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Promote your website through social bookmarks

Social bookmarking is a popular new Internet tool where visitors use services that allow them to share sites they’ve bookmarked. In other words they share websites they’ve found useful or interesting with other members.

Examples of popular social bookmarking websites include:

del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/popular/

digg http://www.digg.com/

technorati.com (for bloggers) http://technorati.com/pop/

If you’re lucky enough to get your website bookmarked by a couple of hundred members it could add up to some serious traffic. Alexa statistics are showing social bookmarking services to be extremely popular.

Del.icio.us is currently 119th most popular website on the Internet
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http://del.icio.us

Technorati is the 190th
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http://technorati.com

While digg.com is the seventy forth
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http://www.digg.com

The best way to get your website included in social bookmarking is to offer your visitors a direct link to the service. For example, you could have the following image button displayed on your website:

Link this button to http://technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.yourwebsite.com
Change where it says yourwebsite.com to the url of your own website.

When a visitor finds the button on your website, they simply need to click the button to add your site to their Technorati bookmarks.

If your a member of Digg you can use a Digg button generator tool to make your buttons for your website.