Social bookmarking has become popular in the last few years. The whole idea is to keep track of news and information you find interesting and to share that with others. To the extent that you do that well you should build a large network of people who share similar interests. Here are a few tips to help you do that more effectively through del.icio.us:
An article by Allen
Taylor
Social bookmarking has become popular in the
last few years. The whole idea is to keep track of news and
information you find interesting and to share that with others.
To the extent that you do that well you should build a large
network of people who share similar interests. Here are a few
tips to help you do that more effectively through
del.icio.us:
- Bookmark something every
day – Don’t just do it haphazardly. To be
effective in social bookmarking you have to be consistent.
If you haven’t used your account in two or three months
people will notice and they won’t add you to their
network.
- Add the one-click add-on
to your browser – Whether you use Firefox or
Internet Explorer, you can add an extension to your browser
that allows you to add bookmarks with just one click without
having to sign in to your account. This is a major time
saver.
- Don’t just bookmark
your own websites – Most people will tell you not
to bookmark your own sites at all. I think it’s OK to do
this as long as that’s not all you bookmark. You can even
tell people that a certain bookmark is your own website by making
that note in the comments field. But if you bookmark other
people’s stuff – news, blogs, websites you find
interesting, and anything that you like – more often than
you bookmark your own stuff then you’ll make a lot more
friends.
- Add at least one new
friend every day – When you bookmark an item,
del.icio.us will tell you how many other people have
bookmarked the same item. Click on that link and you can see
their comments. Find a comment by a user that you like?
Visit their bookmarks page and take a look at their
bookmarks. If they have several bookmarks that you like then
you’ve found a good friend. At the top of the page, click
where it says “add to your network.”
- Delete people from your network who do
not reciprocate – There might be instances where
you’ll ignore this advice, but on the whole you want
people in your network who are active users. An active user
is someone who adds friends to their network. Give them a
week or two to return the favor and if they don’t then drop
them.
- Be prolific in the use of
tags – Use lots of tags. The more the better. Of
course, they should be relevant to the item you are tagging.
But if you bookmark an item that discusses collecting
seashells by the seashore, for instance, then you can tag it with
the following tags: collecting, sea, seashell, seashore,
beach, beachcombing; and if the article is about a specific
beach or location then add the geographic tags as well:
Florida, Jacksonville, etc.
- Spend 15-20 a day bookmarking and
networking – It doesn’t take long to build a solid
network of active users and a good list of bookmarks. If you
add five items per day and two friends to your network every
day then after one month you will have 150 bookmarks and
sixty friends. This is easy to do in 15 minutes.
Social bookmarking is a useful tool. Now
that del.icio.us is owned by Yahoo it is pretty certain that the
social site will stick around awhile. By adding links to your
favorite sites you encourage others to share their interests with
you. This builds link popularity and drives traffic to your
favorite websites. Furthermore, if you don’t already have an
account, setting one up takes all of five minutes.
If you desire more exposure for your business
I strongly encourage the use of del.icio.us. Scratch the backs of others and
they’ll scratch yours.
Allen Taylor is the operations manager for www.ArticleContentPr
ovider.com and manages blogs for several clients on a
freelance basis. He also operates Articles.pn, an article
directory with social networking features. You can see his
del.icio.us bookmarks here.
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