Social Bookmark Share

“Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by others and add them to their own collection, as well as to subscribe to the lists of others.”

One of the more interesting of the various social bookmarking sites is Digg.com.

Digg is a news website with an emphasis on technology and science articles.

It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

Digg is all about user powered content. Every article on digg is submitted and voted on by the digg community. Users can share, discover, bookmark, and promote the news that’s important to them!

Submitting stories is easy. Once you’ve registered and signed in, simply click on “submit a story” and enter the URL of the story you would like to submit.

Then fill out a title, description, and category for the story. Should you encounter a potential duplicate, please digg the original story and do not submit a duplicate entry.

Once a story is submitted by a user it is instantly posted in the Upcoming stories section. This is a temporary holding place where stories wait to be promoted to the homepage. To help promote stories to the homepage, simply visit the Upcoming stories section and digg stories you think are cool. Once a story has received enough diggs, it is instantly promoted. Should the story not receive enough diggs, surpass 24 hours, or is reported, it eventually falls out of the Upcoming stories section. Read the rest of this entry »

There are still some social bookmarking websites that are good, but most of them are not.

You have to pick them one by one which can be time consuming. It also means it is wiser not to invest your money in software that auto submit to these sites, if you are looking to get backlinks.

It does not mean these sites are totally useless. You can get tons of traffic, but not a useful strategy to get backlinks. This does not mean you should completely ignore social bookmarking websites, but you need to be more careful how you spend you time and money.

There are services who still do social bookmarking. There are software which still submit to these sites. The sales pages will not change to show the complete truth. The services want
to make money, they will not adopt to the change maybe because they do not want to loose clients or it can be any other reason.

Bottom line is, social bookmarking websites are no longer effective to get a ton of backlinks like they once was.

If you think about it, it is not their fault. It is an advantage for them to use the nofollow tag, so they get rid of spammers who constantly submit their website or useless doorway pages just to get backlinks. There was black hat software as well, to automatically create accounts in these websites and then get a ton of backlinks easily.

All these things effected the change.

Social bookmarking websites do not need this stuff. They are created to help visitors as a service to allow them to bookmark websites they like or frequently visit.

Spamming creates problems for them. It totally makes things ugly for them. Read the rest of this entry »

* Catchy Headlines – There are many articles got ignored on social bookmarking site because of their headlines. Your title should always be catchy because people first see the title of your article. If the headline or title is not that catchy, expect a small traffic from that article.

*Short but Meaningful Description – Write a short but meaningful description about your article. The description should be intriguing to catch more attention but don’t use false facts just to get the interest. If you want to have long description paragraph to describe your story, always remember that people usually don’t read above 100 characters. Plus, other social bookmarking site have character limit in description, so you need to think a short but meaningful description about your article.

*Outstanding First Paragraph – It is important that you have great first paragraph with your article on social bookmarking sites. If you already have successful headlines and description to have the User’s interest, don’t forget to create great first paragraph for them to visit your site or else they’ll not going to visit it because of your awful first paragraph.

*Content is Everything – If your article is a junk, social bookmarking is useless. Your site can also get banned on social bookmarking sites if you continue to post junk articles.

*Right Time to Submit – Most of social bookmarking sites only have 24 hours for your article to stay there in front page. So it is not advisable that you post when Users are still sleeping. Weekdays is also a right time to post in terms of traffic because you can have more competitors on weekends.

*Right Category – Some sites might not have the right category for you. If you find that there no right category for you, you can submit to Miscellaneous, General etc. where all uncategorized matter goes.

*Build a Good Profile – If you have an old profile user in social bookmarking sites that posted hundreds of interesting stuff, there is a chance that you’ll receive a notice on what you submit. Many social bookmarking prohibited to add links to the interesting articles because it like self-promotion. The worst part of it, you could get banned to their site.

*Cooperate with other Users – There are many articles that made it to the front page of the social bookmarking site because they have networks of friends. If you have at least 15 votes from your group of friends chances are other user might also vote for you. On Digg.com, if have 50 votes your story is on the top of their page.

*Submit in English – Majority of the users are English speaking. So, social bookmarking sites only accept English language. Using different language is not recommended. If you really need to submit your story in different language, make sure that you include English translation.

*Don’t submit Old Stories – If you really need to submit old news, make sure that you have updated story related to that. Read the rest of this entry »

At present, the leading social bookmarking sites consist of social networking sites that allow micro-blogging or posting of shout outs not longer than 160 characters. Celebrities’ post are the most sought after bookmark posts, for it often contains new and personal pictures that cannot be found yet on any other paparazzi website. Politicians had also make use of social bookmarking to their advantage in lobbying their advocacies and beliefs. Athletes typically post about their upcoming games and articles that speak in favor of them or their team.

Why do you bookmark pages? Basically, in order to have them recorded under your log, without the need to remember them. Social bookmarking is another way of referring ideas, music, films and art. Advertisement and other form of product peddling and promotion is also now being done through this medium. However, in posting promotional materials, one must label the bookmark with a proper message in order to give a brief introduction to the user of what the link is all about.

Before micro blogging websites, social bookmarking first originated in online journals and blogs. Though blogs are commonly limited to a specific group of people, this practice of publishing resources have been widely popularized in resource forums, or forums centered on providing answers to queries posted by fellow users. However, microblogging sites gained more advantage than online forums, since the earlier is more popular and a form of social networking, which is now a part of today’s pop culture. It also tends to trigger more quick replies and reactions due to more users currently online.

Though a direct and concise introduction for links is employed by individuals social bookmarking for their own interest, promotional bookmarks consist of various message all leading into one link. These messages may either be directly written, while others are intentionally written to lure the user into visiting the website. Some even use keywords to ride with the trend of Search Engine Optimization in order for such posts to be summoned by search engines when relative searches have been made by users. However, appearance of posts into public online territories such as search engine results depend on the privacy settings of the website medium being used. Using SEO to promote links is useless when the posts are just set to private or to a limited group of people. Read the rest of this entry »

Today lifelong learning opportunities are plentiful and instructors well-versed in space age information delivery. Still, millions fail to take advantage. They need constant reminders of the pot of gold at the end of the adult education rainbow.

Five bright benefits come to mind. First is the prospect of a fatter paycheck. Job promotions go to smart people who keep up with the latest information and technology. It’s just good sense to refresh and retrain for the workplace. New careers are created all the time so those who see what’s coming and want to jump ship have got to be prepared with new certifications, diplomas and degrees.

Second is the enhanced self-esteem when you reach for new horizons, accept tough challenges and arrive at a whole new level. New learning is not a picnic but the joys of accomplishment are real. Your children are proud. Your neighbors are surprised and maybe just jealous enough to go out and do likewise.

Third is the freedom given to adult learners. The teacher is more facilitator than dictator. Adult students, unlike young kids, may be just as experienced as the person at the front of the room. Adult classmates share ideas and teach each other. Assignments may culminate in a group project or program rather than a graded exam. Memorizing facts is at a minimum; answers are not absolute.

True, there are some studies where exactness counts and tests are mandatory. But a quick Internet search turned up references to the use of adult education theories in highly regimented disciplines, such as nursing and medicine. Getting ready to pass state boards did not prevent creative teaching where students’ views are respected and acted on. It is possible to combine traditional methods with adult learning styles. Read the rest of this entry »