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In the new Web 2.0 world, the fastest way to drive great amounts of traffic to your website on a consistent and growing basis is through social bookmarking.

Social bookmarking services are part of a larger conversation where everyone is allowed to vote and participate through adding interesting links to bookmarking sites and further commenting or voting up or down based on the person's experience of the site marked. With social bookmarking, it allows individuals to leave a trail of sites visited for others to follow. If a site is well liked, it will receive a favorable review, a vote up and in turn a ton of traffic from various sources.

It used to be getting high page rank results was the key to driving continuous amounts of traffic to a website. That is still true, but the method to get those rankings has dramatically changed. On page methods including optimizing content for search engines to read was part of it. Nowadays, while on page optimization processes are still important, through social bookmarking websites can be found quicker and easier based on the personal preferences of the people searching.

The difference between search engine results and social bookmarking results is in the process used to find a site that a person is interested in. For instance, if a person likes a certain music group, they will start out searching on popular search engines. In addition, people will also StumbleUpon a site about music based upon what they've looked for before. Even more targeted would be searching with tags which are little keywords that are indexed by places like Technorati and Ice Rocket. If a website tags itself and lets the social bookmarking site that they've updated their website on a certain topic, it will travel all over the web, be syndicated through an RSS feed and be instantaneously transmitted to anyone who possesses a reader.

Just as there are a number of social networking sites there are also a number of social bookmarking sites so there are plenty of places to place your website and be able to share in what you have to offer. The point is to make sure that you diversify. Do not just rely on page ranking. Do not just rely on search engine optimization or PPC advertising. Make sure that you are doing the best you can for your website.

Different social news and network organization produce larger or smaller amounts of traffic. Some of the better known social networking and bookmarking outfits like Digg and Reddit will produce a number of unique visitors who have come to your website because they're interested in what you are writing about. This is much different than search engine results. Through social bookmarking, there is a personal review from other people who will talk about what's on the site. As a result the people who arrive are highly targeted visitors.

There are a number of different sites to post links to and there are also a wide variety of widgets to make it easier. Some of the better known social networking and bookmarking sites that will draw a reasonable amount of traffic from day one include Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Scribd.com and the like. Simply use the search engines to find more and more places. There are also niche specific social bookmarking sites designed to break out various niche markets and cater to them alone. These include both business and personal niches.

Most people, however, will use the larger sites and bookmark their sites, filtering them through the use of specific tags that others can search on. Tags are very easy to use and take a place like Technorati and breaks it down into interest-driven sections that only those people who are interested in will search on and find your website.