What Is Social Bookmarking? Social Bookmarking Explained
A New way of searching human reviewed sites on the web for surfers and website promotion and linking opportunities for webmasters...
Social Bookmarking Explained
Tired of searching the engines and getting the same old, same old? There's a new way and it's called social bookmarking! Here's the scoop.
While surfing the web using a conventional search engine, users like yourself have to sift thru junk sites till they come across the information they are after. Wouldn't it be nice if once a web surfer found a really good website they could easily mark it? So that others looking for the same information didn't have to sort thru the same irrelevent websites and the surfer could also bookmark it and easily return to the site later, for additional information? Well, it is nice and it's here, it's hot and getting hotter!
The first thing you want to do is check out my del.ici.ous page at http://del.icio.us/flowski and click a few of my bookmarks so you know exactly what we are talking about here. Now, When you join a social bookmarking system you store a list of webpages you find helpful (like this one) on your own webpage at the social bookmarking website. At the time you save an interesting page you can choose to keep the save private or public. If you select the private save option for a particular page, no one will see it but you. If you select the public page option, that particular bookmark will be shared with everyone in that social bookmarking system. Users in that system will be able to find your bookmarked page by searching categories tag's (keyword's) that you labeled it with when you bookmarked it or they can find it just by random surfing. There are advantages to this type of a system, all of the social bookmarking search results on a topic will yield pages that have been reviewed for content by a human that understands the webpages content and not by a search engine spider that attempts to use an algebra formula called an algorithm to figure out the topic!
If other users find your choice of topics is very similar to their particular intrests they can subscribe to the RSS feed of everything you bookmark and tag and whenever you save a page they will get a live update at their My Yahoo or social bookmarking page.
What do you say, time to try it out? Ok, let's get a free Del.icio.us Page for you. Now, fill out the info and register. There are a couple ways to bookmark a website.
The easiest way to bookmark, is to install the Del.icio.us easy save buttons in your FireFox Browser, Don't have Firefox? Let's hook you up,
, it's one of the of the best tools available for website builders and it's free! Got it? Install the bottons. Now, Go to our Homepage. Now just click the tag botton in your browser. Then do a good job of describing our home webpage in the space they provide for a description of your bookmark, then pick keywords (they're called tags on Del.icio.us) and save it. Anytime you want to see your bookmark just click on the other Del.icio.us button (they give you 2 buttons) and there's your page with all of your bookmarks!
What if your not on your computer? You won't have your FireFox browser buttons. Login to your account, click on the "post", then copy our websites URL address: http://www.digitalphotographywebsite.com/homepage.html in the browser window and paste the entire address into the "URL" box provided and click save, write your description, choose keywords and your done. Now you have saved Digital Photography Website's Home Page to your Del.icio.us page so you can easily find us again and share your sharing with others who may find it helpful or interesting!
So how can you use social bookmarking to promote your photo website? One by one bookmark all of your pages, write interesting descriptions about your saved pages and do a good job placing appropriate and relevant tags on your saves. Now, don't get excited and bookmark all your pages at once, that's called spamming and you don't want to get banned for that! Instead bookmark each webpage at your website systematically over time. If you don't join some of these social bookmarking websites, your missing a large segement of web surfers that have forsaken search engines in favor of human reviewed sites. Also, the link from your page at the social bookmarking website is an excellent inbound link to your photography website, which will help your Google Page Rank. A better page rank, helps your website's search engine placement and that will bring more traffic to your website or gallery!
TIP: Try to get friends and family to subscribe to your bookmark RSS feed. Think of each of your subscribers as a link to your social bookmarking page, The more links (subscribers) you get, the higher your page rank will be and the more valuable the link to your gallery or main photo site from your bookmarking page will become, thereby transfering better page rank to your main site and increasing your site's traffic!
