Given the increased use of the internet, social networks have helped people make new friends & communicate with existing contacts. Typically a user creates a profile containing information, photos & details of their associates. Social networks have become such a success story they have quickly become more popular than many established household names’ websites. This huge captive

Social Bookmarking

Given the increased use of the internet, social networks have helped people make new friends & communicate with existing contacts. Typically a user creates a profile containing information, photos & details of their associates. Social networks have become such a success story they have quickly become more popular than many established household names’ websites. This huge captive As the volume of content online has increased many people have looked for filters to help them find quality websites. Social Bookmarking has become just such a filter. Though the individual techniques used to determine quality of content varies across a number of websites typically users submit & vote for pages they like. The website’s highlight the pages which their users have deemed worth reading which can drive significant traffic. When the users submit these sites they can also “tag” the content. When the content is “tagged” they describe the content using keywords, which can help other users understand what the bookmarked pages are about. These tags also make the results of the social book-marking internal search engines more effective. Digg, stumbleupon & Del.icio.us are three of the most popular social bookmarking sites. If you are able to create content that is relevant & appealing to the readers of these sites they can drive a large number of potential customers towards your site, as well as encouraging people to create links to your site which can provide huge benefits in the search engine rankings.