Looking At Social Bookmarking From The Opposite Side

It seems like everyone is into social bookmarking like how they are into blogging and social networking. Why not? There’s quite a bunch of good things going on with social bookmarking sites that the average Internet user likes. There is the social interaction part where you can meet new and old friends. In addition to that, you can bookmark your favorite links and sites so you don’t have to remember them every now and then and not only that, you can also share those bookmarked links to everybody. Indeed, lots of cool stuff, but when you are doing work from home, those things are just secondary to what your real purpose is.

Getting as much traffic to your website and as much exposure to your online business or work from home is what should be your main focus in using this social media site. Bookmarking may look so easy and simple that some hardly even consider it as a task, but a lot of people have failed to do it the right way and ended up messing their online careers. So you got to be careful because an opportunity like this one can turn into a catastrophe if handled wrongly.

Perhaps the smartest way to understand social bookmarking and how you can utilize it for the benefit of your business is to look at it from the opposite side. What if I was a random person going through these social bookmarking sites, checking out if there are some cool stuff that other people have submitted? What may catch my attention? What can turn my head? These are the type of questions you need to ask yourself because if you put yourself in their shoes, you will know what they really want and you can give them that.

If you have bookmarked some pages of your website or some of your blogs or videos pertaining to your products and work from home, here are three things that readers and Internet users should feel once they come across those links you have bookmarked:

–People must be compelled to like or dig your bookmarks or that they can’t resist to bookmark your site themselves because it’s so good and that they get a lot from it. Content is king. Information is power. This is what folks are hungry for. If you consistently offer them useful information and quality content, they will keep coming back to your site and they’ll even go as far as bookmarking that site of yours and recommending your work from home to others.

–Aside from great content, online folks also have a thing for interesting stories or stuff that ignite curiosity. If you check out what’s on the front page of top social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit, those bookmarks have captured the interests of most people. That’s what got them on the front page in the first place. They are interesting enough that losing them would be a big deal for those people.

–Although folks have some time to browse through social media sites, the problem is they don’t have that much time to spend anymore. People are pretty much busy with their lives now both in the real and the online world. If they happen to believe that your bookmarks or your links are worthy enough to waste their time on, then that’s a good sign that you are doing well with your social bookmarking efforts and work from home.