Remember the days where you have to jot down the URL of your favorite sites into a piece of paper? Worst thing if it’s a very lengthy URL. How about those days that you have to copy the link address, paste it on a document and get frustrated if the file become corrupted or lost? Well, those days are gone. Bookmarking has taken over and has made visiting our well-loved websites all over again much easier.

But social bookmarking goes beyond organizing the list of sites that you visit all the time. You can also share this list to other people online. Plus, social bookmarking has become one good way to market your site and your work from home. Here’s a dose of more social bookmarking tips:

+ If you have to join in social networking or bookmarking sites, you have to go for the best. Choose those bookmarking sites that are well-known and have a gazillion of users. It’s quite pointless to sign up for networks with so little users and wherein people know nothing about. Those won’t be of any help to your work from home. So don’t waste your efforts on them.

+ It’s advisable to use the same name or nickname in various networks and bookmarking sites you’ve joined in. There’s a great chance that, like you, others are also members of these sites. By doing so, they might remember you and, in a way, become a familiar name in these bookmarking sites. Sounds like a great plus if you’re promoting your work from home or your products.

+ Make the most out of your tags. Bookmark sites that might share the same tags to add more information. These feature may look nothing but ordinary to you. Yet, if you strategically utilize your tags, they would be beneficial to your online business or work from home.

+ Remember to place a link to your website in your bookmark or else, all your efforts will turn to nothing. And you can always spice up your bookmark by frequently adding up fresh and crisp information or news.

It’s good to know that advertising as part of one’s work from home can be as fun and as effective as social bookmarking. No doubt this is included in the list of marketing tasks of most online entrepreneurs.



By: christina

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bookmarking software has fulfilled the dreams and aspirations of many webmasters and writers. This software has enabled an emergence of a large number of much needed social bookmark sites that have given an impetus to interaction between online communities, enabling them to share mass information, data, articles and even tidbits of gossip.

Social software has hit the nail on the head by recognizing and fulfilling the requirements of like-minded people. Now such people can share a variety of information such as simple tips, concerned advice or even important data through social networking sites such as Digg and Furl. Thanks to bookmarking software, these networking sites are immensely popular as they allow their users to use tags, categories and other means to get to the relevant content.

bookmarking enables online surfers to share and store information that that they benefit from as well as enjoy. It is the social bookmarking software that automates the task of individually bookmarking each site. The software makes sure that social bookmark networks are streamlined as well so that the users can access the most relevant content.

Social bookmarking software is a good friend to a busy webmaster. Even one good article that is shared and tagged with an anchor text link keyword phrase across many social booking networks will help a webmaster find a place in the top 10 searches in search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Today more and more software is being developed with additional features to keep up-to-date with recent developments. You too will notice that the most popular internet blogs or forums have high traffic on account of a provision to its users that enables them to share content and communicate views, advice, ideas and tips.

Similar is the case with bookmarking software that can be a boon to a webmaster getting him increased target traffic by encouraging web users to tag his content.

Bookmarking software has its own set of disadvantages too. Most of the social bookmarking software is created to spam the social bookmarking sites. The software does this by auto-creating random account login names and passwords. Their primary function is to create multiple accounts that bookmark the same url. This always raises a red flag with the bookmarking sites that ban such accounts. Surely you don’t want yours to be in the soup as well?

Social bookmarking software also has very limited features that are not designed to bookmark any sites. Some are just plugins for WordPress blogs and others are simply RSS feeds. Besides all this, bookmarking software is notorious for having duplicate content problem that results in the search engines ignoring your bookmarking links.

All social bookmarking software have their own unique features, some good and bad points, so you have to choose the one that works the best for yourself.



By: Rickie Smith

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Social Bookmarking is a very valuable, yet under used tool in marketing your home based business online.  If you don’t know what Social Bookmarking is, PLEASE read on.   You need to be doing this!

It is much like marking a book that your are reading, so that you will remember where your place is when you go back and want to read again.  Bookmarking on your computer is similar.   When you find a website that you really like and don’t want to forget where it is, you bookmark it for your personal use later.

Any internet browser you use has the ability to bookmark your favorite websites.  If you don’t know how to bookmark a page, just look at the top of your browser. There should be something that says “Bookmark” or “Favorites”.   Bookmarking is very easy and it’s a great tool to have.

Social Bookmarking is just like regular bookmarking, except, it’s not just for you.  Social Bookmarking is a way to allow other people to see what you are bookmarking. They can take a look at your websites, blogs, videos, articles, Myspace pages…anything that you have!

Popular websites like Digg.com and Technorati.com give you the opportunity to create an account and then bookmark any and all things that you way to draw more attention to.  When people go to those websites they will have the opportunity to see your site, a place  they may have otherwise never found.

You can have the greatest website in the world for your home based business, but if nobody sees it, then it is not doing you any good. That is why Social Bookmarking sites are so helpful.   They allow more people to see your websites in a shorter amount of time. That means more prospects for you to talk to and obviously more sign ups.

