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Social Bookmarking - The Power Of Web 2.0 To Enhance Your Real Estate Marketing

By Mark Bradley
Aug 22, 2009
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 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.

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.

If you do not value some page, you can simply press the "thumbs down" button. You are not required to rate all pages, only the ones on which you want to make any comments. Clicking a button on the toolbar and writing your feedback can be an easy and suitable method to express your opinions on such a social bookmarking site.

As a social bookmarking site, StumbleUpon gets to know your individual preferences. It can then match you with a group of users who have preferences that are similar to yours. In this way, you can select "stumble" to pages which are common with those whose preferences match with you. You will not be compelled to share your own votes with others. However, by opting-in, you can aid others to find interesting sites. This site can be the best option if you want a place that will offer you a lot more than just storing your bookmarks.

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.

As a social bookmarking site, Digg also allows you to add videos, various podcasts and even collaborate on the editing efforts of other users by digging their articles. You can also subscribe to the submitted articles of other users via RSS or email. You can digg the stories you appreciate. If you do not appreciate some writing, you can recommend that it gets "buried". Therefore, with social bookmarking sites, you can establish your real estate business online.
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