Social Bookmarking And Getting Links

by Matt Willis

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. Social bookmarking is extremely popular with marketers in every niche. Social bookmarking takes this concept to the next level, enabling Internet users to share their bookmarks with each other in a collaborative fashion.

Users search through topics such as politics, technology, video and entertainment or even randomly if they prefer to find out what is going on online. Users of a social bookmarking system categorize their resources (web pages, music files, videos, etc). They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them.

Search engines, at this point, tend to index and search a global space ? not my local space. With regard to creating a high-quality search engine, a social bookmarking system has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders.

The end-user will also have his surfing experience more pleasant as he’ll be able to easily bookmark the website, without the need to manually go to each of the social bookmarking site, and adding an entry with the title and URL. A listener hears a song on the radio, uses their cell phone to text back to a website with tags and star ratings.

Utilize social bookmarking and social networking to further support your existing online marketing strategies. This look at WHY social bookmarking is a hit will enable you to custom-tailor marketing efforts that social bookmarkers will find IRRESISTIBLE. If you don’t have a social bookmarking marketing plan, you need this guide. You can think of it as viral or guerrilla marketing in a way.

Webmasters will be able to display a variety of bookmarking buttons on their pages with pre-filled information about their site. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. When you are on a website that you want to socially mark, simply select the text and click the SocialMarker button to pre-populate the submission form with the selected information.

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Social bookmarking:
  • Print
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Blogplay
  • LinkaGoGo
  • LinkedIn
  • Ping.fm
  • StumbleUpon
  • blogmarks
  • Blogosphere News
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I post to this blog every Monday (as of April 19 2010) and Thursday. On Mondays, I will discuss ways to get unlimited traffic to your website. On Thursdays, I will review and discuss social bookmarking software, bookmarking tips and tools. I am always looking for topics and input. My email address is in the next paragraph. If you want to subscribe to this blog, please use the RSS feed link just below this post and/or add yourself to my email list just above this post, so that I can notify you of new social bookmarking tools and tips. In addition, please join my Facebook fanpage. In the upper right hand corner, you can join this community of social bookmarking enthusiasts by simply clicking the link. If you have any comments or questions feel free to email me at admin@automarker.net.
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Social bookmarking is the link building tool of today. None of the other ways to build links bring in the same amount of traffic to your website or blog that social bookmarking does.