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What is Social Bookmarking?

According to Wikipedia:

“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.”

So, in other words (in my words) social bookmarking is like adding “Favorites” using your browser … but when you use a social bookmarking website to do so you can access your bookmarks from any computers, you can keep them private or share them with friends or with the world, and you can also get valuable backlinks to your own sites by using them.

Here’s a list of “Do Follow Bookmarking Sites” and a post on “Why You Should Use Social Bookmarking Websites”

Do you use social bookmarking sites? Do you use them for organizing your favorites or just for backlink purposes? Do you have any questions about social bookmarking websites? What are your favorites? I’d love to hear from you in the comments section. *SmiLes* Suzanne

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