Social Bookmarks – The Truth Revealed

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By JJC13



So What Are Social Bookmarks

Back then, social bookmarks were not referred to as such. It was plainly referred to as bookmarking online. It was back in 2006 when the first online bookmarking service was launched with the sole purpose of saving URLs of websites online to make it convenient for Internet users to store their favorite sites online.

But in such a short span of time, there was a revolutionary development in the bookmarking scene.

By the end of 2003, a new name was coined for this kind of service and it was now referred to as "social bookmarking".

It started with the idea tagging other users who also have created accounts on the same online bookmarking service, hence the purpose of bookmarking have grown from saving sites online to socializing with other people online. Social bookmarks became a hit that numerous sites have been put up to join this phenomenal trend.

Aside of course from the idea of acquiring back links for their own websites, those who frequent social bookmarking sites have this objective to make friends with other users and hopefully drive them to visit their websites.

It is one way to market products to people, plus imagine the traffic they would get coming from other users who would be clicking on the links they save. Website traffic is one factor that can boost the page rank of a website, and a good page rank is what most website owners would want to get.

Many may us may have ignored one benefit that we get from bookmaking, and that is being able to share to people some things which might be of interest to them. While it's true that Internet users can easily search for stuffs they want by using the different search engines, but bookmarking sites can help them discover lots of other things which they might not have interest in yet but will probably become interesting to them once they read the bookmarks done by other users.

This is one way of introducing new products and services to other people. Isn't it just amazing that the results you get from it could even be more from what you can get from search engine results.

Social bookmarks still have a lot more to offer than what you think it can and for sure there will be more developments in the future. This is simply because it is something interesting since it is done by manually by humans and not machines.


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tinnitus  says:
4 months ago

Social bookmarks have been doing wonders to increase traffic in my business

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