Social Bookmarking And Its Importance

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How do you think social bookmarking drives traffic to a site? And How does that affect a business? To understand the concept, you need to know what social bookmarking is!

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A bookmark is a certain link that is stored so as for retrieving later, for various uses.Bookmarks are also known as Internet shortcuts in Internet Explorer.

To edit, add and share the bookmarks made on website documents, a centralized service called social bookmarking is used.

 Social bookmarking is like putting a sticky note on a web page or tagging the same so as to find them later. Social bookmarking helps users to share similar interests as it helps to create a network were they can pool in web resources and can share and use them in any computer or browser.Social bookmarking does not save a web page to the web browser but saves it to the web which can be accessed from any computer with internet connection.

Bookmarks saved are usually public but can be saved and shared privately with specified people or groups.Clusters of tags are created from the inferences on the connection of tags made by some social bookmarking sites.

Some sites provide web feeds on their bookmarks allowing followers to become aware of new bookmarks.Social bookmarking also helps in boosting ones site by collaborating with other social book markers.

To organize a large number of bookmarks, to share bookmarks with contacts, to have access to a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers are the main uses of social bookmarking. Also to increase sharing information amongst its members, institutions like schools, colleges, libraries etc  use social bookmarking.
Social bookmarking improves web search.It allows people to find their specific interests.Social bookmarking allows one to find general information or what is happening currently and narrow down relevant information.

Social bookmarking helps to bring in quality traffic to ones site.How?
In this era of fierce competition being listed on the first set of listings in a search engine is important to bring in traffic.  And bookmarking the backlinks of ones site increases the number of people viewing your site and using them by increasing the visitors. Improving traffic means increasing consumers of your company. The viewers if found the site interesting would share which again would bring in interested people to the site.

Most popular social bookmarking sites are:
1. twitter.com
2. pinterest.com
3. linkedin.com
4. stumbleupon.com
5. reddit.com

Hence, social bookmarking helps in increasing SERP ranks and improves response of viewers which inturn brings in more traffic. And for it to be productive the website must have excellent content which is relevant to the website and not something irritating when one checks for a specific content but also be very user friendly. And if the crawlers of the search engine finds problems as such, it will  successively take out your website from the search engines. So you have set the keywords right and
and use SEO  tactics properly. 



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