What is the meaning of social bookmarking?

Answer 1

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method of saving and storing online information or web pages for future reference. Rather than adding web pages to your 'Favorites' menu in your web browser, you can bookmark them using a social bookmarking site for future access.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

· Being listed on a social bookmarking site can drive quality traffic: Websites like Digg and Del.icio.us represent the opportunity to get a lot of new traffic to your website. In fact these sites offer best type of visitors: viral traffic. People who reach your site from a social bookmarking site are generally there because your Web site appeared in a search for topics they were interested in. Beware - some of the social bookmarking sites will mark links out to other sites as "no follow". This tells search engines not to follow the link, and so you won't reap any benefit from additional links!

· Search engines will often list results from bookmarking sites. So if your site is bookmarked, this is an extra opportunity to show up in search results.

· Being featured on one bookmarking site can often lead to people tagging your site on other bookmarking sites. This may sound rather strange, but people who book mark may use more than one bookmarking site. If you are lucky they may find you through one site and bookmark you on another, which is a great opportunity for web site promotion.

· Increase traffic by adding social bookmarking buttons to your website. Adding social bookmark links to your blog or web site makes it easy for readers to save and share your content, and therefore for others to find it.