Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is known to be a powerful tool in promoting a website. It is completely a free

service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website. Social

bookmarking is a way that helps you to store, tag and share links across the internet wherein you can

then access these links from any computer anywhere anytime. It involves saving bookmarks online so

you can access them from any computer as well as share them with others. It is just tagging a website

and saving it for later reference. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to

the web. As your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

How does it work?

Social bookmarking sites are the best way to organize your bookmarks and allow taking your bookmarks

to work or to a friend's house and also allows you to find websites that will interest you. The basic

concept of social bookmarking is that you can add people as friends and browse through their

bookmarks, or simply search through the public bookmarks based on your interest. As, the bookmarks

were added by a real person, it has an edge over traditional search engines like Yahoo or Google.

Here you can save your favorite websites and send them to your friends. Even you can also look at

what other people have found interesting enough to tag. Most social bookmarking sites allow you to

browse through the items based on most popular, recently added, or belonging to a certain category

like shopping, technology, politics, blogging, news, sports, etc. You can even search through what

other people have bookmarked by simply typing in what you are looking for in the search tool.

Nowadays, social bookmarking sites are being used as intelligent search engines.

Let’s take an example, if you are on a blog about Aviation jobs, you might tag the blog with the

keywords "jobs" and "blog". If you are on a blog about fly crew, you might tag it with "fly crew" and

"blog". If you are on the AeroSoft website, you might tag it "fly crew" and "AeroSoft". As we have

used multiple tags, we can find the bookmarks through multiple ways. If you always tag your favorite

blogs with the tag of "blog", you can pull up all of your blogs by just typing in that keyword. Using

the example above, we can bring up the job blog and the fly crew blog by typing in "blog", or we

could bring up the fly crew blog and the AeroSoft website by typing in "fly crew".
Thus the social booking sites plays major role in saving the time of searching for blogs, websites

etc.

The TOP 15 Social bookmarking sites:-
Here are the top 15 social bookmarking sites furnished below.

1. Twitter - 250,000,000 monthly visitors.
2. Pinterest - 85,500,000 monthly visitors
3. Reddit - 16,000,000 monthly visitors
4. StumbleUpon - 15,000,000 monthly visitors
5. Delicious - 5,500,000 monthly visitors
6. Digg - 4,100,000 monthly visitors
7. Fark - 1,850,000 monthly visitors
8. Slashdot - 1,700,000 monthly visitors
9. Folkd - 1,600,000 monthly visitors
10. Friendfeed - 1,500,000 monthly visitors
11. MetaFilter - 1,400,000 monthly visitors
12. Newsvine – 1,390,000 monthly visitors
13. Diigo - 1,200,000 monthly visitors
14. Bibosonomy - 575,000 monthly visitors
15. Scoop.it - 550,000 monthly visitors

Benefits of Social bookmarking sites:-

Social bookmarking and social news allow you to specifically target what you want to see. Rather than

going into a search engine and  typing something in, and then searching for that required details,

you can quickly narrow down the items to what you are really in need of can be viewed through social

bookmarking sites. Here we can see that social bookmarking sites display recently added lists and

popular links wherein it is easy to get  you can both stay current and see relevant information. For

example, let's say you are interested in learning more about Aviation news. You might search for

Aviation news on one of these sites and come up with two articles: one can be with a hundred votes

and the other can be with two votes. It's very easy to tell that the article with a hundred votes

might be your best choice. It is easier than going for into a search engine and typing "Aviation

jobs" into a search engine and seeing page after page after page of links that may or may not be

useful.
In social book marking site there is a way to send bookmarks to friends. Now, you can simply go to a

social bookmarking site, choose the category or tag that matches your interest, and find the most

popular websites. There are a few Websites like Digg, Reddit and Propeller focus on social

bookmarking of news-related items such as politics, sports, technology, etc. These websites will

often feature breaking headlines and bloggers discussing the current news items.
Building up a network of friends:-
This enables the idea of meeting people on the web. In terms of social bookmarking, you can easily

become familiar with other users and add them to your friends list which can be an invaluable tool in

finding websites that interest you. Here a friend might recommend a good book or job hence a social

bookmarking friend can lead you to good websites. You can find interesting websites while searching

through the public bookmarks where you can make note of the user who has added the bookmark to the

site. In this way you can view their profile and browse through other bookmarks they have added. If

their interests are aligned with yours and you like the sites they have bookmarked, add them as a

friend.
Once you have built up a network of friends, you will have a resource to help you in finding good

websites. If you've done with the job of picking these friends, you can see through their

recommendations based on jobs, books etc.In this way, social bookmarking can help you tackle those

sixty billion web pages and find those pages that are of particular interest to you.

Vidhya Ethiraj [BE (ECE) &MBA (HR)]

Manager HR

www.AeroSoftCorp.com

www.AeroSoft.co.in 

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