Although many people would have you believe otherwise, there are only a few ways to make money from a website. Selling something, banner ads, affiliate schemes or membership or listing fees.

Along comes Google with its Adsense and all of a sudden we can all have a piece of the pie. Their service places ads on your website that are relevant to that pages content, and you get paid every time someone clicks on the advert. The Adwords platform allows you to tailor the look and feel of the ads so they sit within your pages better. You can change the background color, font size and shape and the shape of the box they appear in.

Advertisers choose keywords and bid on them. This bid is then added to the existing pot for the keywords and your advert ranked within it depending on the bid. A daily budget is also set so that as an advertiser you can control how much you spend on your marketing. Through some maths I don’t understand, your advert then appears on relevant sites a certain amount of times until your clickthrough budget has been used up.

Adsense is currently one of if not ‘the’ most popular way of advertising on the internet, and has spawned many look-a-likes since its launch. It is policed quite heavily by Google as there are third party tools out there that will click on an ad to make money for the website owner. If the advertisers return diminishes then their use of Adwords reduces. Therefore Google protect it with everything they have. With this in mind, don’t try and trick people into clicking your ad, or copy content from other places. Google can figure out both and will penalize you by reducing your fee or kick you out of Adwords altogether.

The placement of the advert is key. You have to be aware of how a visitor reads the page and place the ads somewhere prominent within that area. They need to sit nicely within the framework of your site, and not be so obvious or out of place that it annoys your visitors. Embedding them within posts or content then coloring them so they blend in a little is a good way of making them unobtrusive without being invisible. According to Google the best place to put your ads is at the start of the site content, below the header and at the end of any articles or blog posts you may have.

Don’t overload the site with ads otherwise you will estrange your visitors. A single ad block will normally be sufficient per page to get the most clicks. Visitors will soon get fed up trying to navigate through adverts in order to get to your content. There are way too many other places to go for information or services to risk annoying them like that.

To maximise your return make sure you have good quality content to bring in the visitors and clever ad placement to get them clicking. Don’t expect to be a millionaire from Adwords alone, with a 5% click rate it isn’t going to change your life.

Most experienced web designers already know the rules for making a website user friendly but those newer to the scene need to take note of these rules and why they are important.

A study by IBM in 2003 found that for every $1 you invested in making a site easy to use translated into $10 return if the site was a commercial one. A useable site also converts 100% more than an awkward one. For these reasons alone a site has to be created to be useable as well as beautiful.

The site has to be easy to navigate and use one of the traditional navigation schemas. Things such as the term ‘About me/us’ linking to a bio page on the person or company who owns the site. The logo at the top of the page linking back to the home page and a shopping cart being exactly that. These are things taken for granted by many visitors and if you plan on varying them, do it clearly.

Web pages have grown in size since broadband became mainstream. Once pages had to be as light as humanly possible to squeeze down a 56k line as quickly as possible. Now with broadband and ADSL the standard we can get away with a little more than that now. That isn’t to say someone with a T1 into their house is going to sit there and wait even 5 seconds for your pages to load. As a nation we are becoming increasingly impatient. If you can’t grab someone’s attention within the first 3 seconds you have lost them. Using CSS instead of tables and navigation items and optimizing any media or images will speed up your page load immensely.

You must not restrict users in any way. The biggest mistake here is having your pages open up new tabs or windows. Although this may seem a convenience from an experienced users point of view it muddles the navigation options for the average user. For instance, a page that opens in a new tab has no back button. Although a small thing, it can confuse, and worse, annoy visitors to your site. If you are linking externally then it is logical to have that open in a new tab or page, so the navigation options on your site remain intact.

Avoid using frames if you can as it makes the whole web process a little more difficult. It makes the site harder to bookmark or interact with, you can’t email links, or print properly and the main issue is search engines still don’t seem to like it. If you want a good page rank then this is certainly a no-go.

Your page layout should reflect the readers habits. They don’t read a web page like they do a book. They scan in an F shape across the page from top left down to the bottom. You have to sculpt your page and content to take advantage of this. Have your important text in line with one of the lines of the ‘F’ and your readers will take note of it.

