Benefits of Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is best way to store, share, organize and save web links on internet. You can save it privately or share useful links in your group. You can even add description to the bookmark with the help of metadata, so others can get an idea about what bookmark is about. You can provide comments, ranking or vote (up or down) about bookmark which makes social bookmarking more useful and you can share your thoughts more easily.
Here are few benefits of social bookmarking:
#1 Promote Business Online
If you are offering products or services then social bookmarking is very convenient way to promote your online business. You can advertise your product to your targeted audience and referrals, and you can even collaborate to the companies who are providing services and similar products which will help both companies in win-win position.
#2 Online Persona
Social bookmarking helps you to improve your online persona also. Many social bookmarking websites like StumbleUpon gives you the opportunity to develop your page on their website which can be used to add your website links and publish your killer articles to attract your targeted audience. Social bookmarking also helps you in interacting with other users so that you can exchange and share information. This kind of personal branding will help you in improving your online persona.
#3 Easy to Index
Bookmarking to popular social bookmarking websites and Directories will help you to get indexed in search engines like Google, MSN,Yahoo or any other very fast. Social book marking is best way to attract search engines bots and crawl through your pages.
#4 Get Backlinks
You might be working very hard to get Quality backlinks, now instead of working hard try smart work for getting quality backlinks. Social bookmarking can help you to get backlinks easily, when you make your personal page on social bookmarking websites and promote it, you will surely get huge traffic and thus people will be willing to share backlinks with you.
#5 Generate Traffic
When you Do social bookmarking of your website, get backlinks, have good online persona and get good ranking in search engine then you will surely generate huge targeted traffic for your website. When you keep on bookmarking your web pages to social bookmarking websites, it will be continuously get indexed by search engine and will result in high traffic. These visitors might subscribe to your RSS feed and be your loyal readers.
Once you properly place your bookmarks on relevant categories in social bookmarking websites and promote it with proper planning, you will surely get lots of benefits from social bookmarking.
Yeah, social Bookmarking is very important indeed.
I didn’t know this. Thanks for sharing lax!
agree with , with a lot of friend on FB an another social community will give a Quality backlinks
i completely agree on the points you enumerated but one should also bear in mind that social Bookmarking nowadays is somewhat abused to a great extent. some people flood it with seemingly spammy links.
And that’s maybe a reason why for now, google not giving so much value for link on social Bookmarking.
The best thing of social Bookmarking is traffic generator.
One more benefits from me. We can know what is hot trends using when using social Bookmarking. This help us to create content relate to current issue especially for those who run news type blog or magazine type blog.
for me, getting backlinks and generating traffic are the two major uses of social bokmarking….it does not look that great but getting a backlink with a high PR site like Digg will help in PageRank
by using social Bookmarking sites one can generate some traffic and Quality baclinks
5in1, for me its for bulk traffic.
Social Site Can give a good amount of traffic and a backlink
and backlink from social sites will increase our Page rank too 
I think link from social Bookmarking is not affecting too much, but it’s still good if you consistency of bookmarking your site on there.
yup. and don’t forget about post Quality
Agree with all, personally i use it to promote my blog. That’s why i’m registering on SU, digg.
Any Bookmarking site recommended?
Nice blog and thanks for sharing here