Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is nothing but adding your favorite bookarmks on Social Bookmarking websites in order to make them accessible from any where on the Interent. You can also share your bookmarks with others on the Interent and make your bookmarked website popular in social media.

The most famous social bookmarking websites Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, diggo, newsmarking etc. These websites are mainly used for their own favorite lists to create and share with friends.

In Social Media Optimization (SMO) we add our favorite links to the bookmarking websites.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is one of the most interesting elements of social media. In social bookmarking sites, a large group of users determine which sites are regarded as interesting and place them on top of search engine result by regular visit.

Some search engine optimization experts think that websites like Del.icio.us is used as a source used by Google to determine how important a website is. This would be the listing of a website within Google co-determination.

Users who compile the lists in the social bookmarking websites do this to create a favorite list of their favorite websites. They keep it in a website so that they are independent of their physical location (and the specific computer), always the favorite at hand. It is possible to organize bookmarks in a browser such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, but they are only present on a specific computer. In addition, it is not possible in Internet browsers favorites to share with other users. The expectation of many people that databases of social bookmarking websites will be used in future by other websites.

Now a days social bookmarking become an integral part of SEO. It is used for web site promotion purpose. People bookmark their site in various social bookmarking websites and when many searchers visit their site, it become popular and can be visible in Google top 10.