In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists are both accessible to the public or a specific network, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Some allow for privacy on a per-bookmark basis.

Social Bookmarking can bring immediate traffic to your website, as web 2.0 community websites such as Technorati, Digg, Reddit and Tailrank provide almost immediate information on various topics. These type of Bookmarking sites index and categorize content usually faster than the major search engines. People looking for the latest information on certain topics usually refer to these types of services.

So you have a website and obviously you’d like to continue adding value to it to keep your SERPs and well focus on your users.

As I’ve said in a previous post, website maintenance is about creating new content and keeping content current and error free.

For myself I plan to do website maintenance weekly.

My process for maintaining a website.

1. Make a list of things that need maintenance.
2. Pick a day.
3. Attach your list to that day on your calendar or in your diary as a checklist.
4. Don’t assign a specific time ahead, i.e. don’t plan a time on Tuesday to do website maintenance.

Number 4 is crucial for a lot of people (not all).  If you specify a time for something and you accidentally have something else that’s more important or that took a bit longer than you expected then you’ll say to yourself: “Well I’m not going to do that now because it was for then, I’ll have to reschedule”.

And most people won’t reschedule straight away.

Making a list

1. Use pen/pencil and paper.
2. Use a service.

If you’re all about paper (I am to some degree) then number 1 is for you.  But if you like things online, Remember the Milk is a great service, I just saw that it now has gmail integration as well.  Just add the items that you need to maintain (getting to that in a second) to your to do list and there you go.  I use outlook and add to do items with an alarm on the day I need to get them done.