Tuesday, June 30, 2009

How to Make Good Use of Social Bookmarks

To understand online social bookmarks you first have to know it by definition. Social bookmarking is an internet method for organizing, searching, managing, and storing the bookmarking of the web pages. It's helped along by using tags, used in 'metadata', that become 'folsonomies'.

A folksonomy is a process of social 'tagging'. It saves links to web pages that you want to remember or share with others. While they're mostly used in a public venue, you can save them privately as well. You may also be selective about who may view your pages.

For those who have an online business, then having an online presence is vital to their success. Knowing that online social bookmarks build site traffic gives them a unique advantage for getting customers to their site where they can see their products or services.

One of the other key benefits of online social bookmarks that you can share things with people that are of a real interest to them. It's an easy way of discovering things that's unlike do search engine searches. And it's more personal.

Social bookmark managers online are numerous. Most of these are FREE to use. They allow you to store and manage your bookmarks on a site that's different from your own. This gives you an advantage of not cluttering up and overflowing the space on your own site.

If you try to weed out all the sites that are similar to your topic, but not what you really want, you could spend hours upon hours. But if you use your bookmarks to find your information, then you have a much easier way of doing it. The tags help you find what you need.

Your readers and followers can find your bookmarks if they're public, or if they're in your group. They can share your information with others, and send people your way who are interested in your particular niche. The social effect is viral and spreads quickly.

You can literally bookmark hundreds of sites and still keep them in an easily accessible list of tags which makes them only a click away. It really is the best way of keeping track of all your favorite sites and for organizing important information for your business.

If you want to try using online social bookmarks yourself, then register on a social bookmarking site. A good one to start with is del. Icio. Us and it's very popular. There are many others to choose from and the list is massive. You can add your bookmarks manually, but most of these sites will offer a toolbar to put on your homepage that allows you to bookmark sites as you surf.

Source:Ezine

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