What is Social Bookmarking? Social Bookmarking is the storing of bookmarks that reference Websites, Articles, Blog Posts, Forum Posts, Videos, or just about any other content to an online bookmarking service which is usually a social media site that has a community of active users.

Think of Social Bookmarking just like you would think about bookmarking a webpage that you like by saving it into your Internet browser so you can easily find that page again. The concept is the same but now when you have saved your bookmark to the online bookmarking service it has the advantage of being available to you anytime that you are on any computer that has access to the Internet.

Additionally, Social Bookmarks can be shared publicly so other members of that same bookmarking service will be able to see the bookmarks that you post for public access. It is very important to be sure that you categorize and tag your bookmarks properly so others with similar interests will be able to find your bookmarks.

So bookmarking your content on your own website can help drive more traffic to your site and if you provide links to the top bookmarking sites on your website it makes it easier for anyone else who happens to like your content to be able to share your content in their bookmarking accounts.

Another advantage to bookmarking new content that has been added to your site is that social bookmarking also increases the speed in which your site will get crawled and eventually indexed by the search engines. Bookmarks are actually backlinks to your website, so the more social bookmarks there are pointing to your site the better.