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Social bookmarking is a revolutionary aspect of the present age internet. I will like to discuss its history in details but as you people will surely get bored by those things I will keep the thing to the point and useful for all my readers. Just FYI social bookmarking is not a very recent thing but dates back to April 1996 when itList was released. In 2003 del.icio.us started the tagging concept. And we all know what happened next. In came digg, reddit, mixx and innumerable digg clones including the somewhat successful diggo.

Social bookmarking is basically a method in which you save your bookmarks in your account on a SB site rather than your browser. Then you can let other users of the site to view your bookmarks when they visit your profile or search the site for bookmarks. You can also add tags to the sites or pages which you bookmarked and when other users use the keywords in your tags your bookmarks come up in search results. Thus you share your bookmarks with the world.

Social bookmarking is done by either using a toolbar provided by the SB site or bookmarking buttons present in the site which you wish to bookmark. It works best for news based sites or sites having unique content but if your site is not like these you can still benefit by submitting your own content to SB sites.

In SB sites users vote for submitted bookmarks and if some bookmarks gets many votes it gets the homepage of the site and you get heavy traffic for the time it is on front page. So if you want traffic try to get votes to promote it to the top page.

This can drive you good traffic and also help in getting some inbound dofollow/nofollow links. But social bookmarking traffic is really not worth much as they don’t convert much. Still you can get links and some traffic for sure.

Problem 1:- Why am I not getting traffic from social bookmarking?

Solution:- If you wander how you get no votes or saves in SB sites while others get many votes in a short time. The fact is that you need unique and useful content for others to like it and vote for it. And you also need to have make a group in SB sites who vote for each others content to give the initial boost so that others notice it. You can let your friends know when you submit a new bookmark by message system among friends. So, try to deliver good content and make friends with some people who are willing to vote for your content in exchange of votes. But remember that if the same people vote for you then you will need more and more votes to go up as they are devalued. Also don’t submit your own bookmarks only. This will be considered as spamming and you will be banned.

Problem 2:- It gets painful to submit to so many sites. Any solution?

Solution- Sure there is solution. You can try paid social bookmarking services all over the net. Many people are willing to do this at a cheap price. Check http://forums.digitalpoint.com.

If you want it for free try www.onlywire.com. Many SB sites and you can submit to them from this site. But the easiest and most convinient is www.socialmarker.com. It has 46 sites to which you can submit and if you have account at these sites then you can submit to all the sites from here. I recommend this site.

Problem 3 :- Which sites are the best?

Solution:- Well there are too many SB sites and the truth is that it does not help you a lot if you submit to all the sites in the internet. So I will only list the important ones which will benefit you and save you from wasting your time on all the sites you find.

The coloured ones give dofollow link meaning you get inbound link from these sites which helps in gaining SERPS. All sites are PR 5 or above.