StumbleUpon.com provides a rather addicting and symbiotic social bookmarking service that you can use to find websites and do some shameless self-promotion as well.  The Stumbleupon toolbar sits out of the way on your browser and whenever you need it, it can entertain you or help your online business with the click of your mouse. It’s a great tool with extensive capabilities. Here’s a glimpse into it:

Stumble Around Cyberspace

The internet is a neverending entertainment zone. You might have several areas of interest you browse and StumbleUpon knows what you want. How? When you set up your profile, you define the types of sites you want to see. It could be blogs, food or health or internet marketing or internet tools or  photography or another area you like to see.

When you hit the Stumble button, it’ll show you sites in your category. You can vote for a thumbs up or a thumbs down and the tool decides whether you’d like to see more of those types of sites (based on the categories in the listing) or not. The more thumbs up, the more often people will be shown that page.

Bookmarking Your Own Posts

Social bookmarking is something that can definitely help you get relevant traffic and search engine positions. When you use this tool to give a thumbs up to your own site, you have a great chance of getting some traffic to your website.  By using relevant tags and categories people who want to see what you have on your site are more likely to see it. They can give it a thumbs up or down as well.

Friends on Stumbleupon

If you follow friends on this tool, you can also see what they like and browse their favourites. They can browse yours as well.  There are some great tools and options worth exploring on this social marketing tool.

In summary, this is one of my favourite tools for bookmarking for myself as well as finding interesting content. Actually, it can be downright addictive!