Social bookmarking has become extremely important because it is an easier way to get real hits on your articles and media. You are driving traffic to your work and doing so in a way that is non-invasive and non-intrusive. Instead of trying to get friends and family to go there, people you may never have met are seeing your articles and media and going there by choice. Again, you are also creating link rings by placing bookmarks on multiple sites, so that when someone does a search online for a topic you have written on, there is a better chance that it will be found. Also, it is free. You are not spending any more money to create revenue to your articles, setting up a site or paying for promotion. You are doing it all yourself and have control of where your articles and media are and who sees them. The more sites you use, the more traffic you receive. Going through other users profiles as well is a great way to connect with people who have common interests and are more likely to go to your articles, read them and click on the links. Social bookmarking has become very similar to social networking, because again you are networking with other people who have common interests and goals as yourself. Who may want to read what you have written or will tell someone else about it. Because that is the other part of social bookmarking, people who like your articles can rate them on the site they are on as well as on the social bookmarking site. The more clicks and hits, again the higher in ranking that they go.