Social bookmarking is one of the best ways to get your websites ranking well and for getting direct traffic. Social bookmarking sites directly indicate what people are looking at.

Sure, they know marketers use it, but they realise that the majority of content that is social bookmarked multiple times is real content that people are finding useful and interesting. You can use this trend and use social bookmarking to make your sites rank well for their keywords.

You will need to get yourself accounts on the social bookmarking sites you are going to use. As this takes time, look at automation software such as Onlywire to speed things up. This will make your life a lot easier. Then you need to find other people such as friends, family or marketers who will also set up an Onlywire account. Then you simply trade bookmarks. They bookmark your site and you bookmark theirs in return.

Most marketers only have their sites bookmarked once, and very occasionally more than once. This is something the search engines are probably area of, which is why sites with multiple bookmarks get more authority. This easy technique can easily get you several bookmarks and will give your sites a boost in the search engines.

You can easily outsource social bookmarking your sites. It can become expensive if you are creating a lot of sites. You can find someone on forums such as Digitalpoint who will do it very reasonably for you, but it is still going to add up.

Or, you can use automatic social bookmarking software to do all of you bookmarking at the click of a button. There is some excellent automatic bookmarking software available, and it can prove extremely cost effective!

You can apply the same system to web sites such as Stumbleupon and Digg, both of which are potential sources of large amounts of traffic. The content is expected to be be more newsworthy and interesting by these sites. With a well written article you can expect thousands of visitors in a day, quite literally with an interesting article}.

Setting up multiple social bookmarking accounts yourself and bookmarking your sites is possible. Unless you use proxies, the sites will notice what you are doing and shut you down. This can be done, but often the hassle isn’t worth it, particularly when it is easy to network with other marketers. Networking with other marketers and trading bookmarks also has a side effect of building your network of contacts. In the future, these could turn out to be lucrative joint venture partners.

Social bookmarking is an excellent means for you to obtain traffic both from the search engines and from the social bookmarking sites. Do it well and you can benefit from better search engine rankings and massive traffic.