Social bookmarking is a targeted part of the
Social media optimization allowing users to mark, store and manage web pages through an online bookmarking process on the internet. In other words, social bookmarking allows users to store links to various web-pages they have surfed within private groups & shared within networks. As refined the storage, social bookmarking facilities also allow users to view their saved links chronologically & categorically.
Social bookmarking in itself is a viral process where links/tags are also promoted through web feeds to users who can have access to newer bookmarks. The basic principal of the exercise is to allow a user to maintain & share his personal database of web-pages online for continued references. As additional facilities with the social bookmarking website, the users are allowed to comment, tag, share, import & export their bookmarks from the internet.
Advantages of Social Bookmarking
- Social Bookmarks are created by humans who best classify data as per their understanding. This creates a refined search engine in itself and more apt results than traditional search engines.
- Each website or content within a social bookmarking network gets ranked owing to the number of times the website has been tagged or bookmarked. Therefore, users get a clear picture of the quality of information presented on the website.
- From users perspective, a consolidated list of a large database of bookmarks from hundreds of computers across the world can be maintained & accessed at one place.
One must note that social bookmarking is one of the most popular methods of
social media optimization. Also, it not only accretes some of the better website/ web-pages from the internet database, but also allows users to view majority preferences on the internet