Social Bookmarking Sites

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Social Bookmarking is the act of storing and organising online resources, such as web pages, blogs
and videos, so they can be shared amongst an online community.

Examples

There are literally hundreds but here are a few of the biggies:
• Digg – popular web pages are “dugg” by approving viewers to increasing their rating and exposure in Digg.com. Those with the most diggs rank at the top for the category in question.
• Delicious – people store and share their tastiest web bookmarks.
• Alltop – headlines from the most popular blogs and websites on the net are sectioned into categories for easy retrieval by busy browsers.
• Stumbleupon – a “discovery engine” that allows you to stumble upon popular web content based on your search preferences.
For who
• Everyone
Benefits
If you’re going to publish great information online, then you need to know where to find the great information that already exists. Social bookmarking sites are designed for exactly that.
Once your blogging wheels are turning you may decide to use these social bookmarking sites as a powerful source of global viral traffic. However, don’t try it every time. This needs to be saved for that extra special post – the one that contains that piece of information you know the web will go crazy for! Then encourage your colleagues and friends to get bookmarking, digging, stumbling, etc...

Social Bookmarking Action

Spend five to ten minutes at the start of each day running through a couple of social bookmarking sites. Enter your preferences and see what exciting developments are happening in your industry. It will give you loads of great ammo for publishing later that day via Twitter and your blog.