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Since the early 2000’s social sites such as Digg & Stumbleupon were barley heard of. Presently in 09′ the social bookmarking scene has exploded exponentially leading more people to find popular posts by visiting their favorite sites or finding out by word of mouth (or tweet) via Twitter.
I’ve compiled a slightly subjective list of the most popular social bookmarking sites according to statistical data from Alexa.com & Compete.com.
My only critique of social bookmarking sites is that its becoming more and more fractured and segmented. I’m not entirely sure if this is a good thing for bloggers. Personally I despise blogs that use more than 6-7 sharing buttons. But I get the feeling that in the next 3-4 years we’ll have 300 different social bookmarking sites devoted to different topics.
| # | Social Site | Google PageRank | Compete.com | Alexa.com |
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| 1 | Digg | 8 | 33,433,760 | 184 |
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“Technology focused news site where the stories are chosen by community members rather than editors.” |
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| 2 | 9 | 7,935,441 | 96 | |
“Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.” |
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| 3 | 8 | 4,908,990 | 431 | |
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“User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page.”" |
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| 4 | Stumbleupon | 8 | 4,418,609 | 359 |
A web browser plugin that allows users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. |
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| 5 | Squidoo | 6 | 4,324,281 | 509 |
“Squidoo is a free, easy-to-use service that allows anyone to post a lens about a topic that they have expertise in.” |
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| 6 | Technorati | 9 | 3,309,174 | 660 |
“Real-time search for user-generated media (including weblogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes.” |
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| 7 | Delicious | 8 | 1,623,083 | 2,363 |
“social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.” |
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| 8 | Propeller | 8 | 1,164,549 | 1,790 |
“Propeller is a social news portal, meaning that it is programmed by you – the audience.” |
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| 9 | Mixx | 8 | 879,108 | 641 |
“Lists user-recommendations for stories, photos and videos. Customize the start page, join private groups, and rate content.” |
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| 10 | Fark | 4 | 652,762 | 4,107 |
“Interesting, bizarre and amusing news stories, along with regular photo manipulation contests.” |
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| 11 | Sphinn | 6 | 386,457 | 6,629 |
“Sphinn, a social site for search and interactive marketers.” |
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| 12 | Dzone | 6 | 281,098 | 6,911 |
“dzone is a free link-sharing community for developers. Anyone can contribute stories to the incoming queue. Members vote on stories to determine what gets promoted. Everyone can browse, search and comment on stories. It s that simple, enjoy!” |
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| 13 | Furl | 7 | 164,949 | 5,916 |
“Save, share and recall anything you find online.” |
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| 14 | BlinkList | 7 | 86,650 | 10,969 |
“(Social Bookmarking Website / General Bookmarking) which includes: reviews, ratings, tutorials / how-tos, similar websites / websites” |
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| 15 | DesignFloat | 5 | 39,158 | 33,644 |
“Design Float is a social media site dedicated to the design industry.” |
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| 16 | Slashdot | 9 | 13,090 | 976 |
“Source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.” |
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IT exams like F50-522 are gaining well ranked in social bookmarking sites along with other well known exams like Juniper JN0-350 and Cisco 650-195 SMB solutions for engineers.

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55 Responses to Top 15+ Social Bookmarking Sites of 2009
gamenoid
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 pm
You have add wrong image for Furl site
Rohin
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I just fixed it , Thank You for telling me =)
gerardo
April 4th, 2009 at 10:17 am
nice list
Rahul
April 6th, 2009 at 3:34 am
My favs are twitter, delicious, stumbleupon, & digg.
Chris Cree
April 10th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Furl has been absorbed by diigo.com and is being shut down.
rai
April 13th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I think digg is best
Vinatips
April 19th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thank you for great list.
I also made a list of top 15 social bookmark wordpress plugins. Pls come and visit if you care.
Geekchic
April 27th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I think 2009 will be the year when Social bookmarking sites for Women will start picking up steam. Check out: http://www.sweethype.com
John Wilkins
May 1st, 2009 at 2:36 am
Great way to drive traffic to your website. Thanks foir such a great list.
kmpoaquests
May 1st, 2009 at 3:19 am
my pleasure john !
Swapna
May 11th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Wow nice list.These links are really helpful.
Aman
May 26th, 2009 at 7:24 am
hi all
Nice Generic List
There is one of the best website which is more popular
http://www.blv-socialbookmarking.com
Regards
Aman
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May 30th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Some very nice ideas here. Thank you for your list. Its really useful for me.
shafi kamal
June 4th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Wow, this is an execillent article with relevant data. Thanks for sharing.
