When you want to increase the online visibility for your business or product, what do you do? If you want to reach the maximum amount of people in the shortest amount of time, you want to look into using social bookmarking tools. Social bookmark tools are a way to post links to many social bookmarking websites, sites that allow users to post links to websites and add descriptions and tags to the descriptions, at once. Social bookmarking sites are places like Twitter, Digg, Pinterest, and StumbleUpon.
Why would you want to do this? Social bookmarking makes your website more visible. The more often a site is tagged with social bookmark tools, the more it is seen. Twitter alone has 250 million users, so social bookmarking tools can get your content out to a lot of people very easily. Social bookmark tools also help your site generate backlinks, which increases your search engine rankings.
It is very time consuming to try and post links to every site at once, so social bookmark tools have been developed to make it easier. The best social bookmarking tools will allow you to choose what websites you post your links to. Some social bookmark tools have preordained set of social bookmarking sites that it will always post to. Others, have custom lists that you can add and remove sites to, based on who you want to see your site the most. It is generally considered best to use social bookmarking tools to post your link to as many sites as you can at once, in order to generate the maximum amount of visibility and backlinks. Many of these tools can be used right from your web browser, and there are also tool bars that you can install into your browser, so you can access your social bookmark tools from anywhere on the web.
There are also tools for people with blogs who do not want to have to post the link to each of their updates. You can add the code or install the plugin for the social bookmark tools into the layout of your blog. Once it is installed, you can access it from your user interface and use the social bookmark tools to send out each update to social bookmarking sites from your blog page.