Saturday, April 13, 2013

How to Make a Social Bookmarking Site?


If you have found this article, you may already know what a social bookmarking site is. Even if you don’t, you may have heard of websites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious and so on. Yes, they are all social bookmarking websites. On these sites, you can bookmark webpages and share interesting web content with other users. If you have your own blog, you can also bookmark your own articles so that people can find your blog through your bookmarks. Getting links from social bookmarking sites is a good way to get more visitors to your weblog or website. This is why social bookmarking websites are needed.

Social bookmarking service creates a win-win situation for both users and their owners. Users need the service to promote their blogs and websites in order to get more web traffic. Owners of these sites in turn receive free content as users bookmark their favorite articles, and are able to advertise against the free content. This is the central business model behind most social bookmarking sites.

Have you decided to make your own social bookmarking websites? If so, keep on reading. Below I will provide several tips on how to make a social bookmarking website.

To make a site, you definitely need a URL, a web server, and content management software. Getting a domain name and a web host are easy. To save money, you can even use free web hosting services. The difficult part is the creation of the actual website.  Fortunately, there are now software which make the task much easier. Several free social bookmarking scripts are now available specifically for this task. The most popular scripts are listed below.
Do you need to spend money on purchasing scripts to create the site? Probably not, as there are good open source software available for making a basic bookmarking site.  The benefit of using open source social bookmarking scripts is obvious: it is free and you don’t need to spend a penny.
Here I will tell you several popular scripts that you may consider.

Pligg CMS
Pligg is a social publishing CMS and it is from www.pligg.com. It is an open source CMS so everyone can use it for free. With this software, you can build a site where registered members can create and vote for stories. If you want to create your own bookmarking websites quickly, you may want to check it out.

PHPDug
PHPDug is a script which can be used to make site like digg.com. If you want to make a site where users are able to rate and comment on stories, PHPDug is one of scripts you may want to try out. It is feature-rich and supports multiple languages. To use PHPDug, you need to have PHP and MySQL database.

Markit
Markit is another social bookmarking script that you can get for free. If you just need 1 domain license and no support, it will be zero cost. But if you want to make a fancier site, you can buy more services and templates.
http://www.markit.me/

BakerCMS (formally known as Hotaru CMS)
It is an open source PHP platform offered on Bakercms.com. You can use the BakerCMS framework, plugins and themes to build a website you will like. Want to see an example? Check out wpsift.com.

Kigg
Kigg is based on ASP.NET MVC. Download from http://kigg.codeplex.com/.

SemanticScuttle
http://sourceforge.net/projects/semanticscuttle/

ApexKB (also known as Jumper)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jumper/

Social bookmark script
http://www.e-soft24.com/social-bookmark-script-p-381.html

Pressmark
https://github.com/alx/pressmark

Akarru
http://sourceforge.net/projects/akarru/

Insipid
http://freecode.com/projects/insipid

Feed Me Links
http://freecode.com/projects/feed-me-links

To make a social bookmarking site, you need a domain name, a web hosting plan and a script for building the site.


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