Social Networking / Social Bookmarking

When looking to promote a site, there are a number of great traffic sources from a social networking / social bookmarking perspective - sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Netscape, BlinkList, and StumbleUpon come to mind immediately.

What are the list of sites that you use for promotion?

There's CoRank, Newsvine, Reddit, Spotback, Spotplex, OpenServing, ClipMarks, and all the Pligg clone sites out there.

Then there's all the social networking sites that hitwise mentions in their top 10 list.

I'm sure there's a more extensive list out there.

 

Im compiling one at Exposed SEO.

 

have had this link in favorites for some time
http://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/01/all-social-that-can-bookmark.html

 

Hi below is a list of social bookmark sites hope it was what you were after.

Backflip PR 6
BlogMemes PR 4
Blabb PR 0
Blinkbits PR 4
Blinklist PR 6
Blogmarks PR 6
Blue Dot PR 6
BuddyMarks PR 5
ButterFly PR 5
Care2 PR 6
Claim ID PR 7
Complore PR 4
del.icio.us PR 8
de.lirio.us PR 6
Dogear PR 4
Fungow PR 4
Furl PR 6
Get Boo PR 4
i89 US PR 3
Lister PR 4
LinkaGoGo PR 1
Linkatopia PR 4
LinkSnarf PR 4
Lookmarks PR 3
Magnolia PR 7
Markabboo PR 5
MyLinkVault PR 5
Netvouz PR 7
Newsvine PR 7
Ning PR 0
Reddit PR 6
Riff PR 0
Rojo PR 8
Scuttle PR 1
Shadows PR 6
Shakk US PR 4
SiteJot PR 5
Spurl PR 7
SyncOne PR 0
Searchles PR 5
Simpy PR 7
Taggly PR 5
URLex PR 0
Wink PR 3
Wists PR 6
Wob Blog PR 4
Yahoo PR 7

 

anyone know for certain if posting links in these is really valuable for SEO?

Seems to me it's an obvious black hat technique and that Googe et al would be on top of it and downplay the significance of the links. I'd like to know before I go and open up 100 personal networking accounts.

 

mighty,

nice site!!
cw

 

Thanks for the info. I used social bookmarking as the way to increased web traffic for the site such as digg.com, del.icio.us, blinklist, technorati, reedit, adoppt.and a lot more

 

Great responses all around.

I don't know about using these things to link your own sites repeatedly over and over, but they are important to know about.

I was thinking more from a traffic generation standpoint than an inbound link generation standpoint. I imagine the inbound links these sites generate, if they generate them at all, are of minimal quality in the first place. It's not always about gaming google .

 

Add to your list the Squidoo.com and yahoo 360

 

Thanks fore the info.I really find it useful.My opinion is to use only top 10 social bookmarking sites. Think they will give you enough traffic.

 

Try new social bookmarking services - it is easy to get on first page, owners are active...

 

My favorites are del.icio.us, Digg, and StumbleUpon. YMMV.

 

Am particularly fond of Magnolia and Digg myself.

 

I think it depends which ones to choose. It depends on what kind of site you have. I have forex related site and in technorati I don't have business news. So first find relative sites and after that post your stories to them.

 

I get some backlinks from www.zlitt.com

 

Listible[dot]com is also useful, yoono[dot]com, Furl[dot]com, and others

 

Here is a small one I made: Zlitt

 

How do you know if putting your link on a social site would be a good thing? I mean in terms of improving/damaging your PR rating? Is there a way to know?

 

It can't be a bad thing, so why not?

 

It's good because of visibility. If you bookmark it, it will show up within the social bookmarking's search as well as your profile on the bookmarking site. So if the site passes PR, there's a free link.

As for social networking, or social voting it gets views which in return give the possibility of links.

If your website gets to the homepage of Digg, not only is that 10,000 eyes you wouldn't have otherwise, that is probably 100 deep links you wouldn't have otherwise.