It’s a very good idea to integrate the use of social bookmarking sites into your daily online activities. Build up your profile of links in your bookmarks at each of the social sites you choose to use and make sure that you are having some methodical approach in doing this.
It’s a bad idea to see these sites as nothing more than a place to submit all your own content for the sole purpose of getting traffic for you. This is the wrong approach. Treating these sites selfishly will not develop traffic for you over the long term; People are going to see what you do at these sites, they are going to notice you and the sites you have bookmarked. If all they see is a list of sites and pages authored by you, they will probably see you as a selfish soul, and they will probably be right. With this kind of tunnel vision you will never be able to leverage the real benefits of using Social
Bookmarking Sites Effectively
Social sites are primarily about being social and making contact with people into the same things as you. Social Bookmarking sites are no different. The pages you bookmark say a lot about your personality and the system tries to hook you up with other content and ultimately people you would be interested in.
You need to present yourself as a well-rounded authority by bookmarking informative content from all over the place, from many different authors and many different web sites. Not just your own links, socializing is about interaction. Others will appreciate you bookmarking and interacting with their content, relationships can develop. And in the long run, it is the long-term relationships you develop that you want.
That said, you should submit every piece of UNIQUE content you publish anywhere on the Internet. There is nothing wrong with bookmarking your own links, as long as that is not all you do. I know a lot of the people reading this will be submitting the same article to several different directories and I see nothing wrong with that. However, don’t simply bookmark the same content on different sites at the same social bookmarking venues as this will simply give you duplicate content penalties.
There is nothing wrong with submitting the same content to lots of different Social Bookmarking sites, but there is something really wrong with submitting the same content to the same site time and time again, even if it’s on different article directories.
A note about submitting the same content to several different sites: Yes, you can do it, yes there is software available to make this easy for you and of course you’ll get more traffic if you submit to more sites. There is a major key note to jot down if this is your method of bookmarking operation.
Using such automated services does tend to make you more inclined to be selfish with your bookmarking and only put the effort required into your own links. All these services do take some time and effort, no matter how easy they tell you it is on the tin, it’s not as simple as clicking the browser at one site and moving on. Bookmarking at several sites will always be harder than bookmarking at just the one you really use.
