You have heard of it, but what is it?

If you use the Internet a lot, you have probably racked up quite the list of bookmarks in Explorer or Firefox. With social bookmarking, you do essentially the same thing, but they are stored on a website instead of a computer.

This allows you to share your bookmarks with your friends and have access to them no matter what computer or browser you are using. You also have the ability to create tags (keywords) to describe the bookmarks so that you can find them quickly.

Since these sites are public, you can quickly search keywords to see what others have bookmarked for a similar topic.

Can social bookmarking have an impact on your business?

One thing you can do with these social bookmarking websites is add bookmarks that link to your website or blog. This may increase your search engine standing because you are increasing the number of external links to your site.

You can also improve your reputation as an expert in your field by building a library of bookmarks to informative sites. If other members of the social bookmarking site find your information informative, you can increase your ranking in the virtual community.

Maybe you can even get feature don the front page.

To make it easier for other to bookmark your site or subscribe to an RSS feed, use the widgets from Addthis.com.

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