One of the best tools you can use as an internet marketer is a good bookmarking site. I don’t mean for getting links to your own sites, but for finding your favorite sites when browsing. Digg and Delicious have steadily been losing popualrity, and I’m not surprised. The way they organize categories is abysmal. If you want to go to a site you previously bookmarked, you might as well type in the whole URL before you can find the link on either of those sites.
What I am surprised about, is how no-one has ever heard of my favorite bookmarking site! It’s Aboogy.com. I know marketers want to have the most popular bookmarking sites, with the hightest PR, but I bookmark my own sites differently to how I bookmark the sites I most use. As I’ve said before, I’m a visual worker, and I benefit greatly from diagrams and easy layouts if I am to work faster, so I can see at a glance where my regular stuff is. I have my Aboogy tab open all the time, and don’t bother with browser favorites anymore. But you can always download an html file of your favorites from Aboogy if you did want to transfer them to a browser. Of course you’d have to keep doing that regularly to keep it up to date.
They have a button you can drag onto your bookmarks toolbar, making sving bookmarks super fast. You copy the URL and give it a title. In the Editor page, you can catagorize sites and have them wherever you want on the page by dragging them. You are not restricted to the order you favorited them, or alphabetical order like some annoying sites. Then you can drag the sites within the category into any order you want. And you can see at a glance where your fave sites are. Even with Firefox, if you have sites several categories deep, you have to click several times. With Aboogy, you just click once!
I personally think the guys who founded Aboogy (from Croatia) did themselves a huge injustice by stating on their old About page that it’s only meant to be a Start Page or Home Page , and only suitable for a small number of sites, and they said that if you want hundreds of bookmarks, you should still use Delicious.
I strongly disagree. I have hundreds of sites bookmarked with Aboogy, and the worst I have to do is scroll down slightly for some of the ones I use less often. The pic above is taken from Aboogy’s own Demo page, not my dashboard – I have a lot more than that, but I keep them private as my niche admin areas are among them (though you can make your bookmarks public) . They also let you have small thumbnail pics as your links, so you can spot your fave sites even quicker. Aboogy haven’t done much to promote themselves, and their last blog post was two years ago. This is no doubt why they’re not listed in the AddThis More button below.
Online bookmarks are obviously better than browser favorites, as you can access them from any PC or mobile device. But if you want an instant visual reference to all your bookmarks at once, there’s no better bookmarking site than Aboogy in my opinion. Shame they themselves don’t feel the same!
