Blogging For Beginners: A Buzzing Mass Of Chatter: More On Social Bookmarking W/ WordPress

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Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public web site and tagging them with keywords. Bookmarking, on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer.

To create a collection of social bookmarks, you register with a social bookmarking site, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of your choice, and designate individual bookmarks as public or private. Some sites periodically verify that bookmarks still work, notifying users when a URL no longer functions.

Visitors to social bookmarking sites can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that registered users have created and saved.

People use these sites to bookmark or save their history with certain web sites. It becomes a bit of social proof over what is popular or interesting online right now. Whenever you add a bookmark to one of your pages in one of the social bookmarking sites you create a backlink.

If you bookmark every piece of content you create in all of these sites you can build a lot backlinks over time. For the purposes of backlinks, you want to make sure that the bookmarking sites provide a real, do-follow link.

This rules out the biggest of the bunch Del.icio.us as it is no-follow. There are lots of big no-follow sites and I also found several that dont provide real backlinks they use their own form of dynamic link which does not count as a backlink.

One other thing to be aware of is that even though these are your personal bookmarks, you need to make sure that they are public that way other people (Google really) can find them.

A few of the big social bookmarking sites are Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, and Del.icio.us

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