If you are new to Social Networks, you will appreciate its scope and the enormous business possibilities 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 the page rank and traffic of a website.
• You can classify your bookmarks
• SEO can be done through bookmarking. The page is indexed in search engines in a very short time.
• A classification based on tags or categories makes it easy for people to assign and search for content when needed.
• A social bookmarking account acts as a one stop shop that contains all of 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. That a user can publish.
• Some people may end up submitting duplicate stories and content on different social bookmarking sites. Therefore, the overall user experience can turn negative.

Social media works best when it’s optimized with the right set of tags and keywords. They are search engine friendly and indexing can happen within minutes once you submit a story. For best results, make sure your content is valuable and, if possible, unique.