Top social bookmark sites

Social bookmarkers or bookmarking sites help us find the webpage, photograph, video or any such content that appears interesting to us in the first instance and has the potential of serving as the reference material. Procedure is similar to bookmark a site in your Internet browser's bookmark feature. However, you can not retrieve the page with internet browser if you are away from your system. This problem is no more associated with bookmark sites. Anywhere, anytime, you can find the web page saved with a social bookmark site provided you are connected to the net. Not only this, another advantage of book marking a page is that it can be shared among interested people if you agree to this option at the time of bookmarking a webpage. All the information of your interest available on net in any form can be bookmarked with a single bookmark site.Social bookmarking help search engines and viewers (having different preferences for reading materials) find the new sites besides drive traffic and provide valuable backlinks. Some of the bookmarking sites allow categorization of the content and voting which helps search engines and people know about the quality of the content. Often people find and bookmark the content before it is indexed by the search engines. Top social bookmark sites are monitored by search engines that helps search engines prioritize the sites and content judged by people by increased bookmarking, voting and sharing.

A list of top social bookmark sites is given below to help users to drive more traffic to their blogs or sites. Before tagging your pages you have to register with these sites and after completing registration you have to add links in your internet browser and then it becomes easy to tag your pages with these sites. The list is regularly being revised and updated as some of the sites are either removed or relaunched with changed names.

Twitter It is most popular social bookmarking site as nearly twenty million viewers during a month visit this site. Alexa has ranked it 9th and Quantcast as 5th best site.

del.icio.us

• Delicious is is a social bookmarking website/bookmarks manager that has been recently acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and has become the part of AVOS.
• Existing users need to request yahoo to transfer their bookmarks to AVOS and have to agree to AVOS terms of service and privacy policy.

• You can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

• Using bookmarklets, one can add bookmarks to the list and categorize them. It places all your bookmarks in one place.

• It is visited by an estimated five and half million viewers during a month visit this site. Alexa has ranked it 342^nd and Quantcast as 870^th best site.

Digg:

• It is a social news site that allows its members to vote a site or content bookmarked. If a site is voted high on Digg, it will get lot of traffic.
  

• It is visited by an estimated twenty five million viewers during a month visit this site. Alexa has ranked it 139^th and Quantcast as 127^th best site.

BlogMarks

• A non-profit social bookmarking site, with headquarter in France

• Founded in late 2003, relaunched and allowing currently new members only through invitation

Diigo

• an acronym for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff.”
• It offers a browser bookmarklet,
• you have to use the Firefox or IE toolbar to make best use of Diigo,

• It prefers social bookmarking on steroids.

• When you highlight a word on any page, the drop down menu lets you search the highlighted words in a blog or on the web, or in major social bookmarking systems with any of four search engines

  
  

FriendSite.com

A social Networking site with lot of features for its members

A1 Webmarks

A1-Webmarks is a free service that combines the convenience of a personal webmark server with the power of social webmarking.

You can use the "Webmark!" bookmarklet whenever you surf the web to add the current page to A1-Webmarks.

A bookmarklet helps you performing simple tasks in your browser, such as adding a webmark to A1-Webmarks.

Using Firefox: Check "Bookmarks Toolbar" in the "View > Toolbars" menu. Then drag the Webmark! link to your "Bookmarks Toolbar".

Using Internet Explorer: Check "Links" in the "View > Toolbars" menu.

Using Opera: Check "Personal Bar" in the "View > Toolbars" menu. Then drag the Webmark! link to your "Personal Bar".

Using Safari: Drag the Webmark! link to your "Bookmarks Bar".

You can create a list by assigning a dedicated tag to all webmarks,

alltagz

This site is a bookmarking site. English users may find it difficult yo use as language used is "German".

Furl

Furl is a social bookmarking site that makes it easy to save, share, and explore favorite web pages.

icio.de

Useful for bloggers knowing German language.

Mister Wong

Mister Wong is one of the leading social bookmarking services with portals in 6 languages and claims over 4 million visitors per month.

LinkARENA

Useful for bloggers knowing German language.

Netvouz

Netvouz is a social bookmarking service that allows you to save your favorite links online and organize your bookmarks in folders and tag each bookmark with keywords. Netvouz is a great way to discover new interesting web sites.

oneview

On oneview you can save everything you find on the world wide web (online bookmarking) ranging from videos, news, blog posts, websites etc, basically everything what matters to you and what you simply don’t want to forget.

Simpy

Simpy is a social bookmarking service. With Simpy, you can save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users' links.

RawSugar

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Spurl.net 1.0

Spurl.net is a free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. It allows to store and quickly access again all the interesting pages find on the web

Top 15 bookmark sites as per eBizMBA ranking (based on Alexa and Global traffic ranking) as on 15.8.2011 are listed below. Details of the ranking are available at eBizMBA.

Twitter tops the list of bookmarking sites while blinklist is placed on 15th ranking. Beside Twitter, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us occupies slots of top five. Other five among top ten include

tweetmeme, mixx, FARK, and Slashdot and friendfeed. Rest in the order are: clipmarks, newsvine, diigo, Hackernews and blinklist .