Drive Traffic to Your Blog

You've got your blog set up and you've started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.

Http://www.bloglet.com

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com)

http://www.my.yahoo.com

3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

http://www.pingomatic.com

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines:
http://www.submitfire.com

6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on this site:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.

7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to.
The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm

13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts

14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).

16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.

Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit. You can get a free hit counter at http://www.sitemeter.com

Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership, and Patsi Krakoff of Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up to create blogging classes and marketing services for independent professionals. You can read and subscribe to their blogs at http://www.biztipsblog.com, http://www.coachezines.com and http://www.bizbooknuggets.com

How to Submit Multiple VIDEO Sites For SEO Traffic

If you are not up loading videos or audio to youtube like distribution technology to get your message out, you should be! It is a great way to get not only your company message out to potentially thousands of customers about your business, not to mention a great way to increase page rank, back links, and traffic to your site immediately using video & audio hosting companies to deliver your content.

You do not pay for bandwidth usage or hosting the content on your servers. You will get top page rank url links back to your site that improves your brand, increases page ranking quickly and generate web site traffic to your business website, service or product.

Check this out: Here is proof how the video distribution technology, using one video title as a test; type in "Lights in the Sky Series " into your google or yahoo search engine, if you like add Space or Travel to the name and it will increase the number of potential key word searches. You will see 1st page ranking for the program using multiple keywords in the title and sub titles even with out the additional words.

This title received a great response from the Video simple test. Testing the SEO keywords, will get improve results over time, this test was incredible. This video was up loaded to over 30 video sites & audio podcasting sites using video distribution technology that will distribute the content to multiple sites with the click of a mouse. (program uploaded on May 6th, 2008). The same results have been the same for all programs using video distribution technology and feel very confident it will for your as well.

Keep this in mind, all of the posted video sites will link back to your sites in several different ways using SEO search engine key words creating traffic, links back to you with results in a couple of days if not with in hours of uploading. FYI-Do not forget to add your web site address to the video for individuals to view while watching the program.

Every search engine around the world is looking for more video or audio content to distribute they need you as much as you need them. Do you self a favor! Jump start your business using SEO video & audio.

Below are a couple of ways how to get started if you are on a budget, it will only cost you your time. The results should improve page ranking & get your site indexed quickly if it is not already.

Try the following:

1. Upload your video to multiple sites like Google, Yahoo, & AOL yourself if you want to keep your cost down to begin with to get you started. Be sure to add SEO key words in your title and subtitles, add SEO keywords when call for on each hosting site.

2. Search for other video hosting companies to submit your video or audio too until you get the results you are looking for. There are over 60 possibilities and the list is growing.

3. Search for companies that provide podcast distribution and up load the audio sound track of the video. Be sure to add you web site url to the audio sound track.

4. Pay to have your video or audio submitted to multiple sites for you. I recommend the first 3 steps first to understand the process. It is exciting to see the results of your efforts.

Testing various distribution & keyword methods you may consider uploading 1 small video or audio file for FREE in exchange for your testimonial. I will continue submitting new articles on Video Distribution Technology... Stay tune for more

If you like assistance with video or audio content distribution to multiple sites quickly. Search on line for companies or email me with your ideas, needs or suggestions for assistance.

Have a Terrific Day,

How to Submit Information on B2B Platform

1. The methods for Submitting the release or updating information for the B2Bwebsite are different. You have to understand the major targeted markets of platforms. Then you need to know about local people's basic working routines. So you know that releasing information or update should be done at what Time. If release the information too early or update the information too late, your information will be sequenced in back position. It causes the bad effects that less or none of opportunity is created. Since the B2B platforms have various operational procedures, there is no conflict with the information publishing time.

2. Information Title: for you to Publish Information of Production just use the generic keywords (if it is to supply information or Sell XXX, Supply XXX). Do not think that the title including many products' name is a good thing.

3. Product Features: the parameters already have the function as much detailed as possible and to describe clearly and in good structure. There are two advantages:

A. First of all, these buyers can clear understanding of your product, which is your goal.

B. Many B2B platforms mainly rely on SEO effect to attract buyers. When you have a detailed description for a product, select the appropriate product keywords for it. The search engines will judge the importance of the keywords and professionally qualify them. The great potential buyers in the use of search engines can find you in the B2B publication of the information and contact you directly. This is likely to link pages of information that you published the pages.

