5 Tools for Social Bookmarking

The social bookmarking space is evolving every day. Every content creator sets out with a premise that their content is shared widely and should go viral.

But how many actually succeed? And what can you do to keep your content getting shared more often?

While many do share it over social platforms, that can only reach a certain number of followers at a time. Or the post can get hidden behind other updates and the user may never see it on their.

[color-box]Social Bookmarking is a great feature and helps in extending the life of your content.[/color-box]

Heard about long-tail SEO? Social Bookmarking could be one of the way to achieve it. Essentially, it is offline bookmarking going social. Which means, people can see what you have bookmarked and can even click those links if they find it interesting.

Often I find an interesting link, which I would like to catch up at later point of the day and either read further or leverage for some other task. The challenge with offline bookmarking was, it used to be device specific. Online bookmarking mitigated that, but social bookmarking took it forward and made it possible to share it further.

And I ended up using the following tools to do my job.

5 Tools for Social Bookmarking

1. Google+

Surprised!! Even I was when I first heard the tip about leveraging Google+ for Social Bookmarking. Since, many of my reading is on Google+, I have created an empty circle to share my link on. I access this circle during my reading time. It’s kind of a no frills bookmarking. The only drawback is, no one can see what I have shared in this circle.

2. Scoop.it

Scoop.it has been my companion for a long time now. It’s pretty easy to bookmark a URL here. The best part is, you can create a page to share all those URL and other users can subscribe to your page and follow it. As a subscriber, if you like any post, you can ‘rescoop-it’ or even share your own social platforms.

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3. Pinterest

Pinterest is one of the best social bookmarking site as of date. The ability to view bookmarked links in form of visual is very pleasing. While food pins and other B2C pins dominate the platform, I have found it useful to keep track of my favorites and share it within the community.

Follow me: Malhar Barai on Pinterest

4. Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon was one of the earliest social bookmarking site. Though it has limited number of categories, owning to the huge follower base, it is very famous. And there’s an interesting history to Stumbleupon too – it was sold off to eBay before being bought back by it’s founders.

5. Flipboard

The latest in the list is Flipboard. While, it was a mobile app until recently, the web version is a great extension. Thanks to Aïda Boucheron to shared some interesting insights and her own storyboard, I find myself glued to Flipboad these days. Like Pinterest, this one too has a great visual interface which make story gazing fun.

There you go with some awesome tools.

And then there’s a traffic angle to social bookmarking too. Since users of these platforms are presented links to your content, social bookmarking enables generating inbound traffic too. So make sure you leverage it wisely.

Your Turn

1. What social bookmarking tools do you reckon?

2. Have you seen increased traffic due to social bookmarking?