Be Careful with Bookmarking

I just wanted to relate some of my experiences with bookmarking sites.

I use wordpress and I purchased the AutoSocialPoster plug in

Once I had all of my accounts set up it would automatically post to all the book marks sites that it was set up for...I even would manually bookmark to sites that this plug in would not work with...in short I would go bookmarking mad and put my link on approx 40 bookmark sites for every post I made...

Well after a month or 2 of this, my site started to die...I had lost over 80 of my traffic....to make a long story short I went to the Google Webmaster Forums to get someone to look at my site and maybe give me some advice as to what may have happened....

Well one of the things that I discovered is that I had created a ton of duplicate content because I never diversified my descriptions and titles for each "block" of bookmarkings I did for a given post...This is what I had been told by some high ranking forum contributors

I was also told that back links for bookmarking sites regardless of their page rank is pretty much considered neutral by Google. That is it doesn't really help with your rankings...yes it will give you some traffic, but that's about it

I am not totally blaming bookmarking , because I had some other issues that contributed to the problem....

However I have since stopped using the AutoSocial Poster plug in , and I do all my bookmarking by hand as to diversify my descriptions and titles

I also know which of the bookmark sites give me the most traffic so I only focus on those as well


Just relating my experince