The Top Rated Social Bookmarking Websites

Below are the top thirty social books marking websites. These have been ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. There are no exact measures of traffic but these numbers no less give us some idea about the market share of each these socialbookmarking players.

1.

The single biggest social bookmarking website on the internet is Digg.

www.digg.com

2.

Digg is followed by Technorati www.technorati.com

 

 

3.

Next in line is del.icio.us – one of the senior players on the social

bookmarking scene

http://delicious.com/.com

 

 

4.

The fourth largest social bookmarking site is Propeller. www.propeller.com

 

 

5.

Then we have StumbleUpon – rounding up the top five social bookmarking

sites around.

www.stumbleupon.com

 

 

6.

Reddit. You can check it out at www.reddit.com

 

 

 

7.

Next up is the most hilarious social bookmarking site you will find and it’s

called Fark. If you are into pop culture, you need to make it to

www.fark.com

 

 

8.

MyBlogLog – which obviously specializes in blogs. www.mybloglog.com

 

 

 

9.

Slashdot is aimed at the techie population. Its tag line goes like this ‘for

nerds, things that matter’.

www.slashdot.org

 

 

 

10.

Kaboodle completes the top ten of the biggest social bookmarking

websites around. This is aimed at those looking to buy things on the

internet – shopping! You can share notes about products and stores at

www.kaboodle.com

 

 

11.

Bloglines tracks blogs, news and feeds. It is still quite a busy site in terms

of traffic www.bloglines.com

12.

Newsvine encourages users to post the latest news items from around the

world at

www.newsvine.com. It becomes a one stop shop for all kinds of news.

 

 

 

 

13. Blinklist is a very simple and easy to use social bookmarking website. It

sticks to the basics of creating and sharing bookmarks.

www.blinklist.com

 

 

 

14.

Netvouz allows users to have their own personalized bookmark page. Like

Blinklist, it is also quite simple.

www.netvouz.com

 

 

 

 

15.

Clip the highlights with Clipmarks. It shows the most popular and recent

‘clippings’ from the web by submitters.

www.clipmarks.com

 

 

 

16.

Then we have Furl at number sixteen, which claims to be ‘your personal

web file’ It allows the same features of bookmarking, tagging and sharing.

http://www.furl.net/

 

 

 

17.

Mister Wong lets you do your social bookmarking in several languages, so

you can make use of resources that may or may not originally be in your

language.

www.mister-wong.com

 

 

 

18.

dzone. This is aimed specifically at web developers www.dzone.com

 

 

 

19.

Magnolia. This simply lets you find websites and build a community with

users who have the same interests.

http://www.ma.gnolia.com/

 

 

 

20.

Rounding up the top twenty social marking sites we have Tailrank. Tailrank

tracks the hottest news in the blogosphere at

http://www.tailrank.com/

 

 

 

21.

Shoutwire has several topical categories. www.shoutwire.com

 

 

 

 

22.

Simpy is a very simplified social bookmarking website. www.simpy.com

 

 

 

23. BlogMarks promises users a hassle free way to save their bookmarks and

share them too.

www.blogmarks.com

 

 

 

 

24. Faves – which used to be known as BlueDot.us. Faves builds personalized
pages for its users based on preferences and interests. http://faves.com

25.Spurl lets you upload bookmarks from your computer on to the social

bookmarking website.

www.spurl.net

 

 

 

 

26. Spotplex contains social bookmarks in multiple languages.

www.spotplex.com

 

 

 

27. Linkswarm is a humorously written social bookmarking tool but with all the

same features.

www.linkswarm.com

 

 

 

 

28. Spotback also involves collaborative filtering. www.spotback.com

 

 

 

 

 

29. PlugIm. www.plugim.com

 

 

 

 

30. Rounding up the top thirty list on the best social bookmarking websites is
appropriately called MyBookMarks. www.mybookmarks.com

How To Use Technorati

www.technorati.com The word technorati is a combination of the words technology
and literati. The mainstay of technorati is blogs. Technorati is basically concerned with the world ‘live’ web, as opposed to the World Wide Web. The world ‘live’ web is that part of the World Wide Web which is constantly being updated and is interactive.

