Social Bookmarking Sites Demystified

Dear Valued Partner,

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.

Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features. [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking]

Some examples of popular social bookmarking sites:

Digg

One prominent social bookmarking site you will want to explore is http://www.digg.com. Rather than allowing you to directly network with people or to directly sell products, it allows you to submit blog posts and vote on them. Once a post is submitted, it appears on a list in the category you selected. From there, it will either fall in ranking or rise in raking – all depending on how people vote.

If you're having a hard time getting exposure, but you're a good writer or have good graphic design skills – this is your chance to shine. All you have to do is put together a high-quality blog about your particular affiliate product topic. You can then tag it; and ping it to Digg. If people like your entry, they'll vote on it and keep you near the top. If you use graphics, a movie, or charts, you can expect more people to view and vote on your particular blog entry. Try to make your post as original as is possible if you want to get recognized.

PlugIM

PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page.

This is a site that is geared towards Internet Marketing sites & blog posts.

Other popular social bookmarking sites include:

www.Stumbleupon.com
www.Reddit.com
www.Delicious.com 

Want a shortcut and be able to post to over 20 of the top social bookmarking sites with just a push of the button? Simply use a free service called Social Marker, found at: www.SocialMarker.com 

We've also prepared some a video showing you how to make use of Social marker. View it here:

http://www.workfromhomesingaporeans.com/trainingcenter/socialmarker/ 

Alright that's it for today..