As an internet marketer, you probably already know about the benefits of social bookmarking. The biggest benefit is that they provide backlinks to your website, and regardless of whether the backlinks are ‘nofollow’ or ‘dofollow’ links, social bookmarking is one of the easiest, and most effective ways to get search engines to notice your content.
The problem with social bookmarking, however, is that it’s tedious work. Oftentimes, social bookmarking websites are slow, many social bookmarking websites have soft requirements of installing their proprietary bookmarking toolbars, and to be honest, it can take quite a while to even submit your website or article to 10 social bookmarking websites.
This is where Socialadr comes in. Instead of succumbing to the monotony of DIY social bookmarking, or even paying an out-of-pocket expense for each website you want submitted via a social bookmarking service, you can have your website, blog posts, and articles submitted to popular social bookmarking websites automatically.
Socialadr overview – how it works
Socialadr is a bookmarking service that leverages your own personal social bookmarking accounts and uses them to provide an automated social bookmarking platform for you and other users of the service. In simple terms, once you create an account at Socialadr, you must enter your social bookmarking website login details for the site on their list — very similar to Onlywire.com in that respect.
After creating and / or entering your social bookmarking website details, this is when the automatic bookmark submittal (for paid members), and nearly-automatic bookmark submission takes place for free members. Socialadr has what is called a ‘share queue’ where other members’ social bookmarks are listed. You can choose a bookmark that you want to share through your social bookmarking accounts, and then once that bookmark is submitted, you earn submission credits, which the number of submission credits you earn depends on your account level. Free members earn 0.2 credits for their own websites for each submission of other members’ bookmarks, but the submission rates and features increase exponentially if using a paid membership account.
Socialadr review – the good
I have a free account, so I’ll be reviewing my findings based on that, and based on what I know about how the paid accounts work.
As a free member, you can build up to 420 backlinks to your website, blog, blog posts, or articles. 400+ social bookmarks over the course of the month would cost a minimum of from a submitter, and it would take you hours to do yourself manually.
Once you’ve setup your social bookmarking accounts, the daily ‘upkeep’ is limited to logging in each day and selecting up to 5 bookmarks from other members to share, plus being sure that you have active bookmarks of your own stored in the system. If you use their ‘quick share’ option, you only need to spend less than 1 minute per day on the site.
The site itself is pretty easy to use, though understanding how the service works, particularly the credit share ratio, can be confusing because they do not list what it is on their website.
You can easily check your submission history using the site — not only sites that your own bookmarks were submitted to, but the bookmarks submitted through your accounts as well.
The ‘Add Bookmark’ tool allows you to ‘spin’ your submission information. This means that you can use multiple titles and multiple descriptions for your bookmarks during the submission process. This is a great asset to the service.
Socialadr review – the bad
As a free member, it seems at times that I’m not getting credit for all of my submitted bookmarks. For instance, today so far I’ve shared 36 different bookmarks (that successfully submitted), which at my membership level means I should have 7 sending credits (36 submissions x 0.2 = 7.2 credits) for my own personal bookmarks. However, I’ve only been credited with 4. I’m not sure if this is due to the way they calculate submissions within their system, which could mean I receive more credits at a later time, or if there’s a real issue here.
Social bookmarking tends to attract a lot of spam, and the share queue reflects that. A lot of the member submissions either look like spam, or are flat-out spam in my opinion. The only reason this concerns me, though, is because of the increased likelihood of your social bookmarking accounts being shut down for spam-like submissions. Which, this means that you would need to create a new social bookmarking account if that were to happen.
Apparently, regardless of your membership level, you are limited to 5 ‘shares’ per day. This, in turn, limits the number of backlinks that you can receive on a daily basis as well as over the course of a month. This affects free members more because of their lowered per-share credit-earned rate. Paid members, however, receive substantially more backlinks for their bookmarks.
Socialadr review – final notes
Overall, Socialadr is a great social bookmarking service. Though, while I think that it’s an exceptionally valuable free website promotion tool, it’s geared toward pushing free members toward paid memberships. Don’t get me wrong — the value is there, and the free membership is certainly worth some money, but you get the distinct feeling that you’re using a limited trial account by sticking with a free account.
I honestly think that people who utilize social bookmarking on a regular basis, either through DIY manual submissions, or hiring a social bookmarking service, would probably find unbelievable value in upgrading to one of their paid accounts. Personally, I’ve bought plenty of social bookmarks in the past for myself and for clients — for 400 social bookmarks, it would cost me at least , and that’s the free offer from Socialadr, albeit with some inconveniences and inconsistencies that either aren’t or shouldn’t be present with paid membership levels.
Free Socialadr account without a coupon code
Socialadr offers coupon codes / promotions occasionally, but right now they’re offering their entry-level membership (Lazy Free – oddly, it costs per month normally) without cost, and you can sign up for that here: Socialadr signup.
Though, a word of warning — the first paid account, ‘Lazy Link Builder’, is only per month if you signup for a paid account from the get-go. That per month offers over 1,500 guaranteed social bookmarks every month, no need to login every day to share other bookmarks, but the price creeps up to per month once you sign up as a free member.
Overall, I really recommend that you check out Socialadr. If nothing else, you’ll get a few-hundred social bookmarks for your own websites every month for only a couple of hours invested, even at the current free level. There are no guarantees, however, that free accounts will always be available.
Written by Jeffery DeFranco