Social Bookmarking is a free service that allows users to save, share, search, and send their Internet bookmarks. Social Bookmarking is similar to the way you bookmark a website in your browser when you find it useful or would like to visit it in the future. Social Bookmarking adds the "Social" aspect to traditional bookmarking by allowing users to share websites they liked or found to be significant with others. Social Bookmarking is particularly useful when collecting lists of websites with the need to share your findings online, with others.

Here's a list of the most commonly used Social Bookmarking websites:

• Digg
• del.icio.us
• Furl
• Reddit
• Spurl
• StumbleUpon

Webmasters, Tech Gurus, Teachers, Scientists, Engineers, and everyone who has an internet connection can make use of Social Bookmarking. A teacher, for example, can bookmark her favorite biology websites and share them with her colleagues and students.

Role in Website Marketing

Social Bookmarking created a whole new venue for traffic to webmasters. And the best part is, the effort on your part is minimal. When your website is displayed on the bookmark lists of other users of Social Bookmarking websites, this gives your website visibility every time the owner of that bookmark list shares their bookmarks with other users.

Most all Social Bookmarking websites have a list of recently popular submissions on their homepages. Being featured on the homepage of sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit can mean hundreds of thousands of visitors to your site for the duration that it is featured. Many homepage featured submissions have so many visitors that the website temporarily becomes unavailable due to too many page requests.