Without any surprise, you should know how to use the bookmarking function in your web browser. However, the idea of social bookmarks may probably be something new to you. In fact, you can treat social bookmarking sites as websites which offer you the function to bookmark your favorite sites.

You may think that you can bookmark your favorite sites using your web browser. In fact, it is really good to bookmark the site so that you can refer to it from time to time. However, it will not be possible for you to remember all your favorite sites when you are not using your own computer. Consequently you will want to be able to access your bookmarks even if you are not using your own computer.

This is why people will use social bookmarking sites. When they bookmark their favorite sites, they will be stored into the database of the bookmarking sites. They will be able to access the bookmarks when they login to the site.

What is even more interesting is that you can share your bookmark with the others. If you set the bookmarks to be visible to the public, other web surfers will be able to see your favorite sites.

This is how the social bookmark sites can help you to promote your website. Since your website is visible to the public via the social bookmarking sites, you will be able to promote your website in these social bookmarking sites.

The link of site may also appear in the first page of the social bookmarking sites. If you site is really popular in the social bookmarking site, which means that a lot of people put your site as their favorite site in the social bookmarking site, your site will probably be shown in the first page of the social bookmarking site.

As a matter of fact, social bookmarks can help to improve the link popularity of your site. When you bookmark your site, there will be a link to your site. This will certainly help to boost your search engine ranking in the long run.