15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites as of February 2012
One of the measures of a website’s success is its popularity. A website’s popularity can be determined by the number of people that enter the site and the amount of inbound links that it receives from other sites.
Websites are built with specific themes or subjects that each of they cover. The websites that belong to the same category are the ones vying for the attention of the same target audience. The website that gets the highest number of visitors has the highest potential for revenue and success.
In the field of article marketing, people are looking at social bookmarking sites as one of the means to enhance the exposure of their websites or business. There are lots of social bookmarking sites on the web and they are built for the same purpose, but not all of them are well-liked by the majority of Internet users.
This article intends to let you know the 15 most popular social bookmarking sites as of February 2012. We base their popularity the estimated unique monthly visits that they receive. Here they are:
1. Twitter (Twitter.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 250,000,000
2. Digg (Digg.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 25,100,000
3. StumbleUpon (Stumbleupon.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 17,500,000
4. Reddit (Reddit.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 16,000,000
5. Pinterest (Pinterest.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 15,500,000
6. BuzzFeed (Buzzfeed.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 14,500,000
7. Delicious (Delicious.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 5,500,000
8. Tweetmeme (Tweetmeme.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 5,450,000
9. FARK (Fark.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 1,850,000
10. Slashdot (Slashdot.org)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 1,700,000
11. Friendfeed (Friendfeed.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 1,500,000
12. Clipmarks (Clipmarks.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 1,400,000
Note: Clipmarks is shutting down and they have arranged for all their users to be granted accounts at clipboard.com.
13. Newsvine (Newsvine.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 1,390,000
14. Diigo (Diigo.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 1,200,000
15. DZone (Dzone.com)
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 325,000