Bookmarking has been around for a while and it allows internet users to mark pages that interest them so they can easily find it again. However, in the past, bookmarking was a tool that was only available to you on the computer that you used to initially bookmark the site. If you were using another computer and wanted to bookmark a page this tool wasn’t very useful because it would only be available to you on that computer. Therefore, the early Bookmarking tools were very limited. Developers soon realized that it was important to create a Bookmarking tool that could maintain all of a person’s bookmarks and be accessible to them no matter what computer they were using. This gave internet uses more of a reason to bookmark pages and made a significant difference in the way bookmarking affected online businesses. Now, as content for a business was posted to sites like StumbleUpon.com and Digg.com it would instantly increase traffic to a website. The effects of bookmarking are substantial. Increased traffic translates into higher page rank and higher rankings on search engine results. It gains free exposure for a company in the ever growing social media realm, which is guaranteed (more…)
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