The Top 25 Social Bookmarking Sites Rated & Ranked
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There is such an outrageous proliferation of social bookmarking sites, the vast majority of which can only be counted to drive only cyberair to your site and not the traffic you want, that it can be very difficult to determine where to spend your valuable time and effort to get those page views up and up and up.
The very first web site that could be called the grandpappy of all social bookmarking sites was launched in the Spring of 1996 and was called itList. This site included both public and private bookmarking functions and set the standard for the explosion of the industry. By the end of 1999 social bookmarking had taken off in earnest with various sites such as Backflip, Clip2, Clickmarks and Hotlinks. Many of these sites did not survive the dot com bubble's burst and soon closed.
del.icio.us was founded in 2003 and was responsible for coining the "social bookmarking" phrase that soon came to describe the entire industry. Today the overwhelmingly large selection of current social bookmarking sites runs into the thousands. Most of them exist socially only in their founder's minds as they are visited by no one at all. There are a handful of truly strong players in the market and they are usually measured with the following criteria:
- Inbound Links
- Compete's Estimate of Monthly Visitors
- Quantcast's Estimate of Monthly Visitors
- Alexa Ranking
- Page Rank
These criteria measure slightly different performance characteristics of each site, thus not any one of them can be considered definitive. Attempts have been made to create an algorithm which weighs all of the various features measured by each benchmark and provides a single, reliable ranking system, but they all have shortcomings. The best way to understand the rating of the top 25 social bookmarking sites is to look at the rankings for each criterion, and you should most certainly keep in mind that they definitely do vary slightly from each other how they measure traffic and popularity.
Inbound Links
- Del.icio.us
- Digg.com
- Technorati.com
- Bloglines.com
- Furl.net
- Reddit.com
- Newsvine.com
- Blinklist.com
- StumbleUpon.com
- Spurl.net
- Ma.gnolia.com
- Slashdot.org
- Mister-Wong.de
- Simpy.com
- Fark.com
- BlogMarks.net
- Netvouz.com
- Tailrank.com
- MyBlogLog.com
- Faves.com
- Dzone.com
- Propeller.com
- ShoutWire.com
- Clipmarks.com
- Kaboodle.com
Monthly Visitors - Compete
- Digg.com
- Technorati.com
- MyBlogLog.com
- Kaboodle.com
- Del.icio.us
- Propeller.com
- StumbleUpon.com
- Reddit.com
- Slashdot.org
- Bloglines.com
- Newsvine.com
- Fark.com
- Blinklist.com
- Clipmarks.com
- Furl.net
- Ma.gnolia.com
- Faves.com
- ShoutWire.com
- Dzone.com
- Netvouz.com
- Tailrank.com
- Simpy.com
- BlogMarks.net
- Spurl.net
- Mister-Wong.de
Monthly Visitors - Quantcast
- Digg.com
- Propeller.com
- Fark.com
- Technorati.com
- Del.icio.us
- Kaboodle.com
- StumbleUpon.com
- Reddit.com
- Slashdot.org
- Newsvine.com
- Blinklist.com
- Clipmarks.com
- Dzone.com
- Bloglines.com
- MyBlogLog.com
- Faves.com
- Furl.net
- ShoutWire.com
- Netvouz.com
- Simpy.com
- Tailrank.com
- Ma.gnolia.com
- BlogMarks.net
- Spurl.net
- Mister-Wong.de
Alexa Ranking
- Digg.com
- Technorati.com
- Del.icio.us
- StumbleUpon.com
- MyBlogLog.com
- Slashdot.org
- Reddit.com
- Bloglines.com
- Mister-Wong.de
- Fark.com
- Propeller.com
- Newsvine.com
- Furl.net
- Blinklist.com
- Dzone.com
- Clipmarks.com
- Ma.gnolia.com
- Kaboodle.com
- ShoutWire.com
- Simpy.com
- BlogMarks.net
- Faves.com
- Spurl.net
- Netvouz.com
- Tailrank.com
Page Rank
PR9
- Slashdot.org
- Bloglines.com
PR8
- Furl.net
- StumbleUpon.com
- Technorati.com
- Digg.com
- Del.icio.us
PR7
- Newsvine.com
- Ma.gnolia.com
- Simpy.com
- Tailrank.com
- Mister-Wong.de
- Reddit.com
- MyBlogLog.com
- Propeller.com
- Fark.com
PR6
- Dzone.com
- Faves.com
- BlogMarks.net
- Netvouz.com
- Spurl.net
- Kaboodle.com
- Blinklist.com
- Clipmarks.com
- ShoutWire.com
The rankings will not specifically tell you which of these 25 top ranked social bookmarking sites are the best ones for your particular internet marketing requirements. Some specialize in various specific aspects of web information and not others, so you should take care to custom tailor your time and resource expenditures to the sites that fit your niche best. Here is a brief description with links of each social bookmarking site to serve as a launchpad for your determination process. Following the top 25 is a collection of other sites which vary in popularity below the top 25, but may be of use to the marketing efforts of some web publishers.
