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Social bookmarking, have you heard of it? If not, I will briefly explain what it is, then let’s talk about how it can benefit your blog or website. In this introductory article I will talk about the very basic aspects of it. In the next article I will share specific tools and strategies you can use to benefit from this powerful part of the internet.

Think of the bookmarks on your web browser, this is a good example of bookmarking. Social bookmarking lets you organize book marks for a lot of your favorite websites and organize them with tags. A tag is just a keyword you use to categorize your bookmarks. Look at the bottom of this post, in small print you will see the tag l used for this post. Now you can use a tag to look up your favorite websites on that subject, but could someone else be interested in the sites you have found? Yes, this is where the social part comes in the bookmarks can be shared and then more people benefit. Other people can them rate or vote for the bookmarks making them a show of how popular a certain website can be.

Perhaps you are starting to see how this can benefit your website. The fact is your site will get more visibility, be indexed by the search engines more often and quickly, and just plain get you the traffic you want, if it is bookmarked. It will also help you rank better for the keywords you want most, in the natural search engine rankings. Also the people who use social bookmarking are the type of people who will probably contribute to your site content by commenting. These are all things you want to happen. You should definitely be using social bookmarking.

How, then, do you use this tool? That is what I will talk about in my next post on social bookmarking. Please feel free to share any thoughts, questions, or insights on this subject here by making a comment.