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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Social Bookmarking with Stumbleupon

StumbleUpon is one of the most prominent community on the internet which helps users to discover, rate and evaluate web pages, photos and videos. It also serves as an efficient social bookmarking and networking tool. StumbleUpon contains a toolbar which has to be downloaded and placed on the browser. The main part of the toolbar is the “Stumble” button which displays web pages based on the user ratings, ratings by friends etc, when clicked on it. In StumbleUpon, users only have to tag specific personal or professional interests and then surf by simply clicking on the “Stumble” button on the tool bar.

The users also have the facility to rate any web pages, with the help of the thumbs up button on the StumbleUpon toolbar. Users can also degrade the web page by clicking the thumbs down button. The StumbleUpon toolbar is compatible with almost all the major we browsers. StumbleUpon has been acquired by E-bay in May 2007. Users are allowed to join groups of their interest and post comments.

StumbleUpon brings in more steady and targeted traffic to your website or blogs. StumbleUpon also boasts of the lowest bounce rate when compared with other social media sites. This tool also brings in more new visitors and the traffic is instant. By surfing and submitting web pages with the help of SumbleUpon tool bar, the users can easily keep track of the websites of their interest and share it with others.

Once you have an article, blog posting or any other web pages to submit into StumbleUpon, first click of the Thumb Up button on the SumbleUpon tool bar. It will open a small dialog box, into which you can categorize the web page, add a small description, add tags etc and finally submit. Now your posting will be added to the StumbleUpon data base and would be shown to other users with interests similar to your tags. The webpage will also be shown to users who use Stumble toolbar to surf the internet.

In order to get better traffic from StumbleUpon, you need to create a good network and reputation. It would also be advisable to join or create relevant groups. Never go for spammy techniques which would hamper your reputation. Try to be more active in groups and forum. Also try to get as much as reviews to your postings, which would serve well in the long run.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Social Bookmarking Sites

In this world Web 2.0, Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more popular. These sites use the Web 2.0 technology to a good extend, which has many advantages over other sites. The Social Bookmarking sites allows us to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browser.
These Social Bookmarking sites are also easy to use. We need to register with the site and start submitting our stuffs. Social Bookmarking site is all about sharing and exposure. The Social Bookmarking sites allow users to post their favorite sites, using tags (or keywords) to categorize and organize them. After this the other users can take these bookmarks and add them to their own collection or share them with even more users.
Some of the major Social Bookmarking sites are Digg, Delicious, Stubmleupon, Furl, Simpy etc.

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