Social bookmarking is not a very new concept in the world of internet marketing. A lot of success stories have come to be narrated about the importance of social bookmarking in boosting websites in the search engine rankings. For a long time, social bookmarking has been a manual exercise of bookmarking domains on several social networks. There is an already growing awareness that social bookmarking is contributing significantly to a site getting the highly targeted traffic. People have come to realize the importance of having multiple backlinks, particularly from the social networks. If you are to do manual submission, it may take a lot of time , and you will actually need to have many for you to be a bit competitive.

Social bookmarking is a facet of web 2.0. If you would wish to give your site a major boost in the social spheres, you have no better way than to try social bookmarking. It is indeed a simple concept to understand. You will simply provide user friendly and conveniently located bookmarking links on your website. By so doing, you will be encouraging visitors to consider having the websites accessed by others in their social media sites. The most popular bookmarking sites are Furl, Connotea, Facebook, Reddit, Slashdot, LinkedIn and Delicious. It will happen that you will benefit greatly when your link is added by people who may or may not know you to their bookmarking sites. It will therefore mean that it will be shared with other people who may be having interest in what you sell.

Since more and more people will be interested in using social bookmarking in online markets, it is likely that the popularity of social bookmarking tools will continue being on the rise.

This is where social bookmarking comes in. These backlinks can provide for you the starting traffic that you need in order to gain awareness from your blog. Start becoming active on social networking sites, and you’ll be noticed. Comment on the submissions of those bloggers in the same niche as your own, and they will appreciate your attention. Just like blog commenting is important, commenting on the posts of fellow bloggers on social bookmarking sites is also a nice tip.

I use Sphinn, Delicious, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Propeller for traffic. Over 35 percent of all of my main blog’s traffic is from social bookmarking sites. I now have 100s of followers on various sites and this led to a nice increase in my organic search engine rankings. The backlinks from the social bookmarking sites really helped my blog grow.

In the beginning of any blog, your first focus should be content. After a few weeks of decent content, then you can start going onto trying to get traffic. You must get noticed. Social Bookmarking does depend somewhat on luck, and you are not guaranteed by any means. But if your blog becomes a keeper, then you will have made a huge imprint on your niche.

Social bookmarking is huge when it comes to blog exposure and I think it ranks right behind blog commenting in terms of valuable backlinks to a growing blog. Your blog can go viral on social bookmarking sites – it’s just a powerful opportunity.

There are 100s of social bookmarking sites out there and all you need for your blog to take off is for it to catch on to one of them. For me, it was Twitter, and I receive 2000 hits to one of my better posts in 24 hours after it caught on at Twitter. Many of these hits became future readers of mine, and they are readers who contribute by writing comments, and by linking to me from other social networking sites. Moreover, they subscribe to my blog and become long time readers. This isn’t everyone, but it’s enough that it made a big difference. Linkers Blog became PR 3 in just one month because of this!

So how do you know which social bookmarking site to submit to?

Well, you don’t. You never know which social bookmarking site is your future gold mine. So you should submit to all of them. Well, you might ask, that will take days! Well, there is software that will do it for your automatically. It costs $147 and is called Bookmarking Demon. For many people, this becomes their lifesaver as it saves them hours of submitting each individual blog post. I’m a fan, but I will warn you in advance that it’s not for everyone. It’s worth it for me because I try to post on several niche blogs everyday which bring in income. If you’re not already pulling in money, I might not bother with it.

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The first thing Bookmarking Demon does is make account creation a snap. When you first start the program, you’ll see a list of about 20 major social bookmarking sites that the program currently supports. With a click of a button you can type in your first and last name, account name, password, and email which will be used for all your accounts. Bookmarking Demon will then go off on its merry way and start creating the accounts for you.

Once that’s done, you’ll want to bookmark your site. In the Bookmark URL tab, you’ll find a place to enter your url, keywords, and description. If you just enter the url, Bookmarking Demon includes a handy shortcut which will load the keywords, and descriptions automatically from your site’s meta-tags. Now here’s the cool part. You can include multiple titles, keywords, and descriptions in the fields and if you click the randomize checkbox, Bookmarking Demon will randomly choose a title, set of keywords, and description to use for a particular social bookmarking site. This helps you avoid any duplicate content penalties, and also allows you to target several different keywords with your links! That’s a great feature.

Bookmarking Demon is a nice tool that will save you loads of time. Imagine if you have several sites you would like to promote and how much time it would take to submit them to all the different social bookmarking sites. You probably wouldn’t, because the process would be too painful. With Bookmarking Demon, this task becomes almost too easy. As a result, your sites will get indexed faster and you will develop hundreds of highly targeted, highly ranked backlinks. This will lead to improved search engine rankings and more traffic to your sites. Bookmarking Demon retails for $97 which is not cheap, so if you would like to see a case study of how I’m actually using the product, check out my BookMarking Demon Review site for a more in-depth look at the program and its features.