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Social Bookmarking – Way to Increase Backlinks and Traffic to Your Site

Now that we all are so familiar with social bookmarking and have been using bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, Stumble Upon, etc., we are mostly enjoying th benefit that these social sites provide. However, did we ever stop to think how these social bookmarking sites came to existence in the first place? People who are new to the internet and using online public bookmarks to begin with may not know how bookmarks were done in the past and what kind of drawback old fashioned bookmarks presented.

Well, there isn’t much of a history out there actually. At least nothing like a fairy tale that would be told here. Since the inception of the internet, web visitors were marking their bookmarks under favorite on the tool bar menu. At the beginning, Netscape was known as internet as going online means using Netscape to browse the net. There was no other browser in existence at that time so Netscape didn’t have any competitor.

Good thing didn’t last for Netscape for long! Soon, they had rival who is Internet Explorer developed by Microsoft made a very smart move to capture the browser market by integrating Internet Explorer within the Windows operating systems. Slowly people started getting used to IE and Microsoft took the opportunity to keep improving their browser to offer positive user experience. Even though IE was there, at the beginning, people would still use IE for browsing and then use Netscape and a search Engine as there was no other. Then Google came into existence swiping the entire web visitors from Netscape’s ground toward them.

There has been many remissions with the browsers since then and couple of other browsers became popular and somewhat popular but bookmarking were still done at old fashioned way. Since these bookmarks are on local computer, there is no way for someone to visit those bookmarks form a separate computer, not to mention sharing them with anyone.

Realizing this potential, developers came up with social bookmarking sites where people are able to organize their bookmarks online and make them public. They now can share these bookmarks with friends and family as well which was a dream come true in the past.

Since these bookmarking sites offer public bookmarks, it is also possible to submit your site and get a backlinks form there. Either you can submit your own bookmarks if you are interested in link building or you can outsource a link building service for your bookmarking needs which will be ideal if you need loot of backlinks.