A good way to organize your favorite websites is to bookmark them that way you can have them all ready for you to check out when you need to have a look at them and never have to simply forget them. It is always good to have favorite websites listed and organized to click on them on your PC when you need them.

But when you need to access your list of bookmarks from another computer, social bookmarking would prove to be useful. Social bookmarking is a convenient and useful means to have your favorite sites on the Web bookmarked online. Through social bookmarking, you can have your bookmark list easily accessible online while using other computers from other locations.

Social bookmarking does not do just that. It also allows other users of social bookmarking to to have a look at what other users have bookmarked. You can also share your own bookmarks with other people online. This way, it would be easier for people to discover what other sites are there that other people also try to check out.

Getting Started

Starting out with social bookmarking would require you to set up an account with one of the many social bookmarking sites out there. One of the more popular sites when it comes to social bookmarking is Del.icio.us, probably one of the oldest in the field of social bookmarking. There is also Digg and Technorati as other examples. You can choose from a number of others, depending on the features being offered that you might find appealing. Once you have set up an account on a social bookmarking site of your choosing, then you are on your way to start bookmarking your favorite websites online.

What's Next?

Once you have set up an account, such sites usually allow you to decide in case you wish to download a bookmarking button that would make the task easier for you. With the button downloaded on your web browser, you can then check out any website and simply click on the button to have a site bookmarked.

One of the things that you would need to better organize your social bookmarks would be to learn how to use tags and keywords to keep track of each bookmark especially if you have compiled such a substantial list. Tags are simple keywords or phrases that you can use to describe what a bookmarked website is all about. Keywords would be able to help you search for the bookmarks that you are looking for with more ease.

If you have bookmarked quite a number of blog sites, you can tag them as "blog"and then use another phrase to describe what the blog is all about. So the next time you look for them, all you need to do is to type in the "blog" keyword and all the blogs you bookmarked would come up. You can be more specific by also typing in the keyword you described them as on the social bookmarking site's search feature to give you the website that you are looking for.