After you launch a website, have posted a new entry on a blog, or have added a new piece of content to an already existing website, the next step is to let the world know about it. As the Internet has developed, many tools have come online to assist web publishers with disseminating their material throughout the world wide web. Perhaps the most powerful of these tools to come online recently is the notion of social bookmarking.
What is social bookmarking?
In our everyday lives, we regularly refer our friends and family to restaurants and shops that we like to visit. The digital analogue of this are Social Bookmarking Services. In a social bookmarking service, you share a link to a website with others, thereby recommending that they visit it. On the web, this most often means sharing a link to a piece content that you found informative or interesting.
In the past, a lot of social bookmarking was done simply over e-mail where one person would send a message to another, recommending that they visit a certain web address.
Nowadays, however, you can reach far more people through a social bookmarking service… Continue reading