4. To make product picture clear as possible, preferably dealing with a relatively pretty. We all like Pretty things!

5. Keywords settings: general B2B products in the release of information you are requested to fill in major product (Main Product or Keyword), this actually is an attempt to fill in your search by keywords, you can use Google keyword tool to filter your own keywords. The product called the most conventional, in the above can also make use of these keywords used by search or the popularity and frequency of information so that you can get more opportunities for world buyer to search, generally there are three main platform Search conditions: Company, Products Trade Leads (Selling Offer), you'd better release these three categories of information at all times like the front of reference as set just because buyers are used products directly from the search.

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30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | June 2008

Here are the 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. Although no traffic metrics are completely accurate we do believe the data below to be useful for gauging relative audience size.

1 | digg.com
117,796,083 - Inbound Links | 16,964,445 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 8,700,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 98 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

2 | Technorati.com
75,306,437 - Inbound Links | 3,231,709 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,400,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 216 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

3 | del.icio.us
171,593,051 - Inbound Links | 1,699,128 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,300,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 248 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

4 | Propeller.com
997,000 - Inbound Links | 1,454,912 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 2,180,176 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 2,308 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

5 | StumbleUpon.com
19,050,177 - Inbound Links | 1,313,586 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 695,239 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 300 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

6 | reddit.com
45,307,577 - Inbound Links | 1,226,467 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 344,383 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 852 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

7 | Fark.com
11,438,723 - Inbound Links | 306,597 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,767,165 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,958 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

8 | MyBlogLog.com
1,742,265 - Inbound Links | 1,972,847 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 84,922 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 432 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

9 | Slashdot.org
13,555,035 - Inbound Links | 724,424 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 269,884 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 579 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 9
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

10 | kaboodle.com
100,266 - Inbound Links | 1,751,763 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 851,858 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 9,125 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

11 | Bloglines.com
50,717,948 - Inbound Links | 382,663 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 103,711 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 853 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 9
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

12 | newsvine.com
24,200,775 - Inbound Links | 315,857 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 203,761 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 3,977 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

13 | blinklist.com
23,770,576 - Inbound Links | 243,277 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 165,306 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 4,647 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

14 | netvouz.com
8,112,272 - Inbound Links | 75,507 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 54,325 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 15,048 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

15 | clipmarks.com
164,419 - Inbound Links | 196,107 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 147,131 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 6,740 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

16 | Furl.net
49,595,144 - Inbound Links | 148,975 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 57,547 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 4,112 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

17 | Mister-Wong
13,214,146 - Inbound Links | 25,416 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 3,432 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,889 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

18 | dzone.com
1,065,009 - Inbound Links | 100,784 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 117,897 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 5,187 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

19 | ma.gnolia.com
13,701,444 - Inbound Links | 110,662 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 32,363 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 7,454 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

20 | Tailrank.com
5,320,211 - Inbound Links | 71,563 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 35,783 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 28,920 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

21 | ShoutWire.com
168,480 - Inbound Links | 101,738 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 55,337 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 10,552 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

22 | simpy.com
13,107,730 - Inbound Links | 62,645 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 49,205 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 10,948 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

23 | BlogMarks.net
9,748,453 - Inbound Links | 61,740 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 28,075 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 11,880 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

24 | BlueDot.us
1,159,780 - Inbound Links | 107,717 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 60,045 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 12,072 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

25 | Spurl.net
18,628,253 - Inbound Links | 42,300 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 3,483 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 14,300 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

26 | Spotplex.com
541,599 - Inbound Links | 52,176 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 15,106 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 42,809 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

27 | linkswarm.com
150,842 - Inbound Links | 14,504 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 10,476 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 47,267 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

28 | Spotback.com
97,564 - Inbound Links | 42,838 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 5,037 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 42,015 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

29 | PlugIm.com
161,039 - Inbound Links | 48,078 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 2,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 13,133 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

30 | MyBookmarks.com
25,191 - Inbound Links | 10,934 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 7,727 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 108,226 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5
30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites | Posted 06/09/2008 | eBizMBA

125 Social Bookmarking Sites, Importance of User Generated Tags, Votes and Links

The positive effects of social bookmarking for publishers of news sites, blogs and other web sites is outstanding. Social bookmarking can introduce the sites that you own or you like to others with relevant tastes, can drive traffic to your site, and valuable backlinks.

