People bookmark more when you tell them to do so.

"Click here to bookmark"

[fischermx]

I always thought that those pages that has a link to "make this your homepage" or "click here to bookmark" were just tacky. I though, "well, I don't need nobody to tell me, I'll do it if I want, not because there's a link" .... however ...however, I added such links to my websites a month ago.

According to my stats, I'm getting by now about 10% of returning visitors and according to the entry pages, I see they are bookmarks since they landed on inner, even parameterized pages.
So, I'd recommend to go ahead and if you have space in the header adding such links to either bookmark or make it home page, really works.

[ronburk]

According to my stats, I'm getting by now about 10% of returning visitors and according to the entry pages, I see they are bookmarks since they landed on inner, even parameterized pages.

Or maybe much more -- how can you identify people as returning visitors if they have cookies disabled (or clipped by the corporate firewall)?

Or maybe much less -- how did you distinguish returning visitors arriving via a bookmark on an inner page from returning visitors who happen to refuse to transmit a Referer: header (e.g., people using client software that lets them control that, or security software that clips it for them)?