Keep Reading: December 2008

What is social bookmarking?

For storing, organizing, searching and managing bookmarks of web pages, the Internet users use a process which is known as Social Bookmaking. Terms like as Bookmarks or Bookmarking or Bookmarking Sites or Social Networking or Social Bookmarking Sites etc. are also refers to the same thing. Modern social bookmarking also provides facilities of videos, images, news etc. Day by day it's becoming very popular. Today, it's one of the best easiest way to publish any article also. Website owners or blogger use it to increase their web site traffic.

How the users visits the bookmarks:

If the bookmarks are private then no one can visit those. But if they are public then they are viewable to the users by categories or groups or via search engines like Yahoo or Google.

Now-a-days, web feeds are available in the bookmarks pages. So, this provides a great flexibility to know about the update, share etc. to the users.

What are the services of social bookmarking?

Today, social bookmarking provides a lot of services to the users. Some of them are:

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
And many more ...

How can user share bookmarks?

Any user is capable to do share or to make his/her bookmarks public or private. Any user may do one of the followings:

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 publishers are always prefer social bookmarking sites?

Publishers are always try to get huge traffic to their sites. The writers are also same as publishers. They also tell people about the newly published writings and try to increase site traffic. To achieves highest traffic, publishers or writers take social bookmarking as a tool. They all publish through social bookmarking. So, many person can get it easily. When people get that, open that and read. Thus the site traffic creates. The more people will open it, the more site traffic will be created. Thus, publishers or writers find a easy and free way to increase site traffic.

If site traffic is really increasing and if the contents are really helpful to all, then Google or Yahoo or MSN search engine also shows them to the searched result page.

Lists of social bookmarking sites

[ Note: Tagfoot is not yet open to all. You need to invitation to sign up. If you wish to join please click here to Sign up at tagfoot now and immediatley you will be able to create your account and use it for your bookmarking purposes. To login later, use this link http://www.tagfoot.com/. ]

A long list of social bookmarking sites is provided below:

If you feel that others are also need to add. Then just put that in the comment part. Those will be added soon. I will give you special thanks, if you do that.

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Bookmarks : List of social bookmarking sites

What is social bookmarking?

How the users visits the bookmarks:

What are the services of social bookmarking?

How can user share bookmarks?

Why publishers are always prefer social bookmarking sites?

Lists of social bookmarking sites

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