Some social bookmark sites like Propeller.com pass on link juice, while some use the NoFollow attribute. But do not let the use of NoFollow fool you, the search engines are looking beyond the incoming links from social bookmarking sites to gauge their value to their search indexes. The external metadata compiled via user generated descriptions, tags, titles and categorization is incredibly valued by the search engines, as in the same philosophy as anchored backlinks, descriptive content about a web site defined by the users of that site who are not associated with the marketing or coding of that site, can be extremely powerful in gauging the importance and relevance of the content and tags which are used on that site.

Bookmarks show how a site is perceived, and when these sites allow voting, they also show the engines or whatever classification system which monitors voting, how people feel about the quality of the site. Furthermore, social bookmarking can introduce a site to the search engines, as in some cases, people may find and bookmark a site or a site’s internal pages before a search engine can find those pages via another form of inbound link.

Monitoring social bookmarking services like Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Ma.gnolia can help search engines in multiple ways by:

• Indexing Sites Faster : Humans bookmark sites launched by their friends or colleagues before a search engine bot can find them.
• Deeper Indexing : Many pages bookmarked are deep into sites and sometimes not as easily linked to by others, found via bad or nonexistent site navigation or linked to from external pages.
• Measuring Quality : Essentially if more users bookmark a page, the more quality and relevance that site has. A site with multiple bookmarks across multiple bookmarking services by multiple users is much more of an authority than a site with only several bookmarks by the same user.
• External Meta Data : Users who bookmark sites tag them with keywords and descriptions which add an honest and unbiased definition which is created by the public and not the owner of the site.
• Co Citation : Social bookmarking sites tend to categorize sites and pages based upon the tags used by humans to describe the site; therefore search algortihms can classify these sites with their peers.
• Number of Votes : Similar to the number of bookmarks, the more votes a page receives on Digg or Reddit, the more useful that information usually is. If the same page receives multiple votes across multiple social news voting sites, the higher quality the site.
• Categorization : Like Co Citation, categorization can help define the subject of a site, therefore better helping the engine address searcher intent.

To help share the wealth of social bookmarking, I’ve put together a list of 125 social bookmarking sites, some of which are very popular and others which are newer or somewhat unheard of. But besides targeting the major social bookmarking and tagging sites which are listed above, you will find some diamonds in the rough which are niche oriented or treated well by Google and other search engines. I’ve found that one such surprise is Searchles which is regarded as an authority by multiple search engines and bookmarks within Searchles sometimes show up quite high in some branded organic results.

