What is Social Bookmarking:-
Social Bookmarking is a relatively new technology that has changed the way people experience the Web by allowing users to store, classify, rate, comment on and search links to any website or blog. It 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 a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
How does it work?
Social bookmarking opens the door to new ways of organizing information and categorizing resources. The creator of a bookmark assigns tags to each resource, resulting in a user-directed, “amateur” method of classifying information. Because social bookmarking services indicate who created each bookmark and provide access to that person’s other bookmarked resources, users can easily make social connections with other individuals interested in just about any topic. Users can also see how many people have used a tag and search for all resources that have been assigned that tag. In this way, the community of users over time will develop a unique structure of keywords to define resources — something that has come to be known as a “folksonomy.”
Significance of the Social Bookmarking:-
We do social bookmarking to promote websites and achieve Google top 10 ranking. Social bookmarking is supplementary to overall SEO activities. However Social bookmarking is not all about Search Engine Optimization and certainly not the playing fields for SEO experts. Social Bookmarking also reflects the latest in the world and what is happening all around the world. Well this statement might not be true as most of social bookmarking websites originate in USA so it is no wonder that story/news involving America will always be in top. Just browse through digg or any other famous social bookmarking website and you will see it by yourself.
Social Bookmarking is the fastest way to get your site indexed by the Search Engines and puts you in front of thousand active internet users. It generates a lifelong one way incoming link from authority websites and promoted the viral marketing as these links are picked by the various blogs, content aggregators etc. There is more to book-marking your pages online than just getting indexed; you are also guaranteed some traffic from these sites as soon as you submit to them. Since you will also be tagging them under your niche keywords, a lot of the traffic from social bookmarking sites is also much targeted. The result is that you may also have return visitors if you have very useful content or compelling offers on your website.
Social bookmarking is bait for the search engines. By posting in your information about your site or blog and bookmarking on a regular basis you will get the search engines showing up at Netscape for example and putting your article on page one for the keyword phrase you are targeting. This also gets them spidering your website or blog more regularly which can lead to more traffic on some of your other posts.
