Throughout this page you will find the very best techniques to using the phenomenom, that is, social bookmarking. Here’s a brief description of what social bookmarking is, and what it can do for you.
Social bookmarking is the concept of marking your favourite webpages and sharing them with the world. Websites, such as Digg or StumbleUpon, offer it’s users the chance to bookmark these sites on their own personal page. When a visitor views a users page, he sees what that user finds interesting or informative. Often the user will link to articles or various images. By doing this, the user will generate a small amount of traffic for the website that he/she has marked. The more users that bookmark your site, the greater the traffic will be.
Submitting to social bookmarking sites is easy, and may only take less than a few seconds. First of all, though, we need to decide which sites to submit to and to tell your viewers that you have done so. The owner of the site is not always the one that submits the site. If you are lucky, your visitors may have already done it. However, it’s best to be safe, and submit them to a range of different sites. Their are many top social bookmarking sites, the most popular ones are as follows.
Each are free to use and submit to, and all require registration. It’s up to you which you decide to use, however, if you want to offer your site to a range of social sites then I suggest you use these five as a start off. Nowyou need to show your viewers that your site has been submitted and encourage them to bookmark it. There are very hard ways and very easy ways of doing this. I am, obviously, going to show you the easieast and quickest way. Instead of copying and pasting large strings of code fromeach individual site, let AddThis.com do it for you. With one simple code you can display a simple toolbar which tells your users that your site is ready to be marked. See below for an example.
By clicking the above link you will be taken to the AddThis.com bookmark page where you will be able to choose which social bookmarking sites you want to submit this site to. I believe that by using AddThis.com you will be saving lots of time and space, but also increase your sites exposure to other social bookmarkers.
