Social bookmarking has become one of the most fundamental aspects of internet marketing because of the way that a nobody can turn into a superstar overnight. Internet marketing can be broken down into two categories the first being search engine optimization and the second is social marketing which is split into social bookmarking and social networking. Social bookmarking is one type of social marketing that allows blatant self promotion in the form of submission. I have never been to a quality social bookmarking website that did not allow a webmaster or blogger to submit content. The three social bookmarking websites that I focus on include digg.com, stumbleupon.com, and delicious.com all are of excellent quality. Now if you are a blogger another social website that does not fall directly into the category of social bookmarking, but is worth working on is technorati.com.

One important point when it comes to social bookmarking and your online business is you will need content if you wish to succeed in the social bookmarking world. Even if you reach the top of a major social bookmarking website using your main page you will come back down. If you wish to get the most out of the social bookmarking experience creating a constant stream of authoritative niche relevant content will be necessary. The easiest way to update content on your online business is to install the wordpress content management system. This is a blogging platform used by millions of webmasters across the web and can be easily added to any static website. Once you add the blog to your website if you would like to have your website shared by your community and audience it is important to add social buttons.

There are a few ways which you can add social buttons to your website or blog. The first way I recommend adding a social bookmarking button is going to the social bookmarking website and finding the HTML code. You can then add the code to your individual post templates so when a reader or one of your visitors clicks on an individual post they will see the buttons which will allow them to add the website to the social bookmark of their choice. You can use these buttons on static pages as well which means every web page on your website will have the ability to reach the top page of the major social bookmarking websites. Another great way to add social bookmarking buttons on a wordpress blog is with the use of plugins. In your wordpress dashboard there will be on the left hand side a category for plugins. To add a social bookmarking plugin click on add new and a search screen will come up. The social bookmarking plugin I use for my blog is called Social Bookmarks. If you do a quick search on the wordpress dashboard it is easy to find this plugin then all you will need to do is follow the install instructions.

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