Social bookmarking or social websites are communities based on broad or niche specific topics like Social Community of Webmasters, Social Community of Video sites etc. User in these sites tags or bookmark the websites if they like the website or story submitted by you! More people bookmark your website, more organic traffic you get as well as get more importance by Google and other Search Engines for your website. When someone third person bookmark your website, it means you are great and in this way he is telling to others!

Popular Social Bookmarking Sites

We can find social sites almost on each subject, some are niche specific and some are general which are very popular like delicious, Digg.com, Furl, Flickr, Slashdot, YouTube, MySpace, Blog Marks, clip marks, Feedmarker, RawSugar, reddit, Simpy, Spurl, StumbleUpon and Yahoo My Web 2.0 etc.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

• Increased Traffic-As more and more people read your bookmarked blog post/ web article and vote for it, the more popular it becomes & the traffic to your site increases.
• Increased Visibility & Branding -Submitting to Social Bookmarking Sites puts your blog/website out there in front of millions of people, increasing your visibility ten notches and getting you more branding.
• Get more Links -Each of these Popular Social Bookmarking Sites see tremendous volumes of traffic on a daily basis, if your blog/website has good content on it, chances are that several of these users will link to your content, thus getting you relevant links which will ultimately lead to an increase in your Rankings in the Search Engines.