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Social Bookmark Methods for Rookies

Social bookmark sites like Delicious and StumbleUpon are a great way to locate and store great websites. Unlike a normal BM stored only on your own personal computers browser, a social BM is given to the BMcommunity, allowing others to see that which you BM, and the other way around. Here are a few do's and don'ts of SBM.

1. Use SBM over private bookmarks. You may be in the habit of BM things inside your browser, which means this would have been a new habit. Quite a few the social bookmark sites have plugins you can install in your browser, rendering it convenient and easy to BM everything publicly.

2. Use a good title. Remember, a SBM is not only to suit your needs, others might find all of your bookmarks and look at the same sites. Be sure that your description is accurate, and don't use abbreviations or jargon, inform you and precise. - Delicious

3. Use a good description. As above, let you know and understandable for other people.

4. Make good use of tags. Tags enable you to, among others, know very well what your website is approximately. Something like "cool site" is meaningless. Be very accurate and include details within your tags.

5. Don't bookmark multiple page inside a domain. This can be a temptation individuals have when bookmarking their own sites as a way for you to get no-cost traffic. There's nothing wrong using this, however if you allow a bookmark for each blog post on your site it'll be monotonous for other people and they'll stop checking your bookmarks. - Delicious

6. Whether it's not good to others, don't bookmark it. Sometimes you find websites that are meaningful for you, but of little value to other people. Bookmark these privately therefore the quality of your social bookmarks stays high.

If you follow these rules and bookmark consistently you can both give, and acquire a lot of value from social bookmarking. - Delicious