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What is Social Bookmarking and what does it mean to me? You have probably heard a lot about social bookmarking lately. As a matter of fact, you can spend hundreds of dollars right now just to find out what it’s all about. Well, not here. I am giving you the information you need for free. I did my research and found this to be a awesome way to get more traffic to your site. The best news is, social bookmarking is completely free.

It’s a public list of your favorites. Not all your favorites, just the favorites you want to share with others. When you list a site in your bookmark list, anyone looking for that same type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the trash.

The more people who bookmark a site, the more popular it becomes. It’s that simple. As an example, lets say you are selling widgets for a really great price. You bookmark your home page on many public bookmarking sites. When someone is looking for a widget, they do a search at the bookmarking site and your bookmark comes up. They go look at your site and decide your prices are so awesome, they will come back later when they need another widget. So they add your website to their bookmarking list.

When someone goes to one of these sites and types widgets into the search box, your site listing will come up in the search. If many people have bookmarked your site, you will be listed high in the search engine results. It’s kind of like a election. If you site is good enough to bookmark, other people will want to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike search engines where all you have to do is good seo, the sites you will find in the Social Bookmarking sites are quality sites that other people enjoyed enough to save. You don’t really have to have a good site to get listed in the search engines. It’s alot cheaper to internet market the bookmarking route.

Do a search for social bookmarking, many sites will come up. Go to each site and register for an account. It’s FREE! Once you have your account set up, start listing your site. Make sure you add proper tags to your listing. This is critical. Tags are the same as keywords with a twist. These sites will tell you what the most popular searches are on their site. You simply choose the tags that will work best with your website. Make sure you choose tags that are relevant to your site.

Add a link to your site that will lead back to the bookmarking site that has your page bookmarked. Ask your website visitors to bookmark your site on the social bookmarking site. You will want to offer a different bookmarking site on each page. Why? So you can get as many different bookmarks on as many sites as possible. Use the same information in the example above but change around the social bookmarking websites you are promoting.

One final reminder. Please do not spam the bookmarking sites. Make sure what you are listing is relevant and helpful. You don’t want to bring traffic to a page that has nothing but links, because you will probably get banned from this bookmarking site. Only bookmark your web pages that have actual content of value. Ask yourself if you would truly add this page to your own personal favorites list? If your answer is no then don’t list it.