A complete guide to what is social bookmarking (Part I)

The concept of Social bookmarking is probably the fastest growing idea in today's cyber world. social Bookmarking allows Internet users to store, organize, share and search for the webpages of their choice. Users save links of pages they want to remember, at a convenient location. No need to remember them or clutter your browser's window.

These bookmarks may be private or public, which can also be seen by others. The users can browse through them chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly. The biggest reason for the popularity of these bookmarking sites is that they are now being used to drive traffic towards your own site or blogs.

Social Bookarking as search tools

At the time of bookmarking, you can tag the web pages with appropriate words, which can later be searched by you as well as other. Today's Social Bookarking has started replacing the traditional methods of searching through search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Advantages

This system is human based, as against the automated systems of search engines. So, the system is more perfect.

They virtually provide a rating system to the web pages. Bette pages are bookmarked by more people. So, larger no. of bookmarks usually can be associated with better content.

Drawbacks

However, this system doesn't have standard set of tags. Also there are spelling mistakes while tagging, no discrimination when words mean more than one thing.

Furthermore, thismethod is susceptible to corruption and collusion. A webpage of a popular blog, with just about average quality of content, is likely to be bookmarked by more people than a page, with excellent content, but hosted on a not so popular website. Spammers also use lots of tags to bookmark their pages, just to gain more visibility.

With this background, we will present here a list of some of social bookmarking site in the coming two post of this series.

Viigo | The RSS feed reader for your cellphone

With each passing day, more and more people have been using cellphones for accessing Internet. With this there is a growing need for a reliable, convenient and convenient RSS feed reader for cellphones. Viigo fills this requirement in an effective way.

Viigo gives an instant access to Breaking News, Sports, Entertainment, Weather, Markets, Blogs, or any RSS Feed you want. There is also a huge list of several channels and blogs, which you can choose to start from. It also lest you updated about the local events, local weather, news and sports. You can even track your courier packages from the world's most popular mail and package carriers.

Try it, the price is really impressive. It is $0.00.

P.S.: You can find a review of BuzzMe, another RSS feed reader here.

del.icio.us tags: RSS, feed reader, Viigo, Mobile, cellphone

FastStone | Free webtool for easy and effective screen captures

I love Snagit for taking the screenshots of different for this blog. It is probably the most versatile software, with lots of cool options to tweak the screenshot. But, most importantly, it is not a freeware. You have to purchase it to use it legally.

But, there is also a great freeware, which does most of the jobs Snagit can do. It is FastStone Capture.
It is lightweight (only 1340 kb) and offers the output in a variety of formats. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages.


Features:

• A small floating draggable Capture Panel
• Uses minimal memory space
• Global hotkeys to activate the program's capture capabilities anytime, anywhere
• Efficient tools to capture windows, objects, full screen, rectangle/freehand-selected regions and scrolling areas
• Supports various browsers IE, FireFox and Opera
• Option to specify destination (internal editor, clipboard, file or printer)
• Text/Arrowed line/Highlight/Watermark annotation
• Drop-shadow, torn-edge and fade-edge effects
• Add caption
• Resize, crop, zoom in/out
• Undo/Redo
• Support external editors, which allows you to add virtually unlimited editing capabilities to the program
• Save as BMP, JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, GIF, TIFF, TGA and PDF
• Send e-mails
• Screen magnifier
• Screen color picker
• Support multiple monitors
• Option to run when Windows starts
• And many more ...

You can download it here at PCWorld or directly from the FastStone website.

Use Embiggen to expand tinyURL

We all know how useful is tinyURL, the service which shorten any URL to manageable limits.
But every good things comes packaged with bad things. So is here.
The drawback of tinyURL is that the person clicking it doesn't know beforehand where is he being led to. See Lifehacker's observation on it.

Embiggen is a useful tool, which you can use to expand any tinyURL to know what is hidden beneath it. Publishers / Bloggers and browsers can use it in different ways.

• Publishers / Bloggers: They can insert a code into their template, which will give you a button on your page.As soon as the visitors on your page click this button, all the tinyURLs on this page will expand for his convenience.
• Browsers / Surfers: They can create a bookmarklet on their Bookmark toolbar and click it to expand the tinyURLs on a page.

Breaking into 1,00,000 Technorati Rank Club

So, finally the first target set by me for myself at the start of launching this blog is accomplished.
Yes, this blog is now enjoying a 5-digit Technorati Rank (less than 1,00,000). I had targeted to achieve this feat in two months time, and I achieved it in about 1 month and 15 days.

I am thrilled today, and a lot motivated also.

Access my blog on your cellphone

Now accessing my blog on your cellphone is very easy.

Just click the button on my left sidebar and key-in a few details on the next page.
This all is possible through BUZmob. It automatically sends text messages to the readers of your blog to enable them to keep in touch with your blog posts. At present most forms of JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, audio files, non-image binary files cannot be sent via this webtool. BUZmob claims that an upcoming release of BUZmob will support video feeds and mobile video and even podcasts also.

BUZmob is developed and delivered by Contec Innovations.

Best SEO practices for your website or blog

How much do you care for Search Engine Optimization, SEO, of your website or blog. We all know its importance, yet do not devote required efforts and energy to this aspect.

SEO depends upon a lot of factors, and new bloggers are found a bit confused about what works best for them. There is no sure shot tip for it.

However Webconfs have come out with an exhaustive list of Do's and Don't on a scale of +3 to -3.
I will list out only the extreme ones, rest you can check out here.

Keywords

• Keyword in title tag (+3)
• .................
• .................
  
• Keyword stuffing (-3)

Links

• Anchor text of inbound links (+3)
• .................
• .................
  
• Cross-linking (-3)

Meta Tags

• Description Meta Tag (+1)
• .................
• .................
  
• Refresh Meta Tag (-1)

Content

• Unique content (+3)
• .................
• .................
  
• Duplicate content (-3)

Other factors

• Site accessibility (+3)
• .................
• .................
  
• Misused Redirects (-3)

Go check that out.

Alexa Redirect: Increase your Alexa Rankings

So, now another train has arrived. This time to increase your Alexa Rankings. But how to do that. For this,

Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. No matter when or where you provide a link to your website, you can always be sure to use the equivalent Alexa redirect URL. For example, http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?webtools-desinet1.blogspot.com provides a link to me. If you copy this URL into your browser, it will take you to my blog. To know your Alexa Redirect link, just replace the name of my blog with your website.

Alexa Redirect for Webtools
Alexa Redirect for Kuanhoong
Alexa Redirect for marketingscoop
Alexa Redirect for Gadget9
Alexa Redirect for Byte of Technology
Alexa Redirect for News Blog
Alexa Redirect for Web 2.0
Alexa Redirect for Madhur’s Blog
Alexa Redirect for Blog of Ehsan
Alexa Redirect for Technical Blog
Alexa Redirect for Life Rocks 2.0
Alexa Redirect for Shankar’s Tech Blog
Alexa Redirect for Brown Barron’s Blog
Alexa Redirect for Windows Tips
Alexa Redirect for Techlivez
Alexa Redirect for My Sites Advisor
Alexa Redirect for The Techie Blog
Alexa Redirect for GadgetVenue
Alexa Redirect for Techchee
Alexa Redirect for Must Read Files
Alexa Redirect for Five Point Someone
Alexa Redirect for Digital IT

If you want to enrolls yourself simply copy the list and include 2-3 blogs of your choice and pass it on... But for ensuring success, make sure to visit each blog with their alexa redirect which will help them in improving their Alexa rank.