Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
You can think of social bookmarking as a tool to identify the coolest or most useful sites in a particular category, or a way to discover new resources. One person shares a bookmark, and the larger community makes a thumbs-up or thumbs-down decision.
I have listed down the top 10 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. Feel free to sign up and bookmark your website.
1 | digg.com
383,598,000 – Inbound Links | 33,433,760 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 11,400,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 183 – Alexa Ranking.
2 | Yahoo! Buzz
6,031,000 – Inbound Links | NA – Compete Monthly Visitors | 3,600,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | NA – Alexa Ranking.
3 | StumbleUpon.com
234,000,000 – Inbound Links | 4,418,609 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,100,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 362 – Alexa Ranking.
4 | reddit.com
161,685,000 – Inbound Links | 4,908,990 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,300,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 441 – Alexa Ranking.
5 | Technorati.com
175,287,000 – Inbound Links | 3,309,174 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 2,000,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 662 – Alexa Ranking.
6 | del.icio.us
427,665,000 – Inbound Links | 1,623,083 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 317,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 2,476 – Alexa Ranking.
7 | kaboodle.com
2,600,000 – Inbound Links | 3,941,212 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 2,500,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,694 – Alexa Ranking.
8 | mixx.com
16,005,000 – Inbound Links | 879,108 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 2,200,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 645 – Alexa Ranking.
9 | Propeller.com
5,725,000 – Inbound Links | 1,164,549 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 624,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,801 – Alexa Ranking.
10 | newsvine.com
71,708,775 – Inbound Links | 1,142,779 – Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,300,000 – Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 5,545 – Alexa Ranking.