Social bookmarking websites have gained a lot of popularity in recent times. They have become essential and effective tools for building networks and even businesses. As a real estate professional you can use these sites to promote your real estate business online. You should know about the best sites in this respect. The top three social bookmarking nowadays are Digg, Stumble upon and Delicious.
Delicious has set a standard by which all other social bookmarking websites are now measured. Delicious started operating in 2003 and has rich content and a strong and active community. Its content is not very theoretical. Its interface is rather straightforward and suitable to use. It is very popular among the users due to its easy operation.
Delicious, a social bookmarking site lets you save all the bookmarks and perform a search by using the suitable keywords. You can also look for freshly added and admired websites that are suggested by other users. You can add friends and even browse their individual bookmarks. The site is easy to use and sign up and has a simple design.
Following Delicious is Stumble Upon, another leading social bookmarking site. Its functioning style is unique and one of its kind. You can click on the sign that shows the “thumbs up” sign that will appear in your toolbar if you like a particular page while browsing the internet and the “thumbs down” option if you dislike a particular page. You can simply click a toolbar and voice out your opinions on such a social bookmarking site and rate only the pages on which you carry a strong opinion.
Stumble Upon focuses on individual preferences. So, if you sign up with them they can introduce to you users who have a similar taste. Then you can select the option “stumble” and visit the pages who share the same point of view.
As a flexible social bookmarking site, you are not compelled to share your votes with others but if you do you can help other users to find interesting sites. Thus Stumble Upon is not just a site that helps you store bookmarks but offers a lot more interesting activities.
Following these two is Digg, another popular social bookmarking site. It makes the process of tagging simple and is easy to use. After registering you can use the numerous facilities that they offer like, adding buttons to your own web browser or add any story or article. For this all you need to do is mention the URL, post a little comment on it and a title that describes it well. If your story gets enough appreciation, it can carve its way to the home page and gain some publicity.
Digg, the social bookmarking site also provides the facility to add videos, various podcasts and even collaborate on the editing labors of other users by digging their articles. Via RSS or email you can also subscribe to the submitted articles of other users. You can digg the stories you are pleased about. If you are not pleased about some writing, you can advise that it gets “buried”. Real estate advertising and marketing can be conveniently done using social bookmarking sites and they can give great benefits to your business.