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Top 15 Social Bookmarking Sites
Posted Jun 3rd, 2009 By Mirna Bard in Social Bookmarking With | 1 Comment

Trying to figure out which social bookmarking sites to use can rapidly become overwhelming with the sheer number of choices available. To make things a little easier, I’ve narrowed them down to 15 sites that really are worth checking out.

1. Digg
Despite complaints about the notoriously short attention span of the majority of Diggers, this remains the number one social bookmarking site.

2. StumbleUpon
A friendlier way to connect with people and share favorite sites, StumbleUpon is easy to use and a true social bookmarker.

3. Propeller
One of the best sites for business use, Propeller tends to focus on sites of interest to older males in business for themselves.

4. Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us is the oldest bookmarking site around, but that doesn’t mean it’s out of date. Millions of people use it still and the site has a simple, easy to use format.

5. Blinklist
This social bookmarking service is well used and tends to focus on marketing and media, with no restrictions as to which webpages you can tag.

6. Reddit
Offering a personalized groups feature where you can save sites for those in your group to see, Reddit is an oldie, but a goodie.

7. Blipoo
If you are looking for a site that allows self-promotion, Blipoo is the place for you. The site leans heavily toward blog promo.

8. Buddymarks
This site offers three options for saving your bookmarks, personal use only, sharing within a group, or open social bookmarking.

9. Diigo
Hailed as “social bookmarking on steroids”, this site offers heavy duty bookmarking options for the serious surfer.

10. Yahoo! Buzz
This site works similar to Digg in that you can vote your favorite sites up and the worst ones down, plus the Yahoo name makes it a little more valuable.

11. Slashdot
Perfect for bookmarking technical information, this site also has clout with Google, making it a good place for tech business news.

12. Mixx
Here’s a site that is multi-purpose, allowing for submission in a wide range of categories to be voted for by users.

13. Furl
Furl has plenty of Google juice and for this reason, it’s a fairly popular choice among marketers and internet based businesses.

14. PlugIM
A site that offers bookmarking services to internet marketers and lets you submit content, vote stories up and make friends for a full networking experience.

15. ListerLister
Our final social bookmarking site, ListerLister is a site that not only promotes bookmarks, but forming communities based on common interests.

Which social bookmarking sites do you use and what is your favorite?
The Benefit of Social Bookmarking for SEO
Posted Mar 15th, 2009 By Mirna Bard in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Viral Marketing With | 2 Comments

Social bookmarking has become a great tool in building web presence and promoting a business on the Internet. In addition, if you place your links wisely and know which social bookmarking sites offer dofollow links, this strategy will also help your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a method for web users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of tags or keywords on sites such as Digg or Del.icio.us. This helps you in accessing bookmarks from any computer with online access. These bookmarks can either be public or private. If public, your favorite bookmarks visible for others to view and follow as well, hence the social networking aspect.

Social bookmarking is a very simple strategy to learn and practice, and there are 100s of site that offer bookmarking. Again, we have included a Common Craft video to explain social bookmarking in plain English—see below. We love these videos!

How does social bookmarking help with SEO?

Social bookmarking helps search engines find and rank content through links thus providing a channel for the promotion of content. If you place your links well on dofollow social bookmarking sites, this will help increase traffic to your site and assist with your link building efforts, thus increasing search engine rankings and possibly even PageRank.

The links usually spread to many web sites without much effort on your part. In a way, you can think of it as another form of viral or guerrilla marketing. Keep in mind, since social bookmarking links are categorized by topic with tags or keywords, traffic coming into your site is highly targeted. This ultimately brings repeat visits from qualified consumers and potential buyers.

So, by submitting your links to social bookmarking sites, you are increasing the chances of people seeing the link and visiting your site. However, use cautiously and do not spam these sites because this will end up hurting you in the long run!