Social bookmarking sites like Digg,StumbleUpon,del.icio.us,Yahoo Buzz are a great source of traffic for almost every famous,popular sites.Even my blog droftware also gets a portion of its traffic from sites like digg,stumbleupon.

Users of these sites bookmark the sites,posts,videos,pics which they find useful.Its just like when we like a website we favourite it from our browser.The difference between Browsers favourites is that when we bookmark the site in a browser only we can access it but when we do so using these sites a large number of intresting users can see our bookmarked site.Also our bookmarks are safe in these sites whereas they can be lost in our browsers if the browsers are uninstalled.

Some major social bookmarking sites are:-
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Digg Stumble upon Delicious Reddit

There are many more but these are the most popular.

These sites are also important for bloggers,site owners as these sites derives a huge ammount of traffic if a particular post gets famous in digg,stumbleupon.

There are a large number of widgets which bloggers,site owners can put so that users can bookmark their content direcly using the widgets without the hassle of going to that site or downloading a toolbar.

Popular blogs like Techcrunch,Engadget,Gizmodo,Mashable,Problogger have put these widgets under their posts.

Some rich bloggers use a custom made widget but mostly every blogger use the free widgets available on the web.



The following are some popular social bookmarking widgets





This is the most popular social bookmarking widget.





















These are some of the widgets offered by this site.It also provides your statistics that how your content is being shared.get it from AddThis.com









This is also a popular widget which is fast spreading in the blogsphere.













This widget offers the best interface.Besides social bookmarking,you can also share it using Facebook,Orkut,Myspace,Twitter,Blogger etc.You can also email the post directly using it.Its one of my personal favourites.Get it from ShareThis.com









Its not as popular as Addthis.com or Sharethis.com but still its quite cool.

When you click on it it takes you to its site getbookmarked.com from where you can bookmark the post.This is quite a drawback.The following are the widget it offers.It also does not bookmarks the post directly but the blogs address.Get it from getbookmarked.com.

The following are the widgets offered.

Social Bookmark





























This company is not focussed on a widget but on automated submission to social bookmarking istes.Get it from Socialmarker.com









Now here are some of the social bookmarking widgets that I have found on some widget sites like Widgetbox,Yourminis.



Shout List Icons