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[http://socialbookmarkn.wikispaces.com/ Social Bookmark] - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and web pages to various "link aggregator" or social bookmark sites, such as 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 good way to expose your content.

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

3. Links can usually be "voted on" to determine which links have 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 an individual who submits very popular links will have a vote that carries more importance.

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 press releases.

6. Most bookmarking sites normally have some kind of "social" element to them, allowing users to generate profiles, have a friends listing of other users, etc., with the aspiration of getting users to share with you content between themselves.

[http://www.upsaid.com/socialbookmarkn/ Social Bookmark] - These are the basics, so let's take a look at how best to approach social bookmark submitting. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, having said that that Reddit itself requires a great deal of familiarity with its culture prior to being able to submit links that anybody even clicks on.

Choose your niche

Submitting an article on growing bonsai trees to the front page of Reddit won't make you any money - you'll get 30 visitors maybe, none who will buy your products. But submitting it to /r/bonsai, though it only has around 1,100 readers, will probably garner you more attention from interested people.

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

Write a catchy title, and use a picture

Standard newspaper/advert headline formats don't work too well on the net, because everyone has become immune to them. Instead you should think of a clever title that interests people enough to find out 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. Take the trouble to do this - it generates higher click throughs.

Keep at it, making your links easy to share

[http://socialbookmarkn.webnode.com/ Social Bookmark] - Social bookmarking is focused on persistence, so if nobody clicks on your first link, make another article, come up with a more clever title and check out 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 the've accounts, it only takes another 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.