Social Bookmarking for Traffic
Social Bookmarking for Traffic by Mark Daoust A while back I wrote an article commenting on Yahoo's public declaration that they were effectively conceding to Google in the search market . The point of the article was that Yahoo was not necessarily giving up as a business, but rather focusing its efforts on more modern forms of search . And what are these more modern forms of search ? In a word, social networks which includes social bookmarking and variants on social bookmarking . What is Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking is one of the flagships of Web 2.0. The basic concept behind social bookmarking is that when thousands of people get together, bookmark their favorite pages, and apply descriptive tags to each page that they bookmark, certain websites will rise to the top as being more popular. The result of this is that surfers will be able to see what websites are currently popular among users. The idea of social bookmarking seems to have been originated by Del.icio.us b...