What is Social Book marking? How to do it? What are its advantages and disadvantages?

Social book marking is one of the latest online business promotion strategy.  To promote a website or blog in the internet, social book marking is a very effective way. To discuss further lets see what is social book marking, how to do it and what are the advantages and disadvantages of it.

What is social book marking?

To understand social book marking we can refer to the book marking in to the internet browser.

In any internet browser there is an option of bookmarks. In Microsoft internet explorer it is called favorites.

This bookmark and favorite is a function into browser to save any website.  If we have to visit a website regularly then we can bookmark that site into browser so that later we can get the website easily from bookmark.

The browser bookmark works into a single personal computer. You will get it into the pc where you saved it.

Social book marking is also similar to browser bookmark. You can save all of your favorite websites into the social book marking website. Then it is available from any pc in any area of the world.

If you want to get a list of major social book marking sites, you can get it at

List of 200 active social site and social book marking sites.

So we have learned what is social book marking. Now we will discuss how to do the social book marking.

How to do the social book marking?

There are a lot of social book marking site in the internet. If you do a search in Google with social book marking website list you will get a huge list. The list is increasing day by day.

To do social bookmark you will have to sign up social bookmark sites. Then they will give you a tool to download that will be merged with your browser bookmark or favorites. Then you can add your favorite websites into social book marking website.

To know more about how to do social book marking, you may visit to

How to do social book marking screenshot.

Well, after learning how to do social book marking, we will discuss now the advantages of social book marking.

What are the advantages of social book marking?

The main advantage of social book marking your website or blog is search engine optimization. The social sites are highly search engine optimized. So whenever you bookmark a website, it is indexed by search engine almost instantly and you can see it in live search at search engine.

Another advantage is you can get all your favorite website in a single place like your website database. You can go to those website from any computer or any place in the world by logging in to social website.

Now a days people gathers at social sites. So your prospective  audience will see your website. That means you are promoting your website by social book marking.  You can visitors to your site and in long run you will get cash from sales if you sell in the website.

There are infact many more advantages pf social book marking. Now you may ask are  there  any disadvantage of social book marking. Yes there are. Lets go there.

What are the disadvantage of social book marking sites?

As we discussed above that Social book marking are indexed by search engine very quickly. Similarly they goes out of search result quickly as well.

Since social book marking sites are made by web 2.0 technology that is ability to interact with readers, spammers take the advantage of it and for us it becomes a disadvantage.

The last words for social book marking:

Social book marking is one of the latest online business promotion methods. The disadvantage of social book marking is very less considering its advantages. So we all can take advantage of it, as it is still available free in the internet.