Web 2.0 is a term that you've probably heard a lot lately. Web 2.0 refers to the current state of the Internet, often characterized as the second generation of the Web. The Web has changed into a community oriented environment, bursting at the seams with creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users. It includes a plethora of new technologies that enable you and me to commune in this place that we have come to know and love: the Internet. With that in mind, here are four social bookmarking sites you should make a point of using. With social bookmarking sites, save your favorite bookmarks and then share them with others within a particular network. Tagging and categories allows other users of the same social bookmarking communities to find your bookmarks, visit those sites, and vote sites up or down!
You will, of course, need to register on each individual social bookmarking site in order to submit blog links and articles.
With social bookmarking, you have the potential to get a lot of traffic and attention!
Digg: get your site listed on Digg, and through sharing and voting, you may even make the homepage and get lots of attention! Be prepared to pay for all that extra bandwidth from your Web service provider.
Alexa Rank = 135
Technorati: Blog search engine that tracks over 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media (don’t get lost in the crowd!) Seriously, Technorati is an authority on what is happening on Web in real time. Always on, always updated! When I launched my blog, Technorati was on the case within 24 hours!
Alexa Rank = 383
del.icio.us: store your favorites of anything on the Web and share with the del.icio.us community.
Alexa Rank = 378
StumbleUpon: discover and share websites. StumbleUpon uses rating to form collaborative opinions on Website quality. If a popular “Stumbler” stumbles across your website and likes it, watch out! You’ll end up with hundreds, even thousands of visitors. All it takes is one popular Stumbler!
Alexa Rank = 294
