2008-05-06

Do-Follow Social Bookmarking Sites That Actually Work


Link Backs are great way to increase your page rank and search engine listing. One strategy to gain these backlinks is to bookmark your content in social marking sites that do not use the ‘nofollow’ tag. Generally speaking, the higher the PageRank (PR) of the site, the better.

Here is the list of such site ( i have use only few of them though )

  1. Backflip (6)
  2. Bibsonomy (6)
  3. LinkaGoGo (6)
  4. Mister-Wong (6)
  5. Spurl (6)
  6. Buddy Marks (5)
  7. MyLinkVault (5)
  8. SpotBack (5)
  9. A1 Webmarks (4)
  10. ClipClip (4)
  11. Connectedy (4)
  12. OYAX (4)
  13. MyVmarks (4)
  14. TeDigo (4)
  15. Complore (3)
  16. ez4u (3)
  17. Info4It (3)
  18. MyPIP (3)
  19. Space-Ed (3)
  20. SyncOne (3)
  21. Yattle (2)
  22. Upchuckr (0)

Why Use Social Bookmarking?

Every time you add a bookmark to one of your pages in one of these sites you create a backlink. If you bookmark every piece of content you create in all of these sites you can build a lot backlinks over time.

For the purposes of backlinks, you want to make sure that the bookmarking sites provide a real, do-follow link. This rules out the biggest of the bunch - Delicious as it is no-follow. I found lots of big no-follow sites and I also found several that don’t provide real backlinks - they use their own form of dynamic link which does not count as a backlink.

One other thing to be aware of is that even though these are your personal bookmarks, you need to ensure that they are public - that way other people (Google really) can find them. But be careful, some bookmarking sites such as Connotea have a specific niche and probably wont appreciate your toenail clipping bookmarks.

Some Notable Additions

There are some bookmarking sites that are either nofollow or they use a dynamic link structure. However, even a nofollow link can be valuable to some extent because Google is not the only search engine and there is also the issue of human readers. In the case of particularly big sites such as Delicious, those bookmarks often get copied to many other places so one nofollow link in delicious could actually result in about a dozen links elsewhere though this tends to happen only with popular links.

In the next section of this post I point you towards several services that allow you to bookmark at many sites all in one go. Under these circumstances adding your links to a few extra sites can take just a few seconds more so for that reason I have also listed below a few extra bookmarking sites that don’t offer real dofollow backlinks but are very high profile and worth using under those circumstances:

  1. Delicious (8)
  2. Furl (8)
  3. Blinklist (7)
  4. Folkd (7)
  5. NetVous (6)
  6. Simpy (6)

Speeding Up the Bookmarking Process

It can take time to visit all of these sites individually, and type in the details multiple times so there are various tools to help you:

Social Marker

SocialMarker is a pretty useful web application that allows you to type in the details (name, url, tags, description) etc just ones and then it brings up the submission pages for each site you have selected and you just click through them very quickly.

Most ff the sites I mention in the list are supported by Social Marker and it is regularly updated. It’s not without it’s flaws however - sometimes it misses out information and you’ll find a submission page without tags for example so do have a good over what you are submitting for each site.

There are some other similar services too such as Social Poster,

5 comments:

Revival Ink said...

This is a great resource. Thank you.

Richard Butler said...

I am a huge fan of social bookmarking sites because they truly give me free valuable traffic. But of course like you, I don't use them all. I only select those websites that provide me good service. A good example is propeller.com, although its not included on your list above..

Pradeep said...

Yeah propeller.com is great for free traffic but m not sure if its dofollow or not thats why i didn't include it if u have any experience about propeller.com then let me know if it support dofollow then i will surely add it to my list

Anonymous said...

I have compiled a list of some do follow social bookmarking sites.

www.totagit.com
www.wigleytagz.com
www.buzztagz.com
www.socialblink.com
www.youtagz.com

shabbir said...

one more useful do follow bookmarking site
which is onlinesocialbookmarking.com

thanks.