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Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and webpages to various "link aggregator" or social bookmark sites, such as Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. Social bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity pretty quickly, but they generally have several common features:

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

2. Links go into large pages of lists, which can be normally very easy to navigate, and are generally 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 relevant circles.

3. Links can usually be "voted on" to determine which links acquire more airtime on the front page of various sections. The more votes your links get, the harder traffic they get.

4. Some sites, like Digg, attach a weighting to certain actions and users, so an individual who submits popular links will have a vote that carries more importance.

5. Most social bookmark creating site users are fairly jaded when it comes to the internet, and will ignore stuff that aren't interesting, funny, or very entertaining. This is not a place for your boring press announcements.

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

Social Bookmark - Those are the basics, so let's have a look at how best to approach social bookmarking. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, however that Reddit itself takes a great deal of familiarity with its culture before you are 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 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 focused on marijuana culture. The lesson the following is: know your subreddits.

Write an appealing title, and use an image

Standard newspaper/advert headline formats do not work too well on the internet, because everyone has become safe from them. Instead you need to think of a clever title that interests people enough to learn more about what you're writing, or otherwise 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 greater click throughs.

Keep at it, making your links an easy task to share

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

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