MAKING SURE YOU DON'T SPAM
Social bookmarking offers you a lot of freedom, and can
help you drive traffic to your website overnight. Still,
abusing this freedom can lower the credibility of your
business, your brand, and your company name. Moving beyond
the potential for spamming will help you to build a strong
and regular community, instead of being booted off a social
bookmarking network.
It's important to review your submissions to make sure
you're not overusing keywords. Keyword overuse is a
turnoff for readers anyway, and you should aim for a
keyword density between 6-8% at the maximum level. Most
readers will easily pick up on articles that simply do not
make sense, and this will limit your ability to promote
quality work. Instead of focusing exclusively on SEO,
create something unique with an attractive headline instead.
Google and Yahoo! are also becoming vigilant about catching
spam-type articles and you will lower your chances of
indexing as a result. The most important factors for
indexing by Google include:
" Publishing content that is relevant to the heading or
topic " Quality formatting " Appropriate links and
references " Appropriate amount of keywords
Reading all terms of use and guidelines will ensure that
you can make the most of your participation, and grow with
your community so you are developing a strong presence.
Avoiding Becoming A Spammer If You're Using Duplicate
Content.
Duplicate content makes it easier for you to write about
your topic of choice, giving you a pre-researched format
and guideline. Still, it's important to make many changes
to the article, and obtain permission rights from the
author when necessary. A single sentence or paragraph that
is copied word for word can be detrimental to your search
engine placement, and may even lead to copyright
infringement.
THE SOFTWARE QUESTION: TO BUY, OR NOT TO BUY
You'll find a variety of submission directory software
packages and applications available on the web today, but
it's important to review the risks involved with using an
automated service. Since many of these can be blocked by
spam filters, the efforts may not be worth your time. These
software packages are designed to submit your content and
information on multiple sites in one simple step.
Some social bookmarking submission software packages are
designed to be compatible with multiple websites, but you
may find that some of your content simply becomes pushed
onto spamming sites and bogs. This is why submitting to
quality directories and sites is even more important today.
Automation does not necessarily guarantee quality, and
only you can make the decision on whether this is
appropriate for your business, your blog, or your website.
Still, you may find some value in free sites such as
Socializer 2.0. Socializer is free web service from
eKstreme.com that allows you submit one link to several
social bookmarking websites by adding some code to your
site. The company has also developed customizable
Wordpress and Movable Type plugins and you can find
instructions on downloading this information directly from
the website.
You can book mark your articles to one folder in your IE
Favorites, export it to it's own folder and import all book
marks in that folder to Del.icou.us and them tag/label
them. Many of the other Social Bookmarking Sites have
features that will allow you to import those favorites
directly into your account from Del.icio.us.
IMPORTANT: Remember to mark all your bookmarks in all
Social Bookmarking Sites as public. When you import
bookmarks, most sites will automatically or by default mark
them as private. When they are marked as private, no one
including search engines can find of view your bookmarks.
If you leave them marked as private, it of course then
defeats the purpose of Social Bookmarking from a marketing
standpoint.
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Sean S. Sampson provides valuable resources, and
information to help the home business owner, and online
business owner prosper with their business. For more
information about Social Bookmarketing, please go to
http://www.makinglotsofmoneyonline.com
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