What is social bookmarking?In a simple definition, it is process of “Saving” your favorite website/blog and share it to the others user. Where do you save it? There are a lot of web applications out there who are offering this services, digg.com, del.icio.us to name of few. So where the the traffic coming from to your site? Ok, let me explain little bit more.Social bookmarking website such as digg, stumpleupon and others social bookmarking website is another web2.0 type of web application. It is dynamic where user can upload their content and the other user will respond to that. This interaction make the website “life”. The traffic will come to your site if the others user found you have a great content and vote it. Another great thing about social bookmarking website is it allow search engine spiders to crawl your site faster It will make your site in a good rank too. If you are newbie, here is the step you can follow.

1. Account- Open up account to any social bookmarking website and install their application on your machine. Some of the social bookmarking website such as digg.com and stumbleupon has the toolbar incorporated with a browser like firefox. Create fancy and attractive user name to catch attention to the other user.

2. Start saving- Bookmarks the interesting website using the tools given by the social bookmarking websites. before you submit it, 2 majors thing you have to key in properly. Description and tags of your content. Make sure you write interesting description with the correct tags. Take your time to write a description and think about the tags too. Do not submit “bored” description, if you do that the others user will give negative feedback to the content. In fact they can bury it too.
Doing it manually something very troublesome. Luckily there is a website provide free services to submit your content to multiple-social bookmarking websites. Onlywire and Social Poster the two sites that i know of. Make full use of this service.

Is there trick we can apply in social bookmarking other than submitting the content? Consider this.

Create multiple account in one social bookmarking website. Make sure you use and”On” your proxy to give different IP to the Social bookmarking site. You may want to consider a tool like TORbutton, extension for firefox to do a proxy job for you. Start inviting your account to each other and vote your own content. Additionally you may subscribe RSS all account you have in one social bookmarking website. For example if you have 3 account, each of this account should add the other accounts as his friend and subscribe their RSS . Why do we need to do like this? Yes, you can increase the number of vote of your content by voting your own content and attract others to vote too.

Enjoy!

Source: stumbleupon