The items listed below are the key things you should look for before joining Social Bookmarking Websites. Pay close attention to these areas as they determine which sites are the best.
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Ability to import your bookmarks from other places
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If you are like most Internet users, you bookmark sites using your web browser so you can come back and look at those sites later. You bookmark sites at home and at work using the same browser. If you are not able to easily import those bookmarks into a social bookmarking service, you have to find and bookmark them all over again on the social bookmarking service. Look for services that provide an easy import option from browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.).
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Ability to export your bookmarks to other places
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If you like to try different booking services are simply want to stop using one, its critical that you have the ability to export your bookmarks to other services or into your browser. Look for services that provide an easy export option into another service or into a file format that can imported into another service or browser booking system.
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Ability to categorize and manage large bookmark libraries
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As your bookmarked/saved site library grows, so does the need to categorize and organize them. Look for services with flexible organization tools that allow you to create categories, easily add or delete bookmarks from these categories, combine categories, tag bookmarks for easy search, add descriptions, etc.
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Size of user network
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The size of a social bookmarking sites network is critical to discovering new web sites. If there are tons of users utilizing a specific social bookmarking site to save their favorite sites, then you can browse through their bookmarks and find things that you may or may not like.
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