by Jessica Bosari

Created on: March 02, 2009   Last Updated: April 15, 2009

Bookmarking and article marketing are the most effective ways to promote your website and gain more traffic. While there are an enormous number of bookmarking and article writing sites, some help you use your time more effectively and let more people know about your site.

Below is a list of the most effective bookmarking and article sites to promote your website:

StumbleUpon
eSnips.com
Clipmarks
Yahoo!Buzz
MyLo t
Xomba
Krumlr
Bukisa
Associated Content
Triond

Each site has its own flavor and special features. When you think about which sites you want to use, consider how much time you will spend bookmarking and shouting your site's pages. You should also ponder websites will offer more than one way to promote your site.

The most convenient bookmarking websites will have a toolbar you can download that will integrate into Firefox. The following sites offer Firefox toolbars:

StumbleUpon
Facebook
Clipmarks
Krumlr
eSnips

Of these sites, Clipmarks stands out as the most efficient bookmarking sites. It will automatically bookmark your site on Delicious and then provides quick links to StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit. Krumlr is a newer player in the game and has wisely chosen to auto post to Twitter. eSnips has the advantage of an HTML box in your profile, the perfect place to advertise your website for free.

Another new player on the scene is OnlyWire. These guys have built an incredible platform that allows you to bookmark in all the sites you use at once. You can purchase the software, or get it free by posting their button on your website. The site did not play well with facebook when tested, and it did not include Clipmarks or eSnips. However, it greatly reduces the time and effort you spend promoting your sites, making Digg, Reddit and Stumble super easy. You can always keep using eSnips and ClipMarks, either of which will only take a few seconds.

If you use articles to market your site (please say that you do!) you should know that some of your favorite article sites will autopost the link for you. Triond, Associated Content and Bukisa offer autoposts to Twitter. Make sure you turn this feature off if you use Krumlr or if you have OnlyWire submitting for you. Otherwise you will be Tweeting duplicate links, a likely annoyance to those who are following you on Twitter. In addition to auto-Tweets, Bukisa gives you quick links to Stumble, Delicious and Reddit on your article page. These sites offer the added bonus of passive income for your articles.

You should be aware that some bookmarking sites might give you trouble. One example is Reddit, a site that will only let you post a link once in five minutes. Digg banned important article sites like Xomba, HubPages and Bukisa (although you can work around the problem using Clipmarks). Shoutwire banned Hubpages.

While they do not offer toolbars or multitasking, there are two websites that are worth your time. The first is Yahoo!Buzz. Because Yahoo! is such a strong influence in the market, you would be wise to use this tool. The second site best for driving traffic to your site is Xomba. This site has a large worldwide following with an active community. Xomba also offers passive income.

There is another website worth mentioning that is not for social bookmarking, but can drive a large volume of targeted traffic to your site. MyLot pays passive income to post and answer discussions. This feature drives many users to the site. You can select discussions in your niche and add useful information to readers. You can offer your links within your profile, which also gives you an HTML box, perfect for advertising your website.

By using the power of efficient bookmarking sites, social forums and articles, you will see more traffic at your site and higher earnings in the bank.

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