Do links from social bookmarking sites count as backlinks?

That doesn't seem to make much sense, but I mean, would Google see a link on Digg as a good backlink?

Digg has PR 8 so would a submitting my sites to Digg count as a PR 8 link in Googles eyes?

Never really tried the whole social bookmarking thing before...

 

yes they do

 

Nice simple answer.

I was reading some threads on here and some people say they do and some say they don't.

I'll take what you say as true though, unless somebody else can give me more info

 

some links count and some don't.......

if the link is using nofollow attribute, it won't count.

DP forum has many lists of dofollow social bookmarking sites.

 

Good stuff, can you point me towards one of these lists?

 

Social bookmarking does count. It depends whether your top criteria is traffic or pagerank. Social bookmarking can add to both your pagerank and you may get direct traffic too.

 

Nice list of social bookmarking sites at

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1231087

you can also see more ones here

http://www.vmoptions.com/social-networking-list.php

 

Ta for the replies.

Ok I will give it a try, Im looking more for a PR boost rather than direct traffic.

 

Digg is now consider as a no follow links. So when you submit your links there. That will not count as a backlinks but surely they provide you traffic

 

Digg pages are normal pages, thus if you have a followed link from there it counts.There used to be a problem with digg in the begining. There was a duplicate issue but it is solved. Here is a mattcutts video about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLyUY11LyxA

 

I suppose this also depends on whether the site your posting too allows the search engines to index it. Some sites are user restricted, so they would need to perform IP or user-agent checking to allow the search engines to access the content. Of course, if the links are marked as no-follow, they will not be weighted as backlinks.

Shaun Oleson
blog.olebox.com

 

google dont count all the links . they have very strict method of validating a valid link

 

You can submit on the following Social bookmark sites also:

http://www.bookfox.org/
http://www.bookvark.com/
http://www.bookzzle.com/
http://www.diggmarks.com/
http://www.diggtags.com/
http://www.dugmark.com/
http://www.dugstories.com/
http://www.dugtags.com/
http://www.famark.com/
http://www.folkdiggs.com/
http://www.folkmark.com/
http://www.folkmarks.com/
http://www.gabmark.com/
http://www.gabmark.org/
http://www.kasoc.org/
http://www.markalizer.com/
http://www.markpad.org/
http://www.markzoom.com/
http://www.snapd.org/
http://www.snapmark.org/
http://www.socialitect.com/
http://www.socialope.com/
http://www.tagator.org/
http://www.tagbuzz.org/
http://www.tagdigg.com/
http://www.tagitect.com/
http://www.tagmaker.org/
http://www.tagzio.com/
http://www.tagzzle.com/
http://www.twimark.com/
http://www.twisoc.com/
http://www.yosoc.org/

 

Google count most of the bookmarking links like links from Digg or delicious.

 

balukutty - Thanks for the list of links, although it's time consuming, it's helpful to have the sites rather than spending my time looking for them. Looks like every one of them is a Pligg site, I suppose that's the norm now.

Shaun Oleson
blog.olebox.com

 

@ balukutty: thank you for the list..

 

Definitely, every single backlink counts. There is some value in every backlink you can get including those social bookmarking links.

 

thanks for the lists!

 

Don't ever underestimate the value of having a link on a social bookmarking site, regardless of 'dofollow' status. A page, whether popular or not on Digg, will often times rank above other sites in SERPs, therefore being 1 click away from a visitor is better than 3 pages buried in SERPS.

 

I have yet to see Twitter backlinks counted by Google. Am not sure if they do count them.