Social Bookmarking with the main emphasis on Digg and Delicious

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The Internet is inconceivably huge. There are more than 50 million unique websites and somewhere between 30 and 60 billion unique web pages. For ages, people have been asking each other about books they might like to read. People rely on other people's opinions more than any advertisement. Social bookmarking is a relatively new technology that has changed the way people experience the web by allowing users to store, classify, rate, comment on and search links to any website or blog. Digg is the most popular social news site on the Internet and operates under a very simple methodology. Users can choose to view listings of popular articles and upcoming articles. Upcoming articles are new articles that have not received enough 'Diggs' to make it to the popular listing. Once something is submitted, other people see it and 'Digg' what they like best or 'Bury' articles they do not agree with. If the submission receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for millions of visitors to see within the list of 'Popular Articles'. Delicious is a social bookmarking website owned by Yahoo that can help users save, share and find online contents such as blog posts. It has more than 5 million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs and is one of the most popular social bookmarking services. Users of delicious.com are able to access favorite websites from the browser online from any computer. But having a website is pointless unless website has incoming traffic. Social bookmarking is one of the most effective ways to bring in targeted traffic quickly to each site.

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[...] With SEOQuake FireFox plug-in you can see all the statistics within search results. So: 1. Set the plug-in preferences to show you only del.icio.us stats; 2. Run [site:yoursite.com] search in Google; 3. Sort the results by the number of del.icio.us bookmarks for each sub page: Who's my site associated with? This handy tool will show you other sites people tend to bookmark along with your site. Here are sites associated with Search Engine Journal: Figure 27 Who's my site associated with? [...]

[...] Good idea to deal with this problem is simply just ask other users. Since ages in the same way people have been asking each other about book they might like to read. People rely on other people opinions more than any advertisement. People can talk about basic websites in conversation, but it gets a little difficult to recommend a specific page over the phone and trying to vocalize every page they find interesting would be a nightmare. Social bookmarking allows users to do this without straining our voices. [...]

[...] Upcoming articles are new articles that have not received enough Diggs to make it to the popular listing. Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best or Bury articles they don't agree with. In the same way, Digg.com users can add "friends" to their networks. Figure 11 Categories on digg.com[11] If the submission receives enough Diggs, is promoted to the front page for the millions of visitors to see within the list of "Popular Articles". [...]

[...] The red circle shows a bookmark with Popular Articles. Each article has a number of diggs (green circles on the picture), which gives information how popular and useful is relevant article. If reader find article interesting can give a digg, if article is boring and useful can give a bury. Users have also possibility to choose the period of time (blue circle), in which they are interested: for instance Most Recent or Top in 24 hours. The yellow circle on the right site shows Top articles. [...]

[...] Social bookmarking is one of the most effective ways to bring in targeted traffic quickly to each site. Although it has been around since the late 90s, the past few years have seen the method for bookmarking websites take off and become extremely popular among Internet users. Internet marketers in particular are finding it helpful tool for pulling in traffic for their own sites. The social aspect comes in when company submit their site to the service and the search engine spiders begin to crawl company's site. [...]