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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.

The first question people as is what exactly is social bookmarking it. In essence it is the sharing of websites through bookmarking websites that allow you to rate, comment and share websites that you have found interesting and bookmarked. People are constantly searching for great websites on the topics that interest them. Individuals can use social bookmarking sites in order to find sites on a particular topic based on tags.

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 using social bookmarking sites and using a search engine is simply the size and method that is used. Social bookmarking sites usually have a more concentrated based for searching. This means that it is faster in locating specifics. If you are looking for a particular subject on a search engine you will pick up any site which has the keywords that you are looking for. Because bookmarking sites are smaller in terms of the searching base you have a greater chance of finding what you are looking for.

You can get traffic to your website through feeds, social networks like Facebook, Myspace, StumbleUpon and the like, and social news networks where people can post stories they find of interest as they surf. These places include Digg, Newsvine, Reddit to name a few.

This includes using a wide variety of options that have only recently become available. Things like viral marketing, video websites, social networking websites and using social bookmarking sites. Consider all the different aspects to marketing a website and be sure to incorporate as many as possible into your strategy.

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.