Social Bookmarking Sites | Benefits of Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a process or procedure of Internet users to store, search, manage and organize bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, that is typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the method by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".

In a social book marking 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 mixture of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.


BENEFITS OF SOCIAL BOOKMARKING:

1. Quick Indexing: The fastest way to have any webpage or site visited by the search engines and indexed.

2. Traffic Generation: There is more to book-marking your pages online than just getting indexed; guaranteed some traffic from these sites as soon as you submit to them.

3. Personal Branding: Most of the social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon also give you the opportunity to develop own pages on their site.

4. Quality Backlinks: By building a personal page on a lot of the social book-marking sites.The effects of these is that pages will be frequented by the search engine robots, indexing any new content that you post on it.

Popular Social bookmarking sites that helps in promotion and drives more traffic:

Digg.com
del.icio.us
reddit
Furl
StumbleUpon
Propeller
Zimbio
Jumptags
Yahoo! Buzz
Technorati
Mixx
Spicy Page

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