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MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Thursday September 09, 2010

Social Bookmarking Makes Bookmarking a History

Now that we all are so familiar with social sites and got so much used to saving our favorite sites on social bookmarking site for future use, how many of us go back to think about how bookmarking was done in the past? Well, its not much of a big deal and nothing that requires holding onto. But the fact is that just a couple of years back, way we now bookmark our sites online never existed.

Internet is an ever changing medium and perhaps the most dynamic out of all where things change so often that you go for a long night sleep and wake up to see a totally new day. Internet users who have been using online services for a while and those who have been involved since the day internet became public can look back and remember some of the changes. Web browsing is not the same today as it has been back in early 90s when people started going online using one and only Netscape browser.

There was bookmarking back then but it was more like saving a site or page on the favorite folder on the browser toolbar. Old fashioned way of saving bookmarks served the purpose but more and more people started going online, more and more friends and loved ones we are having to communicate and keep up with. This traditional way of bookmarking served the purpose until few years back and till this date it does work, but we all realized that there had to be a better way of bookmarking a site or a page. Reason being that the traditional bookmarking method while presented the opportunity of saving a page for future view, it had a big limitation as well. The limitation being the bookmarks were not available on any other computer and could not be accessible from any other places than where it was bookmarked. Not to mention sharing them with friends and family.

The need of a better bookmarking option was quickly realized and smart entrepreneurs came up with new way of bookmarking which later was known as social bookmarking. Basically you go to a social bookmarking site, sign up for a free account, and then keep saving your bookmarks under your profile. These social sites are public meaning you can not only access them from anywhere in the world but also can share them with your friends and family members, or even with co-workers.

Now that ti was so easy and so convenient saving bookmarks online, it created a very positive user experience and these social sites rapidly started to gain popularity. Popularity brings traffic, and traffic brings revenue on the web, pretty simple equation. You know where we are going from here, right?

Yes, one after one social bookmarking site started to surface and lot of them became very popular as well for the services they provided. Following the success of the popular social sites, few developers developed clone scripts which offered people to run their own bookmarking sites like Digg, not to mention thousands of Pligg based sites out there.

Internet marketers also realized the value of these social sites. They realized the value in 2 ways: one is the traffic they can get from these popular social sites, and the other is getting backlinks form them. Once you save a bookmark on a social page with your link, the link can point back to the site of your choice which means that you are getting backlink form the social page to your site. Since all major search engines rank a site based on its content and popularity, backlinks is a vital massacre of success for a website which give the search engines an idea that there are lots and lots of links pointing to a specific site meaning this site in question is very popular for a given term. And what you know? This site gets ranked well on search results getting traffic and then the money starts pouring in.

Some advanced level internet marketers found out the key to gold mine sooner and started using these social sites for link building. But there are still majority of website owners who still don’t have a clue how to use these social sites with full potential to market their sites. This is where a link building service comes into play where SEO companies offer you their link building services by not only bookmarking your sites on those social pages, but also through various other methods.

If you havn’t used a social bookmarking site yet, then you should. Just sign up with some social site and see how it is. You might just get impressed!