Following these rules will make your website work for your most important critics. Not your client, but their audience.

There is no denying that having a blog is a good way of promoting your website and a way of regularly adding new content. All have something to say, however useful, but with so many, they are all too easy to forget. While the quality of your content will influence the popularity of any blog, the site design will have a greater influence on whether anybody remembers you or not.

With an internet full of blogs, how can you make yours stand out from the crowd?

1. Take one design feature and wring the life out of it. When you have the basic structure of your blog sorted and an overall design, take on element of that design and maximize it. Make it the focal point of the design and as eye catching and memorable as you can.

2. Further to this, make your blog design unique. It is tempting to just buy a template or even worse, download a free one off the net. Try not to if you can avoid it, as you will be joining one of potentially thousands with the exact same theme. If you do buy a mass market one, then try and optimize it for you own needs. Change the color, design element or whatever you need to do to make it your own.

3. Increase the functionality of the design. A blog is not only a portfolio for your work but an interface between you and your audience. There are plenty of plugins for Wordpress or Joomla that can add instant functionality and cool tools for your audience to play with. If you use other platforms then you can code something if you have the skills, and buy it if you don’t.

4. Pay attention to the boring bits. Footers are often overlooked by web designers, but are an excellent opportunity for you to make your site stand out from the crowd. Admittedly there isn’t a great deal you can do with them, but pay them some attention and come up with something special to make the site really stand out.

5. Be different. This is the one thing that encapsulates all others. In a sea of ordinary, makes yours the one extra ordinary. Stand out from the crown and do something different. Originality is one thing that everybody seeks, but few find. This can be through use of color, design, layout or whatever. As long as the site works as it is supposed to, play with it and do something to set yourself apart from the crowd. However, don’t do something different just for the sake of it as you will compromise your design. Try to keep the differences positive ones, because they will generate positive responses.

Following any or all of these tips will get you well on your way to popularity if not notoriety. Making your blog original as well as readable is the only way to make your site memorable and unforgettable.

There are two type of Search Engine Optimization. On page and off page. Off page optimization is anything done separate from the site, i.e. article pr, social networking, linking and directory submissions. On page is where you refine your website to make the most of the advantages SEO can offer.

Title optimization is the most important element of on page optimization. It should be short but descriptive. It needs to tell visitors enough about your site as it is the first thing that is shown in the search engines. It should include your or your business name and few targeted keywords.

Next is meta tag optimization. Although these are nowhere near as important as they used to be, they take such little effort to do, it’s worth the effort. The meta description should contain your USP straight away. The USP is your Unique Selling Point. What makes you or your business different from the others. What kind of speciality do you offer and market yourself as offering. Whatever it is, include it here with a clever scattering of keywords. Depending on the type of business you are running, there is a school of thought that says it is useful to add your phone number in the description. The belief is that visitors who see a phone number in the SERP are more confident in the legitimacy of the site and the business itself.

HTML tags are another page element that need a little SEO attention. Your headers are considered important by Google at least. H1 tags should be used to define the site’s title or heading. H2 and H3 are used for sub titles, headings, post titles and other important sections of the site. Separating page content with headers enhances human readability as well as search engine.

Keyword optimization is the most used phrase of any SEO conversation. This takes some thought and planning before implementing to get the most out of it. The idea is to create website content that is readable and relevant while being populated with your target keywords. There are plenty of tools on the internet that can help you with keyword selection, but only good judgement or a good copywriter can weave them into your website copy so they don’t stand out.

It is important to not overdo the keywords. Even if you can create good quality content to hide them in, the search engines are believed to penalize website they think are ‘keyword stuffing’, i.e. just adding keywords to spoof the search engine.

Alt text is another important facet of any website. The search engine spiders can only read text. They simply don’t see images or video. So even if your site is content rich and is always updated, if you don’t add text to your media it won’t do you any good. Alt text is a method of describing the media on your web page. This does two things, one it tells any visitors that something relevant is missing of something happens to the media and two, the spiders can read it.

