social bookmarking as backlinks ?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by bluearrow, Dec 21, 2006.

  1. #1
    Do all these social bookmarking sites can be taken as a back-link resource ? Does Google spiders crawl through those links or they are only taken as internal links ?
     
    bluearrow, Dec 21, 2006 IP
  2. ahkip

    ahkip Prominent Member

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    #3
    The real test is to see if the social sites are in fact providing backlinks to your site. Being indexed is one thing, but counting as a link is another. For instance almost all links from delicious are tagged as no follow links.
     
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    #4
    They are usually. But they can drive traffic and they can also make your site better known so you get more natural links to your site.
     
    kh7, Dec 22, 2006 IP
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    lot of keyword is not claim in those social bookmark site. tag your site with different tag so your have more chance to be found
     
    ahkip, Dec 22, 2006 IP
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    That's probably a good point. I used to think it was a better idea to go for the popular, but that one person looking for a keyword that has NOT been tagged often yet is probably highly valuable.
     
    kh7, Dec 22, 2006 IP
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    #7
    Magnolia and Simpy are pretty good for building backlinks .. Delicious doesn't really show up as backlinks to my site..
     
    autorave, Dec 22, 2006 IP
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    most of them (i.e. del.icio.us) use nofollow so they aren't valuable as backlinks
     
    mr_dean, Dec 22, 2006 IP
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    #10
    You are much better off link baiting blogs than you would be trying to get backlinks from social networking sites.

    Social networking sites are pretty good just for getting direct traffic though. Every now and then I hook up with women I meet on MySpace. Great fun.
     
    Fastamber, Dec 26, 2006 IP
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    Some do count and some don't - look at the page sourse and see if it's got a nofollow tag.

    Someone should really come up with a list of SB sites that give you credit, that would be valuable.
     
    mwtrag, Dec 26, 2006 IP
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    a389951l Must Create More Content

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    #12
    Someone already has :):

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=195410

    But most of the updates will done on my forum now as I don't want to bump an older thread.
     
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    MSN and Yahoo count links from MySpace profiles as links
     
    crazygirl, Dec 27, 2006 IP
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    #14
    I've see delicious links in search results as my backlinks.
     
    Forsh, Dec 27, 2006 IP