Update: This sponsorship program is starting to take off! In the interest of making this as BIG as possible for all involved, I will be accepting sponsors for TWO weeks instead of one, then running the actual contest for two weeks instead of three.

All you generous people, step on up; it all leads to more EXPOSURE for YOU!

Also, be sure to check out the extra tasty bonus below and start pimpin this page.

Just to be extra clear - this is not the contest, I’m just looking for sponsors for the next week.

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From December 8th 15th through the 31st I’m going to be holding a special blog contest; one that should get plenty of exposure . It will be paid out the first week in January.

Hello everyone, how are ya?

This is not the same as asking about your favorite Social Networking sites. Now I’m asking what your opinion is on the most poplular Social Bookmarking sites are overall.

You see, I’m switching out my ShareThis plugin, for this one.

It has come to my attention (and really should have been obvious), that more readers will bookmark a post if it’s easier to do so.

Having to click a link, then push the button, clearly isn’t easiest. Duh me. So I’m going with one that automatically shows the icons (with the option to hide behind a link).

This one is very cool as it comes preloaded with 50 - f i f t y - sites. There also in-lies the problem. As you can see below this post, 50 is clearly too intrusive and unnecessary.

The following guest post is from Andy, who writes for and manages DaBlogger.com. What I like most is the fact that he writes it all from Personal Experience as you will see. This is after all, the best way to write an article when applicable .

In the past few years, I have watched many social bookmarking sites grow and have huge effects on the internet. Many people don’t realize that they can use these sites to promote their own sites and get vast returns. Below are benefits that I have seen these sites have on other websites.

#1 - Instant Traffic
Social bookmarking sites can give your site an instant traffic boost. Getting one link of homepages of digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us or any other bookmarking site can give me huge traffic boosts.

Most traffic will be targeted since your post will be under specific categories and you can attach keywords to your posts.

A big thank you for all that participated in the first Knowledge Link Love round! (Those new here, click the link.)

I think this first one, “What Are Your favorite Social Networks and Why?” went quite well, lots of good knowledge on the subject was shared!

For those that didn’t get in on it yet, feel free! LOTS of juicy link love there for ya (minus this list )

Now onto business, lets take a gander at all the cool people that DID take the time to spread some knowledge…..
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Andrei Buiu from Entrepreneur-Hut shares experiences and links from Twitter, Flickr, and MyBlogLog.

JR @ Internet Marketing Strategies shares experiences and links from Twitter, Stumble Upon and MyBlogLog - she’s on Facebook also, but not entirely sure where that’s headed. She shares some neat info on submission and more.