Social Bookmarking Revealed
Today, there are tons of sites out there that are designated as social book marking sites.
Just go to Google and do a search under that term and you will find them all.
As a matter of fact, if you do that Google search, you will find almost 1.
5 million of these sites or references to them.
If you had done this search 2 years ago you probably wouldn't have found any.
Now there is one thing you have to understand about social book marking sites.
They are very strict, at least most of them, with what you can put there.
If the link you share is not directly related to the topic of that site, it will be removed.
For example, Digg, which is one of the more popular sites with a PR of 7, is a technological site.
The thing about Digg is that whatever gets submitted is reviewed by the users and not the editor of the site.
It's the users who decide whether or not something gets included.
So as you can imagine, this can be quite a cutthroat business and can get quite ugly.
So if you submit a link, make sure it's one that absolutely fits with the topic of the site.
Probably one of the biggest and most popular social book marking sites is del.
icio.
us with an Alexa rank of 2180 as of this writing.
If you go to the site, the first thing you will see, besides their welcome, is what is called the hot list.
This is a list of the hottest bookmarked sites at their site.
Unlike Digg, which is a purely technical site, you will find just about anything and everything at Del.
icio.
us.
It is a virtual black hole of information.
Quite honestly, I don't know how anybody finds anything there in particular.
Yes, they do have a search function.
But if you're looking up something that is very common, you're likely to come up with almost as many results as you will at Google.
However, with an Alexa rank that high, if people do find your bookmarked site, there is a good chance that many will find it and could thus lead to you getting quite a bit of traffic.
The key to making Del.
icio.
us work is to not just bookmark your site or the articles at your site, but to bookmark everything connected to your site, such as the articles that you've submitted to directories likeE-Zine Articles.
The more things you bookmark related to your site, the more traffic you'll get.
That's the key to making all these social book marking sites work.
However, if you really want to go to the top of the social book marking club, then simply go to Yahoo's book marking site, which is currently in beta.
Yahoo is the number 1 Alexa ranked site on the Internet, so you're not going to do any better than that.
I am sure that once their book marking site is out of beta, it will probably be one of the hottest ones on the Internet.
If you're into things like Linux and Open Source, then the social book marking site that you want to go to is...
[http://bookmarks.
linuxquestions.
org/] Yes, it's kind of a site for geeks, but in the tech world, Linux and Open Source are big issues.
If you think not, you know that Open Office you're using instead of Microsoft Word? Well, that's Open Source code, and there is a lot of it out there.
Sometimes it pays to jump on something when it's new.
If you're one of the pioneers of a social book marking site, people will get to know you real fast.
Well, one of the newer sites out there is a site called Newnooze, which is kind of like a Digg clone, except where Digg is basically a technology site, Newnooze has bookmarks on just about every subject you can think of.
When you first go to Newnooze, it's easy to be overwhelmed at first.
There is a lot there.
The first thing you will probably notice is the popular categories list.
Some of the top ones are work at home and Internet business.
If that's what you're into, which I assume it is since you're reading this, then this is the place you want to be.
The site is new and isn't quite operational at this time.
But if you go there, you can get a decent idea of what you can expect to find once it gets going.
Another pretty popular site that's rising fast is http://de.
lirio.
us/.
If you go there, the first things you'll see are the most recent bookmarks.
So you're going to have to bookmark often if you want to keep yourself on the first page, as there are only about 10 or so bookmarks on each page.
As of this writing, there are almost 1200 pages at this site.
There is no search function at this site, which is pretty annoying, but they do have a sort by date, title and URL function, which I guess helps a bit.
The thing that we all have going for us in our favor with these social book marking sites, is that they are all the rage.
This means that a lot of people are hanging out at these sites.
That means more potential visitors to our sites.
The bad thing about most of these social book marking sites is that most of them are run by the inmates.
In other words, if they don't like the site you've bookmarked, they can easily have it removed.
This makes getting your business seen very hard.
You have to be very clever not to give the appearance of outright advertising, which a lot of these sites are dead set against.
The best thing to do when going to a social book marking site is to register, log in and then observe.
Don't post anything.
Just take a look around to see what kinds of links get posted.
Some sites, like Digg, are very specialized and only cater to certain topics.
So make sure that the site you are at will even allow a post for your site.
Another thing you want to look for is to see if any of the links posted are blatant advertisements.
If they are and they're allowed to remain, then the site has a lenient policy about what's posted and you shouldn't have much trouble posting just about anything for your site.
Also, if the site is maintained by the administrator and not the inmates, there's a good chance that your post will stand the test of time.
You also want to look for a social book marking site where your links are going to be visible on the main page for at least some time.
Some of these sites have so much traffic that a link can be gone in a matter of minutes.
Pages that display the most number of links per page are probably your best bet.
Social book marking sites are very protective communities.
The founding members of these sites look over them like mother hens.
So if you rush your way into one of these like a bull in a china shop, you will probably get thrown out on your ear faster than you can say "Bookmark this please.
" But if you obey the rules and show that you're there to share information, you'll be just fine.
As to how effective social book marking will be for you, well, it's pretty much like with forums.
If you tow the line, provide relevant information and follow the guidelines, provided you hang around long enough to gain respectability, you should do just fine.
The bottom line is this.
Social book marking appears to be here to stay.
So make the most of it.
