Social bookmarking

Hey all...

People are talking about the using of Social Bookmarking as a way to promote a website.

Are those bookmarks really helps in SERPs ?
How do people use it ? Just go and Bookmark every website they have inside all the social bookmarks networks ?

Thanks for any response...

Guy.

bookmarking sites can help you to generate traffic and are a good tool to spread good words;
check out this article (folksonomy's benefit) for more information:
http://www.linkstraffic.net/tips/webtips.php

-social bookmarking can help you to get more link and to increase your page rank
- but the problem is to rank well because people use many different word to bookmarks your web site and it can all them words that not target which will help you to search engines for not related keywords.

Social bookmarking is very good in terms of traffic generation, but i doubt whether it has any SEO value since most of the Bookmarking sites has No-flow enabled.

Social Bookmarking is a nice option... It is able to generate huge traffic to website and also make your website remember to visitor if your website is bookmark...

It also make place to place you nice ideas and business plan to attract customer to your business.... It also increase BL....

Social Bookmarking shouldn't be used to generate pure traffic, but it should be used to create some backlinks to your site. Creating backlinks will bring you SERPS which will bring you traffic :-D

Rich

I use social bookmarking and it's a good source for backlinks.. ;)

Is it blatant to list your recommended anchor text for social bookmarking sites? (i.e. article on fast red cars- at the end of your article, add fast red cars to one of the following- and list the social bookmarking sites of your choice)

It would throw another kw into your article plus attempt to control what people use to bookmark your articles...

social media sites sure help... but its is tremendously important that we use social media sites in the most ethical way... as they are here to help us... Self-promotion fuels hostility in social bookmarking users. Do it too much and you can expect a backlash.

Okay I have a bet for you...

Step 1.Find a keyword that you have a 11-20th position for.
Step 2.Pull a rank report.
Step 3.Bookmark the page through google, del.icio.us, NowPublic and stumbleupon.
Step 4.In 1 week check your ranking.
Step 5.Come back and tell us that you are wrong.

Send me the results. If you don't see it move I'll give you a basic SEO check for free.

The problem with forums and opinions is that your type guesses rather than test theories out, and you drop these one-liners that some n008iez take as the truth and you hurt more than you help.

Unless you have thoroughly tested something or have received the information from an authoritative source, please do not throw your unfounded opinions out in a manner that may be construed incorrectly. It is, after all, just an opinion.

I form opinions, but they are based on many facts from respected industry leaders. If I don't know something I test and retest it, then release my findings and methods.

Please keep this in mind when commenting in the future.

GaryTheScubaGuy

Social Bookmarking

Wikipedia defines it this way:
In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists are either accessible to the public or a specific network, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Most social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks which are associated with given "tags", and rank the resources by the number of users which have bookmarked them. Many social bookmarking services also have implemented algorithms to draw inferences from the tag keywords that are assigned to resources by examining the clustering of particular keywords, and the relation of keywords to one another.

GaryTheScubaGuy defines it this way:
One of the best free ways to get links and traffic, for very little time commitment other than setup.
This very moment most search engine algorithms are placing a ton of weight on end-user ‘bookmarking’, ‘tagging’ or one of various types of end-user generated highlighting.
Before doing any of this run a rank report to track your progress. I have tested this on terms showing on page one, on terms ranked 11th through 12th and others buried around pages 5-10. It works on them all in different time frames, and they last for different periods of time. This you will need to test yourself.
Be careful because you don’t want to be identified as a spammer. Be sure to use genuine content that provides a benefit to the user.

Here is how I recommend doing this.
1. Download this; Roboform. (It says it will limit you but I’ve had as many as 30+ passwords created and stored in the trial version) This will allow you to quickly fill out signup forms and store passwords for the 10 Bookmark sites that I am going to be sending you to.

2. Within Roboform go to the custom area and put a username and password in, as well as your other information that sites usually ask for to register. This way when you are using these different bookmarks it’s a 1-click login in and becomes a relatively quick and painless procedure.

3. Establish account with these Social Bookmark Sites;
a. Digg
b. Technorati
c. Del.icio.us
d. NowPublic
e. StumbleUpon
f. BlinkList
g. Spurl
h. Furl
i. Slashdot
j. Simpy

4. IE, Firefox and most other browsers have an “add a tab” option, but I use Firefox because I can bookmark the login pages in one file, then “open all tabs” in one click. From here I click on each tab and in most cases, if you set it up right, Roboform will have already logged you in. Otherwise you’re on the login page and by clicking on the Roboform button everything is prefilled, all you need to do is click submit. (some of the bookmark sites will allow you to add their button into your browser bar, or you can get an extension from Firefox like the Digg Add-on to make things quicker)

5. Lastly, Install the Google Toolbar. It has a bookmark function as well, and you can import all your bookmarks from Firefox directly into it. Google looks at many different things when assigning rank and trust. For instance, when you search for something and go into a website, Google will remember how long you stayed, how deep you went, and if you came back out into the search to select another site, which means you didn’t find what you were looking for. This is all part of the Privacy Issues that have been in the news.

Here’s what Google actually says! "The Google Toolbar automatically sends only standard, limited information to Google, which may be retained in Google's server logs. It does not send any information about the web pages you visit (e.g., the URL), unless you use Toolbar's advanced features.”
They practically spell it out for you. Use their bookmark feature just like you were doing the social bookmarking I outlined above. This is just one more click.

Each time you publish an article put a Google Alert on a unique phrase. Each time Google sends you an alert, bookmark it on every bookmark site. This will take some getting used to, but will eventually become second-nature. Remember what I said in the beginning; “One of the best free ways to get links and traffic, for very little time commitment other than setup”.

When you start seeing traffic coming in and your SERPs getting better you will use the heck out of this. I’m waiting for someone to come out with software that will automate this process completely, but by the time that hits nofollows may come into play. But for the time being it works and it works well.

GaryTheScubaGuy

This concept of Social Bookmarking is somewhat new to me... so I am looking forward to trying it out. Meanwhile, I have read about having public bookmarks eg.. Addme to Google on your website. How do you get the code to add these?

Yep there is something in it ok. My site targets largely uncompetative keywords. I social book marked 1 page and by mistake used some words that werent even in the page I bookmarked at digg (I only used 1 site to date). The very next day that page is listed number 1 for a keyword not even on the page.

I will be doing some more over the next few days so long as time allows.

My fears are you will drop as fast as you climb when google flicks the switch on this.

It should be noted that you shouldn't bookmark "just anything" nor should you bookmark "everything"... you'll can get your accounts banned (e.g. like SEOChat with digg).