Social Bookmarking Guide: Clipmarks

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  • Author Mascar Rooney
  • Published August 2, 2010
  • Word count 447

Clipmarks is a social bookmarking site which allows users to save a web page by clippings. It offers a number of features for the users including bookmarking, blogging and RSS syndication. The Clipmarks site is operated based on the Democratic editorial principles. Users can share the web page with other people so that they can see it too. Clipmarks allow users to submit a post to their blog. The blogging platforms which is supported by Clipmarks include Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad.

If you want to submit to clipmarks, you must install the Clipmarks toolbar. Before installing the toolbar, you must sign up for an account. After signing up for an account, you must click on the Install link on top. The clipmarks toolbar is only available for Mozilla firefox compatible browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Flock and etc. Once you have installed the clipmarks toolbar, you must restart the browser. You will notice an orange clip button located on top of the browser toolbar.

To submit a bookmark, you simply visit the page and click on the orange clip button. You will notice the orange boxes surround the element as you move the mouse in the page. You should select the part of the page which you want to bookmark and click inside the orange box. After clipping what you want, you should click on the Click here when done clipping button. You will see a drop down menu that prompt you whether to amplify it or post it on clipmarks.com. If you choose amplify it, it will be posted on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious and Clipmarks.com. If you choose clipmarks.com, it will only be posted to the site.

After you have selected an option, a login form will pop up. You should enter the username and password in order to login. In the Clip Title, you should enter a title for the content. In the Your Comment text box, you should enter a description. The short description should briefly describe the content. The maximum word count of the description is 1000 characters. In the Tags field, you should enter easy to find keywords which will be used by the visitors to search for your post. Each tag should be separated by comma. When you have filled in all the fields, you can click on the Done button. You will see the bookmarks in your account upon signing in.

Clipmarks offers a free widget which can be embedded on the MySpace social media site. It also has a community forum which you can use to promote your site. When inserting links in the forum post, make sure it is relevant to prevent getting banned by the moderator.

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