Social Bookmarking and Its Advantages & Disadvantages
By: Alan Smith
Submitted: 2009-12-18 06:04:48 | Word Count: 523
Social bookmarking is the latest online trend for business promotion using SEO. It is a very effective way to promote a website or a blog on the internet. Many people do not have idea about social bookmarking and they simply ask what is it? How to perform social bookmarking? And what are the main advantages and disadvantages of social bookmarking? You can refer to the book marking option into internet browser. On internet browser there is an option called bookmarks. In Microsoft internet explorer it is known as “favorites”.
This is a function into browser to save any website as favorites. If we are visiting these websites regularly then it is good idea to bookmark these websites into browser so that later on we can access these websites easily. The typical browser bookmark works into a single computer. You can save it into one computer then access it from the same computer. Social bookmarking is similar to browser bookmark. In Social bookmarking you can save your favorite websites into the website. Once you bookmark it, it will be accessible from any computer in any area of the world.
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Many people have questioned how to perform social bookmarking? Now let’s understand how it works. There are several social websites available on internet. You can get them by performing search in Google and you will get Social bookmarking website’s list. Be ready to get a huge list. This list is rapidly increasing day by day. You have to sign up on social websites to do it. You need to download a tool from the website and need to merge with your browser bookmark or favorites. That’s it, now you can add your favorite websites.
Now, let’s understand the advantages of it. The main advantage of social bookmarking is search engine optimization. These websites are highly optimized for search engines.
Whenever you bookmark a website, it will definitely be indexed by search engine like Google almost instantly. Another big advantage is you can get all favorite websites at a single place. It will work as website’s database. You can easily visit these websites from any place in the world just by logging in to social website. Current trend is people gather at social websites. So your prospective audience will see your website very easily. Ultimately you are promoting your website by performing social bookmarking.
Now let’s look at the disadvantage of social bookmarking. If you search to get a list of major Social bookmarking websites then you will get a list of 200 social bookmarking websites. These websites are indexed by search engine quickly also they vanish from search results quickly. As these websites are made using web 2.0 so there is ability to interact with readers, spammers and any one can take the advantage of it.
Social bookmarking is one of the latest online business trends for promotion website. There are very less disadvantages compared to advantages.
