Social bookmarking is a way to get your site seen by others for free, thus getting additional websites traffic in the process.
Social bookmarking is exactly as the name implies.
When you find a site that you find interesting, you add it to your bookmarks.
With social bookmarking, you have the option of sharing your links with other users.
It is important to use social bookmarking correctly.
First you should make your site interesting before you bookmark it.
Bookmarking pages that are not interesting to users will only hurt you in the long run.
Add links to your websites so that others can bookmark them.
This works especially well if you have a blog.
You can add the option for readers to rate the stories or posts that they find interesting.
For each bookmark, you add tags.
Tags are keywords that describe the content of the page.
Use tags that will help people find your web pages.
If you are the only person bookmarking your sites, you are not going to receive that much traffic.
Do not take this as an invitation to spam the bookmarking sites using multiple user accounts.
It will only waste your time.
Instead, make it easy for people visiting your site to bookmark or to rate it.
Make your site interesting enough that they will want to.
Encourage your friends to visit your site and bookmark it.
There are many social bookmarking sites available.
Fortunately, OnlyWire allows you to bookmark your webpage to 19 different sites with one click.
You will need to register for each site separately, but this will save you time if you have many pages that you want to bookmark.
This is a free a tool.
Another tool you would want to utilize is StumbleUpon.
People use StumbleUpon to channel surf the web.
First you will need to install the StumbleUpon toolbar in your browser.
Then choose a category for your website.
StumbleUpon will send users who are interested in that category to your website.
If they like it, they will vote for it.
If your site is popular and liked, you will end up with many visitors over time.
If your site does not appeal to them, StumbleUpon will only give you a short boost in traffic.
So take the time to make your site interesting and useful to web surfers.
The above mention 2 pioneers in social bookmarking, now there are more and more such sites around.
Google around and you will find hundreds, if not thousands more of those sites popping up!