Pinterest is a visual image (and video) Social Bookmarking site. You can consider it an online pin-board or album, where people “pin” things they like and want to share with people to enjoy. But there is also a very interesting branding and traffic source aspect to this place.

We sometimes do not even realise how the internet revolution has taken over our otherwise mundane existence. The world has now shrunk to be a truly global village and it is true that communication does not have anything to do with where the people are situated. One of the major advantage of internet is that people have taken to spreading their ideas across the world, be it through blogs or other social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter, to name a few.

Social bookmarking is an online application used to search, store, organize and manage resources bookmarks on the internet. It can also be termed as the process of tagging given sites and subsequently using them for reference on a later time. Therefore, by using social bookmarking services, users are able to save links of the web pages that they may later want to use or share.

A Social bookmark service is an effective tool for submitting your content to a number of public social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Delicious and Stumbleupon. Once your sites’ URL is listed on a Social bookmarking site, it is available to the public to view and to follow.