in the online world.
Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.
For example: del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, My Web, Reddit are some of the most popular social bookmarking websites.
Benefits of Social Bookmarking:
1. Importing of Bookmark:
You can put all your bookmarks together and consolidate them in one place on a Social Bookmarking website which reside on the desktop of your computer.
2. Accessibility of Bookmark:
You can access your bookmarks anytime and anywhere by saving them on a Social Bookmarking website with an internet connection.
3. Sharing of Bookmark:
You can easily share your bookmarks with your friends or co-workers which are present on Social Bookmarking websites. Also you can view bookmarks of your friends or co-workers or other users.
4. Finding Popular Website on Internet:
At Social Bookmarking Websites, you can come across a lot of other articles and websites which are popular among other users.
5. Makes Search Capability Easy:
Social Bookmarking Websites makes search results more faster than yahoo or Google.
6. Private Bookmarks:
If you save bookmark as “Private” than it would be accessible only to you.
7. Data Safety:
Social Bookmarking Websites allows exportability and save your bookmarks on your desktop to avoid loss of data. How to get started with Social Bookmarking In order to get started with Social Bookmarking, all you need to do is register yourself on a social Bookmarking website. The registration process on a social Bookmarking website is free of cost and relatively simple unlike other websites. You can use any user name for registration of your account which becomes part of the URL that can be used to access your bookmarks.
8. Fast Indexing :
Google bot index these community web sites very fast, for example, digg, stumble and technoraty stories are indexed every 15 to 20 minutes, So when you get the web site submitted in these social sites and they remains on home page or inner category page, they get indexed very fast!
9. More Natural Links - Link Baiting:
If other members like your web site or story, they will surely publish that story with your web site URL in their own forums, blogs and websites, So you keep getting natural one way links!
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