| If you have you ever e-mailed friends and sent them a link to a website you believed they would be interested in, you have dealt with social bookmarking.
Social bookmarking is tagging of a website and storing it for future use. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. And, because your bookmarks are on-line, you can easily share them with friends. Apart from saving links to your favourite websites and email them to your friends, you can also look at what other Internet users have found gripping enough to tag. The vast majority of social bookmarking sites allow you to look through topics that are either the most popular, or lately added, or belonging to a certain category.
With social bookmarking you can read through what people have bookmarked by typing in a search engine the topic you are seeking. In fact, social bookmarking sites are deployed as smart search engines.
Social bookmarking allows you to target what you wish to see. You do not need to read through hundreds of results to find a needle in a haystack. Now, you can simply go to a social bookmarking website, opt for a category or tag and find the most popular websites.
Since many social bookmarking websites display recently added lists and popular links, you can both be informed and discover relevant information. For instance, if you take interest in global warming, you may seek global warming on one of these websites and find two articles: the one with a hundred of votes and the other with a few votes. You will probably select the one with a hundred of votes. And this technique is much simpler than typing "global warming" into a search tool and looking though pages of links which may appear irrelevant.
Thus, the software product initially deployed to e-mail bookmarks to friends has gradually grown into a social search tool.
Blog commenting is also getting popular among Web users now. The feature that differs a blog from a website is blog commenting. It is the social aspect that makes blogs such an efficient part of the social web. When you share your blog posts via social bookmarking, you can raise traffic to your blog. Besides, when you browse through other users' bookmarks, you can discover new blogs to read, new topics to discuss, new conversations to start, new communities to register with for further networking and so on. In addition, you can become renowned among other bloggers, with your blog increasing in popularity.
The quality of comments is of importance. They should be informative. Short uninformative comments are regarded as spam and, therefore, deleted. Make comments noticeable among hundreds of others.
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