 Technorati searches for and organizes independent, user generated content, whether it is blogs, videos or pictures. This kind of ‘personal’ media is also sometimes referred to as citizen media.
Before examining the workings of technorati, let’s take a look at blogs as they are the basis of technorati. A weblog or blog (as it is commonly known) is a kind of daily diary or journal but it is online. Blogs are a very powerful tool of communication.
They may be very personal and not actually trying to achieve an audience at all,whilst on the other hand, they could be vying for mass viewing. In any case, blogs are quite influential. They reflect a wide variety of opinions and topics, and they are as varied as the millions who write them and read them. Millions also respond to these blogs and are influenced by them.

Within the blogging community, bloggers connect to other bloggers on a regular basis. This means that they are engaged in an interaction that is almost like an open conversation. This is where technorati comes to fore.

Technorati tracks blogs and the conversations around them, and it rapidly indexes these links. The world live web is buzzing with activity that many are entirely
unaware of.For example, every day over 175,000 new blogs are created. These blogs are updated regularly as well. There are 18 blog updates per second – which means that there are 1.6 million posts being made every day. This could be a gold mine of potential visitors to your website.


Using Technorati: Making It Work For You

Technorati’s mainstay is the blogs that people create.
You can sign up for a free account and start posting your blog pages to Technorati straight away. You can also create a user profile for yourself, so that others can get to know you and your interests and help you to network better. The site also includes news, and is broken down into these two main categories – news and blogs. There are topical categories as well, and these include business, entertainment, lifestyle,
sports, technology and photos. Each topical category has blogs and news items related to it.

As a member, you can ‘favorite’ the blog or posting of a fellow user. You could even‘ favorite’ the user. This means that you are giving them a ‘thumbs up’ for all of the posts made by that user. Imagine how many link backs it can create to your website if people favorite your profile or even your posts in the same way.

Technorati also makes a distinction between the most ‘favorited’ blogs and the top commented-on blogs. So this brings a greater number of blogs to people’s attention.If, for example, the aim of your blog is to spread information, it may not garner too many comments but it may be a favorite of many users. On the other hand, blogs that are more opinionated and interactive will invite much more commenting.

The ‘popular’ page on the website displays the top five blogs, the ones that have been voted as ‘favorite’ by the most people, and it also provides a link to the top one hundred favorite blogs. It also shows the number of people who have voted the particular blog as favorite. The ‘popular’ page also lists the top five blogs that have the most comments made about them and provides a link to the top one hundred most commented on blogs. This page shows the number of comments made about a post as well.

Free Traffic From Bookmarking Part 1

The World Wide Web has grown by leaps and bounds over the years. Each day with every hour and every minute – it is growing even bigger and increasingly complex.

 Anything and everything that you imagined is just a click away. Many of us can no longer imagine a life without it. Indeed, already thousands of people already make their living from the World Wide Web.

 With the growth and spread of the internet,specialized techniques aimed at developing businesses on the web have also developed.

Despite all of the technological development, however, the basis of the global economy is still the same – buying and selling.

 For the producers to advertise and to
make their wares available they need to market it.

Consumers also need a place where they can exchange their money for the goods and services they need.

 In the modern world, the primary marketplace is increasingly becoming the internet. ‘Internet marketing’ is the crux of all Internetbased businesses and is increasingly important for other businesses as well.

 There are few businesses of decent size that do not have a presence on the internet.

However, the dynamics of marketing on the internet is very different from ‘regular’ marketing. Offline, we use things like billboards, the sides of buses, adverts on television and radio, salespeople etc. to market our products.

 If you are on the other side of the buying ‘equation’, that is, a consumer, you learn of new products through these marketing tools. More often that not, we do not have a choice about what and when marketing information is available to us.

 In most cases we cannot choose to ignore the huge billboard on the road or the side of the bus unless you decide to drive with your eyes closed – but that is not something that is generally encouraged.

