These are just a few of the many available social bookmarking sites. There are many more to make use of as well as sites that can do submitting to multiple sites for you once you have set them up correctly. Be sure to also check out the following: Newsvine, Slashdot, Fark, Clipmarks, Diigo, Connotea and Twine. Make use of only a few or all of them as it suits your personal blogging or content promotion needs. Here are our Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites today.
Digg is one of the most popular of the social bookmarking sites. Anyone can register and submit to Digg.com. The site enjoys a monthly unique visitor count of approximately 45 million, and covers a greater than 60% male demographic in the coveted 25-34 year old range, though this is moderating as the site becomes more and more popular. Users submit diggs (links with small explanations and a thumbnail) that can be dugg and thus made more popular by other Digg users. Links can be shared with Facebook.
Twitter is a popular social networking site that also provides social bookmarking through shortened URL links to various topics, including articles, pictures and video. Its demographic is wide an enjoys and ever-increasing unique visitor hit count of nearly 80 million. It’s focus is on mobile device messaging though a cell phone is not required.
Propeller is a social news site formed out of the ashes of Netscape Navigator under the AOL banner. It is similar to Digg in that users can vote on which stories are promoted to the 1st page and comment on them as well. Propeller’s user base is slightly older, with the main portion of visitors in the 45-54 again in the male demographic.
Del.icio.us is a popular social bookmarking site that has received a boost from its acquisition by Yahoo. Del.icio.us features many of the things other bookmarking sites do in combination with subscribable categories to keep you in the loop. Del.icio.us enjoys a unique count of 5.5 million monthly. They bill themselves as “The tastiest bookmarks on the web.”
Reddit is similar to del.icio.is and the others. Users simply register and then begin sharing or submitting their links. Again users are able to vote on stories or posts in order to achieve higher ranking and therefore more attention. Unique clicks are estimated at 16.5 million users.
StumbleUpon boasts 16 million unique monthly visitors. It is different from the others in that it is essentially a browser plug-in that allows users to rates sites as they “stumble upon” them while browsing the web. These sites can then in-turn be followed by others or recommend sites with like content.
Yahoo! Buzz allows users to become the editors, and like other sites, they vote or “buzz up” the best articles on any topic. Yahoo! Determines the most popular topics being searched for and then showcase the most popular posts under those topic headings based various factors. The best posts may even make the front page of Yahoo! This can reach 14 million unique on Buzz or the many more millions searching Yahoo! Daily.
Google Bookmarks is new to the game, but if we know Google and their continuous dev cycles, support and innovation, it will probably be a standard tool across the web very soon. Users save bookmarks through the normal Google Toolbar (Gmail, Search, etc.) and lists can be created from these bookmarks which are then labeled and shared or even collaborated on with added Google info.
Mixx is yet another social bookmarking website with an estimated 2.6 million unique visitors per month. It displays user-made recommendations for all sorts of content. Some nice features aside from content rating are private groups and the ability to customize each users start-page, allowing for the most efficient layout for each individual.
Folkd promotes their site as something to “enrich your web-surfing experience”. They are a fast-growing social bookmarking site powered by their extensive user community. An easy to install browser extension will do most of the work for you once you are setup, allowing page bookmarking with a single click, as well as creating and organizing bookmarks by tags.
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