Social Bookmarking – Overview

Having a good service or product or business portfolio won’t benefit if you don’t reach the right target audience to turn all this into earned revenue. Creating a platform where the business is made as visible and accessible as possible is where the social bookmarking tool comes into play.

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage, and search for bookmarks of online resources. Visitors can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity, and view public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes created by registered users.

Did you know that there are more than 15 billion web pages? For everything to make sense, we need to select the best pages and save them for later.

Social bookmarking opens the door to new ways of organizing information and categorizing resources. Social bookmarking services indicate who created each bookmark and provide access to that person’s other bookmarking resources, so users can easily make social connections with others interested in much the same topic.

It is important because social bookmarking gives users the opportunity to express different perspectives on information and resources. So this process allows like-minded people to meet and create new user communities. Tagging information resources with keywords has the potential to change the way we store and find information.

It can become less important to know and remember where the information was found and more important to know how to retrieve it using a framework created and shared with peers and colleagues.

Social bookmarking makes it easy to distribute reference lists, bibliographies, articles, and other resources.

Good Places – The following are some of the most up-to-date and top-ranked social bookmarking sites available for your perusal:

Twitter: This tool makes it easy to send and read text-based information online. The character count is only up to 140 and as such the published material is done concisely and uses a lot of jargon.

Digg – As a social news website, this particular site has its own loyal following, which is considered the critical element in allowing people to be a part of the endorsements in regards to the popularity of a post. The voting done on the uptrend or downtrend called dig and bury respectively is what contributes to its popularity.

Stumble upon – This is a form of web search engine known as a discovery engine and it finds and recommends web content to interested parties. The principles adopted for the rating process are therefore based on a peer-to-peer sourcing basis. Users rate posted web pages, photos, and videos based on personalized likes and interests.

Reddit – This is also a site where registered users submit social news. The contents are sent in the form of withered links or own text posts. Other users will then begin the voting process to create the appropriate positioning that establishes the voting exercise. This in turn determines the positioning of the site pages and the front page.

Buzz feed: This is a website that combines a technology platform with the specific intent of detecting viral content. It is accompanied by an editorial selection process to offer a snapshot of the viral web in real time. This tool is a highly sought after tool for obvious reasons.

The “fly in the ointment” is that social bookmarking is open to abuse by spammers due to its popularity. Some people have started looking at it as a tool to use in conjunction with search engine optimization to make your website more discoverable. Spammers have started to bookmark the same web page multiple times and/or tag each page of their website using many popular tags, forcing developers to constantly adjust their security system to overcome abuse.

I can witness my personal constant struggle with spammers on my new bookmarking site. But we have to take the good with the bad, otherwise we’ll never get anywhere.