What is a Social Bookmarking Site

What is social bookmarking? It is a practice of tagging a website with keywords and saving it for later use. On the other hand, it’s a practice of saving them to your web browser and visit in the future. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share links, save and tag it to your friends and colleagues. You can also access your links from anywhere in the world (as long as you can connect to the internet).

On some pages on this site you will see a list of links to social bookmarking sites such as Facebook, Delicious, CiteULike and Connotea. Download more social bookmarking site HERE and learn how to do it HERE.

All of these sites are free to use but do require you to register. Once you have registered you can begin bookmarking. So, if you find a page that is of interest you can easily save it for future reference or share it with other people, simply click on one of the Social Bookmarking links to add to your list.

Why it is significant?

Through social bookmarking, users can express their thought by sharing the information you just bookmarks with other users. By sharing or adding some link to social bookmarking site, your links will be distributed all over the web and can even be detected by search engine like Google. When users search for example article of services online, search engines may give results from bookmarking site and it might be your articles. So, if the user is happy with the article, they may connect to your website continuously and save it on their browser. 

It’s not always bookmarking website, if you have a lot of blog post, then you can post it on social bookmarking site. Social marketing is very useful nowadays and blog posting one form of it. Submitting your blog post link to social media site is one way of building back links to your blog website. These backlinks help boost your ranking in search engines. The more you write for your blog, the more you have to submit to these sites and the more search engines see your site.