Hopefully I don’t need to tell you that you should be bookmarking your articles to social bookmarking sites to promote your writing or blog posts. Social bookmarking is a vital marketing tool for writers and web content providers.
Sometimes, you may run into problems where certain perfectly legitimate sites have been banned from social bookmarking sites because of a few bad applies. Writers for Hub Pages, Xomba and Bukisa have experienced the frustration of having link submissions denied by important sites like Reddit, Digg and Shoutwire. There was even a time when Helium (on of the most respected writing sites anywhere) was under threat of being banned by Reddit.
How to Get Around It
Luckily, there is a way to work around these social bookmarking bans. The trick is to use a service like ClipMarks or Amplify. ClipMarks is not the most famous social bookmarking site, but it is certainly one of the handiest. ClipMarks offers you a toolbar extension for Firefox (also for IE) that allows you to clip parts of a page. You can then write your own comments about the snippet and auto post the link and commends to Delicious. The site then offers you quick links to the following social bookmarking sites:
- Digg
- StumbleUpon
- Delicious
- Friendfeed
- Mixx
- Blinklist
- Magnolia
- Furl
- Diigo
- Slashdot
- Spurl
- Newsvine
- Fark
- Simpy
- Yahoo (not the same as Yahoo!Buzz)
Reddit, Digg and Shoutwire recognize the ClipMark, not the link you are promoting within the ClipMark. So, by using ClipMarks you can post your links from any page to these popular sites. Get your ClipMarks toolbar here. If you’re running Chrome (like me) try the Amplify extension.
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