This post is guest blogged by Heather Johnson who is a contributor at Business Credit Cards.

Looking for a place besides Digg and del.icio.us to promote your online work? Let’s face it – the aforementioned sites can occasionally move some serious traffic through your site, but only with the help of power users. If you’re a social media newcomer, you’re pretty much dead in the water on those sites. Rather than crying about it, you should try out the following social bookmarking sites:

1. StumbleUpon – Offering a longer tail of traffic than Digg or del.icio.us, StumbleUpon is a fun tool to use even when you aren’t trying to market something.

2. Propeller – Propeller can offer decent traffic and is a voter-based news item aggregator, not unlike Digg. High profile Propeller users include Wil Wheaton.

3. Slashdot - If you have some “news for nerds” that you think would be of interest to the Slashdot crowd, then it would be a boon to your site to get mentioned on this site’s front page.

4. BlinkList – Still in Beta, this is a fun bookmarking site offers a convenient browser button, not unlike StumbleUpon.

5. Netvouz – This no frills layout will remind you of del.icio.us and it is growing in popularity.

6. Clipmarks - Clipmarks is a fun twist on social bookmarking, as it asks people to “clip” the most important part of a Webpage and add it to the site.

7. Furl – Another no-nonsense bookmarking site, Furl intends to simplify your bookmarking as much as possible.

8. DZone – This is a link-sharing site that is specifically geared to Web developers. As you can imagine, there is a lot of interesting Web 2.0 things to be found here.

Using social media to market your projects is a necessary evil and it’s very time consuming – especially if you are a member of many different sites. Spreading yourself too thin isn’t a good idea, so don’t join every social bookmarking site that comes along. Instead, focus on a general site or two, plus any sites that are specific to your niche. Before long, that traffic will start snowballing and social media sites will become part of your daily routine.

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