Social bookmarking is a system of sharing Internet bookmarks with other Internet users.  There are many websites that allow you to share your favorite web pages and network with other users.

These sites are all varied and, while they share in social bookmarking, they are all geared towards different audiences.  To get the most out of these sites you may want to combine the use of several of them.  For instance, you can list your blogs on technorati.com and ping the site when you update your blogs.

 

Then join a site such as stumbleupon.com and set up five web pages about various topics found on your own website.  For instance, if your website featured information on photography, one of your stumbleupon.com sites could feature information on digital photos and another page could feature information on the best time of day to take an outdoor shot and so forth.

Meanwhile, keep your bookmarks in del.icio.us to share with other users and visit a site such as tailrank.com to keep track of what other people are blogging about.  This can inspire new blog posts for your own blog, which would then mean you’d have more pings for technorati.com and the cycle would just start over.

All of these elements would work together to create more buzz for your website and introduce you to people with similar interests.  This could lead to more web traffic and even some future joint venture partners, which, in turn would lead to even more traffic (but that is a whole new topic for another article).