subject: Why You MUST SHOULD Submit Manually to Social Bookmarking Sites [print this page] Why You MUST SHOULD Submit Manually to Social Bookmarking Sites
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.
It sounds like an exaggeration but the Internet really is run by users these days and if you alienate enough of those users, you run the risk of ruining your business. Automatic social bookmarking submissions are considered bad form in the current online world and can greatly decrease your credibility with the users who can drive traffic to (or away from) your website. Bad word-of-mouth on social bookmarking sites is just like bad word-of-mouth out there in the real world; too much of it can destroy a business.
Even though there is software out there that will let you automatically submit your website to social bookmarking sites, people who use those sites regularly are opposed to the use of that software. The reason for this is that social bookmarking sites really are seen as a community, a place where users can get together to discuss the things that they do and don't like on the web. Despite the fact that most people on social bookmarking sites are there to promote their own online work, the sites are still widely used for the purpose of community and online sharing. People who violate the community by not taking the time to manually submit their sites are essentially seen as outsiders who the community will ultimately shun.
