Well, there are lists and then there are lists. Some are good, some bad some downright ugly. There are not many lists of social bookmarking sites that list truly social bookmarking websites. Most of the lists consist of social networking and social news submission sites as well making it difficult to  segregate the true social bookmarking websites that allow you to do only one thing – bookmark your site.

I have spent many hours on the net to compile this list. I know that some of the listings will go bad after a while. But you need not worry! I will keep this list regularly updated with worthwhile social bookmarking sites that can serve your marketing purposes.

1. Stumble Upon : The grand dad of all social bookmarking sites. This one is an amazing site that keeps visitors entertained with unique, offbeat quality websites. Its user base has been growing exponentially over the years. A few of my sites have experienced decent amount of traffic after getting bookmarked here.  Travel sites tend to draw more traffic via stumble upon – just my observation. If you have a remarkable website then you can not ignore stumble upon as a marketing channel.

2. Delicious : An oldie, delicious had the rather tongue twisting domain name del.icio.us during the initial stages. Thank god, it has now been renamed/redirected to more chewable delicious.com! Like stumbleupon, this one also can send you huge traffic, especially if your bookmark makes it to the front page. Google used to rank the delicious tag pages some 2 years back, but since then has stopped ranking these pages as people started spamming the tag pages.  If you have even an average website you need to bookmark it on delicious.

3. Spurl : I came to know about spurl when i noticed a few referrals to some of my client sites from spurl. One of the sites made it to hot spurls section on the front page and received a few hundred visitors over next 5 – 6 days. I have bookmarked most of my sites in spurl now. I will keep you posted about the results.

4. Blink List: A few technology sites that i bookmarked here got decent traffic over the last 3 – 4 months.

5. Diigo : Branded as a research tool, Diigo is a collaborative application that makes information discovery easy with its rich set of web tools.

6. Faves: Easy to use social bookmarking application. Previously known as bluedot.us.

Update: I was going to post the complete list of 50 social sites that have generated traffic for me in the past.  But i came across comprehensive list on the net that covers all the sites in my list.  So  i will point you to that list instead (kudos to me for preventing information pollution )

http://www.social-bookmarking-sites-list.com/

I have not personally tested all these site, so i would appreciate if you can post your experience with these sites on the comments section below.

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