You know the drill: keep your blog up-to-date, write interesting and informative blog posts and make sure that you submit them to the bookmarking sites. Bookmarking is indeed a very important part of social media and Internet marketing and a way of spreading your sage wisdom to the world. There are a very large number of social bookmarking sites and some are suited to specific niches, rather than another. In addition they all have a different demographic, so it may take a little time for you to work out the best sites for you to interact with.
When it comes to social bookmarking, there are several key issues to remember. Make sure that you have an enticing title, a succinct summary, well-written content and above all, select your tags carefully.
Here are our top three bookmarking sites:
1. Onlywire
Okay, Onlywire is not technically speaking a social bookmarking site but it is a platform that allows you to bookmark your vital information to as many as thirty prominent social bookmarking sites in one go. You will need to go through a fairly cumbersome process of registration at each one of the sites, however, but once you have done that and saved the information within your onlywire profile, you may then download a widget to your blog or homepage for action.
It’s not as simple as just clicking the “bookmarking” button, as some of the sites employ “captcha” and others will require you to confirm posting by some other means. In this case, Onlywire prompts you to go through to the actual bookmarking site and finalize. In reality, we found that several of the sites were not accessible, even though registration appeared to go through without a hitch. Nevertheless, Onlywire is one of the best ways to streamline your bookmarking chores.
2. Stumbleupon
Stumbleupon is probably one of the better categorized bookmarking sites available. The procedure for uploading your information is very straightforward and you can, like others, install a special toolbar to help you, but the beauty of this site is the depth and breadth of its tagged content.
Many users claim that it is highly addictive and is a better, more targeted alternative than traditional Web search itself. As we know, information is everything, so Stumbleupon can help us both ways.
3. Digg
Digg is the biggest and most heavily trafficked of all social bookmarking sites, according to Alexa. It is, alongside del.icio.us and Reddit, probably one of the better-known sites but while its traffic cannot be denied, be careful what you wish for. Some users have actually regretted that their submitted content has been “digged,” like Jim Kukral. If you find that your bookmark makes it to the front page of their site it will invariably result in considerable traffic and a big draw on your bandwidth, to your web host’s possible dismay. Digg users may not be known for proactive and positive commenting, so be sure that you are ready to get your Digg.
What do you think about our top three bookmarking sites? Have you enjoyed particular success with any site? Tell us about it.
Matthew Toren
“Small Business, Big Vision provides a framework for you to unleash your driven and relentless passion to achieve unprecedented growth.”
Hello Mathew,
I am still trying to fully wrap my head around this whole social bookmarking phenomenon. With Onlywire, are you saying that it is a service that you can use so that if you add a new post to your blog, onlywire will distribute it to all of the social bookmarking sites that you set up in your onlywire profile? Sort of like the socialize it pro plug in for word press?
Also do you think it is better to only submit posts to a few social bookmarking sites rather than to all of them at once? What is your experience with that? I just learned how to send my blog posts to automatically update twitter and I thought that was pretty nice. Sounds like I still have a long way to go :-)
what about… http://delicious.com http://reddit.com http://mixx.com http://propeller.com http://inspiredn.com (…)
Well, i haven’t been member of Onlywire. Anyway Stumbleupon and Digg are still the biggest one, although the Social Media industry got a bit saturated now. The one that is not on the list, but it’s mine favorite, is Reddit.
I have used Onlywire in the past ( about 3 months ago ). They only had about 20 or so social bookmarking sites, I wonder if they have more now. I usually use social marker for submitting to a lot of social bookmarking sites. Onlywire is easier than social marker in my opinion, but SM has many more SB sites.
Also don’t forget Mixx.com that is the one I use along with Digg.
I personally do not think that submitting to 30 or so social sites via social marker etc makes any sense at all. To get traffic you need to build a social profile alongwith friends, fans, subscribers etc and its only possible to build such a profile in a couple of sites. I personally think that Stumbleupon is the best for continuous traffic while Digg is good for short traffic boosts but I have yet to confirm this with any proof.
Why is del.icio.us not there? Nevermind… hehe… I personally use Google bookmarks though I’m not sure if it is social.