Among the 100's of techniques for SEO and gaining backlinks and link popularity is social bookmarking. Done right, it can help our website thrive. Find out the best social bookmarking websites for your internet marketing campaigns.

There has been debate about whether social bookmarking websites really helps. Do follow v. No follow? Which sites are the most successful and effective for building link popularity to your website? Which will get the most social bookmarking traffic?

Social Bookmarking for Social Traffic

One goal of social bookmarking links is for social traffic. If you're a blogger or have online media or a product to promote, this will probably the main use for your social media bookmarking campaign. You'll use social bookmarks to build your e-mail list or feed / web site subscribers.

So, which sites are great for this? The more news worthy and unique your content is, the better your chances of getting noticed on the various social media platforms (twitter, excluded). Most of the these websites are voting sites like Digg, Stumble, and Delicious. The links from these sites are no follow, but if you get to the front page via getting voted there, you're links will most times become follow. Here are a list of sites that are very useful and powerful nofollow social bookmarking websites THAT WILL ACTUALLY GET INDEXED in the search engines (and sometimes even rank for your targeted keywords):

1. Digg

2. Mixx

3. Jumptags

4. Reddit

5. Simpy

6. Technorati

Make sure to bookmark your sites with these social bookmark services at the very least. These will often show up in the Y! site explorer as backlinks, as well.

[read more about social bookmarking websites for backlinks and link popularity below...]

Social Bookmarking for Backlinks

In addition to the list above, here is a list of do follow social bookmarking sites that get indexed and sometimes rank for targeted keywords.  Building backlinks is key to increase search engine visibility.  Getting ranked on the top 10 of the search engine results page will lead to huge visibility, traffic, and ultimately, more money!!

1. Mister Wong

2. Backflip

3. LinkaGoGo

4. My Linkvault

5. Spotback

6. Folkd

7. Spurl

8. A1 Webmarks

9. MyPiP

10. TeDigo

11. Oyax

12. Memfrag

13. Ziki

14. Yattle

15. Buddymarks

16. Diigo

17. Ask

18. Bookmark Tracker

19. iZeby

20. dzone

12. Propeller

13. Blogmarks.net

14. EZ4u.net

15. webs2list

16. faves.com

Use these sites to build backlinks to your websites. Again, this list is from my testing and, of course, there are more. Add more sites in the comments if you have more to add! Thanks.

Social Bookmarking for Link Popularity

Basically, to achieve link popular, you should do both no follow and do follow social bookmarking. In the end, it's all about links. Just make sure to get more links from higher PR and Alexa ranked social bookmarking sites and avoid the spammy scuttle-ish type bookmarking sites. You may want to use these types of sites to mini blogs or to bolster similar pages that point to you, but not to your main site.

CONCLUSION

Use this list to work smarter, not harder. These are just the social bookmarking sites that I found through my testing that help with social traffic and backlinks. Feel free to test out other sites and add them to your mix if they're showing up in the search engine results pages (then share!!).