What is social bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking is a popular way of tagging a website and saving it for later use. It is very similar to a bookmark on your browser (Internet Eplorer / Mozilla Firefox / Safari / Opera). But instead of bookmarking a wesite on your browser, you bookmark the website on web, and since your bookmark is already on the web now, you can easily share your bookmarks to the online community.

Its not just saving your bookmark online, but you can also view at what others have found interesting and bookmarked it on the web, In this way internet users can save a bookmark for privately or share it with the entire world. Not only users get option to look for what others have bookmarked they can also search through the bookmarks or filter it with relevant categories and easily find other interesting topics posted around the world related to the information they are looking for.

Referring Sites

Social bookmarking helps you bringing in traffic from different links which are relevant to your brand. You'll find a raise in the spikes of your website analytics, visiting from referring sites and building a constant juicy link flow to your site. Search engine consider them and give value to the websites which receives a lot of relevant incoming links.

Search Engines

Since, it is a practice of saving bookmarks and tagging them into certain "keywords" which are relevant to your content. The more specific you can be in selecting keyword relevancy the better chance of getting targeted traffic to your page. Also, keyword relevancy and analysis in choosing tags exactly matching web page is important to success with search engines.

Social Community

Social blogging community is one of the fastest emerging method of building a relationship with the users & consumers, who are interested on the topic you submit the blog / article. You can stay on top of the social bookmarking pages if your content is highly voted and rewarded as top submission of the week/month. So, there you get a chance to build your online effort to a highly profitable marketing level.