Social Bookmarking and Its Relvancy

If you do not utilize social bookmarking in your marketing endeavors, you are missing out on invaluable back links to your website or blog. Social Bookmarking by wiki definition is is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them. Social bookmarking increases the relevancy of your sites in search engines. It can also garner valuable traffic to your site or blog. The best thing about social bookmarking is it is free. There are rules to be followed when bookmarking your sites and or blogs. Internet marketing expert Michael Cheney calls it the 80/20 rule. When bookmarking, 80% or 8 out of 10 of the sites bookmarked should be other website content. The reason for this, is you do not want to come off as a spammer that is utilizing the bookmarking service for self promotion only. Included is an example of a proper bookmarking page that I use when bookmarking The Unknown Affiliate. The only Unknown Affiliate link is highlighted. As you can see there are many different sites other than The Unknown Affiliate that I have bookmarked. There are hundreds of bookmarking sites, I am going to provide you with a list of 10 top bookmarking sites based upon Alexa traffic rankings.

1. http://www.digg.com
   
2. http://www.reddit.com
3. http://www.delicious.com (see pic)
   
4. http://www.mixx.com
5. http://www.propeller.com
6. http://www.folkd.com
7. http://www.fark.com
8. http://www.indianpad.com
9. http://www.faves.com
10. http://www.sphinn.com

Bookmarking is a tedious necessity when internet marketing. There is a website that allows you to bookmark at multiple sites utilizing one application. I found it to be a bit too glitchy when using Firefox but maybe it will work for you www.socialmarker.com. There is also social bookmarking software Bookmarking Demon comes to mind. I have heard a few good things about it through the virtual grapevine but it seems a little black hat to me so I still do it the old fashioned way. Feel free to research it yourself and let me know how, if utilized it works for you. As always I hope this helps.

See You At The Top,
Peace, Love, And Happiness,
Billy Reed

BTW Don't forget to bookmark The Unknown Affiliate (look to the right and click any link!)