Is forum posting more effective than social bookmarking?

I've learnt about both social bookmarking and forum posting. Which method is more effective for promoting your page and its social rank. What other methods can be used to promote my page?

 

I think forum posting is more useful. If you want a backlink for your page forum sites offering a signature portion in which you can include your website link with the keyword. On another part social bookmarking is also beneficial but it take more time to get approve.

 

Depending on the forum, signatures and posts in forums might get you long term backlinks. It wouldn't affect Social ranking much.

 

The backlink quality is more important. If you are getting backlink from a good PR and traffic website, you can get good traffic. This promotion is also effective. If you are getting backlink from a PR 0, newly designed forum! Then, forum posting is not recommended.

 

social bookmarking is dead... lots of spam inside, and its not readable in most cases.

 

Like Shahidul mentioned it isn't as simple as it first seems. It depends on the PR and DA (Domain Authority) of the website you want to place your link on. Posting your link on a .edu domain with a PR of 8 is probably worth 100 backlinks posted on a random forum with a PR of 0.

 

I would recommend you to go with forum posting because you can put back link over there & once you are done with it your site will get more ranking in google. Where social bookmarking will consider as Spam.

 

both are good but it is necessary to do in correct way.

 

Forum posting is more effective because it increases traffic & ranking of keywords.

 

Once again, forum source is much better compare to social bookmark.

If you want to have both, make sure there is no anchor tag spam, no too many follow links, and there is link created by human for human. Or else it is a serious link spam penalty.

 

In my personal experience forum posting provide better value than social bookmarking.
So my vote is forum posting.

 

Yes, it is. In-fact, it can help you get clients too.

 

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Social bookmarking are spammy and dead now so forum is best

 

I agree with you

 

I think that forum posting is better than Social Bookmarking. In forum posting, you add content and value to the forum, have a signature link to help advertise, and could possibly have others creating backlinks for you.

 

Each of the tasks are best, forum posting is a best off-page techniques basically used to increase the presence of our website over the web and also increase the traffic to your website. Whereas social bookmarking is the most effective technique used to rank a keyword.

 

Forums are a great place to get backlinks compared to social bookmarking. But more importantly, every post you make should be very relevant to the topic at hand.

dont join forums just for backlinks. join to learn and teach...

cheers

 

I think the best use for forum backlinks is direct traffic from people who find genuine value in your postings.

 

Social bookmarking is better for 2nd tier links. Yes forum posting is better. If the forum is active. It can help with seo but better yet it can bring targeted traffic if you can write helpful posts.