Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites

The following are top 10 social bookmarking sites are made popular based on cross-evaluation factors like Google Pagerank, Alexa Rank, Inbound Links, Compete Visitors, and Quantcast Visitors :

1. Digg has become the most well-known social bookmarking site in the world wide web. The user can submit website address containing contents of their interest. Other Digg subscriber are also allowed to leave comments to any submitted link by other users and vote them (known as Diggs). Most “Digged” pages will be found on Digg’s frontpage and have higher chances of being visited by Digg users around the world. One can also submit written original content of any topic. However, oversubmission may cause one’s link to get penalized until it can no longer be visible to other Digg users. This social bookmarking site highly encouraged submission of very interesting links.
   
2. Del.icio.us has drastically gaining popularity as premier social bookmarking site after being owned by Yahoo!. Del.icio.us is also one of the oldest social bookmarking site. Users are allowed to bookmark and share links of their interest and access them from any computer, anytime, anywhere. Del.icio.us boasts about 1.1 million unique visitors per month in the US alone.
   
   
3. Technorati is popularly known as search engine for blogs, making it one of the most credible social bookmarking site to boosts your site ranking. Users opt to advertise their sites through blog submissions, while making any other related links as favorites. Technorati seems to be inclined towards news and fresh blog contents of any sorts of topic like business, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, politics, and technology. Frontpage is divided into two main sections : recent news and blogs and news and blogs that are getting popular.
   
   
4. Propeller is an easy to use social bookmarking site, formerly known as Netscape. It has become one of the most active and professional bookmarking site today where greater number of users have a household income of $60,000. It has the same story-submitting structure as Digg or Del.icio.us by using tags on links and vote by Propeller users. Propeller’s frontpage section is being flooded by most popular stories around the world so any visitor will be enticed to take a peek of what these stories are all about.
   
5. StumbleUpon is an easy to use social bookmarking site using its StumbleUpon toolbar for easy access and registration. It popularized the use of “thumbs up” icon when visitors liked the stories they read and share them with their fellow users. This is believed to be a house of dedicated web searchers hunting for brilliantly interesting sites and share them – hence the slogan “Discover your web”. Submitted sites here are known for being of high quality. Current interface incorporate highly informative link contents with elegant photos to further captivate any visitor to stay and read some.
   
6. Reddit is using up and down voting scheme to indicate whether a visitor likes or dislikes submitted stories. This could indicate which links are getting more popular and being recently discussed. Frontpage content links are being partitioned into what’s hot, new, controversial, and top. The default, however, is the “what’s hot” section or stories being highly visited and discussed recently. Every story is being supported by comment and share option for the visitor.
   
   
7. Slashdot still remained powerful as the most landed page for social news enthusiasts. It is also know to be the home of science and technology links around the world. So most geeks about these sorts of topic submit blogs and news links through Slashdot. Users can also submit contents here which will be moderated by editors before allowing them to be shared within the Slashdot community. This social bookmarking site has also become inclined towards Linux and other Open Source topics in software development.
   
   
8. Newsvine, as it name implies, has a heavy slant on press related news all around the world. Most of the stories here are generally current events taken from media organizations. It’s main objective to link small and big media together to come up highly relevant news on every topic of concern. Submitted stories are also filtered using freshness, popularity, and reputation factors. This also makes Newsvine not an ideal social bookmarking site for those who just wanted website exposure and advertisement. However, when your stories have the potential to be a big global news, then this site will give you a break.
   
   
9. Diigo claimed to be a knowledge-based social bookmarking site and an influential research sharing online community. It has now become one of the most widely accepted Web tools to put sticky notes on website links and highlight anything you like. Users can also leave comments and connect with their friends effortlessly to form a group sharing the same interests. Most popular tags are being enlarged to become highly visible. Diigo also includes a collection of forums and blogs. After it has absorbed Furl.net, it is expected to increase its share of users in the internet. Furl users can transfer their data on Diigo and will be starting to use it as their primary bookmarking tool online.
   
10. Fark used human evaluation schemes to post impression on links being submitted. It highly encouraged interesting, bizarre and amusing news stories, along with regular photo manipulation contests. Most of Fark subscribers are male, about 69%, mostly working professionals. Although links are being categorized, it can still be rated by website administrators on daily archives leaving overall impression about the link.
    
    

The above were just the reigning social bookmarking sites. It is important to notice that evaluation factors like Google Pagerank, Alexa Rank, Inbound Links, Compete Visitors, and Quantcast Visitors may vary from time to time. And so some social bookmarking sites will emerge having highly innovative tools to efficiently store highly relevant information to users and share them to their colleagues.