Can Social Bookmarking Build Links?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, November 7, 2008

Different people use the same tools for different purposes. Social bookmarking is one tool that can be used various ways. I recommend it for building traffic to your websites, but I also recommend it for link building. Be careful, though. Not all social bookmarking sites give link juice.

I got the following list from Link Idol. I haven’t tested all of these sites, but I knew about some of them. This is a list of the social bookmarking sites that provide link juice for your inbound links:

http://rapidpicks.com/

http://blogmarks.net/

http://buddymarks.com/

http://digg.com/

http://ez4u.net/

http://ma.gnolia.com/

http://mylinkvault.com/

http://spurl.net/

http://a1-webmarks.com/

http://backflip.com/

http://bibsonomy.org/

http://blogmemes.net/

http://bmaccess.net/

http://bookmarktracker.com/bt/home

http://connectedy.com/index.php

http://corank.com/

http://furl.net/

http://givealink.org/cgi-pub/bookmarklet/bookmarkletLogin.cgi

http://mister-wong.com/

http://mixx.com/

http://mypip.com/index.html

http://myvmarks.com/

http://newsvine.com/

http://oyax.com/

http://plugim.com/

http://propeller.com/

http://shoutwire.com/

http://squidoo.com/

http://syncone.net/

http://tedigo.net/index.cfm

http://yattle.com/

http://www.spicybookmark.com

With some of these sites you have to be careful because they’ll cut off your account at a moment’s notice with no explanation. If you distribute gambling information in the U.S. then some sites will ban you. It’s against U.S. law to do so and the sites don’t want to be shut down for allowing you to do it. But if you run a legitimate website and you want to build links then these sites should prove useful for building links to your sites through social bookmarking.

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Made Wednesday, 12 of November , 2008 at 9:56 am

[...] as SEO goes, the most important benefit is the link building benefit. In a previous post we listed social bookmarking sites that use do-follow links. If you are looking for inbound links then I recommend those sites, but if you are looking for [...]

Comment by Ken

Made Monday, 17 of November , 2008 at 3:08 am

I would like to add earnersclub.net It’s a social content site focused on internet marketing, blogging and making money online.

Comment by Janet Meiners Thaeler

Made Tuesday, 9 of December , 2008 at 1:37 pm

How about Delicious, Sphinn and Stumbled Upon?

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Tuesday, 9 of December , 2008 at 1:51 pm

Janet, SU doesn’t pass link juice.

Comment by Chris Lang

Made Sunday, 14 of December , 2008 at 1:14 pm

Nick, forget all this waste of time. What matters is one submission done right and lots of votes. Spamming all these sites with bookmarks that only get one vote (yours) is a waste or your time.

I did a case study of how social promotion done right works and I used my latest client in a 13 days to Google walk thru. Everything done for this site is listed, no blackhat stuff, nothing hidden, just the full story.

http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=258

This is how it is done. Not with all those sites up there. Adding bookmarks to all those sites is spam. Google counts how many bookmark a site in each bookmarking site.

Lots of bookmarks, lots of votes, great indicator to Google.

One bookmark by you, that is spam and Google knows it.

Forget this spammy crap and participate in one social bookmarking site highly or just forget bookmarking. I have a Digg analytics solution that cuts your time by 3 hours a day.

It only takes 30 minutes in the am and 30 minutes at nite. If you can’t devote this time to being a real user, don’t come to sites we participate in. We will simply report you for spam.

Real users that take their time to actually participate do not tolerate someone who just shows up to add their stuff and then bails.

I would rather have NO social bookmarks than ones I created and have 0 votes. I think that is a negative indicator in Google’s eyes.

Comment by Chris Lang

Made Sunday, 14 of December , 2008 at 1:15 pm

Oh yeah, nofollow means nothing. NOTHING. At least on social sites. Votes, that is what matters. Forget about links and think social participation. That is what Google values way more that a bunch of spam links you created your self.

Comment by Allen Taylor

Made Sunday, 14 of December , 2008 at 2:13 pm

Chris, your argument is the same argument so-called gurus use to say that links from low-PR nonrelevant sites don’t matter and that everyone should seek links only from high-PR relevant sites. It doesn’t matter if you multiply 100 by 1 or 10 by 10, you get the same answer.

Yes, a lot of votes from one social bookmarking site will get you a lot of Google traction, but life isn’t all about making Google happy. There are a variety of methods that still work for link building. Just about every social media site online gives link juice from profile pages. It is a valid strategy to set up profiles at these sites and never use them. For one thing, it prevents your enemies from using your brand to do so then damaging your reputation by using your profile to spam. But that’s another issue.

I’ve found that anything I spend time on is beneficial if there is more than one purpose to it. Social media marketing and SEO should be dual prongs on the same fork.

Comment by vancolleys

Made Friday, 24 of April , 2009 at 2:42 pm

Thanks for your info… Very very very helpfull… my site otodidak.info (PR 1 in 7 mont.. fyuughhh).. any advice please…

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Friday, 24 of April , 2009 at 7:01 pm

@vancolleys - Sure, here is my 2 cents: Focus much less on page rank and user experience, good quality content and building your business and website online as a long term effort…good things will happen if you take this patient approach.