What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a way of organizing information and categorizing resources, making everything easier to access in the process. The person creating the bookmark must assign a tag or a group of tags to each link or resource. This creates a user directed and defined classification of information. Social bookmarking services show who created particular bookmarks and also give access to other bookmarks created by the same person. Users can therefore make social connections with other users interested in the same topic by following these tags. As a user you can also see how many people have used a particular tag and search amongst all the resources with the same tag. Over time, users of a particular community site tend to develop a unique set of key words to describe their resources.
In order to create your own collection of social bookmarks or be able to view others, you must register with the social bookmarking website first. The site will allow you to store bookmarks, make tags, decide upon which of your tags should be made public and which should be kept private. Some social bookmarking will do periodic checks on the bookmarks to make sure that the links still work, and as suggested, those visiting social bookmark websites can perform searches by keywords, popularity or person.
For a complete explanation of Social Bookmarking, how it works and how you can best utilize it, download the Ebook “How To Bookmark for Free Web Traffic.”
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