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Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is relatively a new technology that has changed the way people experience the Web. It allows Internet users to store, organise, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata. Bookmarks are usually stored with tags, single words that describe a page, making it easy for people to search for similar bookmarks or find bookmarks they have saved. A social bookmarking system can rank a resource based on how many times it has been bookmarked by users. By using social bookmarking online people can access their favourite bookmarks from any computer and share them with other people.
A social bookmarking system has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources (such as web sites) is done by human beings, who understand the content of the resource, as opposed to software, which algorithmically attempts to determine the meaning of a resource. Also, people tend to find and bookmark web pages that have not yet been noticed or indexed by web spiders. Additionally, a social bookmarking system can rank a resource based on how many times it has been bookmarked by users, which may be a more useful metric for end users than systems that rank resources based on the number of external links pointing to it.
Social bookmarking is important for any website because it can generate traffic several different ways:
- Browsing - People browsing the social bookmarking websites can come across your site and click in if it looks interesting.
- Searching - People searching social bookmarking websites can find your website. People search social bookmarking sites instead of regular search engines because the bookmarks have been submitted by other people. Somebody searching one of these sites knows that the results will probably be more interesting than results from a search engine and would be more likely to click into your site.
- Page Rank - Whether it is Google, Yahoo! or any other search engine's Page Rank, it is calculated by the number of links pointing to your website. What's even more important is the quality of the link. Links from social bookmarking websites usually have more credibility because the social bookmarking websites generally have a higher Page Rank and are trusted more than other websites.
- Search Engine Traffic - If you have more links and high Page Rank you'll get better rankings in the search results. This means more people finding your website instead of your competitors.
