In order for social bookmarking to be effective in driving traffic to the articles and blogs that you post online, you need to make sure that you’re using tag-worthy content that is going to be seen favorably by the social bookmarking community. This is easier said than done; you need to maintain a balance between providing the right tags to get your content picked up by search engines and still providing the right tags for the social bookmarking site that you’re using. And throughout all of this, you need to make sure that your blogs and articles are still reader-friendly and don’t sound like you tried too hard to get the right tags. It’s a tricky business, but if you want social bookmarking to work for you, it’s a business worth getting to know.
Social bookmarking can also be susceptible to corruption and collusion.Due to its popularity, some people have started considering it as a tool to use along with search engine optimization to make their website more visible. The more often a web page is submitted and tagged, the better chance it has of being found. Spammers have started bookmarking the same web page multiple times and/or tagging each page of their web site using a lot of popular tags, obliging developers to constantly adjust their security system to overcome abuses.
Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.
It can be extremely tempting to use automated forms to submit your website or blog to social bookmarking sites. After all, it saves you a lot of time and hassle. In fact, there are companies that you can pay to make automatic social bookmarking site submissions for you so that you don’t have to spend any time on the effort at all. There are even sites and software that allow you to press a button and instantaneously submit your articles to dozens of social bookmarking sites. It is very tempting to use these services. Posting to social bookmarking sites is a very tedious, time consuming task. It can take hours every day to perform a successful social bookmarking campaign. However, you will have a much better result if you submit your articles by hand. In fact, I think that it is crucial to always engage in manual submissions on the popular social bookmarking sites. I will discuss this further on in the article.