125+ Social Bookmarking/News Sites You Should Consider

1. Backflip : Backflip is a free service currently being run by volunteers. Backflip was started in 1999 by Netscape veterans Tim Hickman and Chris Misner. As a research tool, Backflip is clearly of value to the education community, and that community (or at least certain segments) has certainly embraced Backflip. A Google search of sites that contain the term “Backflip.com” results in numerous education-related links, including Teacher Tools.
2. barksbookmarks : BARKS=BookmARKS is a website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.
3. BibSonomy :BibSonomy is run by the Knowledge Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany. Its specifically designed for researchers, in sharing bookmarks and bibliographies
4. Blinklist :A social bookmarking site launched by Mindvalley. According to their site, they launch several web businesses a year and are focused in 3 areas. - Technology, media and Marketing. BlinkList does have a user friendly interface indicating that its being run well and efficiently. They also quote “fully profitable” on their site. Furthermore, you can label and comment about any web page on the Internet.
5. Blipoo :Meet Blipoo, a social bookmarking site for “cool” people sharing “cool” stories. It claims to help bloggers drive more traffic to their blog because they allow self promotion..
6. BlogBookMark : Designed specifically for Blog hunters, BlogBookmark.com claims to have the hottest news, gossip, and blog chatter from around the web. I highly sugggest that mainstream bloggers bookmark their entires here.
7. BlueDot : This basic social networking service allows users to save and share bookmarks.
8. blurpalicious : Get Blurped! Not too different from other social bookmarks, but I love the tagline.
9. Bmaccess : Social bookmarking with thumbs :)
10. Bookkit : BookKit.com is an absolutely free web service designed to facilitate bookmark (favorites) management needs.
11. BookMarkAll : Bookmarkall is an online bookmark community where users can create, organize and share their favorite web links online and access them anywhere.
12. Bookmark-manager : Organizer for bookmarks, calendar, diary and knowledge.
13. bookmarktracker : Free online storage, management, synchronizing and RSS sharing of your bookmarks.
14. Bookmax : You can store your bookmarks and links to your favorite sites online and access them from wherever you are : basic Social Bookmarking.
15. Buddymarks : The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.
16. Bukmark : Bukmark is a social bookmarking website.
17. Chipmark :Another basic social bookmarking site.
18. Citeulike : A free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.
19. Claimid : Manage your online identity. Although this is not a normal social bookmarking site, users can bookmark sites which reference their identity and build backlinks in this fashion.
20. Clipclip : Clipclip allows you to save images and text, with a “bookmarklet”.
21. Cloudytags : A unique word analyzer connects to your page, gets all the words and suggest you the real tags your site is showing to the world.
22. Complore : Derived from com-(with,together) and explore-(search, research). As the name suggests, complore is a vision to connect people from diverse backgrounds
23. Connectedy : Lets you establish a personal link directory online. As you surf the web, you collect links, categorize them in a way that makes sense to you.
24. Connotea : Social bookmarking (for researchers).
25. Contentpop : It has the latest Web 2.0 features such as social bookmarking, blogging & RSS. It also uses the word POP in the title which means it must be good.
26. coRank : coRank is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion
27. Crowdfound : CrowdFound is essentially a social bookmarking website, but with a different vision in mind
28. de.lirio.us : Store, share and tag your favourite links. Open source clone of del.icio.us with private bookmarking, tagging, blogging, and notes
29. del.icio.us : THE social bookmarking site : It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links and to categorize those sites with keywords. Not to mention that if enough people save your site in a bookmark, it will make their popular page and send a lot of traffic. Delicious is owned by Yahoo and is a MUST for your social media and bookmarking strategy.
30. Diigo : Social bookmarking on steroids.

31. Digg : The social news site that changed the Internet, Digg is a high power authority and a listing in Digg for a site, even if it only has a couple of votes, will rank highly on Google and other search engines for certain terms. If your site is shared and voted upon on Digg, and makes the Digg homepage, you’ll get a lot of traffic and attention from other bloggers who read Digg.
32. Dropjack : DropJack.com is a social content website and owned by the ExactSeek company.
33. Easybm : Allows users to bookmark their frequently visited sites on their private page, allowing 1-click access to their favorite web sites.
34. Enroll : Social bookmarking system based in India.
35. ez4u : Social Bookmarking - Ez4u to Bookmark : “Ez4u to Organize Ez4u to Share with Others Ez4u to Remember”
36. Favoor : Favoor is your personalized new start page. Collect your favorite internet addresses.
37. Folkd : Folkd is a social web-service about pages, news, audios, videos and blogs.
38. Freelink : Freelink.org provides free pages of links that you can access anywhere at anytime.
39. Freezilla : FreeZilla claims to be the first Web 2.0 freebies and promotions social networking site.
40. Fungow : Fungow was designed to help better organize and keep track of your bookmarks.

