If you are new to Social Networks, you will appreciate its scope and the enormous business opportunities it can generate. Social networks can provide a one-stop-shop for your online social needs. However, there may be circumstances where you don’t like the business model of social bookmarking networks.
Let’s explore some of the advantages and disadvantages of social bookmarking media.
Advantages of Social Networks:
- Users can save their favorite pages online and revisit them at any time
- Sharing bookmarks with friends and family increases your reach
- A social media network can help increase a website’s page rank and traffic.
- You can classify your bookmarks
- SEO can be done through bookmarks. The page is indexed in the search engines in a very short time.
- A classification based on tags or categories makes it easy for people to assign and find the content when necessary.
- A social bookmarking account acts as a one-stop-shop for all your online bookmarks. Thus, it results in easy management and monitoring.
However, there are some of the obvious disadvantages associated with social media and they are discussed below:
- Since there is no standard set of keywords associated with a content type, finding quality content and stories becomes a problem.
- Social bookmarking sites are also associated with many spam stories. What a user can post.
- Some people may end up submitting duplicate stories and content on different social bookmarking sites. Therefore, the overall user experience may turn negative.
Social networks work best when they are optimized with the right set of tags and keywords. They are search engine friendly and indexing can happen in a matter of minutes once you submit a story. For the best results, make sure your content is valuable and, if possible, unique.
