Social Bookmarking Status
Jack writes:
It would be nice if ezinearticles could have an easy way for articles to be social bookmarked.
Here’s why we have not implemented a 3rd party social bookmarking system yet:
- Our members, by their promotionally motivated nature (not all of them, but a minority of members could ruin it for the majority), would abuse the system leading our entire site to become banned by the major social networking partners.
- We’re not certain that anyone that we bestow a several hundred thousand outbound link favor would return qualified traffic back to us worthy of the link risk & economic value.
- We don’t own any of the social bookmarking sites nor have we been invested by any of them. What? You didn’t think there was serious social & economic politics behind which social media site links to which site…
Social bookmarking seems like a much more interesting traffic creation vehicle for low traffic websites because they have nothing to lose by creating a few hundred or thousand outbound links to one or more of the social bookmarking sites (stumbleupon, del.icio.us, technorati, digg, furl, rojo, etc).
Open to your thoughts on social bookmarking:
Hey Chris,
I do not know anything about social bookmarking and the economics of it. Can you provide article links which would provide a quick educational overview?
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