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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 rapidly, but they generally have a couple of common features:

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

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

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

4. Some sites, like Digg, fasten a weighting to certain actions and users, so an individual who submits very popular links will have a vote that carries excess fat.

5. Most social bookmark submitting site users are fairly jaded when it comes to the internet, and will ignore items that aren't interesting, funny, or very entertaining. This is simply not a place for your boring pr announcements.

6. Most bookmarking sites will often have some kind of "social" element to them, allowing users to create profiles, have a friends list of other users, etc., in the hope of getting users to share content between themselves.

Those are the basics, so let's have a look at 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 selects.

Choose your niche

Social Bookmarking - 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 who will buy your products. But submitting it to /r/bonsai, although it only has around 1,100 readers, will likely garner you more attention from interested people.

Ironically, submitting to /r/trees could have much less of an effect, because /r/trees is focused on marijuana culture. The lesson here's: know your subreddits.

Write a catchy title, and use an image

Social Bookmarking - Standard newspaper/advert headline formats do not work too well on the internet, because everyone has become immune to 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 greater click throughs.

Keep at it, to make your links easy to share

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

Regardless of anything else, having links to any or all of your articles on half dozen Social Bookmarking sites is great for SEO.