With the ongoing popularity of social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, and Furl among others, the term bookmarking has taken on a different meaning. If bookmarking used to mean saving and organizing your favorite websites and Web pages on your PC, now, you get to share your bookmarks to millions of Web surfers by bookmarking them to social bookmarking sites.

And what does it have to do with you and your blog? Well, this just means that you can potentially get your message across to millions of Web surfers. Given that social bookmarking sites allow you to share your bookmarks to other users, it would just perfectly make sense if you bookmark the articles of your own blog.

What you can do is create an account to different social bookmarking sites. These sites provide their services for free, by the way. Armed with a user name and a password, you can utilize each site's services in order to create the promotion that your blog needs. After creating an account successfully, it is important that you familiarize how the community of each bookmarking site works, especially its do's and don'ts. You update your public profile, and then you are ready to bookmark your blog's recent updates.

To make your blog attract visitors, more especially "regular visitors", you would also have to do your part by making it a worthy URL to visit and to bookmark. Make it interesting and informative, and update it regularly. If you are fond of visiting your friends' blogs, you would understand that you tend to permanently forget to visit a blog if it does not have regular, up-to-date entries.

Bookmark the URL of your blog's most recent entry to the social bookmarking sites that you are a member of, others will get to see them, and you can even have a group of users who talk about your blog. When your blog creates noise among a group of users, other users tend to get intrigued and visit or even bookmark your blog.

It has been mentioned that you can create an account in different social bookmarking websites. And, you may think that bookmarking them to each site everyday would require much time and effort. Well, you have to worry no more because there is a bonus along the way.

The truth is, there are sites that provide a service that submits your bookmarks to multiple social bookmarking sites, hence, saving you time and effort. The sites that provide this kind of service are called Social Bookmarking Submitters. Examples are Only Wire, Social Submit, and Social Marker. Just do not forget to follow up on each site to make sure that your bookmarks have been properly submitted.

Furthermore, you can use this following-up as a chance for you to join in your bookmarking sites' activities in order to increase your social bookmarking credibility.