Completely agree. It's hard to imagine why Yahoo! isn't (or couldn't) datamine de.licio.us to discover pages they've somehow missed, associate keywords with pages, deduce a page's popularity/relevance, etc. Also, for blogs like mine, de.licio.us can deliver significant amounts of high quality traffic. Does anyone have insight into the basic algorithm that they're using to rank pages in their SERP's? It's not just a ranking based on the number of bookmarks ... there must be more to their "secret sauce".
Isn't it simply that the links are organized by the last time someone bookmarked them under that tag?
I add all my own sites to del.icio.us. Every little bit of traffic helps right? It won't help with SEO though I don't think. For anyone interested in development and marketing, here is my page: http://del.icio.us/ventstation.com Rgds Accel
If you go to gmail.com right now you'll see a blurb on personalized search. "When you're signed in to Google Accounts, you'll now get more relevant, useful search results, recommendations and other personalized features. For example, if you use Google Bookmarks or Google Search History, you'll get more targeted web search results and recommendations for videos or gadgets. You can easily access these recommendations by adding the "Interesting Items" gadget directly to your personalized homepage."
You can use this social bookmarking site for spreading the name of your site. Tag your site, if it is useful visitors will save it and if you are lucky then your site can be shown in the popular sites category. Means huge amount of traffic.
It uses a nofollow attribute but still you can use it for traffic purposes and link baiting (i guess) as long as you have a site with great and useful content... You don't want to avoid anything that might help you...