Social networking and Bookmarking

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Should You Be Doing Social Bookmarking?

When you find a website that you like and you want to go back to that site regularly, you don't have to memorize its URL, you only need to bookmark it. Since people who find something valuable or useful often find themselves itching to share their discoveries, they refer the URLs to their friends and family. This spun off to become social bookmarking, and web searching has never been the same again. When it comes to internet marketing, many people are using social bookmarking to drive traffic to their websites.

Social bookmarking is that online habit of saving the URLs of websites to bookmark them by "tagging." These days, instead of saving your bookmarks for your own reference, you can already sign up for an account in social bookmarking sites and store your finds there.

People now flock to social bookmarking sites to store, classify, manage, share, and search links. The bookmarks are tagged so they can easily be searched when they are needed. These tags are a means to organize things up, since the URLs will be labeled for easier reference to them in the future.

The URLs saved in a certain account in a social bookmarking site are public, but they can be set to be viewable to limited people in the network only, too. So, whenever you save a link and tag it, you are automatically letting other people in your network know about it and they can check if the site is interesting enough for them, then they tag it, too or rate it.

Some of these social sites have become very popular today for example.Stumbleupon is a social bookmarking site where you can bookmark sites you like and make them public for others to see another popular site is Facebook , This is a c social site where surfers go to share their thoughts with friends and you can join gropes of like minded people . Come follow me on Facebook
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Twitter 

Micro blogging

When Twitter stepped into the social media scene in 2006 it changed blogging forever with the concept of limiting posts to 140 characters, much like posting an SMS text message-only you were blogging (thus the "micro" part of microblogging). Furthermore, because of the 140-character limit on posts, Twitter was a natural for bridging the gap between the internet and mobile.

The Twitter concept employs a "FollowMe" system whereby you elect to follow people you know or people you find interesting and, in turn, many will "follow" you-that is, if you are interesting.

Voila . . . the perfect, socially oriented, easy and portable communications system was born; and it would not take long before entrepreneurs began thinking about the "M" word: marketing.

Today I'll be sharing some "Twitter secrets" (some marketing, some not) and I'll focus on Twitter largely because it is the most popular platform exclusively devoted to microblogging. However, by no means is microblogging the exclusive terrain of Twitter. There are many others, such as: Spoink, Identi.ca, Pownce, Plurk, ReJaw, Blippr or Google's Jaiku.
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How is it good for you

Now how is this any good to you if your maintaining an internet marketing business site or a website that promotes and sells products and services? If you have great contents posted in your blog or in any other venues online, you can bookmark these to let the others know about it. Just utilize the most appropriate category in the social bookmarking site when tagging. Posting in the right category is important so that you will be able to get a captured audience.

Bookmarking helps to drive traffic to your site, which is what every site owner aims for. Once you get to the first page of the search results or if your link gets rated high, then you get that huge opportunity of being "checked out" by the other people in the network who could view the link.

How important is social bookmarking to an ordinary browser? Aside from helping get organized, social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, or Stumbleupon help people find the information they need much faster and more accurately, than if they do the same search on a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or MSN.

It is faster because there are categories that they can go to for filtered searching. That means only the most related links will be displayed in the search results page. What's more, with the rankings, rates, or number of visitors indicated in each bookmarked link, people would be able to tell instantly if the contents of that specific link would be useful or interesting.

Compared to the hit-or-miss kind of search you get from the search engines, what you get from these social bookmarking sites are more relevant to what you need.
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