'Social Bookmarking' As An Aggressive and Acceptable Blog Marketing Tactic

Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more

popular. They allow you to save bookmarks online and

Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them

as bookmarks in the favorite's list of your browser.

This is particularly useful when your browser based

bookmarks have become unwieldy. It's also help since

you can access your bookmarks from any computer where

you have an internet connection.

I have compiled a list of Social Bookmarking websites from

a number of sources. You can find it here:

[http://www.blogmarketingtactics.com/social-bookmarking/social-bookmarking-top-links.html]

Once you have bookmarked them, you can view them, sort

them by category/keyword as well as see links from others

that have been categorized like yours.

You also establish RSS feeds for each category (tag) that you

'subscribe' to. This alerts you to new links in your areas of

interest. Your bookmark collection/RSS Feed becomes

viewable to others who can also copy your bookmarks to their

own collection. So now you can aggressively promote your

RSS feed to the RSS Directories and Search engines,

syndicate them and make them available to a much wider

audience.

Social bookmarking sites also help you to meet other people

who are interested in the same topics you are and who may

also have knowledge of web resources that you don't.

On Social Bookmarking sites, you first create an account.

Then you bookmark interesting and useful things in the area

of your interest or expertise. By doing so you create a

useful Feed. Once you've done that you intermittently,

(or aggressively), add useful and interesting items, (that

could use additional exposure), from your own content.

Make an honest effort to contribute USEFUL information

and links. This is all about sharing and exposure. Done

properly, you can be as aggressive as you want to be about

sharing information. You can share your blog(s), links to

your informational/resource sites etc. Think about the fact

that when you share links to other's resources, you're also

effectively promoting their content as well.

This is a way you can aggressively and ethically promote

your content and the content of others. I personally

have hundreds of gigabytes of my own information and

information of others, connected to my notebook. In the

final analysis, it's doing me no good what-so-ever just

sitting there. But by organizing it, online, I can help

myself, (getting organized, getting my content exposed,

etc.) and help others at the same time.

If you spice up your feed with too much sales and

marketing related or self promotional stuff, people

can and will easily drop their subscription to your feed.

And instead of gaining good will and doing a service

to the internet community you could get labeled as a

spammer and suffer the consequences.

So while being aggressive is possible and acceptable,

being careful to consider the best interest of the

community is certainly warranted.

Balancing being ethical and providing a useful service

to others with promoting your own content enables you

to be as aggressive as you like. But remember, in the

final analysis, others will make the decision on whether

it's ethical and useful or spam.