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.

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.