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What is Social Bookmarking? List of top Social bookmarking sites

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What is Social Bookmarking? List of top Social bookmarking sites

"Social Bookmarking" is an online web tool through which you can share your favorite articles, website links, photos and videos with the rest of the world. Social bookmarking sites have become very popular over the past few years because many people around the world prefer to use bookmarking sites to search for interesting topics or news, rather than use search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon and Reditt have become quite popular among net savvy people nowadays, due to the fact that these sites provide access to content-specific topics and websites. Social bookmarking sites have become very popular among people in many countries of the world

Uses of Social Bookmarking sites

Using Social Bookmarking sites, one can submit their favorite sites or videos so that other people can access them on the internet. Social Bookmarking can increase traffic to your site or blogs dramatically, and can help you to earn money through online affiliate programs like Google Adsense, eBay , Amazon networks etc . Further, more people are now taking to Social Bookmarking sites instead of search engines due to the fact that the recent trend of results in top engine searches often fetches sites with inferior quality

Following are the facilities provided by bookmarking sites:

* Adding and saving bookmarks

* Tagging

* Storing important links or web pages

* Storing and sharing pictures

* Storing and sharing videos

* Sharing news

* Rating on bookmarks

* Commenting on bookmarks

* Form the browser, Import and export bookmarks

* Emailing of bookmarks

* Publishing of articles

Social bookmarking sites provide various options to publishers

* He/she may share it publicly.

* He/she may keep it privately.

* He/she may share it with a specified person/persons.

* He/she may share it with a groups.

* He/she may share it inside a certain networks.

* He/she may share it to the combination of public and private domains

Why Social bookmarking sites?

You may ask as to why one should go for social bookmarking sites to popularize their sites, when they can do that easily through Search engines like Google? Well, search engines are of course the preferred means of traffic generation for more people but they don't offer assurance to keep your site listed in the top search results for ever, even if your site obtains a higher SEO ranking in the beginning. The reason is that, search engines like Google and Yahoo regularly review sites and ranks them according to their quality. This means that if someone creates a site better than yours, the new site will occupy your site's place in the top results.

Further, people looking for sites through search engines like Google are most often the ones not specific with their searches. However, the ones using social bookmarking sites will look for topic -specific sites, hence greater of the chances for your site being viewed by others.

Over the years, social bookmarking sites have become more popular when compared with search engines.

Following is the list of some of the top Social Bookmarking sites

BlogMarks.net

Blauer Bote Bookmarks

LQ Bookmarks

de.lirio.us

del.icio.us

digg

StumbleUpon

feedmarker

FriendSite

frassle

FuzzFizz

Jumptags

linkroll

loom

MyProgs

Yahoo Search myweb2 beta

NEWNOOZE

openBM

Reader²

reddit

scuttle.org

unalog aworldofhelp beanrocket BlinkList CiteULike commontimes Connectedy Connotea Social bookmarking for scientists.

dinnerbuzz Dinnerbuzz is a social guide to restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. It's designed to make it easier for you to find a place for dinner or drinks anywhere in the world.

Wiklink

FlipSkipper social bookmarking manager that allows users to pull concurrent searches from Yahoo!, Google News, and del.icio.us when surfing.

GiveALink Donate your bookmarks for academic research.

IndiaGram Allows social bookmarking. Aim is to develop a community that shares information about websites on diverse topics.

jots

linkblog Portuguese

Netvouz

O Y A X

RawSugar

Shadows

Simpy

sitetagger

Spurl

Yahoo Search myweb2 beta

Youtube

Zaadz Zlitt Zurpy

 

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