Social bookmarking sites go a long way in promoting your website or blog. They are one of the most popular tools available on the internet. Sites like Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Twitter are gaining popularity – you’ve probably seen them all but haven’t quite figured out how they can help your business.

What Is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a method through which an internet user stores, organizes, searches and manages web pages on the internet, rather than on their local machine. A social bookmarker saves the URLs of pages they find particularly helpful or interesting to their user profile. This helps them in remembering information for the future and sharing information with others.

Social bookmarking sites, like Digg, let you know the favorite bookmarks of other registered users. These sites allow you to store, organize, share and search your favorite bookmarks and make searching more intuitive than your typical “favorites” menu.

How Does This Help With Website Or Blog Promotion?

A social bookmark is essentially a backlink to your website or blog. Other users of the social network may see your bookmark and link through to your blog. That helps lead traffic to your blog. The search engines also keep track of your backlinks. Every backlink to your main website makes the search engines place more trust in your site. That helps to raise your search engine ranking. An added benefit: Social bookmarking helps in quick indexing by the search engines. It acts as link bait and usually within a day of your submitting your website to these bookmarking sites, you can expect to be visited by all the major search engines.

Uses Of Social Bookmarking

The key to social bookmarking is to bookmark every website or blog post you create. Since you can share your bookmarks with like minded people, social bookmarking becomes a valuable tool in your kitty. It becomes an excellent marketing strategy. It is all about labeling the Web in a way that makes finding content a lot easier. You create some good content and you pass it on to others looking for it. You find some good content, you pass it on to others. Concentrate on building your reputation in your chosen area of expertise in addition to promoting your own content and you will soon be seen as a valuable resource.

Three Easy Steps For Getting Started

Step 1: First, you need to install a social bookmarking plugin or share this plugin on your blog. You want to make it as easy as possible to enable visitors to bookmark and share your work.

Step 2: Sign up for the major social news sites: Digg.com, Propeller.com, Mixx.com. Don