This is by no means an exhaustive analysis of on page optimization, there simply isn’t enough room to go through it all. It should be enough to give you a basic idea of how it all works, and encourage you to read further.

iPhone 3G S Pictures and Details

Sit the 3G next to a 3GS and would won’t notice a single difference. They are the same shape, the same size and the same color. It’s a good job they have improved the insides then! The only external different is the wording on the back is now metallic, like the Apple logo.

There has been a radical improvement internally, and there needed to be to justify spending more money on the newest toy from Apple. The processor has been replaced for a faster version, the old 412Mhz unit has a 600Mhz clock to drive it. Memory has also been increased from 128Mb to 256Mb and a new graphics processor ensures the visuals work their magic. The whole feel of the phone has changed and tightened up. The menu is quicker and smoother, and even data loading seemed faster. That was a big annoyance for many users the last time round. Any application that needs to access content and data like Contacts or Messaging now work much faster. A very definite improvement in reaction and loading time could be seen from the get go.

Another big but initially unnoticeable change is the screen. First look shows nothing different from the 3g. However there is apparently a new kind of coating on it called an ‘oleophobic coating’. This stuff is highly resistant to grease and oil, and for a touchscreen phone this is a significant step forward. One of my pet hates was having to wipe the screen down after using it to keep it looking nice!

The built in camera has also been improved. You now get a 3 megapixel camera instead of the old 2 megapixel version. Not only that, but it now has autofocus, where you can tap an image on the screen and the camera automatically focuses in on it. Unfortunately this only works with stills, the video camera is still the same as it was. These improvements aren’t going to rock the world, but at least it makes the iPhone camera a little more competitive.

So the hardware has been upgraded a bit. But is that worth spending the extra dollars to upgrade? Not on their own, no.

However, the 3G S release coincides nicely with the release of the iPhone Os 3.0. This is where the real meat of the ‘S’ is. The OS is tidier, cleaner, slicker and quicker than before with plenty of added features. The addition of spotlight was genius and is one of the most talked about features. It allows you to search your iPhone for almost anything AND allows hooks into content on the internet or networks too! If you are a heavy SMS user like me, then being able to search for a particular word or phrase is a dream come true. Although there is still the 200 message limit on the phone so it isn’t all fixed yet.

The other big mover on the OS front is the addition of copy and paste. This has been implemented well and seems quite clever at sorting out what text you want to cut or copy. You can stretch or move the selection as you need then paste away.

The iPhone 3G S isn’t revolutionary. It didn’t need to be, as the 3G had done that already. What it is, is a steady upgrade to an already excellent phone. Apple have listened to the gripes of its users and addressed some if not all their problems. It isn’t worth upgrading from the 3G yet, OS 3.0 isn’t THAT good, but if you are a new iPhone user then the S is definitely worth the extra dollars.

You may have all the visitors in the world coming through your site, but if they don’t stay and buy anything then they are worse than useless. This happens to more sites than you would believe but there are some simple tips to help keep the visitors from just bouncing out.

Teach them something. You may be trying to sell to visitors but dress it up as education and you will keep your customers interested enough to stick around. We have all seen the one pages websites selling ebooks on diet pills or whatever. Mostly we click right through them because they are a blatant sales page and we don’t want to buy. Dress the sale up in some articles on weight loss, or nestle your product within healthy eating recipes or something and you will start doing business.

Keep your site navigation simple. Don’t make the site too deep or complicated. Keeping it as simple and consistent as possible will take away many of the barriers to visitors. There is nothing more frustrating than not being able to find the page you’re looking for. More often than not a visitor will just give up and move on. Don’t assume a visitor will always arrive at you home page either. Recommendations or search results of specific terms will result in visitors arriving from all over the place. Bear this in mind with your site design and ensure navigation is easy from whatever page you happen to be on.

Provide full product descriptions and good images. This may seem like a no brainer but it is essential to give your buyers the fullest possible picture about what they are getting for their money. Describe the product here, don’t sell it. List the benefits by all means, but keep on topic.

Give the customer choice about how to order. Offer online purchasing, phone or mail. Many people are still very sceptical about buying online because of all the stories they hear in the media. Cover that one off by offering telephone sales or ordering by mail. In a similar vein, use every security precaution you can think of and advertise the fact on your site. Use SSL, Thawte or whatever to give your buyers confidence in your operation.

