Social bookmarking A to Z

Why do we need social bookmarking?

It is in fact one of the off-page search engine optimisation methods as it provides you with backlinks or inbound links to your site. Try to do dofollow social bookmarking submission because search engine spiders scour the sites and follow the links. It will also increase your page rank.
Social bookmarking not only helps in building in backlinks but also helps to increase traffic brought traffic in to your website. This will help increase your sales or website conversions and decrease your cost per acquisition.

Social bookmarking also helps you in branding as long as you choose your niche properly and start building keywords and tags from there.
People do social bookmarking for link juice and content syndication.
Link juice give us benefit of 0.49%PR of per website.

What is social bookmarking :- it is a method for internet user to share organized, searched and managed bookmarking resource / web resource

Steps of doing Social bookmarking:-

1/ Open bookmarking website and register / join / sign up there.

2/ Verify account by clicking confirmation link in your email id.

3/ Submit URl

4/ Submit story

5/ Fill category, title, description, tags etc.

6/ After submission copy and save backlink of the story.

Steps / tips that can help :-

1/ Pay attention to your Headlines :- catchy
2/ Write a meaningful & short description :- never use false fact but draws more attention
3/ Have a great first paragraph
4/ Content is king :- dont post junks
5/ Make it easy for others to vote / bookmark your site :- best when other user bookmark your site. it is helpful if you put bookmarking button at the end of content.
6/ Know when to submit :- On most social bookmarking sites you have only 24 hours to get to the front page and stay there. To get more traffic post around 3 p.m. US Central Time.
7/ Submit to the right category
8/ Build a top-profile
9/ Cooperate with other social bookmarkers :- 50 votes can get you to the top page of Digg.
10/ Submit in English
11/ Never submit old news
12/ Check your facts
13/ Check you spelling
14/ Not all topics do well
15/ Have Related Articles / Popular Articles
16/ RSS feeds, newsletter subscriptions, affiliate marketing :- these are all areas in which the traffic from social bookmarking sites can help you a lot.
17/ Do not use automated submitters
18/ Respond to comments on your stories
19/ Prepare your server for the expected traffic :- server crashed  due to exceeded bandwidth problem. 
20/ Submit approximately 25-30 bookmarking per domain per day.
21/ Add relative friend and same business
22/ Target community

Bookmarking submission report sample :-
Project name, URL, S.no., Bookmarking sitename, PR, Category, Keyword, Email id, Name, Backlink

Autofill form is also helpful here to submit forms. (how to use and setup autofill form) 

All working High PR dofollow social bookmarking list

http://baagdi.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/high-pr-bookmarking-sites/

Examples:-

diigo.com, mister-wong, delicious.com are not a do-follow social bookmarking websites.
DO follow sites :- technorati.com, digg.com, reddit.com, folkd.com, spurl.net, a1-webmarks.com, feedmarker.com

Some important social bookmarking tool websites:-
http://socialposter.com/
http://www.ping.fm
http://www.onlywire.com
http://www.socialmarker.com/
http://socialadr.com/