Aaah... Social Bookmarking. What's not to love about it. It's a great tool to generate traffic to your site or blog. After reading this hub you will get an understanding of what social bookmarking is and how beneficial it can be for your site. I'll also explain to you how you can generate instant traffic with Social Bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking is a powerful tool to promote any blog or website. In a technical sense, Social Bookmarking is a method for online users to store, search, organize, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the internet. By using this system, users can save web page links for later use or share with everyone. They are usually public but you can save them as private. You can share bookmarks within a group, with people, and you can share them within a certain network. Bookmarks can be organized by tags instead of folders or you can use a combination of both. Most social bookmarking sites encourages users to categorize bookmarks by tags thus creating a cluster of tags and bookmarks.

So you are probably wondering how social bookmarking is so powerful and how it can generate traffic to your site? Well...What makes Social Bookmarking so powerful is the use of RSS feeds. By broadcasting your articles and post to web feeds, subscribers will know when a new bookmark has surfaced and it can be saved, tagged, and shared for others to view. Using this method can generate traffic to your site and blog within a couple of seconds of bookmarking it. That's what I call instant traffic. Another important advantage with social bookmarking is backlinks. Social bookmarking sites like Digg.com will generate numerous backlinks for your site which will eventually lead to more traffic.

There are other great features with social bookmarking that can help your bookmarks get more noticed and generate massive traffic. Extra features such as ratings, leaving comments, emailing bookmarks, adding friends, and joining groups will make your bookmarks more viewable to everyone. It can even be featured on the homepage so you can just imagine the thousands of traffic your site can receive.

So, social bookmarking is powerful and it's a great way to get immediate traffic to your site. Here are a couple of social bookmarking services where you can automate your bookmarks to several sites at once. I use these sites and they're very helpful.

1. SocialMarker

2. OnlyWire

3. Socialmatic

Here's a list of several Social Bookmarking Sites. Check out Go2Web20.net for more sites.

1. Digg
2. Reddit
3. StumbleUpon
4. Del.icio.us
5. Furl
6. Simpy
7. Technorati
8. Propeller
9. Mister Wong
10. Ma.gnolia
11. Diigo
12. Connotea
13. Blue dot
14. Citeulike
15. Newsvine
16. Yedda
17. You Tube
18. Faves
19. Blinklist
20. Mixx
21. Oneview
22. Sitetagger
23. Linkwad
24. A1-Webmarks
25. Bloglines
26. Blogmemes
27. BibSonomy
28. BuddyMarks
29. Connectedy
30. IndianPad
31. Google
32. Netvouz
33. Pligg
34. Shadows
35. Spurl
36. Wink
37. Rojo
38. Scuttle
39. MarkaBoo
40. Favoor