Social bookmarking - what’s all the fuss about?

Let’s first explain what social bookmarking is:

” Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.

Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features. “Source: Wikipedia.

The advantage of this system of bookmarking as opposed to classification done by the usual software such as searh engines is that its done with human intervention. It is therefore more content related. Unforunately this also opens the door to abuse by spammers.

Social bookmarking is a big part of Web2.0. community. There is always more than one way of looking at information. Bookmarking allows for a different approach to organising information and resources on the net, making it more ‘consumer’ and ‘community’ friendly.

Also, check out here  our real example of applying bookmarking,  and how using certain techniques you can really benefit from better ranking on search engines like Google, in a specific niche. Check out how BiancaGubalke.com with a simple Technorati Tag “bianca gubalke” went to Google’s number one position

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