Social bookmarking websites are useful for promoting your website or blogs.

Bookmarking is also useful for SEO to get higher ranking in search engines and to achieve Google Top 10 ranking.

In this tutorial I would try to provide a detailed step by step instruction on how to Digg.

Step 1 – Account Creation

Before you start digg-ing you need to create an account. It would be better if you use realistic names as this is all about social networking.

Once precaution to take about the social bookmarking websites is that you should remember your credential, if you looses them then you will end up in creating multiple accounts from same IP address which Social Bookmarking websites don’t like.

Step 2 – Account Verification

After account creation you need to verify the account.

Step 3 – Address Import

You will be asked to import the address, wither skip it or if you wish you can use it and proceed further.

Step 4 – Adding Bookmark

If the website which you are bookarking offer an icon/link to bookmark then it is easy, just click on that icon and enter the details and save it. All done.

Step 4 – Adding Bookmark – Manually

If the website does not have any icon or link to bookmark then you have to do it manually. To do so you need to click on “Submit New” link in the header, enter the details; URL of the news/articles or the web site’s URL which you want to bookmark, select the category from News Article/Image/Video and click on “Continue”. In the next window enter the Title & Description in your own words, select the topic category, enter the Captcha text and click on Submit Story.

The description part is tricky as Digg prompts for a good description which is convincing. So it may take a while before you pass through this step. You have to show your writing skills here

Step 5 – If story is already submitted – Just DIGG it

If Digg prompts stating that story is already submitted then verify it and click on “I swear it is Original”.

If the story is indeed duplicate then you don’t need to submit it but instead you have to click on the yellow button marked DIGG and Digg it.

http://tailrank.com

Mainly for Blogs/RSS and other news stories.

http://fleck.com

Wow!! it is really a cool new socialbokmarking site with innovative bookmarking style. I like it.

http://www.mixx.com

Seems to be good

http://www.blogospherenews.com

It is all about blog, blog related news, stories and discussion.

http://www.bumpzee.com

Bumpzee is bumped, looks good.

http://www.propeller.com

Its forgot password, registration and other functionalities don’t work

http://sphinn.com

Accepts only Internet Marketing and SEO related stories.

http://slashdot.org

Accepts only tech stories.

http://pownce.com

Excellent UI, a true example of AJAX feature usage. It is more of a Social Networking rather than Social Bookmarking website.

http://socialogs.com

Just born have to learn a lot, doesn’t show all stories, after 3-4 pages it goes blank

http://www.plugim.com

Just started, doesn’t look to be promising

http://blogsvine.com

Looks similar to plugim, a startup.

http://www.ppnow.com

Always pops up with an annoying messages “OK! 1 sec … hold on”

http://salesmarks.com

I’m still trying to figure out what this website is all about.

http://www.indianpad.com

Absolutely crap and collects all the garbage from the Internet. Avoid this website at all and don’t waste your time.

http://fark.com

Just crap useless piece of junk. Avoid it. You crate account and then wait for ages before you can submit a new story. It seems some non-technical person has created it.

Defunct Social Bookmarking Websites

http://smarking.com

Error while login

http://www.blinkbits.com

Registration Error

http://taggly.com

Very intelligent and if it doesn’t like username then complains. Bookmarking feature can’t extract title tag. Just a moment.. I found that is no longer alive, so moving it to dead list.

Absolute Junk

http://blogmarks.net

You have to send them explaining them why do you want to join!!!

Social bookmarking is the latest craze in cyber world, which is the cousin of social networking. Well, actually, both go hand in hand and are comrades in cyber-social revolution.

Have you ever wonder what these little icons are (see the little icons below this post) ?

These are called social bookmarking icons.

Social bookmarking is the same as you bookmark any website/page in your browser. The only difference is that social bookmarking is saved in a website and not on your local computer. So it doesn’t matter which computer you use, you always have your bookmarks available with you.

Another advantage of social bookmarking is that you never loose them even virus wipes out your computer. You always have them in your social bookmarking account which is always available on the Internet.

Why to Social Bookmark?

Answer is simple. We do social bookmarking to promote websites and achieve Google top 10 ranking. Social bookmarking is supplementary to overall SEO activities. However Social bookmarking is not all about Search Engine Optimization and certainly not the playing fields for SEO experts.

Social Bookmarking also reflects the latest in the world and what is happening all around the world. Well this statement might not be true as most of social bookmarking websites originate in USA so it is no wonder that story/news involving America will always be in top. Just browse through digg or any other famous social bookmarking website and you will see it by yourself.

Social Bookmarking Websites

There are plenty of them and they keep on appearing ever other day. Some of the most popular ones are present below this post.

How to Social bookmark?

In order to start social bookmarking you need to register with these websites, get your e-mail address verified and you are ready to start.

Next step is to add the website/web page in your social bookmarking account by clicking on these little icons if you can find on the website which you wish to bookmark.

Even if you don’t see icons on the website/web page, which you want to bookmark, you still can bookmark by logging into the social bookmarking websites, adding the website’s URL/Title, Description and any comments manually.

If the website/ web page is already bookmarked by someone else then you might not be able to bookmark it, in which case you can Vote for it by clicking on the available options which would be available against each of such bookmarks.

Clever Bookmarking

Remember these social websites are very choosy and play by their own rules and if you violate them your account will be closed immediately. Following are some of the precautions to take

1) Don’t bookmark useless website which is of no use to you or general public. However you can book mark them as private

2) Provide a useful comments. Comments like “Excellent” or “Awesome” are not appreciated.

3) Don’t spam. Don’t start bookmarking each and every page of the website.

4) Provide keyword/Tags/Labels etc while bookmarking. If there are categories/subcategories options available then use them.

Social Bookmarking and SEO

Social bookmarking plays an important role in SEO. Social Bookmarking is hot, popular and widely referenced not only by humans but also by other websites/spiders.

A clever bookmarking strategy can be helpful in achieving higher rank.

So what you are waiting for start clicking on these little icons and join the revolution.

There are plenty of methods available to add social bookmarking icons into your blog/website/web pages. Here is the once which I follow and it is the fastest for me.

Step 1) Visit any website which has the bookmarking icons on it. You can find the code on this post itself

Step 2) View Source, copy & paste the source code for bookmarking tools into notepad or any text editor (I use textpad).

Find the URL, Title and description tags and replace it with your title and description. For this you need to do a global search and replace. This is the most complex part as you need to take care of the space and any other special characters to be replaced by their ASCII Code.

Step 3) Visit the image folders and download all icons and specify the image path folder in the code.

From this link you can download all images

http://blog.swamiseo.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded

thats it

Seems much of work but it is fastest way to do. In any text pad you can do global search and replace and it will work like a charm.

Alternatively wait till I make such free tool which would make your life much easier.