Encourage interaction with your visitors. Employ a blog or forum and encourage user feedback of your product. Sites like Amazon saw a big jump in conversions why they added the customer feedback piece to their pages. This is as good as a testimonial. An example of a real life person telling the world that your product does what you say it can do.

Keep the tone light. When you write your pages, keep it conversational, and if replying to forum posts or blogs keep it the same. Talk to and engage your audience. Avoid geek speak at all costs. Jargon just turns people off, keep the language positive and accessible to all. You don’t want to limit your potential market.

Real estate is a tough business to be in right now but has always been a relatively tough business before the economic troubles. Most real estate agents have embraced the internet as another marketplace, and as over 70% of potential purchases search for their new home on the internet, it’s a good job!

Attracting visitors to a real estate website is a tough undertaking. Competition is fierce for the keywords, content and visitors. The visitors themselves are looking for information, news and advise as well as property, so a limited maintenance program of merely adding new properties has gone by the wayside. To be competitive the website has to have good, up to date content offering the information the audience wants.

The most important thing for any website is to be user friendly. It needs to be clean, attractive, fast and simple. The links needs to be descriptive and easily accessible and the search function needs to be on the very first page.

Content is king. A dangerously overused cliché, but so true. A website has to have good, unique and informative content. As mentioned, it isn’t enough just to update with new listings any more. A blog or news section is the ideal way to keep the content updated and fresh, while offering a service to your visitors. Articles on the area, region, property market, or anything relevant to your cause is also very useful.

If you have spare articles, offer them to other relevant sites in exchange for a link to your site. This is a good way of getting good inbound links without having to go on bended knee to webmasters.

Write about the place you live and/or do business. Offer information for those coming into your area, like schools, commercial districts, main employers and the like. More good quality content for you and your visitors.

Use traditional SEO techniques with regard to keywords, alt text and tags. If you don’t know what you are doing, then employ an expert like the boys at RT Design. If you want to be seen, you need the search engines to see you, and think you are worthwhile listing.

If you have the time, add a forum to your website. This is a great way of engaging with your audience and place yourself as a subject matter expert or authority figure. Answering forum questions can build loyalty and that is worth money.

Offering a weekly newsletter is also an excellent way of promoting your site. Including things like new listings or deal of the week is a way of including content unique to each edition and will keep your audience reading it regularly.

In essence a real estate website should be alive and constantly evolving. It should be easy to use and offers something for every visitor especially value-add things like the news, and area information. Having constant, relevant updates to the site will also help your search results and therefore your bottom line.

Whenever anybody mentions Search Engine Optimization, our thoughts automatically go to Google. Seeing as it is the world’s search engine of choice it isn’t difficult to see why. The field is always shifting, and moves at quite a pace. It’s a full time job for us to keep up with the changes and incorporate them into our strategies.

Now Microsoft have entered the fray with Bing, and going after Google with a vengeance, what does this mean for SEO?

One the surface it doesn’t mean a great deal. Although very different beasts, Bing uses a similar algorithm to Google. Both systems are quite different, and will produce different results, the rules are much the same.

Both engines like quality linkage and good content. They both have sophisticated spam filters and won’t tolerate rubbish. In fact the MSNBot crawler is pretty much the same as the one used in Live Search. It has had a few upgrades as you would expect, but it is pretty much the same.

As the specific mechanics of search engines are a closely guarded secret, leaks and reverse engineering are the main tools of the optimizers. The release of Bing has divided the web community with one side saying that there are no fundamental changes to the way page rank is calculated, so no need to change the approach, and the other saying that the differences are such that they need much more investigation to understand properly.

So far the main differences have been seen with the presentation of search results. Specifically with the left side of the screen and the addition of categories. This just seems like an extension of your search at first glance, but digging deeper finds that Bing actually sorts results into these categories.

It also automatically removes duplicate returns from the search results. This is something I like the sound of, as each result is going to be a different resource and will save lots of time when searching. It should also give users confidence that each result is a genuine and discrete one, rather than different versions, or pages of the same site.

