subject: Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites [print this page] Since last year, many new social bookmarking sites have emerged. With so many social bookmarking sites, it can overwhelming to choose white site to submit your site. If you are a newbie, you must understand that social bookmarking is a powerful marketing that can drive targeted traffic to your site. With social bookmarking, users can share their website with the public. If you dont know where to start, below is a list of 7 top social bookmarking sites which you can submit your site to.
Del.icio.us
Since Del.icio.us was purchased by Yahoo!, it had become even more popular. Del.icio.us does not organize their bookmarks into different categories. You can share the bookmarks with other users on the site by entering the username in the Send field of the bookmark submission page. There is a link at the bottom of the submission page where you can sign into Twitter and share the bookmarks with your friends. The word count limit of the description is 1000 words.
Digg
Digg is the most popular social bookmarking tool among webmasters. If you want to get your site indexed quickly, you should submit your site to DIgg. You can submit the homepage and 2 3 pages on the site to Digg. Since Digg is constantly updating its database, the search engine spider always lingers around there. Once you submit the site, it should be indexed between 1 3 days. If it didnt get indexed, you can submit some more pages to Digg. To build up credibility in the community, you can participate in the discussion forum of the community and comment on other bookmarks.
Reddit
Reddit uses the same social bookmarking system like Furl and del.icio.us. Once you register the username and password, you can start to submit new URL to the site without having to click on the confirmation link. With Reddit, you cannot submit multiple bookmarks continuously. Reddit sets a time limit in between each bookmark so that users have to wait for a while before they are allowed to submit another URL. The time limit is set to prevent spammers from submitting too many bookmarks. In the past, social bookmarking your site to Reddit will help to get it indexed within a short time. Nowadays, it doesnt produce the same effective result.
Clipmarks
Clipmarks allows you to clip any part of the web page and save it as your bookmark. You can clip virtually anything on the site including text, image and videos. Clipmarks offers integration with several blogging platform including wordpress, blogger, typepad and etc. In addition, you can email the clips to friends, family or relatives. Clipmarks offers a widget which can be embedded into MySpace, and Facebook so that you can share the clips with other friends.
Stumbleupon
Stumbleupon uses thumb up and thumb down icons to rate the website quality. StumbleUpon has nearly 500 topics which users can choose from. If you have a website, you can stumble it. If other people find it interesting, they will tag it and share it with other people. In this way, you will be able to generate traffic to your site on a regular basis. Everytime you add a new content to the site, you can stumble it. To grab people attention, you should provide good articles and catchy titles. Users on Stumbleupon are constantly looking for new sites that are fun and interesting. If your site did not impress them on the initial visit, there is a high chance that they will not visit it again. If your site is interesting, they will look forward for the upcoming bookmarks which you submitted to Stumbleupon. To create a positive reputation, you must be active and take part in the community discussion. You should build up a large list of friends. In this way, you and your friends can rate and tag each other bookmarks. The more people you befriend on Stumbleupon, the more likely your site will get stumbled but other users. In addition, active participation on the site shows that you are a genuine member and not just for self promotion. After signing up on Stumbleupon, you will get to befriend with a lot of people and drive targeted traffic to your site at the same time. You should add tags to identify your bookmarks so that other people can easily find it on Stumbleupon. The tags should be easy to find by the Stumblers.
Diigo
Diigo has grown to become one of the most popular social bookmarking tools among webmasters. Besides adding bookmarks, you can highlight and add sticky notes. The bookmarked pages can be made into archive pages so that they are searchable. On diigo, you can build annotated pages with other followers on Diigo. You can follow others and interact with other users on the content of interest. Just like Facebook, you can create a private or public group that represents your company, business, and etc. You can then promote the web pages to the participants in the group.
Propeller
Propeller is owned by Microsoft Corporation. In the past, Propeller is often a target of spammers in the past. After the website implements a stricter system, it now receives lesser spam bookmarks. Propeller is moderated by 8 full time staffs 24 hours and seven days a week. The team is responsible of removing spam and recommending stories which will appear on the first page of the site. The team will also follow up in journalism on story that has the highest vote.
Shoutwire.com
Shoutwire.com receives more than seventy thousand unique visitor per month. According to the statistic, sixty percent of the users are 35 54 years old while forty percent of the users are younger audience that aged less than 24 years old. The average household income for the audience is $60,000 per year. If this is your target audience, you can use shoutwire.com to promote your products or services.
Overall, Digg is rank as the number one social bookmarking site. Myspace is the most popular social networking space. If you want to optimize your marketing plan, you should include Digg and Myspace because they have a large audience and market.