It just may add a few zeros to your bottom line when the year is over.
Just go to Google and do a search under that term and you will find them all.
As a matter of fact, if you do that Google search, you will find almost 1.
5 million of these sites or references to them.
If you had done this search 2 years ago you probably wouldn't have found any.
Now there is one thing you have to understand about social book marking sites.
They are very strict, at least most of them, with what you can put there.
If the link you share is not directly related to the topic of that site, it will be removed.
For example, Digg, which is one of the more popular sites with a PR of 7, is a technological site.
The thing about Digg is that whatever gets submitted is reviewed by the users and not the editor of the site.
It's the users who decide whether or not something gets included.
So as you can imagine, this can be quite a cutthroat business and can get quite ugly.
So if you submit a link, make sure it's one that absolutely fits with the topic of the site.
Probably one of the biggest and most popular social book marking sites is del.
icio.
us with an Alexa rank of 2180 as of this writing.
If you go to the site, the first thing you will see, besides their welcome, is what is called the hot list.
This is a list of the hottest bookmarked sites at their site.
Unlike Digg, which is a purely technical site, you will find just about anything and everything at Del.
icio.
us.
It is a virtual black hole of information.
Quite honestly, I don't know how anybody finds anything there in particular.
Yes, they do have a search function.
But if you're looking up something that is very common, you're likely to come up with almost as many results as you will at Google.
However, with an Alexa rank that high, if people do find your bookmarked site, there is a good chance that many will find it and could thus lead to you getting quite a bit of traffic.
The key to making Del.
icio.
us work is to not just bookmark your site or the articles at your site, but to bookmark everything connected to your site, such as the articles that you've submitted to directories likeE-Zine Articles.
The more things you bookmark related to your site, the more traffic you'll get.
That's the key to making all these social book marking sites work.
However, if you really want to go to the top of the social book marking club, then simply go to Yahoo's book marking site, which is currently in beta.
Yahoo is the number 1 Alexa ranked site on the Internet, so you're not going to do any better than that.
I am sure that once their book marking site is out of beta, it will probably be one of the hottest ones on the Internet.
If you're into things like Linux and Open Source, then the social book marking site that you want to go to is...
[http://bookmarks.
linuxquestions.
org/] Yes, it's kind of a site for geeks, but in the tech world, Linux and Open Source are big issues.
If you think not, you know that Open Office you're using instead of Microsoft Word? Well, that's Open Source code, and there is a lot of it out there.
Sometimes it pays to jump on something when it's new.
If you're one of the pioneers of a social book marking site, people will get to know you real fast.
Well, one of the newer sites out there is a site called Newnooze, which is kind of like a Digg clone, except where Digg is basically a technology site, Newnooze has bookmarks on just about every subject you can think of.
When you first go to Newnooze, it's easy to be overwhelmed at first.
There is a lot there.
The first thing you will probably notice is the popular categories list.
Some of the top ones are work at home and Internet business.
If that's what you're into, which I assume it is since you're reading this, then this is the place you want to be.
The site is new and isn't quite operational at this time.
But if you go there, you can get a decent idea of what you can expect to find once it gets going.
Another pretty popular site that's rising fast is http://de.
lirio.
us/.
If you go there, the first things you'll see are the most recent bookmarks.
So you're going to have to bookmark often if you want to keep yourself on the first page, as there are only about 10 or so bookmarks on each page.
As of this writing, there are almost 1200 pages at this site.
There is no search function at this site, which is pretty annoying, but they do have a sort by date, title and URL function, which I guess helps a bit.
The thing that we all have going for us in our favor with these social book marking sites, is that they are all the rage.
This means that a lot of people are hanging out at these sites.
That means more potential visitors to our sites.
The bad thing about most of these social book marking sites is that most of them are run by the inmates.
In other words, if they don't like the site you've bookmarked, they can easily have it removed.
This makes getting your business seen very hard.
You have to be very clever not to give the appearance of outright advertising, which a lot of these sites are dead set against.
The best thing to do when going to a social book marking site is to register, log in and then observe.
Don't post anything.
Just take a look around to see what kinds of links get posted.
Some sites, like Digg, are very specialized and only cater to certain topics.
So make sure that the site you are at will even allow a post for your site.
Another thing you want to look for is to see if any of the links posted are blatant advertisements.
If they are and they're allowed to remain, then the site has a lenient policy about what's posted and you shouldn't have much trouble posting just about anything for your site.
Also, if the site is maintained by the administrator and not the inmates, there's a good chance that your post will stand the test of time.
You also want to look for a social book marking site where your links are going to be visible on the main page for at least some time.
Some of these sites have so much traffic that a link can be gone in a matter of minutes.
Pages that display the most number of links per page are probably your best bet.
Social book marking sites are very protective communities.
The founding members of these sites look over them like mother hens.
So if you rush your way into one of these like a bull in a china shop, you will probably get thrown out on your ear faster than you can say "Bookmark this please.
" But if you obey the rules and show that you're there to share information, you'll be just fine.
As to how effective social book marking will be for you, well, it's pretty much like with forums.
If you tow the line, provide relevant information and follow the guidelines, provided you hang around long enough to gain respectability, you should do just fine.
The bottom line is this.
Social book marking appears to be here to stay.
So make the most of it.
It just may add a few zeros to your bottom line when the year is over.
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