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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. Social bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity fairly quickly, 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 enter into large pages of lists, that are normally very easy to navigate, and are also usually divided up in to a "main page" of the best links for the day, and various sub-sections which help one to get exposure in additional relevant circles.

3. Links usually can be "voted on" to determine which links get more airtime on the front page of varied sections. The more votes your links get, the harder 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 bookmarking site users are fairly jaded in terms of the internet, and will ignore stuff that aren't interesting, funny, or very entertaining. This isn't 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 listing of other users, etc., in the hope of getting users to talk about content between themselves.

Social Bookmark - Those are the basics, so let's check out how best to approach social bookmark submitting. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, however that Reddit itself requires a great deal of familiarity with its culture prior to being able to submit links that anybody even selects.

Choose your niche

Submitting articles on growing bonsai trees to the front page of Reddit won't do you any good - 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 likely garner you more attention from interested people.

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

Write an appealing title, and use an image

Standard newspaper/advert headline formats do not work too well on the web, because everyone has become safe from them. Instead you should think of a clever title that interests people enough for more information 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 higher click throughs.

Keep at it, to make your links easy to share

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

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