There are always new social bookmarking sites popping up on the web left and right. While some them can grow to be extremely popular and successful, most of them don’t go anywhere. Why are social bookmarks so important might you ask. There are a number of Internet Marketing Companies that offer link building and SEO services, many of which utilize social bookmarking to build quality links to websites.
UGHHN aka Underground Hip Hop News is one of the newest social bookmarking sites on the web. It is a great social bookmarking site for independent hip hop artists promotions but is currently allowing people to BOOKMARK ANYTHING! Sites like this take a lot of work, if you are interested in building your own you can start one using Pligg, an open source social bookmarking platform. Unfortunately new social bookmarking sites are hardly ever as useful as old social bookmarking sites. This is due to their low page rank and fewer users. The more users there are the better, and with most new social bookmarking sites having very few users the links from those sites are usually less important. It takes a long time for them to be worth anything. I would recommend signing up for a new social bookmarking site every once in a while and post a few links now and then. If you can post once a month or at least check back to see if its still there every 6 months you might find that the amount of users increases and the page rank jumps. If this is the case you could have some very good links from the new social bookmarking site and you might be sitting on a gold mine. New social bookmarking sites like UGHHN.COM usually offer dofollow links apposed to nofollow links which don’t transfer page rank. Do Follow social bookmarking sites are not always better than No Follow Social Bookmarking Sites. This is because search engines often don’t care if the links are no follow or not.
Top 20 Social Bookmarking Sites
- BibSonomy: BibSonomy is run by the Knowledge Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany. Its specifically designed for researchers, in sharing bookmarks and bibliographies
- Blinklist: A social bookmarking site launched by Mindvalley. According to their site, they launch several web businesses a year and are focused in 3 areas. – Technology, media and Marketing. BlinkList does have a user friendly interface indicating that its being run well and efficiently. They also quote “fully profitable” on their site. Furthermore, you can label and comment about any web page on the Internet.
- Buddymarks: The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.
- Connotea: Social bookmarking (for researchers).
- del.icio.us: THE social bookmarking site : It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links and to categorize those sites with keywords. Not to mention that if enough people save your site in a bookmark, it will make their popular page and send a lot of traffic. Delicious is owned by Yahoo and is a MUST for your social media and bookmarking strategy.
- Diigo: Social bookmarking on steroids
- Digg: The social news site that changed the Internet, Digg is a high power authority and a listing in Digg for a site, even if it only has a couple of votes, will rank highly on Google and other search engines for certain terms. If your site is shared and voted upon on Digg, and makes the Digg homepage, you’ll get a lot of traffic and attention from other bloggers who read Digg.
- Folkd: Folkd is a social web-service about pages, news, audios, videos and blogs.
- Google: Allows users to save and create bookmarks in their Google toolbar that can be accessed anywhere online. Google is getting more social by the day, so take advantage of their Google Bookamrks and citations, because one day they probably will have some kind of influence on external meta data considered by the Google ranking algortihm.
- Mister Wong: Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site that originated in Germany, and has since become a popular and widespread tool.
- Mixx: An up and coming bookmarking and social news sharing network which should rival Digg, Reddit and others, Mixx blends popular photos, videos and stories.
- Newsvine: The mission of Newsvine is to bring together big and little media in a way which respects established journalism
- Oyax: Oyax is a social bookmark manager which allows users to easily add sites you like to personal collection of links, categorize those sites with keywords.
- Propeller: Formaly known as Netscape, AOL’s Propeller has become a great social bookmarking news community tool which is considered an ultimate authority by Yahoo Search and passes link juice in its news story profiles. Propeller is also going to redesign very soon, which should be quite exciting.
- Reddit: Timely and shocking news oriented, Reddit stories are instantly voted upon and if liked by the community as a whole, can drive incredible traffic and users.
- Simpy: Social bookmarking & search, Simpy lets users “save, tag, search and share bookmarks, notes, groups and more.”
- Slashdot: The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
- Squidoo:Kind of spammed out, Squidoo is a 2.0 property which lets people and businesses set up a ‘lens’ which lists links, tags and relevant RSS feeds to different subjects.
- StumbleUpon: Owned by eBay, StumbleUpon is an amazing blend of social bookmarking, voting, networking, web surfing, search and blogging. Best of all, StumbleUpon can send major traffic with its userbase of
- Technorati: Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section.
Online Advertising Agency Total Market Exposure offers Social Media Marketing and Branding Services that utilize websites like the ones listed above. While focusing on Facebook, Twitter and other Branding Tactics, social networks still play a big part in Search Engine Optimization and Online Advertising as a whole.