As new and as shiny as Bing may be, it only have a tiny amount of market share. Google is still the giant among men and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change very soon. So the question now becomes, ‘if Bing needs extra SEO strategies is the return on investment worth it?’

The answer is going to come down to how much extra work will be involved to optimize a site for both search engines. If it isn’t that much and all we need to do is add broader terms to compete on then it isn’t too much of an effort to factor Bing in to your strategy. If however there is more to it than that, until the market share increases significantly, I don’t think the extra effort is worth it just yet.

Any web site owner should know that site promotion is a time consuming as ongoing task. You could have the best website in the world, but if nobody knows it’s there, it might as well not be.

Most of us are well aware that to get high rankings in searches a website must have lots of good inbound links. The adverts you see for companies who will add your page to hundreds of search engines or provide you with lots of inbound links are a waste of money. The point here is quality inbound links. There is no real point in my technology website having inbound links from Chinese sports shoe websites, or incoming links for diet pills. They won’t count and just wastes time. You need links that are relevant to your site content.

Social bookmarking is a relatively new phenomenon which a few web savvy people are now latching on to. These are sites where users can store useful or interesting bookmarks and share them with friends. Other people can then view them by searching or stumbling upon them. Used correctly these site have the potential to send hundred or thousand of new visitors to your site over time.

This can fit into your existing promotion strategy as it doesn’t need much special treatment. Keep creating original and interesting content for your audience and start publishing them to the social bookmarking sites. If you articles are found to be interesting then people will link to them, and then to you if you keep up the good work.

It works exactly the same way as social networking. The more interesting you are, the more people will want to read your stuff. The more stuff you put out there, the wider the spread of readers. As they link to you, some will inevitably share the link with friends and on it goes. Google assesses a websites importance by how many links you have. This is where the quality inbound links come in. Google counts each relevant link as a ‘vote’ for your site, so the more you have, the more important the engine thinks you are. The more important it thinks you are, the higher in the search results you go.

Keep the content of a good quality, and research and use keywords as you would normally. Always have a link back to your site on every piece you publish and don’t spam. Don’t get tempted to employ a cheap agency to create your content for you, it invariably doesn’t work. Do it yourself and you know the content is good, and your keywords are in there.

The only extra thing you need to do to cater for the social bookmarking crowd is add bookmark buttons to each page you write. This will make it as easy as possible for your users to spread the word about you.

This is a powerful way of creating links back to your site, in what is an ongoing battle between your website and millions of others.

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List of 125+ Social Bookmarking & News Sites

