Tuesday 30 July 2013
Today, we know some little about Social
bookmarking and why it is important.
What Is Social Bookmarking?
Social
bookmarking allows users to store links to Web pages, otherwise known as bookmarks
that they find useful. Rather than saving these bookmarks on your computer, as
was normally done through the “Favorites” button on your Internet browser
toolbar, these new social bookmarking sites allow users to save their bookmarks
to a Web page. They allow users to save their favorite articles, blogs, music,
reviews, RSS feeds, and more and allow users to access them from any computer
on the Web.
Social bookmarking has created a new way for Web site visitors to
organize and categorize information and resources. They represent the user’s
personal library and when combined with other personal libraries, they allow
for many social networking opportunities.
Why Is Social Bookmarking Important?
Social bookmarking makes it easy for your Web site visitors to
bookmark your Web site or your blog, and subscribe to your RSS feeds. If your
Web site visitors add your site, blog, or RSS to their bookmarks, they are
essentially promoting you, generating more traffic to your site and more
subscribers to your blog and RSS feeds.
Because of the increase in popularity and the increase in
competition, many social bookmarking services offer more than just the ability
to share bookmarks. Many now offer the ability to rate or comment on bookmarks,
and they have added the ability to import and export; to add notes, reviews,
e-mail links,
Automatic notification, and feed subscriptions; and create groups
and, of course, social networks.
Make
it easy for your Web site visitors to add you to their social bookmarks by
providing Chicklets on various pages of your site. Chicklets are the tiny
social network bookmark icons, and they allow your Web site visitors to quickly
and easily add you to their bookmarks. Be sure to provide Chicklets to all of
the most popular social bookmarking sites. See how The Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com)
gets its Web site visitors to bookmark its articles in Figure 22.4. There are a
number of tools on the Web, like TopRank (http://www.toprankblog.com/tools/social-bookmarks) or Blogger Social Bookmarking Tool (http://social.front.lv), as
seen in Figure 22.5, that help you
create
and choose which Chicklets you want to add to your site.
Below
is a list of some of the most popular social bookmarking sites available on the
Web right now:
•
Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us)
•
Google Bookmarks (http://www.google.com/bookmarks)
• Stumble Upon (http://www.stumbleupon.com)
•
Yahoo! Bookmarks (http://www.bookmarks.yahoo.com)
•
Slashdot (http://slashdot.org)
•
Netscape (http://www.netscape.com)
•
Reddit (http://reddit.com)
•
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com)
