Although the concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to 1996, the term social bookmarking is a relatively new and was first used in 2003 by Delicious web service. The term ‘tagging’ is also associated with social bookmarking. Using social bookmarking, users can search, save, manage, and organize web pages/websites for sharing or for remembering. With the rising number and growing popularity of online book marking services, social book marking is also called social book marketing. Over time, book marking services have proven to be excellent tools for online marketing. When combined with Search Engine Optimization, social book marking can be the key to success of online marketing campaigns.

Higher rankings by search engines facilitate brand awareness. The primary objective behind search engine optimization is thus, to ensure better rankings, and thus, social book marking has emerged as an effective tool for providing back links and getting higher traffic, which in turn help in securing better Search Engine Rankings. Bookmarks represent links through tagging. Unlike a hierarchical structure, tagging is done through a bottom-up method, which create many broad categories to fit in the links. As a result, the users can assert the metadata adding relevance to the links. This equates the marketing appeal as a ‘word of mouth’ campaign, in which friends and families validate the quality of the product/service.

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Social bookmarking is an internet process where users post a video, blog entry, website, or article to a “social” website in order to share it with others. On these sites, you can place a link to your posted item in specific categories (depending on the website) and describe it with a keyword phrase that other users search for. Additionally, users can vote or rate your links, showing which links they like the best.

At first, voting or rating links might seem trivial, but it is this voting/rating system that makes social bookmarking so powerful. As more people vote on your links, the more prominent position they will get. In turn, this allows you to reach a broader audience with your content.

Now, there are a number of ways to take advantage of social bookmarking. The six top methods I’ve found are listed below. With them, you should be able to drive lots of traffic to your website and gain all kinds of customers.

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Having an Internet-based business is all about getting traffic to your website. There’s a relatively new way to get better SEO (search engine optimization) as well as more visits to your website: Social Bookmarking.

Social bookmarking is simply another tool you can use to drive potential customers to your website. If you rely on affiliate marketing for much of your income, this can be a valuable and completely free tool that can give you more hits, more clicks, and ultimately, more money in your pocket.

What is social bookmarking? Everyone knows how to bookmark sites you want to keep and find quickly. But for many people, bookmarking becomes unwieldy. Popular social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Digg allow Internet users to bookmark their favorite sites, places keywords and identifying tags on them to make them easier to find later.

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Social bookmarking websites are helpful for attracting your desired niche to visit your pages. Like most sites that require registration, there are terms and by-laws that you need to abide by as a user. However, there are some situations that are not covered by the rules. These situations call for good judgment, and your decision could make or break your standing and more importantly, your credibility in the social bookmarking circle.

Usually, the more difficult assessments you have to make are ethical more than technical. Your social bookmarking account represents your brand as it tries to build relationships with your niche. Although you’re online, remember that it is a social bookmarking website. Ultimately, you’re still dealing with people more than links and landing pages.

Here are 5 points to consider before doing anything to your account- so as not to risk people disliking you or your brand.

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Social websites have become increasingly popular in the last few years. They have amassed millions of users in a very short time, and many of these users log in multiple times every day. Therefore, social websites are a great means of generating business and traffic for your website.

Social bookmarking is one means of communication that has developed through the increased use of social websites. Through this, people will share pages that they find interesting with other people in their network and thus increase traffic for that page. By sharing or bookmarking the page, they encourage other people to go to the link and read the content that they found interesting. When hundreds of thousands of people do it, you are bound to get some sales.

Some of the websites that offer social bookmarking are Delicious, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg. Millions of people visit these every day and religiously go through all the websites that have received the most bookmarks and are at the top of the list.

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