Why Social Bookmarking?

Before social bookmarking, internet users saved urls they wanted to remember in whatever bookmarking tool their browser offered. That’s fine if you don’t have too many. But as you probably have already experienced, as you save more and more bookmarks, they become harder and harder to find, and you can’t remember what category you saved them under. And then if you want to share them with someone, you have to email the link or write it down. And sometimes you’re on a different computer so you don’t even have access to those bookmarks when you need them.

Social bookmarking addresses and solves EVERY ONE of these problems we’ve all had. How?

1. You can add as many tags as you want. Unlike categories in your browser, tagging allows you to categorize your bookmark under as many different categories as you want. If you bookmark a tshirt design company’s website, you can tag it “design” “tshirts” “merch” “wearable art” etc. And these services usually suggest common tags you could use. What this means is that basically your searching nightmares are over. “What was that tshirt design site?”, you might ask yourself a year later. You check “tshirt” and there it is. And if you searched “design” it would also be there. The key is to make sure and tag with relevant keywords that you (and others) would search for in looking for that url.

2. You can share your bookmarks with specific people. Some social bookmarking sites like delicious.com allow you to create special feeds just for your friends or colleagues or whoever you’d like to send specific links to. And as the recipient you can add that feed to your RSS reader, so you get alerted the instant someone sends you a personal url just for you to see.

3. You’re making information retrieval saner and easier for the whole world. By using social bookmarking, you are contributing to a properly categorized and organized true library of information that others can use as well as yourself.

4. You can be free. You don’t need to be stuck to one particular computer to view, create and share your bookmarks, because these are stored on the social networks’ servers. So you just log in from whatever computer and you have access to all your bookmarks and everyone else’s too. It’s a beautiful thing.

5. It’s a really good online business marketing strategy. Sharing your business’ web pages with the world allows the world to find you, and allows you to search for members who might be interested in your products/services. You can find people interested in YOUR keywords, as well as finding out what websites THEY find interesting. You can see what bookmarks are currently popular, and use this information in your own website optimization, promotion, marketing, and advertising.

There are many reasons that social bookmarking is a great tool, both for personal use and for business. The above are just a few. I hope this helps. And I hope it convinces you to get going with social bookmarking.

Keep in mind that there are hundreds of social bookmarking sites, each of which requires you to create a profile, and each of which you would have to bookmark your web pages to, in order to make best use of this tool. As a business owner, you may want to opt to have the Dream Team do all of this work FOR you. It’s a very effective web marketing strategy, but it’s also quite time-consuming to do it right. The Dream Team professionals take care of this, and many, many other services for you, to get your business seen, known, and to drive tons of traffic to your website. Want to find out more about what the Dream Team can do for you? Go to http://www.websitemarketingdreamteam.com/traffic/.

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What is Social Bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking is a way for internet users to save, store, organize, search and manage saved web pages for the future, for personal viewing, research purposes and also for sharing with friends and other internet users.

Trying to remember every web page that you have ever viewed is completely futile, especially if you spend a lot of time on the web. Using social bookmarking sites you can save any web page that you want to revisit again later, organize pages by content or tags. alphabetically or any other way you like.

Aside from just making life a LOT easier on a personal level, social bookmarking sites can be extremely valuable for your business. Let’s say you save a web page about a local restaurant you want to visit. You tag it with relevant words like “restaurant” “italian” “nyc” “brooklyn” etc. Now if other members of the website search those terms they will be able to see your saved page, and perhaps that helps them.

Expanding this further, groups can be created, people interested in certain things based on their tags. This is really endless. The sharing of bookmarked web pages has the possibilities of reaching many many more people than just handing out a business card from your company might. So it’s a very good method of getting your business known on the internet. We add YOUR website pages to these hundreds of social bookmarking websites, with correct and relevant tags. This enables internet users to FIND you and your company and your website when they’re doing related searches. This gets you known and gets you traffic.

And there are thousands of these bookmarking sites, some better and more intuitive than others. We have tried them all, and we know which ones are the best for you and your marketing purposes. So those are the ones we will use to get your company known throughout the internet. The Dream Team is ready to get started on your marketing. Are you ready for tons more web traffic? Contact the Dream Team at http://www.websitemarketingdreamteam.com/traffic/.

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