Worst Case Scenario On Social Bookmarking

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.

Richard Butler is a trained Practioner of NLP, certified by Dr Richard Bandler and a qualified Life and Business Coach. He had worked with clients from the four corners of the globe.