This article will introduce you to social bookmarking, which will be one of the ways that you will really start to increase traffic to your website. You’ll find a lot of introductory information, as well as an in-between discussion, in this article and on my Web 2.0 blog.
Social bookmarking is based on the concept of sharing information on the web and has evolved rapidly with the growth of Internet communities and interactive sites. As more people turn to websites to learn, research, and even read the latest news, the ability to track and monitor this behavior becomes even easier.
Collective intelligence is leading the wave of information sharing based on specific keywords and topics, and it can help marketers and business owners in many ways. Today’s social media sites are incorporating a lot of social bookmarking elements into the platform. This allows users to learn even more from each other, and is engaging people online by creating communities, opening up new networking channels, and giving marketers and business owners the opportunity to track behavior.
The Wikipedia definition for social bookmarks states: “an activity carried out over a computer network that allows users to save and classify a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users can also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as subscribe to others’ lists. – A personal knowledge management tool “.
Social bookmarking sites are designed differently, but ultimately each allows the user to create a profile, update their preferences, and share this information with friends and family. As you are creating this growing network of information, a pattern of tastes and preferences is established and made available to the public.
The profile that is created becomes the key element of interest to marketers; It is created with a basic registration and, in most cases, an email address and a login name that will finalize the registration and allow access to the social betting platform. Then the visitor can start posting their activity to share with other social bookmarks, and this creates a network of categories.
Discovering and sharing information with keywords on a specific topic is what allows social bookmarking networks to grow; As more information is provided, categories of interest are also developed to provide key information.
Digg.com is a perfect example of a rapidly growing social bookmarking. Users can rate and comment on articles, video content, and podcasts on thousands of topics; Popular items are posted on the Digg.com home page, while others are ranked and posted for the community to review.
While Digg.com is primarily a news site, it is just one example of a valuable social bookmarking network that has grown into a proliferating online community. Any article or information that is published on Digg.com has the potential to be seen by millions of visitors. Getting to the Digg.com home page ensures thousands of page views, all at a very low initial cost. Of course, information that reaches this level should be valuable to Digg.com readers; Since all votes are generated by users, it allows anyone submitting information to know their audience from scratch.
