Social Bookmarking Do's and Don'ts

I have written some articles on Social Bookmarking that might be of interest to DP members. I have a long version that has been submitted to article directories and am posting the short one from my site below This info highlights my research on social bookmarking as well as things I have put in to practice in my own social bookmarking efforts.


Social bookmarking sites are a wonderful way to promote web sites, blogs, and affiliate marketing programs--if you go about it the right way. Here are some do's and don'ts that will help you make the most of the experience:

Social Bookmarking Do's

Do find a social bookmarking site that has users who will be interested in the types of affiliate marketing programs, blog, and web site that you want to promote.Do read the site rules. If you don't go by the book, you will most likely be banned. Do tag your web site, blog, and other web presences so people can find you and your submissions in the site's search engine Do network with other bookmarking users. You will get more traffic to your blogsand web sites and make more money through your affiliate marketing programs if you have friends to help promote your submissions. Do encourage the people who visit your web site and blog to bookmark them.

Social Bookmarking Don'ts

Don't promote your affiliate marketing programs too directly. Sales copy is considered spam on some bookmarking sites. Don't create multiple accounts from the same computer so you can vote repeatedly for your submissions on bookmarking sites. You could get banned. Don't expect to get visibility on the home page every time you make a submission to a social bookmarking site. Nobody is that lucky.

Don't be afraid to submit and bookmark content from other blogs and web sites. Don't forget to promote your blogs and affiliate marketing programs on your web site. Marketing through bookmarking will get traffic to your site, but it is your responsibility to turn that traffic into paying customers. Don't forget to put

Let me know you thoughts on this.

Cliff

 

Cliff: Thanks for sharing the dos and don'ts. It's very difficult to convert social bookmarking traffic to paying customers. Most of the times 'free, interesting, controversial' topic gets a lot of traffic. Social bookmarking can get your internal stories to rank for 'no competition' keywords quickly

 

Great information to share. I cleared some of my doubts through your explanation.

 

Thanks. Nice post. Wish you could share more as I always have difficulty in turning Social Bookmarking efforts to real traffic.

 

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I appreciate it and try to do following to get the best result!

 

great information.keep up the good work

 

Also don't post too much of your content in Digg, Buzz etc. Similar title tags and first paragraphs had my own yahoo buzz listing outranking me.

 

thanks,

Now that i think about i remember few links of mine were deleted, not that it was spam but i can now assume
the reason is the terms of use of the social bookmarking website that I DID NOT READ.

thanks for the post!

 

thanks, nice Do's and dont's ..
would be nice to share more...

 

I think social bookmarking is a link building strategy that is important if done correctly but it is not high quality traffic in all cases. for instance if your site is about painting apartments in vancouver washington that social bookmark sites will not get you too much quality traffic. But, it may give you some good links as part of a strategy

 

Thanks for the advice!

 

Good tips - thanks for posting them!

 

Yes, these are very good points. Thank you for this great post.