Announced
today, a website called UAN.ME aims to reconcile social
bookmarking with online marketing. Built
on the new DOT ME top level domain (TLD), the platform calls this deliberately
liberal approach "Social Bookmarketing".
In concrete terms, UAN.ME is an online venue that allows search
engine optimization (SEO) firms and internet marketers to bookmark their
clients' websites and blogs alongside with private individuals referencing
their favourite stories, websites, and blogs.
The
offering was developed in response to a tendency observed in classic social
bookmarking sites to exclude bookmarks by online marketers and SEO professionals. Based on the belief that such bookmarks
deserve to be welcomed as a valid means of promoting a website or company, it
was conceived as a resource enabling professionals to better manage their
online reputation.
Site
owner Charles Crawford
Jr. strongly underlines that this outlook does not extend to illicit activity
such as spamming, insisting that "Legitimate stories about SEO and
Internet Marketing as well as genuine stories about your products or services
are welcome. However, self-promoting
spam and scraped content is not. I know
the difference and so will the UanMe community." He assures that suitable procedures will be carried
out to eliminate parasitic content.
Charles
Crawford Jr. is the owner of Texas-based company Crawford Business Development.
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