Why Social Bookmarking Sites Are Better Than Google
I have been thinking of trying to learn to play the guitar recently so I wanted to find some of the best guitar courses that would help me learn to play. My first attempt was to try Google, but I had a hard time trying to find what I wanted. I then decided to try Delicious, my favorite social bookmarking site. Just a few keystrokes later, I had found several great sites that had useful content related to what I was looking for.
How did I know these sites were good? I knew this because Delicous told me exactly how many other people liked the exact same site. Social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Digg, Mixx, and Stumbleupon are all examples of useful social bookmarking sites. These sites allow you to find pages that you find interesting and share them with others. You can also tag these pages with several related keywords which helps others more easily find your saved pages. The best content gets voted on by the site’s users, which in turn allows it to become more visible within the site. This allows you to find great content that you might not necessarily find so easily with a search engine.
The best of these social bookmarking sites are also ranked highly in Google. It can be very advantageous for your blog or website to have your content shared on these sites. If you write good enough content, then it may be shared by others and go viral. Viral content can bring tons of traffic to your page. You will also experience the added benefit of links back to your website from the social bookmarking site itself, along with other users linking back to your page.
There are some great tools that you can use to make submitting your sites to social bookmarking sites easier. One popular blogging tool is called OnlyWire. It adds a button to your pages and allows your content to be automatically submitted to the most popular social bookmarking sites. Another nice piece of software is called Bookmarking Demon. It has the added advantage of making it easy to create accounts and vary your submissions to create more unique content. Try as many of these tools as you can, and take advantage of social bookmarking sites to find and promote content.
