Social Bookmarking Kills your PR!

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by silveraden, Dec 12, 2007.

  1. Diablos

    Diablos Guest

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    #21
    Although the initial post on social bookmarking does not bring you PR you need to look at the wider picture. A LOT of people steal content from Digg etc and place it, rewritten on their blogs. This means you do get a link from it, even if it usually is from a lower PR site but a link is a link and I definitely recommend social bookmarking considering how little time it takes.
     
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  2. LongHaul

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    #22
    I put bookmarking links from addthis.com to http://music-nerds.com on all the album pages; it would seem like suitable content for those sites, and the daily traffic is good, but nobody ever uses it.

    Any other experiences with addthis.com here?
     
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  3. Pleb

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    #23
    I will take a guess here. Probably the guy that posted on your blog is talking about the social bookmarking icons you see placed on every one's sites. These _do_ contain outbound (offsite) links. If those links are do-follow links, they would reduce the amount of PR available to distribute to other links (internal/external) on the site. So, it's worth looking at the links of those widgets to see if they are nofollow/dofollow.
     
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  4. silveraden

    silveraden Banned

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    #24
    Yes, that is exactly what he is talking about.
     
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  5. ajitjc

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    #25
    I don't think so...
     
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  6. sinister32767

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    #26
    Not true, it would do nothing to your PR because some are protected by bots
     
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  7. speda1

    speda1 Well-Known Member

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    #27
    There are many social networking sites that don't use nofollow, though the larger one's seem to more often than not.
     
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  8. nairbuoyevoli

    nairbuoyevoli Active Member

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    #28

    No it doesnt. social bookmarking can't generate BL maybe this is the reason she/he get into.. that idea
     
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  9. libertygone

    libertygone Active Member

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    #29
    not all social bookmarking sites are nofollow though
     
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  10. silveraden

    silveraden Banned

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    #30
    Yes, but most...like forum signatures..
     
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  11. sundaybrew

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    #31
    Just think if it DID ruin PR, I would be social bookmarking all my competitors all day :).............j/k .....or am I ? :)

    But seriously like everyone else said, no it does nuthin' to da pr :)
     
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  12. coolat0

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    #32
    It does not hurt your PR at all if you do it right, if your are using it for link building just make sure the bookmark site uses DO FOLLOW tags
    and make sure if you are using bookmark icons on your page you assign a NO FOLLOW TAG to them.
     
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  13. libertygone

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    #33
    most forum sigs aren't nofollow either :confused:
    and forum signs aren't really considered social bookmarks.. when i think of social bookmarking i think of sites like digg, reddit, indianpad, etc...
     
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  14. silveraden

    silveraden Banned

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    #34
    Am not saying that forum signs are social bookmarks.. I'm just comparing the "no follow" thing.
     
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    #35
    It doesnot affect PR. In fact. it can help increase the traffic.
     
    harsha22, Dec 13, 2007 IP
  16. trichnosis

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    #36
    most of the social bookmarking sites are using nofollow because of this , social bookmarking links will not help your seo
     
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    #37
    But tagging will definitely help in search results as its work like keyword.
     
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  18. Lexiseek

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    #38
    Bingo. We have a winner. Yes, make sure you nofollow those icons or you will "drain" PR.
     
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  19. maahan

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    #39
    it will help your PR...
    if you have been seen by many peoples they will linkback to your site..
     
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  20. Sem-Advance

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    #40
    That's right social bookmarking destroys PR and keyword rankings and if you keep submitting websites...William Shatner comes and steals you IQ and turns you into an Ewok ....

    Do not social bookmark anymore thank you......:D

    I'm off to have more social bookmarking done ;)
     
    Sem-Advance, Dec 14, 2007 IP