Use of social bookmarking for SEO

Hi everyone,
I am new to the forum and in fact to search engine optimisation.
I'd like your view on the use of social bookmarking sites for SEO. Do you have favourite sites, do you only use a few or as many as possible etc etc.

I like the exchange of ideas and knowledge. Think forum are a really good place to learn more. So I hope to get some interesting answers of you and I can contribute to other threads with interesting comments.

Thanks in advance.

Check out the 30 Day Challenge - this will teach you a lot about social bookmarking for SEO and traffic purposes.

Hola!

The only bookmarking service I use is StumbleUpon. Not that I don't like the others; it's just that... well, I've never used anything else, to be honest. The only reason I use SU is I like to surprised, especially if I need a refresher . But yes, social networking does have its own benefits when it comes to SEO. Here are a few articles I pulled from Google for you:

http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Website-...d-Hardcore-SEO/ (Neat Intro to the Social Networking, not just bookmarking)

http://social-bookmarking-seo.blogspot.com/ (Nice dedicated blog)

http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/13370.asp (Pretty good advice)

yar! i have same question as antop. some one advice me to promote my website by bookmarking to social network. however, i don't know how useful it will be and how much social network sites it should be added.

thanks for your share!

Though I can't fully understand your post, you might want to take a look at some of links I just posted, then ask more specific questions.

Thanks pacific monk,

the sites were really interesting.
But there are hundreds of bookmarking sites out there it would take ages to post a new link on each page and how do you decide which one to use??

New links on what page? No entiendo.

As for choosing bookmarking sites, you should go with ones that are most popular, assuming we're both thinking on the same plane. What I'm not talking about is:

1) Going about adding your site to bookmarking websites from different accounts.
2) Buying stumbles/diggs/reddits etc which is basically point no. 1, only outsourced.
3) Doing some other spammy activity.

What I've been referring to is bookmarking your own site on maybe a couple or more social sites, giving it a "thumbs up," "digging it" etc. But what I think is more important is to have content on your site that would get bookmarked by your visitors without any intervention on your part. You can add those bookmark buttons to the top or bottom of your pages. I believe you can get these from the respective bookmarking sites.

Also, I believe bookmarking is only one phase in what is, call it a more holistic approach, social media marketing. Personally, I wouldn't take a day off just to go around bookmarking my own sites. I'd rather build content.

thanks Pacific_Monk!

I have one more question. i have a list of nearly 40 well know social network sites. do you think that it will have a good effect if i do bookmarking my website to all of these social network sites?

you can use as much site as you can. But if you are doing it for SEO purpose you need to find out is it Dofollow or Nofollow before posting.

It could be good for traffic to.

when you are going to implement social media marketing campaign.
First identify good traffic provider as well do follow social bookmarking sites. like Digg.com
Find out Good traffic provider site but have nofollow, post in it.
Like stumbleupon.

Second: Do it with do follow one site so you will get link back at least.

I use stumbleupon for my site to get indexed quickly.

okie! thank a lot for your detail. by the way, would you please give me more about the concept of dofollow and nofollow ?

one more thing, do you think that wikis sites will be good for us to do SEO? there is any tips to do with wiki sites?

once again, thank for your kind understanding.

[QUOTE=Pacific Monk]Hola!

The only bookmarking service I use is StumbleUpon. Not that I don't like the others; it's just that... well, I've never used anything else, to be honest. The only reason I use SU is I like to surprised, especially if I need a refresher . But yes, social networking does have its own benefits when it comes to SEO. Here are a few articles I pulled from Google for you:

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Thanks for the links !

I also dont understand what is meant with DOFOLLOW AND NOFOLLOW ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow. Dofollow means a link isn't nofollowed (aka a regular link)

I always use social bookmarkings...

I wish we could stop people from adding nothing to discussions by just posting crap or blatantly repeating what has already been said just to up their post count.

The main reason being I like to read all the new posts, and I reckon I'm wasting at least a hour a day as alot of threads new posts add nothing new to the thread, so what was the point in posting?

If you have nothing new to add don't post!!!