1. Backflip : Backflip is a free service currently being run by volunteers. Backflip was started in 1999 by Netscape veterans Tim Hickman and Chris Misner. As a research tool, Backflip is clearly of value to the education community, and that community (or at least certain segments) has certainly embraced Backflip. A Google search of sites that contain the term “Backflip.com” results in numerous education-related links, including Teacher Tools.
2. barksbookmarks : BARKS=BookmARKS is a website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.
3. BibSonomy :BibSonomy is run by the Knowledge Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany. Its specifically designed for researchers, in sharing bookmarks and bibliographies
4. Blinklist :A social bookmarking site launched by Mindvalley. According to their site, they launch several web businesses a year and are focused in 3 areas. - Technology, media and Marketing. BlinkList does have a user friendly interface indicating that its being run well and efficiently. They also quote “fully profitable” on their site. Furthermore, you can label and comment about any web page on the Internet.
5. Blipoo :Meet Blipoo, a social bookmarking site for “cool” people sharing “cool” stories. It claims to help bloggers drive more traffic to their blog because they allow self promotion..
6. BlogBookMark : Designed specifically for Blog hunters, BlogBookmark.com claims to have the hottest news, gossip, and blog chatter from around the web. I highly sugggest that mainstream bloggers bookmark their entires here.
7. BlueDot : This basic social networking service allows users to save and share bookmarks.
8. blurpalicious : Get Blurped! Not too different from other social bookmarks, but I love the tagline.
9. Bmaccess : Social bookmarking with thumbs
10. Bookkit : BookKit.com is an absolutely free web service designed to facilitate bookmark (favorites) management needs.
11. BookMarkAll : Bookmarkall is an online bookmark community where users can create, organize and share their favorite web links online and access them anywhere.
12. Bookmark-manager : Organizer for bookmarks, calendar, diary and knowledge.
13. bookmarktracker : Free online storage, management, synchronizing and RSS sharing of your bookmarks.
14. Bookmax : You can store your bookmarks and links to your favorite sites online and access them from wherever you are : basic Social Bookmarking.
15. Buddymarks : The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.
16. Bukmark : Bukmark is a social bookmarking website.
17. Chipmark :Another basic social bookmarking site.
18. Citeulike : A free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.
19. Claimid : Manage your online identity. Although this is not a normal social bookmarking site, users can bookmark sites which reference their identity and build backlinks in this fashion.
20. Clipclip : Clipclip allows you to save images and text, with a “bookmarklet”.
21. Cloudytags : A unique word analyzer connects to your page, gets all the words and suggest you the real tags your site is showing to the world.
22. Complore : Derived from com-(with,together) and explore-(search, research). As the name suggests, complore is a vision to connect people from diverse backgrounds
23. Connectedy : Lets you establish a personal link directory online. As you surf the web, you collect links, categorize them in a way that makes sense to you.
24. Connotea : Social bookmarking (for researchers).
25. Contentpop : It has the latest Web 2.0 features such as social bookmarking, blogging & RSS. It also uses the word POP in the title which means it must be good.
26. coRank : coRank is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion
27. Crowdfound : CrowdFound is essentially a social bookmarking website, but with a different vision in mind
28. de.lirio.us : Store, share and tag your favourite links. Open source clone of del.icio.us with private bookmarking, tagging, blogging, and notes
29. del.icio.us : THE social bookmarking site : It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links and to categorize those sites with keywords. Not to mention that if enough people save your site in a bookmark, it will make their popular page and send a lot of traffic. Delicious is owned by Yahoo and is a MUST for your social media and bookmarking strategy.
30. Diigo : Social bookmarking on steroids.
31. Digg : The social news site that changed the Internet, Digg is a high power authority and a listing in Digg for a site, even if it only has a couple of votes, will rank highly on Google and other search engines for certain terms. If your site is shared and voted upon on Digg, and makes the Digg homepage, you’ll get a lot of traffic and attention from other bloggers who read Digg.
32. Dropjack : DropJack.com is a social content website and owned by the ExactSeek company.
33. Easybm : Allows users to bookmark their frequently visited sites on their private page, allowing 1-click access to their favorite web sites.
34. Enroll : Social bookmarking system based in India.
35. ez4u : Social Bookmarking - Ez4u to Bookmark : “Ez4u to Organize Ez4u to Share with Others Ez4u to Remember”
36. Favoor : Favoor is your personalized new start page. Collect your favorite internet addresses.
37. Folkd : Folkd is a social web-service about pages, news, audios, videos and blogs.
38. Freelink : Freelink.org provides free pages of links that you can access anywhere at anytime.
39. Freezilla : FreeZilla claims to be the first Web 2.0 freebies and promotions social networking site.
