Would anyone reccomend hiring an outside company for social bookmarking?

[DTOSI]

I hired http://www.manualsocialbookmarking.com/ to take care of social bookmarking for one of my clients. I am finally starting to see the links created from this with my keyword as the anchor text in SEO Moz. I know that they are not "great" links, but my keyword is doing very well (fluctuating between #1 and #2 on Google).

I don't feel like hiring this company hurt my SEO, but I am scared to do i for any of my other clients (especially because of the penguin update).

Does anyone have any thoughts? Is it work the risk to hire them again and get some links for my other clients?

[EGOL]

I hope that my competitors are doing this.

Six months ago I would have thought that this would be very very low on the effectiveness scale - especially if you are targeting anything moderately competitive or better.

Today, after penguin, I think that it would be ineffective and slightly risky.

[GIGS20]

If it is done professionally then do it, because it is still a good way to promote your web presence as well as generate high quality backlinks to your site and provide additional traffic. Penguin update was designed to target spam links only, so if you are not spamming then you are safe. You can achieve a lot with social bookmarking if it is submitted to the correct social news sites and targeted sites for your specific niche/audience.

[EGOL]

My bet is that the people who do this bookmarking don't give a hoot about your site.  They are only doing this as a task... and the only traffic that you will get from these bookmarks is the person who visits your site one time to make them.

I would not call these spam links.  I would call them dangerous spam links.