They may be words of phrases which can help you find the same
link later and also provide a list of similar websites with the same ‘tag’.
Tags are nearly the same as keywords, yet they are slightly different.
When keywords for a web page are created, you are trying to match the
words or phrases to the information you are looking for, and of course
you hope that this will yield the results you need.
However, suppose when you enter the words ‘celebrity gossip’. You will
gets thousands of unrelated websites that simply contain the words
‘celebrity gossip’ somewhere in their content. Tags are categories not key
words. They are labeling a certain ‘type’ of website, not searching the
website content for the keywords – which may actually yield many
useless results.
Many of the social bookmarking services actively encourage you to
organize your bookmarks by way of tags instead of folders as in
browsers. Bookmarks are categorized according to tags and include
information about how many people have tagged that bookmark.
Similarly, most of the leading social bookmarking websites create web
feeds for their database of bookmarks which enables users to be instantly
aware of the latest bookmarks that may be of interest to them as they
are saved, shared and tagged by users.
Social bookmarking services have grown increasingly popular. Many
websites have added features like rating and comments regarding the
bookmarks, emailing bookmarks, etc.
The Basics of social bookmarking
What is it?
No doubt, everything you have read so far has given you some indication
of what social bookmarking sites are and what they do. Let’s try to break
it down into even simpler terms. Social bookmarking is the practice
whereby you can save your bookmarks to a public website and tag them
according to content, type etc.
In order to create your own collection of social bookmarks or be able to
view others’, you must register with the social bookmarking website in
question first. The site will allow you to store bookmarks, make tags,
decide upon which of your tags should be made public and which should
be kept private. Some social bookmarking will do periodic checks on the
bookmarks to make sure that the links still work, and as suggested, those
visiting social bookmark websites can perform searches by keywords,
popularity or person.
