Social Bookmarks
Social bookmarking has become pretty mainstream in the internet world. It is presented as a web 2.0 promotion and marketing tool, it also can be used as an aid in a sites SEO process. Online business owners, SEO advisers as well as webmasters and website promoters are learning how to utilize these tools everyday as a way to increase traffic to their website substantially.
Social Bookmarking sites, when used constructively, can increase brand awareness, readership/membership, usually resulting in a constant source of daily traffic flow. Some of these sites including Digg, StumbleUpon, Propeller and the more unconventional Twitter, have become hugely popular, thus providing a steady flow of potential leads to your site.
Conventionally, social bookmarking tends to be a random process. Which sites get bookmarked and how many times, depends on the mood of the bookmarker/reader. But with a well planned promotion of your site, social bookmarking can give your site that extra push, giving your site more notice more traffic that can continue for months! So, where do you turn for this type of promotional opportunity?
Exchanging Social Bookmarks?
Mutual social vote exchanges affords bookmarkers the opportunity to promote their social bookmarks and trade their votes with like minded bookmarkers, giving their sites immediate exposure to new viewers and potentially more traffic to their site.
Illegal use of social bookmarking networks, such as rigging votes, is not advised, however if social bookmarks exchanges practices are legitimate, these sites can be used as helpful resources, benefiting the entire online community. Please use them wisely!
Social Bookmarking Resources
- Social Poster and Hellotxt- These sites are updated regularly and show a list of a lot of the most popular social networks/bookmarking sites. They will also allow you to register as well as log in to each one of those services through these sites. Additionally, if you wish you may use the auto submit feature on the same page, to submit a link to any and all networks on the list.
- If you happen to use firefox as your main browser you might want to check out the plug-ins ShareThis as well as Shareaholic. Both of these programs allow you to instantly share any page you are currently on with a list of the most popular social sites.






