Social Bookmarking Pitfalls That Can Kill Your Business
The idea of bookmarking certain page or website you have liked and found interesting for further reading and to reduce the labor you face trying to remember your preferred locations has been developed.
Now, almost all online business owners use social bookmarking and social networking websites to promote their business by not only saving interesting pages but also sharing these pages with an endless number of online users who might find it interesting as well and share with other friends and so on…
For all those online entrepreneurs who apply Social Marketing techniques to promote their business, here are some important pitfalls, which they should avoid in order not to cause harm instead of benefits to their business:
1- Social Marketing plans take time to mature; people hates self-promoters or persons who are greedy. Hence you need to have a high degree of patience while committing to such strategy. Keep away from asking people to click your links from your first posts, believe me your business will never still alive for long time.
2- Never indulge into Spam Schemes; it is more than difficult to avoid getting black listed as a Spamer in social bookmarking websites. You will need to established an authoritative status in a community or become a power-user then you will be acceptable to promote and share your business with others.
3- Discover the community; some people register their accounts in social bookmarking communities without knowing the community they are dealing with. They start posting articles about (SEO) and (Google Adsense) in a community that doesn’t has people who can be interested in such topics at all. The most astonishing thing is that they wait for their posts to become popular!
You should always believe that the one community perceives things differently than other communities. Take a look at the site and community before you start, know the rules, know what goes hot and what doesn’t, know what other users find interesting and what they don’t.
4- Don’t Submit while people are sleeping; knowing the times when people are awake surfing the community and submitting during them is very important. Most people surf social sites in the morning or around lunch time during their break at work, so this is the best time to submit your posts and remember that you should always capture people’s attention.
5- Don’t just Submit and Forget; keep observing your posts and be up to date with what is happening every while. Interact with the community, if someone comments on a post then respond back to them whether the comment was positive or negative. Try to start the conversation and make good relationships with other users.
Social bookmarking is a great way to identify different sites on a similar topic. It is now seen as another form of search engine optimization, and good sites try to be highly placed and recommended on social bookmark sites. SO don’t loose such effective weapon in your business promotion battle.
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September 8th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
For a very long time I only used search engines to build my traffic. Then I started hearing about things like DIGG. First I thought who on earth has the time to play around on these type of sites.
It was only when I saw my wife sitting for hours in front of the computer (in the past she only played a game or two of solitaire) that I started taking serious notice.
Social bookmarking is here to stay but I’m so grateful for the tips on going about it. Being a marketer I stepped in most of the pitfalls you describe above. Luckily I’m getting better at it…
Drikus Botha - Personal Development For Smart Network Marketers
September 9th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Hi There
I do social marketing for my company (Soluto) and I have to say that this article is well written and very informative (although rife with poor english which is completely forgivable). Even though not much of what was written here looked new to me, its always nice to have your own thoughts reinforced by someone sharing similar ones. Thanks and keep up the good work.
By the way, was the endless list of social bookmarking sites at the bottom of the post put their on purpose or do all these links show up on every post? Looks like a case of PCDisorder to me.
David Miron
September 9th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Thanks for your kind comment, David
As you said “You do social marketing for your company” this means that you gained reasonable experience in this field, and as an advanced marketer you might not find some of these info new to you. But there are still many other online marketers who still struggle and eager to find some useful information to help them in their social marketing campaign.
Our mission is to provide all the “New Born Businesses” with some valuable information and simple for them to understand at the same time. the tips in this article were helpful enough to receive praise of beginners marketers.