Social Bookmarking Answers: Identifying the Top Five Sites and How They Work
The world of internet marketing is a complex and diverse one. There are several ways to go about it and each way necessitates more than a brief introduction. One useful way to market websites is to participate in social bookmarking sites. Why? It is quite simply because people don’t want to hear a sales pitch from a company. They want to hear a referral from a friend.
Those who submit their links to social bookmarking sites will be providing a referral to friends instead of an obvious advertisement to potential consumers. The difference between the two really just comes down to the presentation. So pay attention to the following top five social bookmarking sites to find out which ones you should participate with and how to use them:
Digg – Only one of the all-time most popular social bookmarking sites, Digg has it down to a science. All you need to do is to submit your URL and hit the Digg bookmarker. You’ll want to write an eye-catching description as well as any other additional information you’ve got (i.e. pictures and videos). It’s arranged according to categories and will be up to the populous to either ‘digg’ it or ‘bury’ it according to their preferences.
Del.icio.us – A close second to Digg, Del.icio.us was bought by Yahoo! not too long ago. Originally, this website helped to bring about the basic concept of tagging. It’s arranged according to the tags posted on your entries as opposed to the topics they cover. For instance, websites that sell baby clothes would be wise to tag their submission with specific items they sell like, ‘crochet baby hats’ and ‘baby headbands’ to be as effective as possible with their submission. Choosing the tags wisely will make all the difference regarding the public’s response to your bookmark.
Reddit – The third most popular social bookmarking site puts all the power in their users’ hands. Everyone rates up or rates down what they find which means the best bookmarks are going to rank. It’s up to each submitter to submit quality content that people will actually vote positively for.
StumbleUpon – This social bookmarking site has its own toolbar that can be installed for free. It relies upon a thumbs up/thumbs down rating system which makes it simple to rank and see others’ rankings. The activity and preferences of each user will have much to do with determining the success of each bookmarked website.
Mixx – Similar to Digg’s format, Mixx simply asks its users to submit their favorite URLs and rate other submissions. Since people like to get other people’s take on things, it’s always best to be as descriptive as possible in the comment sections and description boxes.
Sam is a self-proclaimed internet marketing fanatic, self-development junkie, Jiu Jitsu enthusiast and all around cool dude. He has published many articles on various topics around internet marketing.
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What you wrote here is next to none information, because these websites are meant to drive traffic to interesting stories, not just for bookmarking all your links. And actually just delicious is a bookmarking website, while the others are social news websites.
Thanks I regularly use Mixx I find the community better than the others!
Mixx is a good way to create backlinks and Stumble Upon is a good way to drive traffic. But realistically if you just bookmark your own stuff, you will not get any traffic. You have to build a base of friends and have them push your stuff up for it to go viral….which is tough for people new to any of these sites.
Nice article!
really Mixx is a good way to create backlinks.
Yes ,both need friendship. We can separate them.
There are a lot of social bookmarking site. However, you need to add friends on your network. This will be the time that your site will have traffic and backlinks once they have bookmarked the saved site or link. Delicious and stumble upon are the two bookmarking site I use.
I really have to learn a lot of things, these social bookmarking sites, I only used stumbleupon before and already ignored it…
Thanks I regularly use Social Bookmarking.
These social bookmarking sites can really be of help to all those people who want to market their websites.I also agree that it is better to provide a referral to friends other than using obvious advertisement.