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Do Social Bookmarking Sites Actually Help?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Pandacowl, Jul 29, 2007.

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    I see quite a few threads in the services part of the forum about adding your site to various social bookmarking sites, they also say that it will pass PR and give backlinks, is this true? Do they actually give decent backlinks and pass PR? Is it worth the money to submit your site to 100's of social bookmarking sites?

    thanks.
     
    Pandacowl, Jul 29, 2007 IP
  2. rcj662

    rcj662 Guest

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    Some sites do pass a little pr and link back others use no follow or redirection.
     
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  3. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    I've been submitting the internal pages for a client. There are a few companies using their domain name with the various extensions and they'd all show up on pages 1 and 2 in google. My client was normally #1 but not always. Now my client is always #1 and the other sites have dropped back to page 3 at best. Pages 1 and 2 are dominated by the bookmarking sites.

    Now that's interesting but it does assume that the person searching knows the company name... but if they did then they'd just go straight to the site in most instances.

    What will be proof that this is working is when the site starts ranking well for the "tags" I'm using.

    remember that nofollow is only used by one of the search engines.
     
    sarahk, Jul 29, 2007 IP
  4. sweetie_12

    sweetie_12 Peon

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    Social Bookmarking Sites definitely bring traffic and this might be converted into sales...
     
    sweetie_12, Jul 29, 2007 IP
  5. Pandacowl

    Pandacowl Active Member

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    Okay so I checked a few social bookmarking sites, some use a nofollow tag.
     
    Pandacowl, Jul 29, 2007 IP
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    Jasonb Well-Known Member

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    #6
    some do, some dont, you get traffic though ;)
     
    Jasonb, Jul 29, 2007 IP
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    Freewebspace Notable Member

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    Yes I agree with you

    One of my sites receives traffic from search engines and it is in the second page of Google for a particular

    whereas my site is in 5 th page for the same particular keyword!
     
    Freewebspace, Jul 29, 2007 IP
  8. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Don't get too hung up on the no follows.
    a) the rules may change tomorrow and you'll have links sitting there waiting to go
    b) other search engines will be indexing and in the case of msn and yahoo they make alliances with major isp's and so become the #1 search engine in certain countries (NZ for instance) for non-tech users. Which search engine is the most important depends on your target market.

    FWIW: I've been using onlywire (interestingly Google have made it an authority site despite it's lack of maintenance and broken submitters) and http://www.onlies.net/diggscaperedlicious/ which is more time sconsuming and therefore less likely to be abused?
     
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  9. FOX LORE

    FOX LORE Notable Member

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    Yes, they work on getting lots of traffic. My blog is brand new this month and look at the traffic I'm getting. Now, I'm just waiting to see if I get PR from the backlinks that I'M getting from adding fresh contents daily.



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    FOX LORE, Jul 29, 2007 IP
  10. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    if you are asking for pr passing, pr will pass from some of them which has not nofollow on their links.

    but you can be sure that they sending great traffic:D
     
    trichnosis, Jul 30, 2007 IP
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    ichigo Well-Known Member

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    what i like about social bookmarking is that it helps your inner pages get backlinks and maybe pr. therefore not going supplemental.
     
    ichigo, Jul 30, 2007 IP
  12. go4

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    Social Networking sites back links do help the site to gain link popularity and traffic.
     
    go4, Jul 30, 2007 IP
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    vicdigi Banned

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    #13
    Social Networking sites are good for traffic but how much of this traffic converts remains a question.
     
    vicdigi, Jul 30, 2007 IP
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    etali Well-Known Member

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    #14
    They're good for traffic, and often a story can get picked up and blogged about by users of the SB site, so while the site themselves may not count for PR purposes, all those blogs about your article probably will :0
     
    etali, Jul 30, 2007 IP
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    Qryztufre Prominent Member

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    They can help indirectly as well.

    I have been using del.icio.us for over a year to help keep tract of the various hacks & mods I am putting onto my forums. While these bookmarks to vbulletin.org have done NOTHING in the way of links to my site having those links tagged has given me a chance to plug my sig here a few times.

    For an example: Vbulletin - New Pages? Possible?

    I've posted two links in the thread above, giving me two links via my sig here :D Had I not tagged those two vB.org links I'd likely not have posted in that thread, as I'm generally not inclined to search for someone else.

    Other then that, I'm pretty much agreeing with sarahk in this thread.
    Q
     
    Qryztufre, Jul 30, 2007 IP
  16. Mesum

    Mesum Peon

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    Hi FOX LORE,
    Do you mind telling us what sites you used to submit your site?
    I have used Digg and Rediff to submit a link. I didn't get much traffic from Digg but link was indexed in Google within hours.
    On the other hand, I got a decent number from traffic from Rediff.
    I want my site to get a little attention at these sites but don't want to be on the front page as they provide useless hits and crash servers.

     
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    It help greatly to get traffic for the site.
     
    wxyz, Jul 31, 2007 IP
  18. kh7

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    #18
    The most popular social bookmarking sites use rel-no-follow so they don't pass PR. They do bring in visitors and - as someone noted - help get page associated with relevant keywords.
    Social bookmarking isn't a guarantee for getting visitors, but it will likely help if your content is good and you picked a social bookmarking service that fits your target audience.

    The thing your question totally misses out on is that social bookmarking doesn't have to get you a better position in the serps if you get direct traffic from their site. Compelling content means return visitors - so once people interested in your subject get to your site, they are more likely to return there, whether or not google sends more people.
     
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    I would advise just using them to compliment your link profile. A few links from social media, a few from directories, a few reciprocals etc I've found for my clients taht it all helps.
     
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  20. Jason Green

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    yes they will help.

    I submit to lots of smaller social bookmarking sites regularly - although its hard to track SE effect - but it appears to be helping.

    For really good content I'll promote it on the bigger social networks to try and get a massive influx in traffic - usuualy works really well bringing lots of traffic and some links.
     
    Jason Green, Jul 31, 2007 IP