What's the value of Social Bookmarking

Hi,

I have just read that submitting your site for Social Bookmarking is a good SEO promotion strategy for increasing the SERP of my website.

How effective is it?

Are there any drawbacks?

What is the best way to start doing it?

Jimbob

Social bookmarking is great place on which you can promote your site and your blog. It is a way to increase traffic for a site and increasing serp of a site. It is effective if you submit a link with unique title and content. Based on my experience, social bookmarking can bring traffic for a site but just a temporary. If you submit a link from a social bookmarking site everday, i think it is a spamming.

Honestly the benefits of Social Bookmarking Sites is to increase only your site traffic and popularity...

I personally am on the fence for the exact reasons you stated. Spamming. For it occur naturally, I am all for it. The problem lay in the fact it is wide open for spamming. Value? I'd assume spend that time researching and getting a high value link of 100 "bookmark" spam submissions every day of the week.

Until I see something done to control the spam, I won't see any value in it.

I have a blog which at 3rd page google.com Then I make a story in digg and submit it with backlinks towards the blog using the targeted anchor text.Two days after, my blog went suddenly to number 9 google.com and that is the only thing I did. It is still number 9 as of this day (staying in top 10 for more than 5 days already)

i don't say that spamming isn't effective. to the contrary, it can be very effective. the lifecycle however, for the amount of time invested, is what i question. hense, the value of doing it is not in today, but 12, 18, 24 months from now.

stability in serps is not just continued quality link development, but on those developed links continuing to maintain their value. hense, spending time "spamming" vs spending time on "quality link development" is in the end, the real question. if you're strategically planning a long term project, where is your time better invested. that is a question which is unique to a project. what are your goals, long and short, and how do you intend to achieve them.

give visitors the capability to do it themselves, that's natural. any other means is just one more form of spam.

remember kiddos, your success or failure is directly dependent upon the success of search and search engines. that success depends upon the quality of what searchers find. drive them away and you drive away your own future business.

I believe the job of SEO's is to help search engines deliver quality results so we can all make money; not just today, but the many tomorrows that follow. spamming doesn't hurt just search engines, it hurts everyone and I for one have no interest in condoning it. Eventually, like smoking, it will kill you.

Go through this post of GaryTheScubaGuy

I am new to webmaster seo skills!

When you suggest natural ranking is best, do you mean by methods other than directory and bookmarking submissions and where ranking is achieved more from a) good site seo and good targeted back links?

James

Natural rankings can pull the highest CTR. For virtually all industries, your ROI per dollar spent is going to be much higher (even when hiring a internet firm - unless you've way over paid) Vs. that spent on an effective PPC campaign. However, if the PPC campaign makes a net profit, it should not be entirely dismissed.

Much depends upon what you budget allows you to do. Most people don't have the type of budgets they need (why so many do self SEO) or they lack a true understanding of the revenues they can develop and hesitate to spend what is necessary to succeed.

There are a lot of different ways to market a website. From media marketing (targeted industry news outlets and local papers) to company blogs, ppc, viral, email, affiliate. Promotion is promotion. However, a campiagn is centered always around the limitations of budget, and has to be customized to the type of site you're dealing with.

I have personnal preferences so there are types of projects I simply won't get involved with.

Again, natural use of bookmarking is a valid promotional approach. i.e. giving users the ability to easily take an action - create a social book mark (You will find this capability all over SEO Chat). Something that should be done based upon your clients market and marketing strategy.

I am not saying "Don't give the opportunity", I am saying "Don't manipulate through developing fake book marks". The ranking benefits I am on the fence, again, because of the ease with which the system can be abused. The question is directed from years of experience and in my own mind it boils down to; "Is this just one more thing that will disappear because of abuse".

Relative to directories, no, I wish I could find fathoms post. he mentioned it before in a much better way than I will.

Directories help with organizing information. This helps search engines. You should make directories part of your marketing strategy if it is relative to what your sites marketing goals are.

Social bookmarking simply boost your traffic..it help your site content travel across the internet and increase your popularity...

Hi,

I need Social Bookmark list


Regards
Rak

hi edt,

try on net there is so many free list available online

aside from improving the site's traffic, it's a way of having deep links...

traffic is the only benefit I can see in doing Socialbookmarking since most SB uses no follow tag which can't help to improve serp,.

but the traffic here is not for long,.

I agree traffic in social bookmarking is not for long unless you submit blog post everyday. It is not advisable to submit link to a social bookmarking site because i think it is a form of spamming or your account might be ban.