by Steven Boyington

Created on: October 20, 2010

Wouldn’t it be great if you could show your new article or web page to the world in an instant; if you could start getting visitors to your website just moments after publishing something? Well, it actually is quite possibly, and happens every day. In fact, large name companies (Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft, etc.) use this technique everyday to introduce new ideas to users. This technique is formally known as Social Bookmarking. According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking is “a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. “ What this means is, a person who points his/her browser to a social bookmarking site, can access daily news at the tips of his/her fingers. Also, he or she can “bookmark” posts that interest them.

The whole purpose of social bookmarking is to broadcast news or information across the Internet. Social Bookmarking has the ability to drive millions of visitors to a web page for free. Although this is not very practically, it does happen. This is typically known as something going “viral”.

  Not only does social bookmarking introduce content to Internet users, but it allows search engines, Google for example, to discover items that are new to the internet. A typical web page takes anywhere from thirty days to weeks at a time to be discovered by a search engine. To counteract this, the publisher can introduce social bookmarking to the scene. By social bookmarking a post, video, article, etc., a user can find his or her content on a search engine in mere days.

  Now that you know what social bookmarking is, and how it can be used to your benefit, you might be asking yourself, “How do I find one of these sites?” It is quite simple actually. In fact, you may have already visited or used a social bookmarking site before. The most popular social bookmarking site is Digg (http://www.digg.com/). In addition, millions of people also use Yahoo! Buzz (http://www.buzz.yahoo.com/), Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/), StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/), and Delicious (http://www.delicious.com/).

  At this point, a user new to social bookmarking might be asking, “Which site should I pick?” The answer is, ALL OF THEM. By social bookmarking your site at different sites, you will increase your benefits ten-fold.

  Lastly, social bookmarking a page isn’t always enough. It is vitally important to go through this list of

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