One easy and effective method of building links to your site, promoting your services online and generating traffic is using social book marking sites.
These types of sites allow you to create a profile and compile lists of your favorite web sites with comments and reviews.
Popular social book marking sites include, Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Fark, Friendfeed, Newsvine, Propeller and many others.
Simply conduct a search for "social bookmarks" and you will find lists of many others.
A few of the most important elements of your posts to these sites are the headline, description and category.
Write a compelling and catchy headline for your submissions, something that will help it stand out from the crowd.
Instead of "How to save money on a car purchase" try something like.
"Why settle for that broken down clunker?" Write a thoughtful description of whatever it is you're book-marking.
Many people make the mistake of writing a simple one line description.
The description is a great place to use search friendly keywords and you should be using this to you're advantage.
Choose the right categories for your book-marks.
Spend a bit of time determining which categories on a social book-marking site receive the most interest and posts.
You could be missing a boost in traffic by simply selecting the wrong category to place your bookmarks.
I suggest that you start out with one or two of these sites and get used to using them.
Familiarize yourself with the site's guidelines and terms and conditions and avoid spamming these sites with useless advertising.
Instead, use these sites to help build your network, position yourself as a source of valuable content and news.
Find information that relates to your industry or niche and write reviews about the sites that you find most valuable.
That's not say that you can't promote your own work, you certainly can and should, just remember to offer more than just self promotion.