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Social Bookmark - Adding social bookmark links in your blog or internet site makes it easy for readers to save and share your posts. But once you have decided to add social bookmarking buttons, you need to decide how to add social bookmark creating on your site.

Begin by asking yourself what your display choices are. You can have a share button using a drop down menu listing bookmarking sites, or you can list them all visibly, with checkboxes. Finally, you can send your user with a page which lists every one of the sharing options. Let's examine these options at length to complete our how you can of social bookmarking.

If you have a button with a drop down menu, you will be taking on less space in your page layout, that is a positive, but it is going to be less visible, so that you could lose some potential links on bookmarking sites. I would say that if you decide to list them all visibly, with checkboxes, you'll have to choose fewer sites. I am going to discuss this farther on within the post, but first I want to examine the third option, having all the sharing options on another page. This option lets you have all the options possible. Which brings me to my next point.

Social Bookmark - Then you've got to ask yourself which sites to list first, and which chatting at all. There are countless social bookmarking sites on the Internet, so you have to choose the most relevant ones to your niche. Take into account that people like finding the site of their choice first, so a certain placement reveals your adherence to one site or the other. Small decisions, or decisions which are apparently small, can present you with or take away links.

Sometimes, selecting a smaller site more than a larger one is better, because the community of smaller sites is usually more loyal (and pickier), and definately will see your choice as a positive, making them prone to link posts appearing on your site.

So what about that third option? Is it good?

Social Bookmark - Well, it's not great in my experience. Only very, very technologically minded people want to have that many options. Most visitors on your website will be happier if it is easy to use instead of too complete. There is certainly such a thing as over-optimizing. Another thing to take into account is that more pages means a greater click through rate and therefore lots more people dropping out of the process. And once they've shared your post, they might find it uncomfortable revisit your site and you may be losing visitors who might have otherwise continued browsing and ultimately, purchasing.

Hope this how to of social bookmarking was useful.