- BlinkList
There is an innovative way of organizing tags on this avant garde social bookmarking site, and the potential for extremely high traffic to your page. - BlogLines
A multilingual and high-traffic professional site not to be missed as it has indexed literally billions of articles. - BlogMarks
This is a social bookmarking site with thumbnails which really helps as it allows you to visualize the page rather than just clicking on a text link. - ClipMarks
ClipMarks allows users to find people who post clips that interest them, and name them as a Guide, a form of their own personal Web Editor. - del.icio.us
This is the 800 pound gorilla in the social bookmarking field and it has set the standards for all others to meet. Use it properly and it can be a major contributor to your traffic. - Digg
Good luck. You could post an exclusive world scoop that George W. Bush has been kidnapped by aliens and you'd get three Diggs at best. The Digg Mob has taken over and they are the only ones that make the front page. Shame on you, Kevin Rose! - DZone
DZone is The Zone if you are a developer or have information that interests the developer community. If you hit them with the right info, the response can be overwhelming. - Fark
Who knew that Fark was as popular as it is? Certainly not me! This site has the potential to drive some very Farking serious traffic to your site! - Faves
Incorporating the older BlueDot, Faves is making a move to be a very strong and popular social bookmarking site. - Furl
A very high traffic site and somewhat similar to del.icio.us with a well-thought out system that automates finding other users with similar interests. - Kaboodle
Primarily a shopping bookmarks site, but still offers plenty of potential if your market niche overlaps theirs. - MaGnolia
An interesting and powerful site for discovering, sharing and discussing various web sites, it can provide a considerable upwards push to your traffic. - MisterWong
MisterWong is Mister Right if you are dealing with a topic of interest to German speaking web users. It's the top non-English social bookmarking site. - NewsVine
Heavily skewed towards hard news, this is still a site that with the right approach can drive massive traffic to you. - NetVouz
NetVouz is a social bookmarking site that allows you to use tags or categories and features a handy Add2Netvouz button to bookmark, import/export and much more. - Propeller
An awesome, powerful site that surprisingly slips below the radar when social bookmarking is generally discussed. It might be the best kept secret on the Web! - Reddit
Of all the Digg clones this one is giving Mr. Rose a run for his money, and not a moment too soon. I'm a huge supporter of Reddit just because Digg is so fundamentally crooked. - ShoutWire
A Digg-like site, it tends to favor opinionated posters and news items. If you get to know the site's profile before starting to use it, you will improve your chances at getting traffic from it. - Simpy
A powerful and well-populated social bookmarking site which features tagging. - SlashDot
Although it is one of the most powerful forces on the internet, I am dismayed by what is happening to it. Posts need to be submitted and now can be on hold for more than a week before rejected. Not exactly the best way to handle NEWS! - Spurl
A recent visit saw a front page notice that: "We are currently forced to offer reduced functionality due to heavy spam attacks." Might be worthwhile checking in later once they're over their problems. - StumbleUpon
A fantastic site and a great resource to web publishers. Use it! - TailRank
This Digg-type site concentrates on the "hottest news in the blogosphere" thus can be far more accessible than similar news social bookmarking sites to bloggers, Hubbers and other non-news publishers. - Technorati
Definitely one of the cream of the crop. If you're not taking full advantage of the traffic-driving possibilities to be found here, you're losing money every minute. - Yahoo MyBlogLog
Yahoo, like Google and Microsoft, keeps taking over established prominent sites and this one is no exception. A superb place to engage in social bookmarking. - Yahoo Search My Web Beta