40. Fungow : Fungow was designed to help better organize and keep track of your bookmarks.
41. Furl : Like Delicious, LookSmart’s Furl.net is one of the first social bookmarking sites and considered an authority by the major search engines. Listing your sites in Furl will lead to traffic from organic rankings and its popular page drives traffic.
42. Gather : Gather is a place to contribute articles and content, blog, tag and connect with people who share your passions. (Plus you can link out from the articles in this authority site).
43. Getboo : GetBoo.com is yet another free online bookmarking service which allows you to store, edit and retrieve your bookmarks from anywhere online.
44. Google : Allows users to save and create bookmarks in their Google toolbar that can be accessed anywhere online. Google is getting more social by the day, so take advantage of their Google Bookamrks and citations, because one day they probably will have some kind of influence on external meta data considered by the Google ranking algortihm.
45. Hanzoweb : Hanzoweb - Bookmark, tag & share knowledge online
46. Hyperlinkomatic : Hyperlinkomatic - bookmark list manager.
47. i89.us : i89.us offers a free service which allows you to save your favorite website/links at one location that can be accessed from anywhere.
48. Icio : Danish Bookmarking engine.
49. Ikeepbookmarks : Popup feature allows you to add links while surfing the web
50. Iloggo : Simple web based bookmarking tool that you can use for attractively displaying your favorite websites on one page.
51. Jigg : Jigg.in is a socializing community with the latest stories / news submitted by users and has a familiar name
52. Kaboodle : Kaboodle is a 2.0 shopping community where people recommend and discover new things.
53. Kinja : Kinja is a blog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web.
54. Lifelogger : “LifeLogger is a great way to keep things that matter to you alive and sparkling.” And worth considering in a bookmarking campaign.
55. Lilsto : Lilisto lets you store, manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to maintain them through your browser.
56. Linkagogo : Favorites and Social Bookmarking Application, its unique dynamic toolbars automatically adapt themselves.
57. Linkarena : German Social Bookmarking site.
58. Linksnarf : Social link sharing with groups of friends.
59. Listerlister :ListerLister is a social list building community where you can create, add to, and vote for both lists and the items added to them.
60. Ma.gnolia.com : Like Furl and Delicious, anoter major bookmarking site which lets users organize bookmarks, search other people’s favorites and make friends and contacts.
61. Markaboo : MarkaBoo is tool for saving websites, files, and notes from your browser, email or mobile phone.
62. Marktd : Marktd is a reference & voting system that highlights marketing articles considered valuable by the marketing community.
63. Memfrag : memFrag stores your favorites personal notes, making them globally accessible from any computer.
64. Memotoo :Lets users centralize and share your personal data.
65. Mister Wong : Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site that originated in Germany, and has since become a popular and widespread tool.
66. Mixx : An up and coming bookmarking and social news sharing network which should rival Digg, Reddit and others, Mixx blends popular photos, videos and stories.
67. Mobleo : Allows you to easily add, organize, and share your mobile phone bookmarks with your friends using your desktop computer.
68. Multiply :Florida-based social network Multiply, which reports nearly 3 million users and $6 million in funding,opened its social bookmarking site recently and has done well. Definite authority
69. Murl : My URLs is a free online bookmarks manager, think of it as a bookmarks community.
70. MyBookmarks : MyBookmarks - access your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Free productivity tool for business, student or personal use. Another popular bookmarking site.
71. Myhq : Store your bookmarks in one central location. Fast, text-based, banner free!
72. MyLinkVault : A free online bookmark manager. Other bookmark managers can be so clumsy to use - trying to rearrange your bookmarks can be slow and frustrating.
73. mySiteVote : mySiteVote is a community where you can vote your favorite site/s and view how popular a site is.
74. MyWebDesktop : A collaboration and communication tool, designed to be as generic and easy to use as a telephone and email.
75. Newsvine : The mission of Newsvine is to bring together big and little media in a way which respects established journalism
76. Newsweight :NewsWeight is a democratic news, information, and entertainment resource.
77. Oyax : Oyax is a social bookmark manager which allows users to easily add sites you like to personal collection of links, categorize those sites with keywords.
78. Philoi : Person-to-person link sharing community. Save bookmarks and share links with your friends.
79. PlugIM : PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page
80. Propeller : Formaly known as Netscape, AOL’s Propeller has become a great social bookmarking news community tool which is considered an ultimate authority by Yahoo Search and passes link juice in its news story profiles. Propeller is also going to redesign very soon, which should be quite exciting.
81. QuickieClick : QuickieClick is a second generation social bookmarking website with a visual twist.
82. Rambhai : An Indian social bookmarking community
