Thoughts on Digging/Bookmarking your own posts

[AdamF24]

Hey everyone.

I was wondering recently about the pros and cons of digging/social bookmarking your own blog posts. What is your opinion on it?

When I first started my site I would digg my own articles, but I've realized now that the benefit of doing this is extremely limited since I don't have any friends on Digg and usually only get 1 extra digg along with my own. The only benefit it seems to digging my own articles is so I have a link from Digg (which should help my pagerank).

On the flip side, it seems like if I don't digg my own articles I end up not having many of my articles dugg, yet I'm more likely to reach the front page of Digg/Social networking sites if I let someone else bookmark my posts.

I'm still looking into this issue, so I'd love to hear what you guys think about digging/bookmarking your own posts.

[Steve Pavlina]

What if you Digg your posts a week after you post them, assuming no one else has? That would seem to give you the best of both worlds. If your article is going to pick up steam on Digg, it's almost certain to happen either within the first few days... or never.

[mellom]

I say continue to Digg - why not? Even if it's not front page material you are putting your content in front of more users. So what if it's one or two that you helped, as long as you did your part. Besides, more for Google to chew on

[MartialDev]

It's an open secret among A-list bloggers that Digg and other social networking systems are gamed.

Not only do (some of) the big names vote their own stuff up, they even form "Digg gangs" to reinforce the status quo!

You didn't hear it from me!

[AdamF24]

I've always thought about that, and honestly it doesn't surprise me at all that social network sites are often abused.

[Tayrak]

I don't know if there are many who don't bookmark their own. I've got the same thoughts though, how much good does it do you? If everyone just bookmarks their own it starts to lay a little flat. If you'll notice a lot of the sites that engage in gang promotion only end up promoting each other-to each other. It's great for the start but in the long run I'm not so sure it helps them much as they're running in a big loop.
So definitely bookmark some but make plans for something else further along.

[jamestl2]

At first I bookmarked, stumbled a few of my own posts, because I liked them, but I have never dugg my own posts, because I was new to the system concepts. Generally it's not a good idea to stumble, digg your own posts, unless you truly believe it was very well-written (or great photo, or whatever you created).

For all the people out there performing in bookmark, digg exchanges, in reality they don't really know what "social" means. They participate in these communities to enhance their own personal gains, which is counter-productive in the field of Social Media Marketing.

In the end it really isn't a very effective marketing tool, if you bookmark your own content, and it's crap, it'll get buried pretty quickly and visitors will never look back. They think if you put enough marketing effort into crap, crap will turn to gold, the truth is if there's nothing valuable from the start, it won't do them much good.

[AndrewJ]

Everything in moderation! (I do it sometimes just for the links)

Andrew

[jamestl2]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

(I do it sometimes just for the links)

Those links aren't very powerful, both quality wise and Search Engine wise

[AndrewJ]

Some are, some aren't. They all provide potential for traffic.

Andrew

[jamestl2]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Some are, some aren't. They all provide potential for traffic.

None of those are quality links

[skye]

which one is better social bookmarking sites or directory sites?

[jamestl2]

Originally Posted by skye

which one is better social bookmarking sites or directory sites?

better for what?