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Why Social Bookmarking

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:54:53 +0000

Anyone and everyone can participate in social bookmarking, whether they are individuals or corporations. It is not a complex mechanism and can be easily understood and learnt. It is most useful whenever there is a requirement to collect and share information with other individuals or groups of people having similar tastes and interests. It gives an opportunity for the users to comment, suggest alternatives or reinforce the information provided or express dissent. This becomes especially important while researching papers because seemingly unconnected links and tags can provide startling insights and discoveries. A ‘meeting of minds’ becomes possible, especially if the social bookmarking is done within closed / private groups of individuals. There is a drawback to this, because the values of the group may be skewed or biased against or for something, which may not be agreeable to another group of people or an individual. Another downside is that poor classification of tags or inconsistencies can lead to incomplete or disjointed information being made available on that site. Absence of hierarchical relationships for tags is another concern, although a number of these problems dissipate over time as the distribution of tags used to describe web resources tend to coalesce and a simple vocabulary emerges which is common across all users. There is also the headache of having to store and update information at another site for those using social bookmarking sites.

There are a number of reasons why social bookmarking is superior in many ways over the search engine spiders (which work on automatic resource location and classification software). These include the fact that speed of indexing and tagging is often done earlier by a person than the browser’s spider. Understanding and appropriateness of the source content is definitely better as the tag based classification is done by people rather than software. Consolidation and organisation of a number of bookmarks is better in social bookmarking as also sharing between contacts. Ranking of the resource is done based on number of bookmarks and not the number of links, resulting in proper weightage being given for relevance and popularity.

The resources for online services are undergoing dramatic changes and social bookmarking is a comparatively recent phenomenon. It is entirely possible that the experiences garnered from this concept the function and design of database will change to better manage data and information.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:51:02 +0000

Social bookmarking has a number of advantages over the traditional search engine spiders which work on automatic resource location and classification software:

Since actual people do the tag based classification of the web sites and not algorithmic software, the understanding of the resource content is likely to be much better and appropriate.
Often web spiders note and index web page much later than a person does. Also if the page does not conform to the algorithm, it is likely to be completely left out, though it may be very pertinent to include as a tag.
Ranking of internet resources by the number of bookmarks on a web page is often a more relevant metric for the visitor than the number of external links leading to it, which is most likely how a web spider is going to rank it.
Consolidation of bookmarks present on a number of computers, their organization and sharing among contacts is better when using social bookmarking services.

There are tons of Benefits when you implement Social Bookmarking to your website. Some of the benefits that worth mentioning include:

Instant Indexing: By submitting your webpage to the popular social bookmarking sites, the indexing process can be a lot faster. Why? Because these submissions allow your webpage to be crawled by Search Engine much faster. Positively, social bookmarking submission is the best bait to attract the search engine bots to your web pages.
Increase Traffic: If you think Social Bookmarking is all about getting your website indexed by the search engine, you are wrong! You are guaranteed to get some traffic from these social bookmarking sites. These traffic is highly targeted since bookmarking allows you to tag your web pages under certain niche keywords.
Branding: Some of the social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon for example gives you the flexibility of developing your own page on the site. If you a single entrepreneur, always use the same photo on every social bookmarking sites you’ve registered. For example our CEO, Nadzrul Jakarta uses this photo on every single social bookmarking account he created.

Technically you are branding yourself and not to mention getting one-way links to your sites. This is why buying backlinks is restricted by Google. Google doesn’t want you to be stupid, why would anyone spend hundreds of dollars on one-way link when you can get them for free? Many of these profile get high PR from Google, thus giving you a better opportunity of dominating your niche in search engine.