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Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and website pages to various "link aggregator" or social bookmark sites, including Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. Bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity fairly quickly, but they generally have a few common features:

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

2. Links go into large pages of lists, which can be 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 additional relevant circles.

3. Links usually can be "voted on" to determine which links acquire more airtime on the front page of various 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 a person who submits more popular links will have a vote that carries more weight.

5. Most social bookmarking site users are fairly jaded with regards to the internet, and will ignore stuff that aren't interesting, funny, or very entertaining. This isn't a place for your boring press announcements.

6. Most bookmarking sites normally have some kind of "social" element for them, allowing users to produce profiles, have a friends set of other users, etc., in the hope of getting users to share with you content between themselves.

Social Bookmark - These are basics, so let's have a look at how best to approach social bookmark creating. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, having said that that Reddit itself needs a great deal of familiarity with its culture prior to being able to submit links that anybody even clicks on.

Choose your niche

Submitting articles on growing bonsais to the front page of Reddit won't get you anywhere - you'll get 30 visitors maybe, none of whom will buy your products. But submitting it to /r/bonsai, even though it only has around 1,100 readers, will most likely garner you more attention from interested people.

Ironically, submitting to /r/trees may have much less of an effect, because /r/trees is dedicated to marijuana culture. The lesson here is: know your subreddits.

Write an appealing title, and use a picture

Standard newspaper/advert headline formats do not work too well on the internet, because everyone has become resistant to them. Instead you have to think of a clever title that interests people enough to learn more about what you're writing, or at least promise pictures of cats.

Most bookmarking sites incorporate a thumbnail from the page you're linking to, a treadmill you provide. Consider the trouble to do this - it generates much higher click throughs.

Keep at it, making your links simple to share

Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is all about persistence, so if nobody selects your first link, make another article, make a more clever title and attempt again. Put a social bookmark submitting widget on your blog or website, and encourage people to share your articles. If you've submitted them already, and they've accounts, it only takes a second to click an "upvote" or "like" button.

Regardless of anything else, having links to all or any of your articles on six social bookmarking sites is great for SEO.