41. Furl : Like Delicious, LookSmart’s Furl.net is one of the first social bookmarking sites and considered an authority by the major search engines. Listing your sites in Furl will lead to traffic from organic rankings and its popular page drives traffic.
42. Gather : Gather is a place to contribute articles and content, blog, tag and connect with people who share your passions. (Plus you can link out from the articles in this authority site).
43. Getboo : GetBoo.com is yet another free online bookmarking service which allows you to store, edit and retrieve your bookmarks from anywhere online.
44. Google : Allows users to save and create bookmarks in their Google toolbar that can be accessed anywhere online. Google is getting more social by the day, so take advantage of their Google Bookamrks and citations, because one day they probably will have some kind of influence on external meta data considered by the Google ranking algortihm.
45. Hanzoweb : Hanzoweb - Bookmark, tag & share knowledge online
46. Hyperlinkomatic : Hyperlinkomatic - bookmark list manager.
47. i89.us : i89.us offers a free service which allows you to save your favorite website/links at one location that can be accessed from anywhere.
48. Icio : Danish Bookmarking engine.
49. Ikeepbookmarks : Popup feature allows you to add links while surfing the web
50. Iloggo : Simple web based bookmarking tool that you can use for attractively displaying your favorite websites on one page.
51. Jigg : Jigg.in is a socializing community with the latest stories / news submitted by users and has a familiar name :)
52. Kaboodle : Kaboodle is a 2.0 shopping community where people recommend and discover new things.
53. Kinja : Kinja is a blog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web.
54. Lifelogger : “LifeLogger is a great way to keep things that matter to you alive and sparkling.” And worth considering in a bookmarking campaign.
55. Lilsto : Lilisto lets you store, manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to maintain them through your browser.
56. Linkagogo : Favorites and Social Bookmarking Application, its unique dynamic toolbars automatically adapt themselves.
57. Linkarena : German Social Bookmarking site.
58. Linksnarf : Social link sharing with groups of friends.
59. Listerlister :ListerLister is a social list building community where you can create, add to, and vote for both lists and the items added to them.
    

60. Ma.gnolia.com : Like Furl and Delicious, anoter major bookmarking site which lets users organize bookmarks, search other people’s favorites and make friends and contacts.
61. Markaboo : MarkaBoo is tool for saving websites, files, and notes from your browser, email or mobile phone.
62. Marktd : Marktd is a reference & voting system that highlights marketing articles considered valuable by the marketing community.
63. Memfrag : memFrag stores your favorites personal notes, making them globally accessible from any computer.
64. Memotoo :Lets users centralize and share your personal data.
65. Mister Wong : Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site that originated in Germany, and has since become a popular and widespread tool.
66. Mixx : An up and coming bookmarking and social news sharing network which should rival Digg, Reddit and others, Mixx blends popular photos, videos and stories.
67. Mobleo : Allows you to easily add, organize, and share your mobile phone bookmarks with your friends using your desktop computer.

68. Multiply :Florida-based social network Multiply, which reports nearly 3 million users and $6 million in funding,opened its social bookmarking site recently and has done well. Definite authority :)
69. Murl : My URLs is a free online bookmarks manager, think of it as a bookmarks community.
70. MyBookmarks : MyBookmarks - access your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Free productivity tool for business, student or personal use. Another popular bookmarking site.
71. Myhq : Store your bookmarks in one central location. Fast, text-based, banner free!
72. MyLinkVault : A free online bookmark manager. Other bookmark managers can be so clumsy to use - trying to rearrange your bookmarks can be slow and frustrating.
73. mySiteVote : mySiteVote is a community where you can vote your favorite site/s and view how popular a site is.
74. MyWebDesktop : A collaboration and communication tool, designed to be as generic and easy to use as a telephone and email.
75. Newsvine : The mission of Newsvine is to bring together big and little media in a way which respects established journalism
76. Newsweight :NewsWeight is a democratic news, information, and entertainment resource.
77. Oyax : Oyax is a social bookmark manager which allows users to easily add sites you like to personal collection of links, categorize those sites with keywords.
78. Philoi : Person-to-person link sharing community. Save bookmarks and share links with your friends.
79. PlugIM : PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page

80. Propeller : Formaly known as Netscape, AOL’s Propeller has become a great social bookmarking news community tool which is considered an ultimate authority by Yahoo Search and passes link juice in its news story profiles. Propeller is also going to redesign very soon, which should be quite exciting.
81. QuickieClick : QuickieClick is a second generation social bookmarking website with a visual twist.
82. Rambhai : An Indian social bookmarking community
83. RawSugar : A social search engine powered by user contributions. Its an online community, with over 130,000 URLs already tagged by their members.
84. Reddit : Timely and shocking news oriented, Reddit stories are instantly voted upon and if liked by the community as a whole, can drive incredible traffic and users.

