Social Bookmarking - The Ultimate Viral Marketing
This post is about social bookmarking, which is a term for the various techniques of passing links to content from one person to another. The techniques can be through email, social media posting, or simply copying and pasting. The particular action taken depends on the intent of the person sharing the link.
We'll cover what social bookmarking is at first, and how it's been used as viral marketing in several instances in recent years. We'll talk about how it's being used as viral marketing in that sense of the term. We'll talk about what tools you can use to do it. And we'll have a brief look at some trends and where I think this stuff is going in the future.
Social bookmarking is a term that refers to a technique where one person passes along information or a link to another person who, in turn, passes it on further. It's perhaps most often used between friends and family, but it can be applied between total strangers as well - if they have something they want another person to know. And some people use social bookmarking and sharing links as a way to pass along ideas of an idea that they think might be good.
Let's start at the beginning, though - what is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a way of passing links from one person to another in ways that are not listed anywhere else on the Internet, such as through email or via social media. Those who share the link in response can then tell others about it and spread it further. Social bookmarking websites like Digg and StumbleUpon are popular tools used for this. And many other tools exist as well, including tools like Bloglines, but we'll discuss those in more detail later.
Conclusion
Social Bookmarking is the sharing of links to other websites. Social Bookmarking is a way for people to pass along links to content and ideas that they want others to see. It is a powerful way of getting people to your website, as users are already interested in the particular topic that you're talking about.
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