How effective is Social Bookarking?

I've been asking this most of the times.
I wanted to know how effective is social bookmarking?

I know its another way in promoting a website?
but is it very applicable enough to use in for new Websites?
How about Blog Commenting and Forum Posting?

Give me some Advice Please...

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Will anybody give a damn about your site? Will anybody email it to his mother or to a friend? If the answer to that is "NO" then you waste your time. If the answer is "Yes" then just put the "add this" button on your site and let your visitors do all of the work for you.


Do this if you want to learn something or contribute to the discussion. If this is your linkbuilding method then you are wasting a huge amount time.

Dofollow link inbound to your website. You can find dofollow social bookmark by searching google.

When a marketing strategy delivers immense success such that it becomes a case study for the entire industry, people get obsessed to it. This happened with Blogs and this is happening right now for Social Bookmarking and stuff.

As Egol mentioned - would someone give a damn abt your site or would they share it with friends and family? or a better question would be - If it was not your site and someone else's would YOU have bookmarked it? If yes, go ahead there are many like you who would bookmark it too..

Blog Commenting and Forum posting done for linkbuilding is useless as almost 99% would use a nofollow attribute for all links posted.

Good luck with your site.

I kind of had the same question. If google supposedly weights backlinks so much but any site with no follow doesn't improve your pagerank, do you have any suggestions on how to increase it then?

I socially bookmarked one of my articles on a few sites. I helps with indexing but not with traffic. I think if someone else bookmarked an article, then that will increase traffic because you are not bookmarking your own stuff.

Its recommended that you make 10 different accounts for various social sites. I am not doing this. If my articles are good enough, they will get bookmarked anyway. If they are not, then i guess you will have a peak in traffic and then it dies because no-one will want to stay and read.

Kye.

Think about this.... If you simply bookmark a site why should google count that? It is easy to manipulate.

However, if the visitor marks your page with Google Bookmarks and those bookmarks are USED REPEATEDLY by many people in diverse geographic areas then Google should count that for a lot.

If I was the boss at Google that is what would be counted.

Social bookmarking is only good for traffic but it doesn't give high value in terms of SERP.

I just started doing social bookmarking and I found that it instantly started generating additional traffic to my blog. In addition, it helps build back links, which will eventually help in your PR.

Blog Commenting (make sure your comments are sincere and legit or the blog owner will delete them) and forum posting are great ways to generate links as well. I got from a PR 0 to PR 1 in about 4 months mostly by blog and forum posting.

How can you be sure about that? Google has access to sites bookmarked by "Google Bookmarks" and can get rich data about bookmark creation and bookmark use.

Would you bookmark every article? I was told you should have original stuff on your blog and a few selected articles bookmarked.

Since alot of social sites let people view your site as a press release then I'm guessing bookmarking every article is a good idea, but i am not sure about the idea of making 5 accounts and uploading an article with a different account to make it look like a genuine upload from someone else.

Kye.

1) Just like SEO, it's a numbers game. Would you want only your home page indexed with Google, or every page on your site? It's the same with social bookmarking. Index every article. The likely hood that one of your articles will appear in a users search increases.


2) Some sights will prevent you from resubmitting the same article, for example, Digg does a search for duplicate articles first. That may work better for pure social networking sites like facebook or myspace, but to be honest, i wouldn't waste the time it would take to create 5 accounts. Make 1 account on each network, search for friends based on keywords, then start bookmarking. The combo of the backlinks and incoming traffic will be enough to get you started.