Social Bookmarking sites are growing by leaps and bounds, these days and gaining recognition almost every day. They have proved to be a splendid spot for dispensing your bookmarks and check them out from any place, from home or from office. They have posed themselves as a fine medium for positioning a link to your blog.

At present, there exist more than fifty social bookmarking sites, thus you are able for posting a link to your blog on any of the sites for free. Some of the common ones are Digg, Technorati, Diigo, Stumbleupon, Mixx, Reditt, Delicious, Facebook, Twitter etc. But each one of them has rules and regulations for submission of links and thus, it is necessary for you to read as well as understand each one of their guidelines before making the post.

As social bookmarking isn’t targeted as other types of advertising, it will surely take some time before noticing changes in terms of traffic.  However, it is a better and useful way for your blog to be discovered which may not be there using other tactics.

It also happens that social bookmarking doesn’t allow the chance for finding out who actually visited your blog. Thus, it is crucial for tracking the visitors that have links to your blog through a bookmarking site. You must ask the blog followers for leaving a comment that they have discovered on your site from social bookmarking site and ask for the same. This method will help you in telling whether or not your bookmarks are successful.

In order to social bookmark your blog post, you need to follow certain steps:-

Firstly, find a list of some social bookmark sites. There are various such sites.

Secondly, you must sign up at each bookmarking site. Keep in mind that you have to undergo the process only once.

After signing up, submit your blog post. The easiest way to perform this task is to type out the blog posts url, title, description and tags in a separate window such as notepad, article notepad, wordpad etc.

After typing in the information, you must go ahead and shuffle the notepad and your browser so that they are side by side on your monitor.

Always make sure that the list of social sites is open on your browser, after that you need to right click and then open the first ten sites in new tabs.

While submitting your blog post, you have to click and drag the information over.

Then close one site and move to another site.

This is all you have to do in social bookmarking. Although this simple little task may take a great amount of time, but will greatly raise the amount of traffic that you receive on the blog.