Worst Case Scenario On Social Bookmarking Articles | Entrepreneur

By: Richard Butler

Recently I heard some people say that bookmarking your own site is the worst thing
you could ever do to your site. If social bookmarking has been a trend to generate
backlinks, I guess this can be a great damage to ones website.

Here is what most people do:

1.) They subscribe to as many bookmarking sites as possible.
2.) Then after subscription, they try to bookmark every page of their websites or every
    new post on their blogs.
3.) They try to create as many new pages so that they can bookmark more, thus having
    more backlinks.

It may seem valuable but in the end it's not. Yes, you can have many backlinks from
social bookmarks on the other hand, it consumes more of your time. Instead  of thinking
and planning, you do bookmarking. Try conducting a search on social bookmarking issues
and there you will learn that many websites had been banned on social sites because
of spamming.

You know why? People tend to bookmark any information from their website although
its not valuable. Normally, they write a few sentence or a phrase to build the webpage
to be bookmarked, though the truth is, the content is worthless.

To give you good explanation about social bookmarks, it is not intended for personal usage.
It was created so that you can inform people about a certain site you visited which exceeds
your satisfaction and expectation that's why you are making it popular online through
social sites. Unfortunately, people are bookmarking their own websites to gain traffic.
In short, it defeats the real purpose why social sites exist.


The point here is, let bookmarking sites function as planned, not as a spamming tool.
In case, you want to promote your website on social sites, just make sure that it is worthy
for peoples viewing. Don't ever use it to advertise. Use it to inform people about things they
 should probably learn from.

Again, social bookmarking sites are not spamming tools. It was intended like a search engine.