When you go to a popular networking website and you see an icon then point and click on it and you get coursed to another website, you have just patronized what is now common in many online businesses… This is called social bookmarking. The main idea here is that if an online business wants to be visible to people who go online, for marketing purposes, it can make its own social bookmark, submit it to a social bookmarking site and whenever one visits this site, the online business gets the chance to be advertised as clicking on their bookmark will link a person to a web site about their business. There is a tool that does all these things automatically for and it’s called automated social bookmarking software.

A social bookmark is just like the favorites feature in your browser. When a website or a particular web site caught your attention and you wish to be able to easily go back to this site or page, then you click on the favorites button in your browser and the link gets virtually saved. Next time you wish to visit this again, you can just click on the saved link. The only difference in social bookmarking is that you allow people to see this web site that you bookmarked by making the link, or what is called the social bookmark, available to them. There are a lot of sites that do this, including popular networking sites. If you are an ambitious online business then you would want to submit your social bookmark to as many social bookmarking sites as possible so that there will be a greater chance for your site to get visited and noticed. However, your goal to advertise will not be that effective if you only submit your bookmark to but a few sites. You have to submit to many, if not all, sites. And as this could be time-consuming, you can rely on automated social bookmarking software to do this task for you automatically, within a few minutes.