Social bookmarking is a great way to promote your blog, network with other bloggers and find new ideas and information to help you develop content for your blog. Following is an overview of ten of the most popular social bookmarking sites on the web.
1. Digg (digg.com)
Digg is the most popular social bookmarking site online. Users submit links to content they like, and other users comment on those submissions and add their own votes (called Diggs) to those links. Popular links will rise to the front page of Digg and are likely to get a lot of traffic. It’s important to understand that you may submit your own content to Digg, but if you oversubmit your own content, you will be penalized and your submissions will not be readily available to other users. User caution and submit not just your own content, but other links of interest as well.
2. Technorati (Technorati.com)
Technorati is typically thought of as a blog search engine, but users can also save interesting online content as “favorites” which other users can access.
3. del.icio.us (delicious.com)
Del.icio.us uses tags to allow users to bookmark and share content they like. Other users can find that content through searches on those tags.
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4. StumbleUpon (Stumbleupon.com)
StumbleUpon is very easy to use if you download the StumbleUpon toolbar when you register. When you find a webpage you like, simply click on the “thumbs up” icon on the StumbleUpon toolbar to share it with other StumbleUpon users.
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5. Reddit (Reddit.com)
Reddit is the no frills social bookmarking site. Users submit links they like then other users vote for them (positively or negatively). The most popular posts rise to the front page for everyone to see.
6. Fark (fark.com)
Fark allows users to submit links to content they like and want to share, but those links are evaluated by Fark administrators who determine which links appear on the Fark home page.
7. Diigo (diigo.com)
Diigo allows users to save copies of web pages as they appear at the moment they’re saved. That means the exact page will be available to users to view or share at anytime even if the original page has since been changed or deleted.
8. Slashdot (slashdot.com)
Slashdot is very popular for links about technology, science or science fiction. If your blog is about one of those topics, your submissions should do well at Slashdot. Users submit content which is then evaluated by editors before it is shared with other Slashdot users.
9. Propeller (propeller.com)
Propeller is gaining in popularity as an easy to use social bookmarking site. Users submit links with tags to make content easy to find, and they vote on that content driving popular posts to the home page.
10. Newsvine (newsvine.com)
Newsvine’s mission is to bring big and little media together meaning traditional media sources and individuals. However, submissions are rated using several factors including reputation, freshness and and popularity, so it’s difficult for individuals to get a lot of exposure and traffic from Newsvine.
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I mostly use Digg and Stumbleupon to submit my site. You should also use link to these site. Thanks for the post
I’m agree with you. use digg and stumbleupon will get more traffic to your site. But bounce is hight when you use them.
Try use technorati. it work well
I found out yesterday that you are wading in very dangerous waters if you submit your own posts to these sites. I never knew this.
Hi Dean.
Yesterday i have posted tips for digg site. and tell you “Don’t Digg Your Own Posts” .Its mean you can submit your articles to those site. Submit to digg and not digg that post again. Are you understand?
i need to start submitting my sites as well. for some reason i keep forgetting about it. a great list and thanks for reminding me
try it for yourself.
Good post! This is a great resource list for social book marking websites in2010. But yeah, Dean is right.. we really have to be more careful now when using them.
Great list of social site, I love Digg the most, although I don’t really use Digg often, but getting latest news and trends from there will keep me at the edge and the lastly their headlines are awesome.
Digg is a good site. I use digg too
Great List. I have used Stumble Upon and Digg. They’re really awesome and a lot of great posts are showed there everyday
Hi stumble upon and digg are good site to get traffic. But you must care bounce your site on google analytic
I like the Technorati the most as it can autogenerate my blog contents through feed, it save me a lot of time. Thanks for listing out other sites
Brother, you are alway welcome. I love use technorati too
Thank you for talking about the benefits of different bookmarking websites. This was helpful and I will start using some of them and maybe even all of them.
I agree that this sites being mention about are superb when it some to social bookmarking works. I appreciate that you ponder and share some interesting features of them.
great list, i am uisng some of them, i dont know what about the rest, but i will try them,, thats a nice resource
Has Fark been useful for anyone?
nice list dude. I personally prefer digg and twitter
its a great list but nowadays i have been looking for new bookmarking sites. i bumped upon a new site from pligg directory called http://www.plunto.com i kinda like this site and i feel its going to be one of the popular sites…
I’ve never had any luck with StumbleUpon. The only way I get traffic from there is through a paid campaign. And even that was terrible. I burnt through $10 in less than an hour with no clicks on any ads or affiliate impressions.
Good SEO is better done free. Learn it and implement it. It will make a better webmaster of yourself. There are many free resources. As with anything worth learning though, you have to have diligence, industry and patience.
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