There are several different ways to get your own website for free, but the best way is using a CMS or content management system. Wordpress blogs and Drupal portals are examples of websites created using a cms. The best things about following this path are that as well as the initial scripts with all the programming code to set up your site in the first place you will also get an intuitive and self explanatory control panel that anyone can use to personalize their website and put together and attractive design. They will also provide you with simple options that you can use to place adverts on your website and start generating money from it.

Whilst pretty much everyone has heard of wordpress, there are literally hundreds of other content managment systems out there for easily creating all kinds of different websites, and the best thing is that many of them a 'open source', meaning that you can use them for free. If you find a good open source cms then the only costs involved in creating and publishing a quality website will be for you to get a domain name and hosting account. If you go to the right place you can get hosting for under $4 per month, including a free domain name, so this is really a negligable cost. Read on to find out about a great cms of for creating social bookmarking websites, or take a look at one of my other Hubs for free wiki website scripts or a free auction script

 One of the most succesful new website concepts over recent years has been social bookmarking. For those of you who aren't familiar with the concept it basically means that users sign up and then instead of bookmarking their favourite websites to their own favourites folder on their computer they save them on the website itself. New bookmarks are displayed in an 'upcoming' section where you can take a look at the links other users have been saving and add your vote to the ones you like. Popular links that get a lot of votes then get 'promoted' to more prominent pages and the best are displayed on the homepage of the site. Each user also gets their own profile page where they let people know about themselve,and you can choose to follow other users who are bookmarking stuff that you like. Popular social bookmarkinng website include digg.com and stumbleupon, which have millions of users and are some of the highest traffic sites on the net.

Why let the old established sites get all of that traffic when you can share a piece of the pie? Of course your never going to be able to compete directly with them, but there is plenty of space for new niche social bookmarking website targeting a specific community,  as there are very few of these at the moment.

Pligg.com provides a free open source cms for social bookmarking which is really coming of age now. It has been available, but in development, for about 3 years, but it is only recently that the bugs have been ironed out so that they can provide well functioning sites. All you need is to get yourself a hosting account and then it is really easy to install and get started with. You can choose your own categories, stipulate what information can go in the user profiles, create seo friendly urls, and choose from various other options to customize your site, and there are a few free themes available to give you different designs to choose between as well.

Once your site is up and running monetizing it is easy, with the option to add google adverts from the control panel and you can even sell banners or add text links to other sites. And because it is a social website and a membership website you will get loads of repeat traffic from people coming back regularly, and you will also get free promotion from your members telling their friend about it!

If you would like to see what you can do with the Pligg cms, or you want some inspiration to find a profitable niche for your new social bookmarking site then take a look at the website which I created recently at www.ShareABargain.co.uk or the US version at www.BookmarkedBy.Us - It is a niche UK social bookmarking site specifically for shoppers who are looking for the best bargains.