Social bookmarking is a key tool for bringing more traffic to your website. Link building by social bookmarking is done by making a post to a website with a link back to your site and then adding keywords or tags.

External sites want your link to their web site for the same reasons you want your site linked with theirs. Targeted traffic will bring immediate and measurable results from search engines. Long-term results will get more attention from search engines by association with high-ranking websites.

This method is free and effective but it is time consuming and therefore, not very profitable. Having multiple accounts compounded with your keywords for different social bookmarking sites (such as Technorati, Digg or Furl) can bring a large amount of traffic to your site.

Software programs to automate this tedious task are being developed but there are still problems with the software resembling spam. One should avoid using them and try to submit a unique story to these sites. Often unique stories attract a good amount of readership and you have a fair chance to get noticed by bloggers who will write good about it.

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