Digg.com uses a popularity system, where site members can vote the submitted pages up or down and only the most popular stories make it to the front page.

Large numbers of people keep a watch of Digg’s top stories and visit the links that look interesting.

Digg has a lot of users – so it’s not fair to generalize. But if I had to: They tend to be younger, they have a great sense of humor, but they hate reading. Digg members are very serious people and it sometimes reflects in a negative way as to how other members are treated by their fellow members. Digg is not always the nicest place to visit, but it is by far the best website to visit and submit new content to, if you are a Webmaster or blogger wanting to increase traffic to a website or article that you like and want to share with millions of other potential visitors.

Digg is another social bookmarking hotspot, focused on technology and science. Digg users submit links to articles and websites, along with a brief commentary. Digg.com is a site for sharing links to technology news, and related things that geeks like me enjoy, such as videos.

But since Digg.com is mostly technology related, I’m using more mainstream social bookmarking services such as StumbleUpon .

Tagging, clipping, and saving are all great ways to save a group of select webpages. However, what good is all that great information if you cannot effectively showcase your findings in a concise and organized structure? Tagtooga is an amazing tool, a mashup of bookmarkings, wikis, and open dir. It’s power comes at the cost of a learning curve, you really need to play with it before it’s meaning becomes clear. Tags are cool – they let you organise what you bookmark in loose hierarchies. Collections are also useful as they provide an extra level of meaningful grouping.

Tags are single-word descriptors — this is how social bookmark systems categorize content so that you and other users can find it. Tagging was a natural progression to me. Assigning keywords to links I needed to save made perfect sense. Tag clouds take care of agility, timeliness and relevancy for you, since real people tag sites based on what’s in their mind at the time. And while your site may get tagged in some quirky ways, quirks are what make the human brain much less prone to manipulation than an algorithm.

Tagging

Tagging is a democratic, intuitive process: anyone can tag a site in any way they see fit and there are no agreed-upon conventions. Ordinary people – not search engines or librarians – decide how sites will be classified.

Social bookmarking is rapidly becoming an easier way of finding more useful information than search engines provide. The downfall of current search engines (Google included) is that you have marketing companies spending big money to be the top ranked sites for keywords that you are looking for online. Social bookmarking is great. It helps sites gain popularity via positive feedback from users, who bookmark it on a special social bookmarking site. Social bookmarking is a way to save and share bookmarks on the web. You can tag a web page that you find interesting and share it with other people.

Social bookmarking is a pretty crowded field on the Web, with delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us) taking the greatest amount of mindshare, although I have no idea if they’re still holding the majority of the market. The increased use of bookmarking tool aggregators like ShareThis show that the gaggle of bookmarking sites is a little confusing for everyone.

Social bookmarking is not just the passive action of saving links to websites you have visited. Many social bookmarking services and some specialised websites have tools to assist you to add your social bookmarking links to your website, blog or wiki etc and vice versa. Social bookmarking is based on the idea of a sites popularity being decided by the visitors of that site. Make sure you are adding important sites that you use every day to these sites, as well as your own personal websites.

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences.

Also you can use StumbeUpon to bookmark your blog and get extra visitors.

Ask your friends to stumble your blog as well. With 5 stumble you can get an extra 15.000 visitors/month + a better position in the search engines.