If you're an Internet Marketer, you know the importance of ranking high on Google and Yahoo for keywords related to your business. There are two main ways to do this:

First and probably most important, is to be keyword rich in your article. The keyword you're trying to target should show up in the title, toward the beginning of the article, and several more places in the article.

The other main way to make your site shoot up the search engines is by having links to your article from different website, such as your blog, other people's sites, and from social bookmarking sites. This is what I'd like to talk about in this article.

Social Bookmarking started out as websites where you could bookmark your favorite sites, so that if your computer crashed and you lost the bookmarks on your computer, you would still have access to them. These sites evolved into "social" sites, where people could see what other people bookmarked, and possibly comment on the sites, or bookmark them themselves. There are hundreds of bookmarking sites out there, including Furl.net, del.icio.us, digg.com and stumbleupon.com. These are just a few of many.

There are two main reasons to post bookmarks to your articles on these sites.

First, lots of people spend time at these sites looking for stuff. They might do a search on your keywords, and you'll come up for them to look at. If they think it's interesting, they might bookmark it themselves, which makes your site come up more often in searches.

Secondly, when you bookmark your blog or article, it puts a link to your site from a different site. The search engines love to see this, as it gives validation that your article of site is valuable, since people are linking to it.

However, there are right and wrong ways to do this. Here are 3 tips to follow to get the most success using the social bookmarking sites:

1. Be aware of the difference between "No Follow" and "Do Follow" sites. Do Follow sites are ones that the search engines count in their link tabulations to rank your site. Search engines don't pay attention to No Follow sites when they rank your site. There are tools that you can download to see if a link is no follow or do follow, and there is also a way to tell at the website socialmarker.com. Furl is a do follow site, stumbleupon is a no follow site.

2. Be careful when you use Social Marker. The way this site works is that you can bookmark 47 different sites at a time. While this might seem like a good idea, it can actually backfire on you. See, the search engines are pretty smart, and if they think you're spamming the bookmark sites just to give your site links, they could ignore your site altogether! Just be careful when you use Social Marker to not do too many at one time.

3. Be Social! After all, this is social marketing, and the whole idea is to socialize and interact with people. Bookmark some articles that interest you, that don't have anything at all to do with your business. Or bookmark some articles of people in your organization, or that have something cool to say about something you do. Just do normal people stuff, and you'll be much better accepted on the bookmarking sites and by the search engines too. Nobody wants to be hammered with your opportunity, and that's especially true in today's Web 2.0 world.

Now that you've got some idea how to do the bookmarking sites work, get out there and promote yourself! To get free training in learning about this new attraction method of prospecting, check out http://www.matthellstrom.com.