Chitika
June 5th, 2009 at 5:44 am
That's great. At least I can now have better lists on how to share my contents. Thanks for that top of the tops.
jumps bond
June 10th, 2009 at 10:40 am
great list there!
Jason Barone
June 19th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Nice list. Is it just me, or does Delicious seem a little too.. "blah" for 2009? I use it for nearly all my bookmarks because the Firefox extension is so helpful, but there's really nothing innovative about it. I like StumbleUpon for finding cool stuff, and Diigo sounds like it could be a winner too…
Guest
July 1st, 2009 at 9:08 am
Wondering why no Green sites made to the list…
Here is an example, http://www.GreenITers.com
reiki
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 am
I think StumbleUpon is the one with the most potential out of that list. They just need to diversify their offerings – but they already have a great db of users and links to start with.
Tom Shepwood
July 6th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Sports and Gaming Bookmarking http://www.fox-locks.com
Bambr
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Very nice list, thanks a lot. I will use it for sure
transvisionarysolutions
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:51 am
Hai good list. StumbleUpon and Twitter are my favorites. I t can generate good traffic to ur blog or website.
Preetha
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:52 am
Nice list..thanks for sharing.. My fav is twitter,stumbleupon and delicious.
Pradeep
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:40 am
Thank you for the information on bookmarking sites
Sarathks
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:44 am
Hi, thank you for the list. Some of the bookmarking sites i am seeing for the first time. Book marking sites are a very good resources to drive traffic to your website. I have also blogged some good information on twitter and articles on seo.
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fendi
August 4th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
wow… nicely..
i like it..
Twitter Forum
August 11th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
You should have an option to Digg articles. I was going to Digg this.
onlinesocialbookmarking
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
thanks for the list. I would also like to add onlinesocialbookmarking.com PR2 Do follow social bookmarking site
excel help
August 27th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Thank you for this good list! I started bookmarking my site and asking my friends to do so if they would and it
Lynsie
September 16th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Thanks for the list. However, I think as of now Twitter is number one. By the way, here’s another social bookmarking site. http://www.savethislink.net
anurag
September 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Hi friends there is new social bookmarking site. just check it
http://www.social.infoeduindia.com
vinay kumar
October 12th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Hi Friends, I want to say thanks. Thanks for giving information.
onlinesocialbookmarking
October 17th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Thanks for the nice list.I would like to add PR2 do follow social bookmarking site onlinesocialbookmarking.com
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Joe C
October 17th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
I’ve been using http://www.IPopU.com as of late and noticed a huge increase in traffic. I would consider looking in to them as well for any future, larger lists.
mupet
November 15th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Adding wordtaps social boormarking powered by wordpress
Jean
November 19th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Thank for the list
seopromos
December 20th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Thanks for the list, you can add the following social bookmarking sites into the list;
http://ioch.org -PR# 4 Science & Technology/ Green/climate
http://vhzh.com -Health Niche
http://ukmediaroom.com UK-specific social bookmarking site
Ranjit
January 19th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Great post .. thanks
Kishore Mylavarapu
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:09 am
Thank you nice list.
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LEEL
February 4th, 2010 at 11:18 am
THANKS A LOT DEAR
warrichpk
February 18th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
excellent list Thanks for your shreing
idanshinlocks
March 14th, 2010 at 6:41 am
Thank you very much for the list. I will now start with this bookmarking activity.
Matt
April 9th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Hi, I would Like to introduce you to new PR1 social bookmarking site called bestofweb.us/hot
So please add the site in your list
Thanks,
Bestofweb Team
Pool Supplies
April 11th, 2010 at 3:56 am
Thanks for the information. This would help a lot of people. Specially us internet marketers.
Some of the social bookmarking sites in the list is new to me.
maglev
April 12th, 2010 at 5:03 am
Thank you for your list and i have the good social bookmarking.
dofollow social bookmarking
social bookmarking
social bookmarking
Bing
May 4th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Great post – Just subscriped to your RSS feed..
Very interesting post – Might be old new, but it was new to me. Thanks.
Bing
Gabrielle
May 17th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
I remember this!!!
Rabi
May 18th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
love your blog Wonderful post.,lucy
SEO
May 25th, 2010 at 4:10 am
Very interesting post – Great way to drive traffic to your website. Thanks foir such a great list.
a href=”http://bingsociety.com” title=”dofollow social bookmarking”>SEO
Holistic
May 27th, 2010 at 6:53 am
useful list….
kanmani
May 28th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Top listing..Really it will increase our page rank.
Rogier
June 15th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Nice list! Thanks! I use http://www.yostuff.com a lot. There you can make money with your bookmarks when they are viewed by visitors.
Cheers!
Rizwan
July 31st, 2010 at 5:59 am
Thanks for this sites, many of them are having higher PR