Social Bookmarking is a powerful web promotion tactic. Social Bookmarking websites allow users to maintain their bookmarks online and share links with others.  It is a way to organise links to important content and share them with others on the internet. It provides valuable back links to your website for free and is an integral part of an internet marketing or SEO campaign. In addition to back-links, you can target millions of visitors who use Social bookmarking websites regularly to search for information.

Posting your link to a social bookmarking service typically involves using a web based form to post your link along with title, description and tags that describe the content. . In Spite of its benefits, social bookmarking is also a very time consuming process.

This is a list of 5 social bookmarking tools that are aimed that reducing the time spent and automating your process.

1. Social Marker (www.socialmarker.com)

SocialMarker.com supports approximately 50 of the best social bookmarking sites. I have listed this first because it is the most basic tool for social bookmarking. Although social Marker does not automate the submission in anyway, it makes it easier to organise your submissions. You only enter the link, title and description once on social marker and then click on each of the bookmarking sites you wish to post to. You are redirected to the site with your link information pre-filled. You have to manually complete the submission process which typically involves signing in, CAPTCHA verification and clicking on the submit button. As you have to do this individually for each bookmarking site, it can be time-consuming. There a Firefox tool that makes it easier to post a page you are browsing.

Main Benefits:

• Submission form is pre-filled on individual sites.
• Leading social bookmarking sites can be accessed from a single page so there is no need to maintain your own spreadsheet.

2.OnlyWire

OnlyWire offers free and paid versions. The free version is a great tool and partly automates your submissions. I have personally used this tool for some time and it saves me a lot of time. I recommend it to others.

It supports nearly 50 services. Unlike fully automated tools like Bookmarking demon and Social poster discussed later in this article, OnlyWire does not create accounts for you automatically nor does it create profiles on individual social bookmarking sites. It however saves your usernames and passwords and allows you to post automatically. You can use a web form or Firefox plugin to submit a page. Links are posted to chosen services automatically without the need to login and submit individually. The free version prompts you from time to time for sites that require CAPTCHA verification. The paid version completes the CAPTCHA automatically without prompting you to enter it manually.

Main Benefits:

• Free version is an excellent method for automated submission.
• A new RSS feed tool can fetch and submit all new posts.
• As the process is semi-automated, you retain some control and face no risk of being penalised.
• Good reporting system with the possibility to resubmit failed submissions.

3. Bookmarking Daemon

Bookmarking Daemon offers fully automated submission to many social bookmarking website. It is paid software with many features. It can create accounts and profiles on many Social Bookmarking websites automatically. It can also create multiple profiles and submit the same site to different accounts. It can spider your site and lets you choose what pages to submit as opposed to typing in each and every URL, Title, and Description.

Main Benefits:

• Automated account creation.
• Supports multiple user accounts
• Supports almost 100 sites
• You can add your own list of social bookmarking sites!

4. SeNuke

SE Nuke is a paid software for automated and semi-automates submissions. Unlike other tools mentioned in this post, it does more than just social bookmarking. It is complete SEO/Social media solution that also handles social bookmarking submissions. It is one of the more expensive tools with a monthly price.

Main benefits are:

• Automatically submits articles, videos, bookmarks and RSS feeds to multiple Web 2.0 sites.
• Re-post as many articles as you want to ALL of your blogs/wikis/hubs with ONE click
• Queuing of all the different modules for specified dates and times
• Article spinner allows you to create numerous “unique” articles from one source article.
• Fantastic niche keyword research tool
• Automatically create, save and load multiple user profiles

5. SocialBot

It is another tool that claims to submit 100′s of Social Bookmarks with one click. Like Bookmarking Daemon, SocialBot creates separate profiles automatically on various social bookmarking services. It can fully automate your submission process.

SocialBot can spider your domain and can build a list of web pages to bookmark and then it submits them to the Social Networking services you’ve got accounts with. At the time of writing, it supports over 120 Social Bookmarking Services.

Main Benefits:

• RSS Monitoring for Automatic Submission.
• Auto Fill Company Profiles with Random Names, Usernames and Passwords
• Automatic Account Creation For Pligg and Scuttle Sites
• Supports Multiple Company And Account Profiles
• Although it is not free, it is relatively cheap at just under $30 at the time of writing this post.

This article was written by K.Singh, London based Web Design & Internet Marketing Consultant with over 10 years of experience in E-Commerce, Web development, Joomla and Search engine Optimisation.