What is social bookmarking? It is tagging a website and saving it for later.  Instead of saving them to your local web browser, you are saving them to the web where they can easily be shared with friends.  The real power behind social bookmarking is being able to view your friends’ bookmarked sites.  It’s the equivalent of recommending a restaurant to a friend,  if people you know trust a website or blog, it’s worth your time to check it out.

As an Internet marketer one can see a value to participating in online referral and bookmarking activity.  The key is to get others to recommend or bookmark your blog posts or website pages.  Not only is this a popular technique to build a sites rankings in search engine result pages, but it also helps new pages of your site get indexed quickly.  The first step is to make it easy for website visitors to socially bookmark you.  This is little more than the old school ‘bookmark this site’ link.  Because there are about 16 major social bookmarking services out there, which one will that specific visitor want to use?

If your smart, and built your website using WordPress the answer is easy.  Install a social bookmarking plug in, and in minutes it adds the functionality of social bookmarking to all your pages and posts.  There are quite a few social bookmarking plug-ins for WordPress, the one I recommend is ‘Sexy Bookmarks’.  I love how the plug-in adds the hand-written ‘Sharing is Sexy’ – very eye catching and engaging.  They also have a PG version ‘Sharing is Caring’ option for those that don’t like the word sexy.

See a sample of Sexy Bookmarks in action below and on all our blog posts.  And while you’re trying out the feature, don’t forget to bookmark us!

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