SUBMIT 2.0

Social bookmarking services have created new opportunities for their users to properly organize their online information and resources from any part of the globe and from different browsers as well. For website owners, it is an opportunity to improve page ranks through the one-way backlinks created by these submissions. The big name search engines attach a great value in the backlinks associated with social bookmarking submissions. Search engine optimizers know this and so have tried to skew it to their advantage.

The idea behind social bookmarking submission is that internet users should organize their own collection of the World Wide Web by selecting those websites that are important and putting them together so they can always come back to them. It is therefore user targeted unlike web directory submission service which is webmaster targeted.

However, webmasters and website owners have also being engaged in social bookmark submission to boost their website ratings. This is not very wrong as long as it is done in a ‘natural’ ways consistent with the practice of these submission services. The problem here is that because of the increasing number of social bookmark submission services, it becomes very tedious and time-consuming to submit to every website. This downside triggered the development of software that allows users to submit to all the over three hundred social bookmarking submission services with just a single click. The software submits your links together with tags and description to all these social sites whiles you simply relax and watch.

This convenience created by software has increased the incidence of spamming on these social media. The result is that social bookmark submission services have now stepped up their tools in preventing spamming by detecting and marking automated submissions as suspicious of spam. Some of them completely reject submissions made through automated software processes.

The limitation of the use of software is that all the social media sites do not have the same requirement and guidelines in submitting bookmarks but the software cannot differentiate the submissions and consequently your submission will be rejected. Moreover, they usually have plug-ins that gets users to vote on the relevance and quality of submission. If your submissions are frequently voted negative, your website may be blocked from further submissions.

The ideal option is that deliver your submissions manually and you will instantly be aware whether your submission was accepted or refused. If refused, use the feedback to make the necessary changes and resubmit. Consequently, you can outsource your social bookmark submissions to third parties as long as you are sure they will be doing it manually.

Filed under: Social Bookmarking