Sunday, January 31, 2010

Social Bookmarking Tip - A Great Real Estate Web 2.0 Resource I Just Found For Amazing Results With Real Estate Marketing

By Mark Bradley

The World Wide Web has been opening new avenues to help real estate professionals promote and enhance their business online. Social bookmarking sites, a reflection of its boon has started gaining a lot of popularity due to their power to help build networks and even businesses. The best three social bookmarking sites that can help you in promoting your real estate business over the internet are Digg, Stumble upon, and Delicious.

Delicious has been the standard by which all other social bookmarking websites are gauged. This site has been operating since 2003 and possesses rich content and a strong and active community. Its content is not very philosophical. Its interface is rather simple and convenient to use. Its strong following and easy operation makes it a popular choice among new users.

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.

StumbleUpon is another leading and popular social bookmarking site. It functioning and operation is unique in character. When you browse the web and find any interesting page, you will have the option of pressing the button called "thumbs up" in your toolbar.

Similarly, if do not appreciate some page, you can simply hit the button "thumbs down". You are not expected to rate all the pages, only the ones you have strong opinions about. Clicking a toolbar and giving your feedback can be a simple and convenient method to express your opinions on such a social bookmarking site.

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.

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