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 .

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.