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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 regular BM stored only on your own computers browser, a social BM is shared with the BMcommunity, allowing others to find out everything 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 are probably within the practice of BM things in your browser, which means this would have been a new habit. But many of the social bookmark sites have plugins you can install within your browser, making it convenient and easy to BM everything publicly.

2. Make use of a good title. Remember, a SBM isn't 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, , nor use abbreviations or jargon, make it clear and precise. - Delicious

3. Use a good description. As above, let you know and understandable for some individuals.

4. Make good use of tags. Tags enable you to, yet others, know very well what the site is all about. Something like "cool site" is meaningless. Be very accurate and include details inside your tags.

5. Don't bookmark multiple page in the domain. This is a temptation individuals have when bookmarking their particular sites as a means to getting free traffic. You'll find nothing wrong using this, you can definitely you allow a bookmark for every blog post on your site it will likely be monotonous for others and they will stop checking all your bookmarks. - Delicious

6. If it's useless to others, don't bookmark it. Sometimes you find websites that are meaningful for you, but of little value to others. Bookmark these privately and so the quality of one's social bookmarks stays high.

If you follow these rules and bookmark consistently you are able to both give, and obtain lots of value from social bookmarking. - Delicious