but why i can't get traffic from them? we submite our websites to the social bookingmarking sites and don't manage the sites? right?
Only using social bookmarking website you cannot expect to rank on top with keywords other than your brand name. You should also focus on other ways of getting links.
The more the better. But as there is so much bookmarking site on internet, I would say to just focus on the first 50 - 100. Choose the most popular of them and some of them with high page ranking. So pick all PR8, then all PR7 and so on and so forth until you reach at least 50. But as some have said already, ranking on the first page of Google depends on many parameters. It will depend firstly on the keyword competition you are ranking for. You could bookmark your site to 300 bookmarking site, if you try to compete for a keyword with millions of competition sites, you will never rank on the first page. Moreover, you have to diversify your backlinks. Because if you choose a really good keyword, you will eventually with some direct backlinks and some social bookmarks reach the first page of Google, but you will not stay here for long if you stop your backlinks campaign. Except if you find an amazing keyword, reaching a good position on search engines does not happen in one day, it's a long process where the main important thing is regularity in building variety of backlinks.
I think its better that you add your pages to dofollow social bookmarks. Most of high pagerank social bookmarks are not dofollow. So you should submit your pages in both them and some other dofollow social bookmarks.
Well No one knows about this ... but you may use them to get increment in your traffic ... beacuse most of them are nofollows ... and if you're submitting your website's in dofollow then it might be possible that you got good ranking 2
Actually there is no estimation of how much on how much social bookmarking sites you must link your site to but Social bookmarking sites are good for getting traffic to your site.
It depends upon the keyword which you want to be on top in Google. May be the keyword yo are using has less traffic & so the No.1 Position can be get in just 1 month and some keywords having millions of traffic and for becoming No.1, it takes 7-8 months & even 1 year.
I can suggest you this link, here you can list of SMO sites http://seo-secret-blog.blogspot.com/p/smo-sites.html
Social bookmarking should be part of your off page SEO. This is benefit your position on google listings more than PR.
i think social bookmarking sites are not only way to get good ranking google gives rating to sites that have links from different sites so authority means get backlinks from authority sites and good page rank sites.
I would stay stacked to max 3-4 (twitter, facebook, G buzz and dig) because if you are nor working as a team there is no time to do everything what it takes for your website to perform well (content, design issues, seo, readings, etc) and to bother very much with dozens of social stuff. Good luck, anyway.
I think the answer might be as many as possible. Also, you still need to develop backlinks via other channels like article submission, forum posting, blogging and others but not only rely on the social bookmarking. Have a nice day,
Social bookmarking sites as derived from our eBizmba rank which is an average of each website Alexa global traffic rank and U.S traffic rank from both compete and quantcast.
Has anyone got a list of the top 50 or so sites, I have tried this link but it says the page has now been archived and not available, also is there any free or cheap software which can help speed up my submissions. Cheers in advance ;-)