What Is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a relative easy way for internet users to bookmark sites for reference in the future. It is also a means for internet users to share their favorite bookmarked website with fellow internet users. While social bookmarking has been around since 1996, social bookmarking began to gain popularity only in the last 4 to 5 years.

Why social bookmaking sites started to gain in popularity after so many years is still a question. Most likely internet users find social bookmarking sites a good way to store and look for useful information. Social bookmaking sites makes it easy and simple for users to bookmark content quickly for future use and the ability to share bookmarked content with others is consider a cool feature by internet users.

Another reason is due to the immense SEO benefits to websites for internet marketers and webmasters. Through social bookmarking, internet marketers and webmasters are able get their websites indexed on the search engines much quicker than before. The reason for fast indexing is probably due to the high rankings given to social bookmarking sites by Google.

If you do not understand what the fuss on social bookmarking is all about, you can check out this list of social bookmarking sites to see firsthand what social bookmarking is.

• Del.icio.us
• Digg
• Propeller
• Reddit
• StumbleUpon

Many internet marketers and webmasters now see social bookmarking as a definite strategy in their marketing and traffic generation plans. While Google may not like the way internet marketers and webmasters are utilizing social bookmarking sites to boost their websites rankings in the search engines, so far no one has been penalize using social bookmarking sites to build links and improve their websites search engine rankings. That is why social bookmarking remains an integral part of any serious internet marketer and webmaster marketing and traffic generation plan.