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Social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Mixx, and Furl can greatly contribute to the success of your blog or website by giving your articles priceless exposures, and page ranks. These sites are gold mines, imagine having your articles promoted to millions of users. No wonder social bookmarking sites are also being abused by some users, and a must-target by spammers.
If we want long term success in social bookmarking sites, perhaps we should think about the success of the bookmarking site first. How can we be successful if the bookmarking site we are in starts to go down?
Here are some ways to contribute to their success:
Submit Quality Contents
- Content is the bread and butter, the heart and soul of all social bookmarking sites. People visit popular bookmarking sites for its content. Submitting quality articles, photos, and videos will help the bookmarking sites’ growth.
Be Courteous
- Remember that social bookmarking sites is a community. There are different demographics in different sites. As a citizen of whichever bookmarking site, please be courteous towards other bookmarkers especially to new ones. You are representing a community, you don’t want your community to be reputed as rude, hostile, or vulgar.
Be A Responsible Bookmarker
- Keep your profile clean by having decent avatar, articles tagged well, and putting everything in the right categories/groups’ niches. These help bookmarking sites to look cleaner and have better navigation.
Quality Over Quantity
- It is better to submit 1 to 5 quality contents a day than 20 to 30 poor contents. Bookmarking sites should deliver quality contents to the readers, thus poor quality contents can clutter around the bookmarking sites which can cost its credibility.
Moderate Thumbs-Up/Up-Vote/Digg Exchanges
- If you are in a social bookmarking site, I presume that your are familiar with these exchanges. Some bookmarkers ask for exchange of thumbs-up/up-vote/digg to further promote the articles they have submitted. I stand that this is NOT wrong as long as you moderate exchanges with quality and worthy articles only.
Interact
- Social bookmarking is not all about submissions and bookmarkings. It’s also about participating and interacting with other bookmarkers. One way we can help bookmarking sites to deliver quality contents efficiently is by voting and commenting.
Limit Self Promotion (For Bloggers)
- Yes, social bookmarking sites is a great way to promote your articles and generate steady traffics. But that doesn’t mean that you’ll only be submitting contents from your site. Limit self promotion, perhaps submit 1 quality content from your site for every 10 contents you submit from other sites (1:10). Promote excellent contents from other sites, it brings good karma.
Bookmarking sites are very essential to bloggers and readers alike. Thus the success of every bookmarking site is celebrated by both parties. We are all important building blocks of these sites, so let us work together for the success of social bookmarking sites — and let’s be successful as well.
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