Visitors - This web page describes a few of the many social bookmarking websites, toolbars, widgets and scripts that have gained popularity over the more familiar bookmarks and favorites features included in Web browsers—Improve your website and blog Web traffic with social bookmarking on Delicious, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and others.

Introduction

Just as social bookmarking has all but replaced more familiar methods for bookmarking and other tasks, social networking has taken the lead over social bookmarking. Social networking provides bookmarking, sharing, discussion and much more. When deciding which of these technologies is best for you, don't forget about URL shorteners, widgets, portals and other gadgets. For URL shorteners, please see our Resources Web page. For widgets, portals and other gadgets, see the Widgets and Portals page.

Ever heard of Twitter? If your answer is no, you must be reading a printed copy of this content because if you were browsing the Internet you would undoubtedly run into something involving Twitter. As the technology that revolves around Twitter.com continues to evolve, it remains to be seen whether social book marking [sic] sites will survive. Brief discussions about Twitter, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn appear on this website's Social Networking page. For information about blogging with Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal and Technorati, please see our Websites and Blogs page.

AddThis | ShareThis | Delicious | Digg | Reddit | StumbleUpon

This web page corresponds to the Freelance Writers Network Social Engineering Group

Did You Know that for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) internal link strategy is as important as external link strategy? In the Introduction above there are four internal links. As you can see, one of those four is linked to our Social Networking page.

While toolbars and add-ons for Firefox always seem to perform well, similar add-ons for Internet Explorer tend to cause conflicts. With Microsoft's introduction of Internet Explorer 8 and its new "Accelerator" technology (Managed in Manage Add-ons), hopefully such conflicts have been resolved.

There are several widgets, scripts and utilties that make it easy to share articles to social media websites like Facebook and MySpace. Here on the Freelance Writers Website, we use script based utilities from ShareThis and AddThis. ShareThis.com, AddThis.com and most similar sites provide tracking data obtained from web surfers use of these utilities. The ShareThis and AddThis scripts provide links for users to subscribe to these FREE services.

The bookmarking and other services provided by Delicious.com, Digg.com, Reddit.com, StumbleUpon.com and most similar websites are FREE. Social bookmarking is a time consuming process. Monitor the results to determine if the efforts are worthwhile.

Delicious at Delicious.com

09/22/2009 - Alexa Rank 529; Google PageRank 8/10; Compete Rank 939; mozRank n/a

From Delicious About, "Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet."

LANWANMAN on Delicious

Digg at Digg.com

09/22/2009 - Alexa Rank 117; Google PageRank 8/10; Compete Rank 17; mozRank 7.64

From Digg About, "Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web . . . Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users . . . a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we are changing the way people consume information online."

LANWANMAN is LANWANMAN352 on Digg

Reddit at Reddit.com

09/22/2009 - Alexa Rank 482; Google PageRank 8/10; Compete Rank 310; mozRank 6.76

From Reddit About, "Reddit is a source for what's new and popular on the web. Users like you provide all of the content and decide, through voting, what's good and what's junk."

LANWANMAN on Reddit

StumbleUpon at StumbleUpon.com

09/22/2009 - Alexa Rank 302; Google PageRank 8/10; Compete Rank 270; mozRank 7.59

From StumbleUpon About, "StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites . . . Pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 6 million+ other web surfers with interests similar to you."

LANWANMAN is LANWANMAN352 on StumbleUpon.  Feel free to

AddThis at AddThis.com

AddThis, "One button. Your content everywhere."

Author's closing comments - Please return often to check for updates to this page and especially for links added above.

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