Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking websites are the sites that allow users to share news, photos, videos and other interesting content with the world. They work on a very basic principle. If you have anything interesting to share, then you simply post a link to the content (article, video or a photo) on these websites and other users who are surfing the websites will be able to see them.

While submitting your content you need to provide the Title and the Description of the link that you are posting. This way others will get a good idea of what the content is about. You also need to choose a category which will post your content under the right section of the website. This will increase the chances of the users who are interested in the category to come across your link.

Even though it is a very basic principle, it has become one of the largest parts of internet. Many of the Bookmarking Websites like Digg, Reddit, Stumble Upon etc. get tens of millions visitors every day. Anyone who is casually surfing the internet generally ends up on these websites to find interesting content.

What makes this even more interesting is that user get to vote on these websites for the content that they like. And the more vote a post gets the higher it gets in the rankings. This simple phenomenon literally exploded the popularity of These Websites overnight. The content is submitted by the users and millions of other user gets to vote whether the content is good or bad. On Digg, it is known as Digging if you want to vote the link up and Burying, if you want to vote it down.

In addition to that, everyone can comment on the each of the bookmarks and discuss the contents. On the top sites, you can even vote on each comment.

With such advanced features and so much interesting content in the world, Social Bookmarking Websites have become much more than merely Websites. They have developed into communities; communities with millions of people, all coming to a single place to share interesting things with each other and commenting on each other's post.

It has truly revolutionized the internet. A single person with a good imagination or something interesting to share can easily reach tens of millions of people with a click of a button. Theoatmeal.com is one such example where a normal working man was able to create a fan base of millions of people just by creating funny comics and submitting them to these Websites.

These Bookmarking Websites are also used by Marketers to promote their sites. Its true power lies in interesting content. Without which, it is difficult to gain something from these websites. But if you have something interesting to share then these websites can get you tons of traffic. It has been reported many times that the websites on the front page of these websites often have server failure due to huge traffic.

Social bookmarking is getting more and more popular every day. And the internet is still young. With internet users increasing day by day, these websites are only going to see increase in their no. of users. It doesn't matter if you want to use Social Bookmarking for marketing your website or to just find interesting content, you need to start taking benefit of these sites today.