It's still in Beta which makes you wonder if Yahoo has been concentrating on Ballmer and Icahn rather than its users, but it is still an excellent resource. THE FOLLOWING SITES ARE LOW- TO MID- TRAFFIC SITES THAT MAY BE WORTH EXPLORING: - BeanRocket
A user community and newsreader which seems at first glance to defuse its usefulness by adopting a very silly pun for a name. - Connectedy
Connectedy lets you upload your favorite or bookmarked links into a free account, then categorize and search through them. - Connotea
If you're working in the field of any type of research or clinical science, Connotea is a social bookmarking site for professionals who share those interests. - de.lirio.us
With a name that so obviously mimicks niche leader del.icio.us, you would think that it's some sort of copycat site, but it does offer various features like Notes that can be very handy. - FeedMarker
This is a bookmarker and aggregator newsreader that has added tagging. - FeedMeLinks
FeedMeLinks touts itself as a social bookmarking experiment hypothesis under test. In my estimation, the test needs a lot longer to run. The site is a mess. - FriendSite
This is a varied sharing site, which allows you to create forums and groups, IM, share bookmarks and send evites. - JumpTags
Jumptags is AJAX based for quick page element updating and allows users to collaborate on collecting bookmarks and using internet resources. - LinkFilter
LinkFilter is surprisingly enough, a link filter! All of the links are moderated by the users themselves and it features a comprehensive points system for each link. - LinkRoll
LinkRoll allows users to bookmark, categorize and comment on web pages and allows the site links to be accessed via RSS or JavaScript for incorporation into your own site. - LinkSwarm
Setting up its users in Swarms, this reasonably well-attended site is an good location for the offbeat and out-of-left-field type of content. - MyBookmarks
My Bookmarks promotes itself as allowing you to access your bookmarks anywhere and anytime which is not that drastically different than the competition, but it is still a somewhat popular site. - MyProgs
MyProgs offers users a way to keep a program list online by sharing experiences, recommending programs as well as classify and export via JavaScript & RSS. It is primarily for programs, but shrewd web publishers could make good use of it. - NetworkMenus
A very innovative social bookmarking system which resides right in the toolbar of your favorite browser! - NewNooze
A rather tepid Digg clone with relatively low traffic. - NewsCloud
A fairly conventional social bookmarking news site with a busy but active front page. - Oyax
Oyax is a fast and fairly active social bookmark manager and sharer which is well worth taking a look at. - PlugIM
PlugIM admits that it is a user driven internet marketing community. Therefore, it is a very appropriate site to engage in your efforts to get traffic to your site as you don't have to masquerade your content as news or anything else it isn't! - RawSugar
RawSugar is a socially enhanced search engine which relies on bookmarks and favorites, and it claims that it helps you access only information that is useful to you. - Reader2
It's an variant of MyProgs, but for books. The same company also provides the MyFilmz, TagFacts and Bank of Ideas sites as part of their delusionally named "global world takeover project." - Scuttle
An open source clone of del.icio.us where users can actually contribute to the code. - SpotBack
An very good social bookmarking site that also provides a free widget to add rating, assist users in discovering your content and gain a reasonable amount of traffic from other sites. - Tagza
A social bookmarking site primarily directed to the Indian subcontinent. - Unalog
A rather clunky social bookmarking service with relatively mild traffic numbers. - Urlex
Yet another del.icio.us clone. You really start to wonder just how many there is room for on the internet! - WebFeeds
Social bookmarking site with Digg-like home page voting by users. - WikLink
WikLink is a tiny web app which allows a small community to share their bookmarks and edit or modify links. - Wurldbook
Fun name and a rather plain vanilla site for a conventional social bookmarker. - Yoono
Yoono tells you to "Get A Life" and is based on browser bookmarks rather than tags. It also features extensions for various browsers.
