Social Bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of Internet web pages using metadata, which is simply data about data. Thus, the term “social tagging” was coined, referring to the system by which Internet users contribute metadata using keywords to promote shared content.
These systems allow users to save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These public bookmarks can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only within certain networks, or a combination of public and private domains.
The people who are allowed to view these saved links can then find these bookmarks by category or informal tag, chronologically, or via a search engine. People viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag will also see information about the number of users who have bookmarked those tags. Having as many users include your links to their systems affects your visibility in the search engine results page (SERP).
Many Social Bookmarking services also provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, which allow subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users. The concept of sharing online bookmarks have become such a hit since itList was launched in 1996 because it encourages the sharing of only relevant and high-quality links.
As services like these have grown more popular with time, they have added extra features such as allowing ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features. The ratings and comments feature has helped users sift through countless numbers of bookmarks and locate the ones that are most reliable and relevant.
A social bookmarking system has many advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders and similar programs. Tag-based classification of Internet resources is done by actual human beings, who understand the content they are reading, unlike software, which tries to determine the meaning of a resource using algorithms.
How Social Bookmarking can work for you:
More people across the globe become aware of your website and hear what you have to say. It is as easy as signing up for sites such as del.icio.us, Simpy, Furl, Stumbleupon, Digg, reddit, or Newsvine, among others. We will build a quality network for you so that your links find their way to the people looking for your products or your services.
It brings targeted traffic to your website within a short period of time driving your pages to the top of the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). It also makes easier for loyal patrons to return to your site whenever they wish.
Building your social network online increases the number of your contacts and friends who can then drive your other websites to the top of the SERP.
Since bookmarking is done by humans, you won’t have to wait around for web spiders to index and rank your site. This also renders the visits you get from social bookmarking sites of higher quality compared to those coming directly from search engines.
The sharing of online bookmarks also allows Internet users to bookmark and thus, give exposure, to websites or web pages that have not yet been indexed by search engine spiders.
Contact us now at 866-963-2585 to find out how social bookmarking can work for you!