Each Social bookmarking site is set up differently, so it would be very difficult to explain step by step exactly how each of them work.    However, the first step is to decide what you would like to bookmark. It really can be anything.

Blogs

Websites

Business Myspace Page

Videos

Articles

Anything that gets people looking at your business!

Once you know what you want to bookmark, you will want to open a new document on your desktop and start copying and pasting all the URL’s of the things you want to bookmark.  Make sure you copy and paste it right out of your browser so that is correct.  Otherwise when people click the link they will not be able to find your site.

After you have your list of things to bookmark, you need to go to the different sites and set up accounts.  I recommend going to Digg.com first, because it is the biggest and the best.

The final step is to start bookmarking!  Like I said, each of these websites is different, but most of them are user friendly and you should be able to navigate them easily.

Social Bookmarking is a great way to draw more attention to your home based business, so start bookmarking now and get that traffic looking for you!



By: Karla Buzzell

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It’s probably the dream of every social bookmarking network’s user to have their submitted stories and articles make it to the front page of the site. Why? Because making it to the front page (and not just in the “just submitted” category) means that a lot of people voted positive on this article. It only follows that they like the article because they voted positive for it. By liking it, it means they have read it. By reading the article, it means they have visited your site. This is very rewarding in terms of traffic and, more importantly, in potential income.

If you have a site and/or a blog, you should know how the basics of making money off them goes. It’s either one or all of these money-making strategies:

* People buy your service or product

* People click on your affiliate links and other advertisements and purchase from them

* The page views and page loads that you get is converted into money by some ad servers

This is, of course, impossible without traffic and attention from potential visitors which is why social bookmarking can help especially if you’re just starting out with your business or site. In order to achieve good traffic from these bookmarking sites, you must first learn how to attract people into voting for your articles and making them popular for more people to see.

Listed here are a few tips and tricks (depending on how you call them) on how to create that popular article to promote your site:

1. Offer something unique

I know, I know. Being unique these days is either overrated or too hard to do. My vote is on the latter. With so many “unique” stories popping out everywhere on the internet, people’s attention are divided into the many different unique articles being submitted into social bookmarking sites. Try to scour the web for something that you think would make it big; if it’s not there, you can bet that it’s your time to shine, and if it is, think of some ways on how to beat that existing article that you found.

2. Offer something useful and informative

It always helps to offer up an article that other people will find useful. Be it a technique on how to fix a software bug, a review on a newly released gadget or the latest news on nuclear warfare, people tend to flock to something that will give them more information about their daily lives and the world around them.

3. Titles and descriptions make a big difference

There are some members of social bookmarking sites who rarely read the stories being submitted. These people are more into the “social” part rather than the “bookmarking” side of these networking sites. One common characteristic that these kinds of users have though is that they vote on stories based on the titles and descriptions. Even if the story is really dull and boring, they wouldn’t care (and neither would they know) because they didn’t read past the title and description. So make sure that you have this really great title that people will quickly notice among a sea of other titles and write a description that will complement the title.

4. Voting for other stories may be a good thing

Some users will be kind enough to reciprocate story votes in bookmarking sites. You shouldn’t just submit your stories – you should also vote for others. It would give you more exposure to the social network that you belong to.

5. Make friends

Don’t be shy to invite other people to become a part of your friends’ list. The tendency is that they might opt to get an update of the stories that you submit, or at the very least, visit your page every now and then to see if you have something that they might be interested in. You get to have more votes this way. Being a network that this is, their friends will see the stories that they voted on and there is a chance that they would vote for your story too. This is the endless cycle of bookmarking sites.



By: Phpfox

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okmarking is a technique for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately or shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can more often than not view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine. Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

It has happened many times with me that I forgot to bookmark a page and had to go back to the history button on my internet website browser to go back to it. And then I was too busy to press the favorite button, to put it into the favorite list. Thanks to bookmarks, I can get my favorite reads at my favorite places.

I am sure you heard over and over again how a great tool social bookmarks can be. To store your bookmarks online, that was original idea. But these day everybody in internet marketing and SEO seem to be using social bookmarks to get links, drive traffic to their site, promote their product etc… So submitting a page from your site to as many social bookmarks as you can is a good idea. There is this tool I found that can make your job easier, it is called OnlyWire and it lets you submit your site to 19 social bookmarks sites with a simple click of your mouse. In fact, I am not writing a review on OnlyWire, but just giving you this tip to show you that there are places where you can get things done fast . And if you do not take advantage of the bookmarking revolution, you deserve to be left behind in the prosperity stakes.

How to Use OnlyWire

1. Go to OnlyWire.com

2. The first page you get is a list of all social bookmark sites that work with OnlyWire. Visit them and register. 3. Type in your username and password and save.

4. At the top of the page you can see Save Page link (standard to frames) - bookmark that link in your browser.

5. Go to the page you want to submit and just click on the bookmark you just made. That’s it!

Now I’m just going to press publish and OnlyWire this page



By: bhupeshs

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