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You certainly are very fortunate to be in those. They are very powerful traffic magnets!
Very good work there,very informative.Really one of the pages to bookmark,but I was wondering that you missed out indianpad.com, I think it has also got some potential.
Thanks for the kudos. Much appreciated. indianpad.com was among the many sites I checked out but although they have a good Alexa, some of their other metrics were much lower. And one of the factors that cuts them down in their ratings is that they have a very high average load time. The site must be running 80386 servers! :)
it makes me tired just to read this list!
Hi,
Wow, a great hub. The list of social bookmarks is really informative.
I have started a new hub, I hope to share with all hubbers. :)
Thanks sdas86. Hot dorkage, sorry to wear you out. :)
I've found Fark to be a nice little diamond in the rough! Nice post
Farkin' A! :)
Thanks for sharing this abundance of information. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Andre' Smith AKA Dre' Day
www.andresmith.biz
Awesome information my friend. I thought maybe that squidoo would at least be on the list.
Neither Squid or Hub really qualify as strictly "Social Bookmarking" so although their PR is certainly high enough, they didn't fit on this list.
very long good list of Social bookmarking site...try seo with this to get massive traffic
Massive traffic? Be realistic, dude! :)
Wow! I'm moving slowly but eventually I'll check out every site you've listed. Excellent job, Hal -- you saved the rest of us lots and lots of time and energy. Thanks much!
You're very welcome. Thanks for the kind words! :)
Brillant list. Thank you very much. Signed up to Bloglines already.
Great! Have fun! :)
LOL! The Digg Mob has taken over! Well in the initial stages I did get a few page ones via digg, however I hardly get over three diggs to anything submitted. I did undigg (or undug) most of what I had submitted, as I don't see any chances of getting dugg after the first few days elapses.
Cheers!
Yeah, digg has completely lost any credibility or usefulness. The best thing to do with digg is to digg its grave! :)
But still you get a page one within an hour after posting, provided the topic on the header is not something much sought after. Then it slowly keeps sliding down and gets lost forever. By that time it has been dug at most three times. However they don't accept any cloaked URLs nowadays.
Now I am off to "undigg" some of the stuff I have buried there, so I could plant them elsewhere. Why waste something in cyberspace!
Can I borrow a shovel? :)
I made page one on digg once and never since. I don't have much hope left for that site. I'll let you use my shovel as long as you promise to smack Kevin Rose in the head with it! :)
I promise!
That's what all the girls say! :)
Ok... I'll be checking in on digg every day to see the photo of Rose's head with your shovel stuck in it! :)
Good discussion you gave more hint to make our work easy and fast. You have also provided with links nice work in there. If this can be found by more SEO they'll be happy on this keep up the good works
Thank you soooooooooooooo much - printing this now, Cheers, Kimberly
IdoSEO and lyricsingray: Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate your comments!
Shall bookmark your hub. There are lots I have not come across here that will stil be interesting to a Brit, namely me.
ohohdon says:
17 months ago
Thanks for this awsome list and for ranking it and for summarizing each of them. As it turns out, I'm in most of the top directories and few of the lower ranked directories, but just by luck. Now I know.