You could change the channel when adverts show up on your favorite TV or radio show – but it is more than likely you will hear or see it again. With marketing on the internet, the dynamics are a somewhat different. The internet is vast and intricate. It is an intense web of information that needs some skill to navigate, but if you do so, you can rest assured that your needs will be met.

 The internet gives you more choice. You can choose which website to click on or ignore.

This means that the average internet user or anyone looking to do business on the net tends to be a little smarter than someone who does not use the internet for business. To market to a more intelligent set of buyers, the seller also has to elevate his/her game and be a smart marketer.

 You need to have an extra edge to make your business or website stand out amongst the millions out there.

It is said that word-of-mouth is the strongest marketing tool. For example, friends starting a new shop, café or blog will most probably tell you to ‘spread the good word.’

We are more likely to believe our friends and peers than a stranger on the television or radio. This is because we know our friends/peers well and we often
share the same concerns, needs and tastes as the people around us.

 If something is good enough for them, it is good enough for you.

Word of mouth could be defined as the passing of information verbally, sometimes recommendations, but most commonly it is just general information. It is usually informal.

 Word of mouth was traditionally considered to be a person to person, face to face conversational characteristic. However, as modes of communication

changed, phone conversations, text messages, blogs, chats, message boards and emails are also a part of ‘word of mouth’.

 Notwithstanding how it works or what channel it goes through, word of mouth is probably the most personalized form of marketing and the strongest.

A related marketing concept is that of the opinion leader. In any social organization there is a ‘leader’, one who is respected and held in esteem by the rest of the group.

This could be for a variety of reasons – age, intellect, intelligence, or access to information. It could also happen in any setting – work, school, home, bar etc.

 There may be different opinion leaders according to subject. For example, when talking about the efficiency of washing detergents, the family is more likely to follow the opinion of the mother.

 At work, we generally tend to follow the opinion of the boss,simply because he/she knows more, is better qualified or more experienced. At least
in theory, there should be some reason why we respect what the opinion leader has to say and then follow it.

What we need to remember when marketing on the internet is that internet users are a community. Internet users will therefore often have faith and confidence in their fellow net users. If, for example, a fellow blogger recommends an interesting blog to

you, then you are more likely to visit the blog. Social networks are, therefore, becoming more and more important in the internet marketing world.

 Networks of like minded people create an easy target market for the marketer. Communications
within this target market grouping about a certain product or website are even more crucial to internet marketing. It is the ‘word of mouth’ of the World Wide Web.

Networks come in various forms on the World Wide Web. They have proved to be popular across all imaginable barriers of age, gender, social class, ethnicity, nationality etc.

 A social networking group is defined by the focus on building communities of people who have something in common such as interests, activities, business, educational background, region etc. Some of the popular social networking websites in the English speaking world are Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, whilst in Asia, Friendster remains the most popular social networking website.

Social networking websites allow the users to chat, message, video chat, voice chat,share files and links, write blogs and join discussion boards. These are just the major basic applications that social networking websites allow.

Social networks are therefore likely to become a key resource for all kinds of businesses. For example, they can work for small entrepreneurs and businesses by providing them with a specific contact base. This enables the business in question to

easily locate their desired target market and build their contact base.

Social networking websites have also become key customer relationship management tools for sellers, and, increasingly, companies are using these social networking websites to advertise. More and more businesses are now global entities – and online business and advertising is a great way of reaching millions of people who populate the desired target market.

Besides social networks, social bookmarking is another key element of internet marketing and directing traffic to a particular website. Social bookmarking is also important to individual users on the internet, such as the blogs written by you and

me. It helps you guide more traffic towards your website. It allows your website to be indexed and more likely to be accessed by fellow internet users, because it works in a way similar to the way that word of mouth works. It involves the recommendations of other internet users about a particular website.

 There are many kinds by social bookmarking services available - and each one works just a little bit differently or deals with a different type of content. For example, some social bookmarking websites follow blogs, others follow news stories. Let’s take a look at what social bookmarking is and how it works in my next post.