Week 7 Reading Response: Social Bookmarking, Tagging, Folksonomies

As always, Wikipedia, was a great place to start understanding Social Bookmarking. I always find the external links section of the Wikipedia articles to be quite useful. In addition to Hamond’s “Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review”, that was on our reading list, you find links to icekin’s Sn’B site which provides an article on searching for the ideal social bookmarking service, a list of social bookmarking resources and a link to the “7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking” article, along with some others all of which are worthwhile reads. Back to our class readings for this week, I really enjoyed Hollenback’s article “Even tastier del.icio.us”, which lead me to finally check out extisp.icio.us. Extisp.icio.uw, allows you to sign in with your del.icio.us user name and it displays a “random textual scattering” of your tags, which are sized according to how frequently you use them. The link provided above provides a dual window for extisp.icio.us and extisp.icio.us images. The latter displays a random Yahoo image search of all your tags and displays a collage. Both are quite fun and worth the 2 seconds to generate.

URLs Matter in Social Bookmarking

Although URLs play an important role for search engine optimization, they also play an important role in social bookmarking. One of the most important factors to maximizing your exposure on del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites is the URL of a website.

What Is Social Bookmarking?

It refers to sites where you share interesting internet content with other users, as well as browse bookmarks that other members have collected.
It is a great way to stumble across interesting content, hence the site Stumbleupon's popularity.
If you find a user of a site like Digg, Delicious or Stumbleupon that is like you, or has similar interests, you can find a whole ton of interesting content that you could not have found in hundreds of hours of surfing the web.

Sharing articles with social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a way to store, organise, search and share interesting content you find on the internet. Instead of storing the information about a page in your web-browser the share links on newmatilda.com let you store that information using a number of popular social bookmarking services.

The Only Social Bookmarking Tool You Need

AC writers need to promote their articles, and one of the most popular ways to do that is with social bookmarking tools. You might not get a good deal of pageviews directly from these tools, but you will boost the pagerank of your articles, as almost every decent social bookmarking site
has a pagerank of at least 5 (some are as high as 8 or 10).

How to Add Social Bookmarking / Networking to Joomla Articles

Social bookmarking and networking sites are very popular these days, and a must for those who wish to share their content with the broadest audience possible. Allowing your visitors to share your content with those in their 'network' is a great way to market your site.

This week we'll walk you through how to set up a tool to allow quick sharing of your articles in the most popular social bookmarking/networking sites.

Nine Notable Uses for Social Bookmarking

Would you like to have an almost limitless ability to keep track of websites? It’s out there, waiting to be tapped. Social bookmarking sites excel at maintaining an online grouping of websites for many purposes (e.g. making lists of recipes, project plans, how-to lists, resource sites, etc.). You can use tags and comments to help classify and retrieve websites when needed. Electronic bookmarking functions have been used by academics and other professionals for years as a means of sharing information and collaborating on projects.

Social Bookmarking with the Onlywire Firefox Add-on

Many online marketers are looking to easy ways to leverage social bookmarking to increase link popularity
. This article will look at how the Onlywire Firefox add-on can allow marketers to bookmark across dozens of sites without consuming gobs of valuable time. This free service can easily supplement off-site SEO by increasing backlinks and overall online exposure. So Instead of content solely occupying a blog post or article directory, the content and link can be distributed to some of the most highly visited bookmarking sites.

Social Bookmarking Tricks for Group Learning

The question was: How are you posting the social bookmarking links on your site? So let me answer that question first and then let me mention a couple of other things that you might want to do with Social Bookmarking tools. Badges (Widgets) The quick answer to the actual question is that I'm using a Yahoo MyWeb badge. You can do the same thing on del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls Have I mentioned that I love getting questions. Recently I received two great questions, I'll address the first one in this post.

Social Bookmarking And Why Its Fast Becoming The New Wave For Free Traffic Generation

* Catch The Wave with Social Bookmarking!


First, Blogs were the BIG new thing as a traffic source, and still are, but guess what... now it's Social Bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking if you aren't quit sure is simply a service where the web user can surf the web and bookmark there favorite websites, articles, pictures, etc., to their account through the Social Bookmarking service they signed up with.

How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites

Sites like digg.com, reddit.com, stumbleupon.com etc can bring you a LOT of traffic. How about getting 20,000 and more visitors a day when your listing hits the front page?
Getting to the front page of these sites is not as difficult as it seems. I have been successful with digg and del.icio.us (and not so much with Reddit though the same steps should apply to it as well) multiple times and have thus compiled a list of steps that have helped me succeed:

Social Bookmarking News & Articles

Thumbtack: A Bookmarking Service from Microsoft
Live Labs, part of the Microsoft Corporation, has announced a new solution for people who want to keep track of all the information they find useful on the web. Thumbtack is similar to social bookmarking, but takes the service to new levels calling it a online research collection tool.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a relatively new (yet very simple) web technology that allows internet users to bookmark their favourite sites online. You may have heard key terms being thrown around forums such as social bookmarking, social media or Web 2.0. To understand what this means, let’s simplify the term: social bookmarking.

Social Bookmark Script

Social bookmarking

Optimizing web pages for Google and other search engines is not enough.

A successful concept for your online marketing has to be regarded in a more comprehensive way and must include the community.

Web 2.0 is part of the community and vice versa. Social bookmarking is part of it, too.

Use the Social Bookmark Script to automatically add link icons from the best social bookmark services to your web page in order to enable your visitors to set a public bookmark for your site by mouse-click.

The Impact of Social Networking Software's on Websites

Since the advent of the internet, sociologists and anthropologists have been scrambling to make sense of the social phenomenon. Though the internet has reached to its present stage, scientists and sociologists are still trying to figure out those questions that had troubled them years back. For instance, researchers of online social networking still study the chat room craze, even though many people exited chat rooms for good in the mid 90's. The impact of the Facebook and the Trojan-horse virus and its implications on websites are still being analyzed by thinkers and sociologists all over the world.

How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites

Sites like digg.com, reddit.com, stumbleupon.com etc can bring you a LOT of traffic. How about getting 20,000 and more visitors a day when your listing hits the front page?
Getting to the front page of these sites is not as difficult as it seems. I have been successful with digg and del.icio.us (and not so much with Reddit though the same steps should apply to it as well) multiple times and have thus compiled a list of steps that have helped me succeed:

What is Social Bookmarking

Have you ever e-mailed a friend or family member and sent them a link to a website you thought they might find interesting? If so, you have participated in social bookmarking.

What is social bookmarking? It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

You should give an option to your readers to social bookmark your articles using their own accounts

This will help getting links from several different accounts, but you will not be punished because those accounts point to many other sites as well. You will likely get links from different parts of the world and it will likely not harm your article or site in any way.

Uses of Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is another term that internet users should become familiar with if they are not already. It is a way of marking, sharing, finding, promoting and commenting on web content that has exploded in recent years. In some ways, social bookmarking is similar to regular browser-based bookmarking that so many people use to keep track of and access their favorite web sites. However, it has advantages that make it more dynamic than regular bookmarking.

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Many online marketers are looking to easy ways to leverage social bookmarking to increase link popularity. This article will look at how the Onlywire Firefox add-on can allow marketers to bookmark across dozens of sites without consuming gobs of valuable time.