Social Bookmarking Sites
First things first, what is social bookmarking? This question had been wandering my mind since the past week. So, once my curiosity got the ultimate best of me, I started the research. As always, I am sharing my knowledge, findings and opinions with you. Social bookmarking is the act of one website hosting a bookmark of another webpage. This works wonders in webpage marketing.
What is a Social Bookmarking Site?
Basically, as the name suggests, these are sites that allow users to bookmark their favorite pages. This site does not include all the content of the bookmarked website, simply a bookmark for the particular page. It allows others to use and peruse through the bookmarks as well. As such when it comes to Internet marketing of articles and blogs, these sites help a lot.
Social Bookmarking Sites List
Okay, I know that many of you may have not exactly understood the explanation, as always, a few examples might help. Here is a list of the most popular sites, currently.
- i89.us - it can be exported to several formats, see popular & recent bookmarks, ability to shorten URLs.
- AllMyFavorites.net - Creates an organized page for all your bookmarks that you can share with friends and family. It can be accessed from any computer.
- Backflip.com - Checks out the most popular links on each day. You can set "The Daily Routine" as your homepage so you can visit your must stop sites each day with ease.
- BibSonomy.com - It allows Public & private bookmarks, tag cloud, related tags, duplicate detection with the chance to merge their info.
- BlinkPro.com - It has dynamic folders, bookmark all links of a page plus all the usual features.
- BlogMarks.net - Saves your bookmarks, tags them with keywords for easy searching amongst your list, shares them with others.
- Bluedot.us - It is a tabbed user page showing a network of friends, bookmarks, and related tags. Allows you to import contacts from all the major mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo.
- BmAccess.net - Bookmarks a site, adds tags. When you look up a tag, you get the names and a little thumbnail image of the site along with it.
- BuddyMarks.com - Stores your bookmarks online, shares some or all of them, discovers new sites to visit by searching the public bookmark area.
- Chipmark.com - Allows you to browse random "chipmarks", share them, sort, filter, and get personal recommendations.
- Complore - Gives 10MB of file storage, public & private sharing, tag cloud, popular feeds and more.
- Connectbeam.com - It is a themed for enterprise-scale business.
- Connectedy - Imports your bookmarks, batch edits them, checks in on hot topics.
- Connotea.org - It is a themed specifically for researchers, clinicians and scientists.
- Diigo.com - Highlights portions of a page, writes on it like you would a piece of paper, shares with your group, and searches all publicly saved pages.
- Excites.com - Organizes your bookmarks by tags, adds comments and notes, shares publicly, subscribes to certain tags so you can be notified when a new site is added that may interest you.
- Feedmelinks.com - It has all the usual social bookmarking goodies, but you can also add links via email.
- GetBoo.com - Exports your folders to HTML, imports and removes duplicates, deletes all bookmarks.
- Givealink.org - You can donate your bookmarks to this site to help them recommend sites and get a better understanding of how each person bookmarks.
- Hyperlinkomatic.com - It imports/exports, categorizes, note sharing, blocks users, RSS, tags.
- IKeepBookmarks.com - It provides folders, search folder names and more.
- Lilisto.com - Helps out with ratings, notes, categories, smart categories and in-page editing.
- Linkroll.com - Here, the links open in new windows, one can subscribe to tags and browse by archives.
- Ma.gnolia.com - You can discuss all the saved bookmarks in groups, see what the Featured Linker is all about, join discussions in the Hot Group.
- Mister-Wong.com - Allows you to bookmark and tag, search for tags that interest you, make buddies with people who have interesting saved sites.
- Netvouz.com - Saves your bookmarks in folders, tags them with keywords, shares them with others or password protects them.
- Nextaris.com - Provides you with folders, tags, clippings; store up to 100MB for free.
- Shadows.com - Shares your already existing bookmarks, discusses and rates sites and sees what you can find.
- SocialBookmarking.org - Has user and global tag cloud, blogs, social networking, avatars, forums and more.
- StumbleUpon.com - Lets you "channel surf" the Internet and review sites. It learns what you like and recommends more of the same.
- Unalog.com - It is a basic site, but with the ability to look back at specific days and see what was going on.
- WireFan.com - You can vote on links as well as add thumbnails for sites.
- Xilinus.com - Provides tags, rating, search, public & private listing, drag-and-drop sorting.
- Yahoo! My Web - One button click adds your bookmarks to the search engine giants system, it features duplicate detection to help you keep your bookmarks tidy.
- BlinkList.com - Saves sites for later reading, shares your list or keeps it private, even sends your saved pages to your blog for wider sharing.
- Clipclip.org - Like an online scrapbook, one can clip out the part of the site one wants, then share it with whomever one wants, and discover new places to visit.
- Clipmarks.com - It allows you to clip just the chosen bits of a webpage, save them to the main website, or even insert them into your own blog. Think of it as fancy block quoting.
- del.icio.us - You can add your bookmarks and access them from anywhere. You can also check out what others are saving and see where it takes you.
- Furl.net - Not only can you do the standard bookmarking and sharing, but you can save archived versions of a webpages well. You can even export all your saved pages to a ZIP file.
- Linktopia.com - Allows the user to keep private, share, mark as friends only, edit bookmark dates.
- RawSugar.com - It can cluster your tags for you based on recommendations by other users.
- Simpy.com - This social bookmarker does all the usual tasks plus detects links that have changed, and distributes your bookmarks via your blog's RSS if you like.
- Spurl.net - You can upload your existing bookmarks to get started, add more for centralized access, check out hot lists and recommendations, with this site.
- SyncOne.net - It has all the usual features plus the ability to add your own Google Ads to the top of your profile page.
- URLex.info - Provides you with inbox, group creation, directory, all the usual features, plus being able to send your RSS feed to the site.
Different sites may have different reviews for different types of users. While many of the local social bookmarking sites have a tendency to have geo-specific bookmarks, the sites listed above and minimal hitches and have been found to be very user-friendly. For people who are new to the concept of social bookmarking, one might consider it a good option to go through the site before beginning hardcore activities on it.
Online bookmarking sites help websites to rank on search engines. This helps increase web traffic, making it a profitable field for earnings. As such, websites and blogs that are into search engine optimized content, prefer to have their content bookmarked at these websites making the page more optimized. This is known as on page SEO, which allows a book mark of the page to be available at the bookmaking sites. More so, the traffic at the websites also increases due to the visitors of the sites who visit the bookmarked pages. This in turn makes online earning far more lucrative.
These sites are great for those who want more and more people to read what they express through the web. This is where I sign off!! Take care!
