I am new to all this website and blogging stuff. I am aware that one needs to be actively engaged in building links over time if you want your site to rise up in terms of page rank or authority which would eventually bring you good traffic and rank higher in search engines. I scraped through many forums for finding good link building strategies. Everywhere I found "SOCIAL BOOKMARKING" as an essential weapon in the war of building links. But to this day, I am wondering what exactly this social bookmarking is and how does it help building links? I really don't know how to use social bookmarking to build links. How should I approach this strategy? Thanks
Social bookmarking can best be thought of in terms of the bookmarking you might do for websites in the bookmarking folder of your web browser. When you make a profile with a site like del.icio.us you are creating a place to store your bookmarks online instead of on your computer. Think of it like a webdrive for your bookmarks. Each time that you make a bookmark you are creating at least one link. The problem is that on del.icio.us the links are no-follow. What you want to use, for the purposes of link building are sites like, propeller.com that are do-follow. Search online for lists of do-follow social bookmarking sites. That should help get you started.