Social bookmarking is an excellent method for both direct traffic and good rankings.
Social bookmarking sites directly show what people are looking for.
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.
Taking advantage of this will help to get your sites ranking well for their keywords! Firstly, you need to open an account on some social bookmarking sites.
Adding manual social bookmarks will take a lot of time, so look at software such as OnlyWire or Social Marker which automates the submission process.
This will make your life a lot easier.
Once you have your account, find some marketers, friends or family who will also set up an account on Onlywire.
Then you merely exchange bookmarks.
You bookmark their site and they bookmark yours in return.
Most marketer's sites are only bookmarked once, with the occasional one gaining more than one bookmark.
The search engines are probably very aware of this and so pay more attention to sites that have multiple bookmarks on a single site.
This simple method can easily get you multiple bookmarks and will give your sites a boost in the search engines.
You can outsource the entire social bookmarking process.
It can become costly if you are creating a lot of sites.
It will be easy for you to find people to do this at a sensible price on any Internet marketing forum.
You can use the same technique to web sites such as Stumbleupon and Digg, both of which are potential sources of large amounts of traffic.
These sites expect more newsworthy and interesting articles.
With a well written article you can expect thousands of visitors in a day, quite literally with an interesting article.
It is possible to set up multiple social bookmarking accounts and bookmark your own sites.
Unless you use proxies, the sites will notice what you are doing and ban your accounts.
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.
These could potentially end up being joint venture partners, product partners or more in the future.
Social bookmarking is a wonderful way for you to obtain traffic from the search engines and social bookmarking sites.
This will increase your search engine rankings and from this, your traffic.