85. Searchles : Owned by the DumbFind search engine, in my opinion Searchles is a much overlooked bookmarking tool and loved by Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines with its passing of link juice and high rankings for terms within search results themselves. Do not overlook Searchles.
86. Segnalo : Italian Social bookmarking site.
87. Simpy [late addition]: Social bookmarking & search, Simpy lets users “save, tag, search and share bookmarks, notes, groups and more.”
88. Sitebar : A solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them
89. Sitejot :Free online bookmark manager. Like every other social bookmarking site, it allows users to manage all of their bookmarks online in one convenient place.

90. Sk*rt : sk*rt is a social media ranking platform of “pure goodness”, targeted towards women. Given the right story, Sk*rt can send A LOT of targeted traffic.
91. Slashdot : The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
92. SocialDanger : SocialDanger is a Web 2.0 open source content management system.
93. Socialogs : A Digg-like Social Bookmarking Service.
94. Sphinn : Very popular search marketing oriented social news and discussion site run via the Pligg system.
95. Spotback : Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering
96. Spurl : Another cherished bookmarking and tagging site, Spurl lets users keep online bookmarks & tags while offering full text searching, recommendations & storing of entire documents.
97. Squidoo :Kind of spammed out, Squidoo is a 2.0 property which lets people and businesses set up a ‘lens’ which lists links, tags and relevant RSS feeds to different subjects.
98. Startaid : I’ve noticed that StartAid bookmark pages rank highly in Google and other search engines. This basic bookmarking service allows users to describe, tag and categorize sites.
99. StumbleUpon : Owned by eBay, StumbleUpon is an amazing blend of social bookmarking, voting, networking, web surfing, search and blogging. Best of all, StumbleUpon can send major traffic with its userbase of around 3 million users.
100. Stylehive : The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community
101. Syncone : SyncOne is an Internet aggregator of bookmarking and browsing.
102. Tagfacts : Basic bookmarking and tagging, a social knowledge base.
103. Taggly : Store, share and tag your favorite links.
104. Tagne : TagNe.ws is user-submitted, community voted links and resources related to SEO, Blogging, RSS, Tagging, Internet Marketing and more.
105. Tagtooga : Says that this bookmarking engine can be used to discover great sites difficult to find in Google/Yahoo by browsing categories.
106. Tagza : A very young Social Bookmarking site mostly being used by Indian and Pakistani web masters.
107. Technorati : Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section.
108. Tedigo : Personal and social bookmarking in Spanish and English made simple.
109. Thinkpocket : Lets users pocket websites you find valuable. It is a web service that aims to help store, organize and share your favorite sites
110. Thoof : Thoof is a user generated news and information service that claims to learn about what users are interested in and delivers news that they care about.
111. Totalpad : TotalPad is a new online news and article community where people are free to voice their opinions
112. Urlex : With URLex system users are able to leave a comment regarding any internet link on any site. Possibly good for linking :)
113. Uvouch : Another basic social bookmarking site, users can save their findings with one click, at one place and access it from anywhere.
114. Vmark : An online bookmark and online favorites manager.
115. Voteboat : VoteBoat is a user-controlled rating and voting site.
116. Votelists : VoteLists lets users create a list of rankable items. Other can add items, comment on them, rate them and more!
117. Vuju : Vuju allows user to submit/publish content which can be tagged and promoted.
118. WeTogether : Social bookmarking site where people will have great opportunities to promote their own sites.
119. Whitelinks : Securely store and quickly access favorite websites whenever connected to the Internet,:
120. Wink : A social search engine where users can share results and answer questions. Users build profiles which can link out to bookmark pages or other web sites (hint hint).:
121. Wirefan : Social bookmarking, news articles submission site.:
122. Xilinus : Organize and manage bookmarks online.:
123. Xlmark : xlmark is an easy social bookmarking site:

124. Yahoo! Bookmarks: The MOST POPULAR social search and bookmarking service on the web. It’s similar to Delicious and something they launched before acquiring Delicious. Yahoo Bookmarks lets users store bookmarks using their Yahoo Toolbar and access them from any computer.
125. Yattle: Bookmark Management and Mini-Blogging Service.
126. Zlitt: Zlitt is a social bookmarking system which gives users the opportunity to share and tag favorite news, images and videos.
127. Zurpy: Saves bookmarks, text clippings, images, files, and news feeds in one place.

Do you have any suggestions of other social bookmarking sites? Please feel free to add them in the comments below.