What is Social Bookmark?

Of course, most of people (especially webmasters) are closely familiar with social bookmarks websites. They helps us to find one or another good website worthy of respect. Also saving bookmark you give ability to use other users your website (bookmark) as an excuse. In other words you give them prompting and have ability to influence on stranger choice. Originally, social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking systems, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share.

Social Bookmarking Websites

There are a lot of sites devoted to social bookmarking. We give you here a most of useful, popular and ranked (as for webmaster) social bookmarking services and hope it will help you in your search engine optimization work. ;)




Domain PageRank DMOZ Yahoo! Directory Yahoo! Backlinks Age
google.com 10 Yes Yes 23,863,906 10 years, 28 days
slashdot.org 9 Yes Yes 1,289,930 Unknown
netscape.com 9 Yes Yes 1,028,209 13 years, 302 days
del.icio.us 8 Yes Yes 4,014,978 Unknown
digg.com 8 Yes Yes 1,054,593 8 years, 235 days
technorati.com 8 Yes Yes 728,425 5 years, 337 days
furl.net 8 Yes Yes 669,7 4 years, 350 days
stumbleupon.com 8 Yes Yes 476,331 6 years, 342 days
facebook.com 8 Yes Yes 193,988 11 years, 198 days
battellemedia.com 8 Yes Yes 168,439 8 years, 131 days
twitter.com 8 Yes Yes 121,212 8 years, 265 days
mister-wong.de 7 Yes No 1,215,347 Unknown
reddit.com 7 Yes Yes 488,995 2 years, 167 days
newsvine.com 7 Yes Yes 367,025 3 years, 275 days
my.screenname.aol.com 7 No Yes 270 Unknown
ma.gnolia.com 7 No Yes 245,322 Unknown
myweb2.search.yahoo.com 7 Yes Yes 55,763 Unknown
tailrank.com 7 No Yes 35,349 2 years, 23 days
fark.com 7 Yes Yes 22,518 10 years, 20 days
connotea.org 7 Yes Yes 10,347 Unknown
citeulike.org 7 Yes Yes 7,358 Unknown
simpy.com 7 No Yes 3,025 5 years, 122 days
bookmarks.yahoo.com 7 Yes Yes 2,816 Unknown
blinkbits.com 6 Yes No 924 3 years, 223 days
myfavorites.earthlink.net 6 No No 887 Unknown
blinklist.com 6 No Yes 395,023 3 years, 237 days
spurl.net 6 Yes Yes 213,983 4 years, 260 days
netvouz.com 6 No No 211,952 7 years, 233 days
squidoo.com 6 No Yes 38,365 2 years, 134 days
dzone.com 6 Yes Yes 16,879 9 years, 149 days
feedmelinks.com 6 Yes No 13,301 4 years, 294 days
talkdigger.com 6 No Yes 11,248 2 years, 77 days
shadows.com 6 Yes Yes 8,13 10 years, 122 days
favorites.live.com 6 No No 5,159 Unknown
scuttle.org 6 No No 4,106 Unknown
rawsugar.com 6 No Yes 3,689 6 years, 288 days
linkagogo.com 6 Yes No 3,641 7 years, 230 days
feedmarker.com 6 No Yes 3,304 3 years, 298 days
segnalo.com 6 No No 3,204 2 years, 338 days
bluedot.us 6 No Yes 3,168 Unknown
wink.com 6 Yes Yes 2,894 13 years, 324 days
backflip.com 6 Yes Yes 2,796 10 years, 124 days
looklater.com 5 No No 575 2 years, 24 days
givealink.org 5 No Yes 352 Unknown
blogmarks.net 5 Yes Yes 226,604 4 years, 250 days
diigo.com 5 No No 224,668 3 years, 295 days
linkroll.com 5 Yes Yes 6,911 3 years, 55 days
marktd.com 5 No No 6,313 1 years, 179 days
myjeeves.ask.com 5 No Yes 4,924 Unknown
tagtooga.com 5 No No 4,306 2 years, 345 days
onlywire.com 5 No Yes 2,888 2 years, 336 days
plugim.com 5 No No 2,333 1 years, 120 days
taggly.com 5 No No 2,069 1 years, 155 days
gravee.com 5 No No 1,962 3 years, 360 days
buddymarks.com 5 No No 1,829 2 years, 153 days
flogz.com 4 No No 191 2 years, 269 days
my-tuts.com 4 No No 28 2 years, 322 days
nshout.com 4 No No 17 1 years, 256 days
lister.lilisto.com 3 No No 639 Unknown
tellfriends.com 3 No No 449 5 years, 16 days
dehsoftware.com 0 No No 211 0 years, 61 days
scoop.isedb.com 0 No No 5,914 Unknown
maple.nu 0 No Yes 5,172 Unknown
dropjack.com 0 No No 4,153 0 years, 154 days
igooi.com 0 No No 2,626 3 years, 227 days
sphinn.com 0 No No 1,652 0 years, 172 days

Social Bookmarking for Traffic Increasing

Social bookmarking services shows a good effect in website promotion. With these services you can attract very big audience. Webmasters should take more attention to web2.0 bookmarking services for seach engine optimization. But also don’t forget about adding only quality, useful and interesting pages which will be useful for most of service users.

Steps to Social Marketing Tool Creation

In order to make from social bookmark an marketing tool you should fulfil a series of actions.

- prepare your link: supply it with right lables (tags), loud and attractive headlines and attention attractive description;

- try make link so what it will be choosen by most of people in each or bookmark service. Principle of social arguments also work fine in Internet as in real world. If scores of people consider website as worthy for saving so I’ll also go to this site. And then may be copy to my own bookmarks.

- increase the number of “friends”. In any social network will be people what are sympathize with you. They can without of your knowledge add you in their “Friends” if they are interested by your collection of bookmarks. But you may not wait and make action yourself. For example, invite people (friends) by email or seek them among other visitors of bookmark website;

- use of subscriptions. Most of people do not visiting bookmarks sites but tracking for updates in subscription in interested labels (tags). So, you can know about new bookmarks in choosed category for one user, for your friends or in all the system.

Of course, owners of any service have interest in that what do not have “spam” in their database and they are making all energies to prevent “spam-links”. So, use with mind this ability and do not abuse by numbers of links on the one site. Its much better to attract attention to one prominent records of your blog (or other website) and interested people can make they choice themselves and read all the rest.