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Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and website pages to various "link aggregator" or social bookmark sites, for example Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. Social bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity pretty quickly, but they generally have a couple of common features:

1. Users can submit links which other users can browse, providing a sensible way to expose your content.

2. Links get into large pages of lists, that are normally very easy to navigate, and are generally usually divided up in to a "main page" of the best links for the day, and various sub-sections which help you to definitely get exposure in relevant circles.

3. Links normally can be "voted on" to determine which links have more airtime on the front page of varied sections. The more votes your links get, the greater traffic they get.

4. Some sites, like Digg, attach a weighting to certain actions and users, so an individual who submits more popular links will have a vote that carries more weight.

5. Most social bookmark submitting site users are fairly jaded in terms of the internet, and will ignore items that aren't interesting, funny, or very entertaining. This is not a place for your boring press announcements.

6. Most bookmarking sites normally have some kind of "social" element to them, allowing users to generate profiles, have a friends set of other users, etc., with the aspiration of getting users to share with you content between themselves.

Social Bookmark - Those are the basics, so let's take a look at how best to approach social bookmark submitting. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, having said that that Reddit itself requires a great deal of familiarity with its culture prior to being able to submit links that anybody even selects.

Choose your niche

Submitting articles on growing bonsai trees to the front page of Reddit won't do you any good - you'll get 30 visitors maybe, none of whom will buy your products. But submitting it to /r/bonsai, even though it only has around 1,100 readers, will most likely garner you more attention from interested people.

Ironically, submitting to /r/trees may have much less of an effect, because /r/trees is dedicated to marijuana culture. The lesson here is: know your subreddits.

Write a catchy title, and use a picture

Standard newspaper/advert headline formats don't work too well on the web, because everyone has become immune to them. Instead you should think of a clever title that interests people enough for more information about what you're writing, or at best promise pictures of cats.

Most bookmarking sites incorporate a thumbnail from the page you're linking to, a treadmill you provide. Take the trouble to do this - it generates greater click throughs.

Keep at it, and make your links an easy task to share

Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is all about persistence, so if nobody selects your first link, make another article, come up with a more clever title and check out again. Put a social bookmark submitting widget on your website or blog, and encourage people to share your articles. If you've submitted them already, and they have accounts, it only takes an additional to click an "upvote" or "like" button.

Basically, having links to all or any of your articles on half dozen social bookmarking sites is great for SEO.