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Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and web pages to various "link aggregator" or social bookmark sites, such as Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. Social bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity rapidly, but they generally have a few common features:
1. Users can submit links which other users can browse, providing a great way to expose your content.
2. Links enter into large pages of lists, which are normally very easy to navigate, and are generally usually divided up in to a "main page" of the best links of the day, and various sub-sections which help one to get exposure in additional relevant circles.
3. Links normally can be "voted on" to determine which links acquire more airtime on the front page of varied sections. The more votes your links get, the harder traffic they get.
4. Some sites, like Digg, fasten a weighting to certain actions and users, so an individual who submits more popular links will have a vote that carries excess fat.
5. Most social bookmarking 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 usually have some kind of "social" element for them, allowing users to create profiles, have a friends listing of other users, etc., with the hope of getting users to share content between themselves.
Social Bookmark - These are the basics, so let's check out how best to approach social bookmark submitting. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, but bear in mind that Reddit itself needs a great deal of familiarity with its culture until you are able to submit links that anybody even clicks.
Choose your niche
Submitting an article 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, although it only has around 1,100 readers, will most likely garner you more attention from interested people.
Ironically, submitting to /r/trees could have much less of an effect, because /r/trees is dedicated to marijuana culture. The lesson the following is: know your subreddits.
Write an appealing title, and use an image
Standard newspaper/advert headline formats fail to work too well on the net, because everyone has become safe from them. Instead you have to think of a clever title that interests people enough to find out more about what you're writing, or at best promise pictures of cats.
Most bookmarking sites include a thumbnail from the page you're linking to, or one you provide. Go ahead and take trouble to do this - it generates much higher click throughs.
Keep at it, making your links an easy task to share
Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is about persistence, so if nobody selects your first link, make another article, think of a more clever title and attempt again. Put a social bookmark creating widget on your website or blog, and encourage people to talk about your articles. If you've submitted them already, and the've accounts, it only takes a second to click an "upvote" or "like" button.
Regardless of anything else, having links to all of your articles on half a dozen social bookmarking sites is great for SEO.
