Social Bookmarking

What is Social Bookmarking Services ?

Social Bookmarks are sites that let the public bookmark a webpage and share it with people. It may also allow commenting, voting, categorizing, etc. If you are looking for stimulating, challenging work, this is not it. The good news is that you can usually have a lower cost virtual assistant do this work for you with some training, and make a nice profit on it.

Why do people buy Social Bookmarking Services?

This service requires time to set up accounts and bookmark pages in lots of places. Few businesses are going to do it themselves, but it can be part of a website promotion plan that they outsource.

Setting Goals for Social Bookmarking Services

Social Bookmarking can produce big results. However, the key factor is the content (writing, video) not the bookmark itself. With that in mind, a good goal may be to bookmark a certain number of blog posts or web pages each month in a certain number of bookmarking sites.

Client Benefits of Social Bookmarking Services

The benefits of social bookmarking are:

More inbound links
Higher Visibility
Higher search engine ranking
Potential for big traffic for great articles

Pricing Your Social Bookmarking Services

As always, pricing is ultimately your decision. Pricing your service is a matter of estimating the amount of time you estimate needed each month and multiply by the rate you desire. You might want to simply choose which articles each month and outsource the actual bookmarking to a lower cost virtual assistant once accounts and process are established. This will help you provide more value for a lower cost.

How to deliver Social Bookmarking Services effectively?

Remember your ethics guidelines and respect the bookmarking sites rules. If you outsource to another virtual assistant, be sure that they clearly understand this as well. You are responsible for their work.

The key to success is clearly tracking your accounts and bookmarking a variety of resources in them, not just all pages from your client’s website. Make the titles and summaries as interesting as possible as well.

Managing the Social Bookmarking Services Project

The key to managing this kind of project is documentation. You will have multiple accounts on multiple social bookmarking sites. How are you tracking the login information and the usage? You should not have two identical accounts active – you need variety.

Life cycle of Social Bookmarking Services

If clients see increases in traffic from these social bookmarking sites, you will have a better chance at keeping the project going long term. It does require fresh content if you plan to do it each month. This can be a great add-on to your writing projects.