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Social Bookmarking | Article #301 : SOCIAL BOOK MARKING – PART 1

Social book marking is a rather new concept in a sense that it is first starting to gain popularity as a form of Internet marketing. But the truth is, social book marking has been around for a very long time, long before people really thought about making a living on the Internet.

I remember back in my early days of surfing the Internet, I would look for the strangest things. One of my hobbies was looking up old and rare TV shows, like the old Planet Patrol puppet show from the early 60s. Remember that? I do very well. As I got older and realized that I’d never see these puppet shows ever again, I started to look for any sites that would have these shows.

Guess what I found?

Social book marking is what I found. That’s right. On one page that discussed this show I found a ton of suggested sites for related shows, such as Supercar. Remember that one? It was another puppet show from the early 60s. On that page was a ton of suggested shows. I never realized how many puppet shows there were back then. It must have been a real craze, though I would have never known having only watched the two I mentioned.

The point is, here were all these people sharing their bookmarks for all these puppet show sites.  This was long before the term came into vogue.

Today, there are tons of sites out there that are designated as social book marking sites. Just go to Google and do a search under that term and you will find them all. As a matter of fact, if you do that Google search, you will find almost 1.5 million of these sites or references to them. If you had done this search 2 years ago you probably wouldn’t have found any.

Now there is one thing you have to understand about social book marking sites. They are very strict, at least most of them, with what you can put there. If the link you share is not directly related to the topic of that site, it will be removed. For example, Digg, which is one of the more popular sites with a PR of 7, is a technological site.  The thing about Digg is that whatever gets submitted is reviewed by the users and not the editor of the site. It’s the users who decide whether or not something gets included. So as you can imagine, this can be quite a cutthroat business and can get quite ugly. So if you submit a link, make sure it’s one that absolutely fits with the topic of the site.

In the next installment of social book marking, we’ll go over some more of the most popular sites and how they operate. You’ll find that each one has its little quirks that separate it from the pack. If you learn the rules and abide by them, you should have no trouble surviving in the world of social book marking.

See you next time.

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