Submit Your Stuff To Social Bookmarks Yourself

Submitting your own stuff to social bookmarking/news sites yourself is like a big no-no to almost everyone (well except for noobs and spammers). They think its selfish and people will hate (aka bury, vote down, etc) on them. Well that maybe true, but I don’t necessarily agree with that and here’s why.

Lets say you write a really good post about advanced SEO. You don’t submit it to sites like Digg, Reddit, SU, etc. You just sit back and relax. Now a total noob comes along and submits it. Uh oh! You’re fucked!

Its not always about the traffic. Sometimes you really wanna share something with the world, but too bad, the noob ruined it for you. Wondering why I’m saying that “the noob” ruined it? First of all, the guy is noob! He doesn’t know how to use the site properly, doesn’t do a good job with the title, doesn’t add a good description and he doesn’t care about promoting it (aka sharing with friends). He just submits it and fucks off.

So, do you get my point? BTW, I was talking about quality content (you knew that, right?). I didn’t mean that its okay for you to submit every single one of your blog posts (for example). I mean the things that make you say to yourself “man this is some good shit”. I’m talking about your masterpieces.

One more tip! Rather than submitting everything yourself, why don’t you ask a friend to do it? That way people won’t hate on you. But, again keep it to small number of quality content because sometimes you just need to let it go and give people the chance to decide if its worth promoting.