Social bookmark sites allows you to save a web page so that people can get to know it. By social bookmarking your site, you are opening up opportunity for your business. Spamming is strictly prohibited in social bookmarking. There are many ways to spam the social bookmarking site.

The most common way to spam social bookmarking site is to submit too many links in a short time. You cannot keep submitting the same links. If you keep submitting the same links, people will realize that you are self promoting. Social bookmarking is a place for people to share interesting news. It is not developed for people to promote their websites. You should limit yourself to submit 1 – 2 links per day. Sometimes, when you submit a lot of links, you will not get banned by the administrator. However, you should not keep doing this because it prevents people from finding the information they want. When you submit many links from the same URL, they will appear on the most recent page. If a member reports you, the administrator will take action against.

You should not use the URL as the title. Novices like to paste the entire URL in the title field of the submission form. They assume that using the URL of the destination page as the title. It gives people an impression that your company is unprofessional. People knows that you are desperately looking for customers if you use the URL as the title. It is also not a good practice to use the title of the page as the title of the social bookmark post. You should write a unique title. The title must be interesting so that people will wants to read it. If your title is plain, it won’t catch people’s attention since there is nothing special about it.

You should not use the page META description as the description of the social bookmark posts. It is not recommended that you copy any section in your content to use as description. You must compose a unique description for the post. You can include the main keyword in the title and description. If you include the title and description in the post, it will be able to rank on the search engine. Since it is a post on a popular social bookmarking site, it will rank easily on the search engine. This is because the social bookmarking sites have a lot of backlinks. Your social bookmarks will rank on the search engines until the site gets indexed. Once your site gets indexed, the social bookmark post will not appear on the search engine result anymore.

You should not create too many accounts on the social bookmarking site. You are allowed to create only one account on the social bookmarking sites. Perhaps unpopular social bookmarking sites allow you to create multiple accounts. However, you are sending red flag to the search engine when you create multiple accounts. The search engine is able to track your activity. Once it realize that you are using different accounts to social bookmark the post, it will derank your site.