It is not a natural thing for us to be anti-social, even though we do crave our "me" times. So it is no wonder that the most social of all places, the internet, has designated "Social Bookmarking" as a term of its own. It's new to the worldwide web but already trendy and gaining momentum as the preferred link building tool.

So, What Is It?

This preferred link building tool is able to store and manage websites and web pages. We gather up and save the links to our favored sites. Then we are capable of locating them easily and sharing them with others. Social sites offer web feeds to the bookmarks which are usually prepared by tag groups. Becoming "social" is based on these preferred link building sites allowing others to view your book markings. The opportunity is given to be tagged by others, thus raising the quantity of users who are able to see pages that are of exacting significance without having to cart out broad searches themselves. In the same token, web pages that users have tagged and saved on the preferred social bookmarking sites are shown instantly the second a fresh tag is added.

Distinction amongst the masses

There is a reason why social bookmarking is a preferred link building tool, as apposed to linking through blogs or linking other places. Typically, algorithms are used to define the significance and importance of a website and its contents; however it is different for social bookmarking. This preferred link building tool works with search engine "spiders" that find particular tagged content. It is executed by real people who actually comprehend the content of the source.

Bookmarking has the advantage over blog linking in that it has very easy access to any reader of your site. By adding a simple button to your web site people can easily add your site to their social bookmarks to be shared with the world(and more importantly search engine spiders). Social Bookmarking can work as a team with SEO (search engine optimization) increasing the volume of traffic to websites with specific tagged words. Social bookmarking also has the prospective of being a web site's back link. This help search spiders make it to the site more easily and enable them to creep and catalog the site more often.

Searching through the net to find an item is not something that makes anyone's day. The very visible and clickable buttons available with social bookmarking effortlessly takes the user to the targeted website or webpage. Tagging is the device that allows users to accumulate the sites that appeal to them and that they want to return to. The retrieval process is made simpler because the user can choose the words himself in order to execute the search.

There is a flurry of social bookmarking sites out there now such as del.icio.us, google bookmarks, buzz, stumble, digg, and so many more. To decide on only one may be quite difficult. The good news is that you don't have to. The more bookmarks your site has the better. So I say, "Bookmark your site at all of 'em".