83. RawSugar : A social search engine powered by user contributions. Its an online community, with over 130,000 URLs already tagged by their members.
84. Reddit : Timely and shocking news oriented, Reddit stories are instantly voted upon and if liked by the community as a whole, can drive incredible traffic and users.
85. Searchles : Owned by the DumbFind search engine, in my opinion Searchles is a much overlooked bookmarking tool and loved by Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines with its passing of link juice and high rankings for terms within search results themselves. Do not overlook Searchles.
86. Segnalo : Italian Social bookmarking site.
87. Simpy [late addition]: Social bookmarking & search, Simpy lets users “save, tag, search and share bookmarks, notes, groups and more.”
88. Sitebar : A solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them
89. Sitejot :Free online bookmark manager. Like every other social bookmarking site, it allows users to manage all of their bookmarks online in one convenient place.
90. Sk*rt : sk*rt is a social media ranking platform of “pure goodness”, targeted towards women. Given the right story, Sk*rt can send A LOT of targeted traffic.
91. Slashdot : The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
92. SocialDanger : SocialDanger is a Web 2.0 open source content management system.
93. Socialogs : A Digg-like Social Bookmarking Service.
94. Sphinn : Very popular search marketing oriented social news and discussion site run via the Pligg system.
95. Spotback : Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering
96. Spurl : Another cherished bookmarking and tagging site, Spurl lets users keep online bookmarks & tags while offering full text searching, recommendations & storing of entire documents.
97. Squidoo :Kind of spammed out, Squidoo is a 2.0 property which lets people and businesses set up a ‘lens’ which lists links, tags and relevant RSS feeds to different subjects.
98. Startaid : I’ve noticed that StartAid bookmark pages rank highly in Google and other search engines. This basic bookmarking service allows users to describe, tag and categorize sites.
99. StumbleUpon : Owned by eBay, StumbleUpon is an amazing blend of social bookmarking, voting, networking, web surfing, search and blogging. Best of all, StumbleUpon can send major traffic with its userbase of around 3 million users.
100. Stylehive : The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community
101. Syncone : SyncOne is an Internet aggregator of bookmarking and browsing.
102. Tagfacts : Basic bookmarking and tagging, a social knowledge base.
103. Taggly : Store, share and tag your favorite links.
104. Tagne : TagNe.ws is user-submitted, community voted links and resources related to SEO, Blogging, RSS, Tagging, Internet Marketing and more.
105. Tagtooga : Says that this bookmarking engine can be used to discover great sites difficult to find in Google/Yahoo by browsing categories.
106. Tagza : A very young Social Bookmarking site mostly being used by Indian and Pakistani web masters.
107. Technorati : Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section.
108. Tedigo : Personal and social bookmarking in Spanish and English made simple.
109. Thinkpocket : Lets users pocket websites you find valuable. It is a web service that aims to help store, organize and share your favorite sites
110. Thoof : Thoof is a user generated news and information service that claims to learn about what users are interested in and delivers news that they care about.
111. Totalpad : TotalPad is a new online news and article community where people are free to voice their opinions
112. Urlex : With URLex system users are able to leave a comment regarding any internet link on any site. Possibly good for linking
113. Uvouch : Another basic social bookmarking site, users can save their findings with one click, at one place and access it from anywhere.
114. Vmark : An online bookmark and online favorites manager.
115. Voteboat : VoteBoat is a user-controlled rating and voting site.
116. Votelists : VoteLists lets users create a list of rankable items. Other can add items, comment on them, rate them and more!
117. Vuju : Vuju allows user to submit/publish content which can be tagged and promoted.
118. WeTogether : Social bookmarking site where people will have great opportunities to promote their own sites.
119. Whitelinks : Securely store and quickly access favorite websites whenever connected to the Internet,:
120. Wink : A social search engine where users can share results and answer questions. Users build profiles which can link out to bookmark pages or other web sites (hint hint).:
121. Wirefan : Social bookmarking, news articles submission site.:
122. Xilinus : Organize and manage bookmarks online.:
123. Xlmark : xlmark is an easy social bookmarking site:
124. Yahoo! Bookmarks: The MOST POPULAR social search and bookmarking service on the web. It’s similar to Delicious and something they launched before acquiring Delicious. Yahoo Bookmarks lets users store bookmarks using their Yahoo Toolbar and access them from any computer.
125. Yattle: Bookmark Management and Mini-Blogging Service.
126. Zlitt: Zlitt is a social bookmarking system which gives users the opportunity to share and tag favorite news, images and videos.
127. Zurpy: Saves bookmarks, text clippings, images, files, and news feeds in one place.

Do you have any suggestions of other social bookmarking sites? Please feel free to add them in the comments below.

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