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22 Do-Follow Social Bookmarking Sites That Actually Work (and how to bookmark QUICKLY)

November 29, 2007 Posted under: Promotion by Caroline Middlebrook

One way backlinks to the pages of a domain give it authority in Google over time. 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’s 22 such sites that I have been using (PR in brackets):

UPDATED 6th April 2008

  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. I talked about social bookmarking in an earlier post and discussed how it differs to news submission, which I do not do for my niche sites.

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, and the boys at the Thirty Day Challenge are also working on one.

MemoKeys - Keyboard Shortcuts For Text

At some point you will need to copy & paste the Title, URL, Description and Tags into the relevant forms. You will probably find yourself doing this a lot. So here is an amazing timesaver…

MemoKeys is a free piece of software that simply allows you to allocate a piece of text to a keyboard shortcut. I’ve been using it for a long while to assign commonly typed information such as my name, my email address and my blog URL. But I’ve also found it incredibly useful for this Social Bookmarking.

First download and install MemoKeys II Lite from Download.com. Check out the following screenshot:

memokeys

MemoKeys works by a combination of two keys - a control key and a secondary key. For my control key I use that weird character to the left of the number 1 on my keyboard. Then for my secondary keys I use letters that are easy to remember. Eg:

  • N - my Name
  • E - my Email address
  • B - my Blog URL

Now whenever I go to socially bookmark a new page I will setup the following keys also:

  • T - Title
  • A - tAgs
  • D - Descrition
  • U - URL

Obviously, use whatever key combinations work for you. Then as you go through the sites, just press the keys instead of typing or copying & pasting. I cannot stress how much time this saves!

Firefox Tabs

For the other sites that aren’t supported by Social Marker, I have them all bookmarked in a folder in Firefox and I simply right click on that folder and select ‘Open in Tabs’. This closes any existing tabs (use the Session Manager plugin if you want to save them) and opens one tab for each site. Then it’s pretty quick to plow through each one using the keyboard shortcut as described above to populate the information.

Using these methods I can bookmark a page on all 24 sites in under 10 minutes.

How to Bookmark For SEO

The purpose of this exercise is to generate backlinks to our content pages that help them rank better in Google. I’ll assume that each piece of content is optimised for some keyword. There are usually three places where you can add information:

  • The title
  • Tags
  • Description

Make sure your keyword is in all three of them. Note that the title especially usually becomes the anchor text that is used in the resulting link so the title is arguably the most important element to get right.

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151 Comments:

Guy Maltais
November 29, 2007

Thanks Caroline… The amount of work here is amazing! The DO-Follow is crucial in building up those backlinks and in turn gaining in popularity on google PR. I will be bookmarking this post and using it as a bookmarking guideline.

Facundo
November 29, 2007

Hi Caroline.

i get here stumbling.

Very nice article!.

I only disagree with you on one point: Social marketing on no-follow sites can be helpful too: if your article is really good, some blogers would read it and link to you. I’m doing that rigth now!

saludos desde argentina
Facundo

Kate Saltfleet
November 29, 2007

This has cleared up a lot of the mystery surrounding social bookmarking for me - clearly I have much to learn as I’d only heard of Furl and AskJeeves. Thanks for this useful post.

Neena
November 29, 2007

Caroline,
You continue to be a wealth of knowledge. I really don’t know how you do it - but the information you provide helps us all to harness the power of the web.

Oliver Taco
November 29, 2007

Caroline -

Those are all good ones, thanks!

-OT

Kim Fleming
November 29, 2007

LOL, I can’t think of any other blog whose posts I actually print out and save for reference.

Welcome back,

Kim Fleming
member, Caroline Middlebrook Appreciation Society

Patrick Altoft
November 29, 2007

I really don’t agree with this advice, some sites will ban you for using them in this way. I remember when Digg first started everybody was adding stories for links and then they banned all our sites. 6 months later when Digg was huge everybody else could get on the front page except people who spammed it early on.

Surely the idea of social bookmarking is to get real links from real sites? I can’t imagine Google counting links from these sites very much.

Also blinklist has nofollow as far as I can see.

Ruchir
November 29, 2007

Check out this FireFox plugin Caroline, it also helps in automating stuff. You just have to know a little coding: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863

The name is iOpus iMacros.

deborah
November 29, 2007

Thanks for all of this information. I’m focusing on a few of these sites and developing friends and a community there. Now that I’ve been on DIGG longer, I can spot a “spam” message a mile away, and that helps me to know and learn how to create truly useful content.

What are the traffic results you’re getting from the social bookmarking?

Peter
November 29, 2007

What is it with you and toenail clipping - LOL

Peter
November 29, 2007

@Patrick, I take your point entirely, spamming bookmark sites is a really bad idea!

But Caroline totally knows this and with all respect that’s NOT what she said…

She said bookmarking articles on your site “over time” and using a tool to make that easier when you do.

But it’s a point well worth repeating.

You MUST MUST MUST do “responsible” bookmarking and you should REALLY REALLY REALLY not only book your own sites.

You need to get a good REPUTATION as a bookmark reviewer and that means ranking relevant links, with real reviews on a RANGE of sites, not just your own.

Also as Caroline said, you need to LOOK at the bookmark site and make sure the content you are suggesting (not just your own) is relevant to them and in their style, like picking the most appropriate category.

But again, great point Patrick, for any one else just skimming through this article. Bookmark responsibly and with variety.

I also agree with Facundo.
Although follow links may give you the fastest buck SEO, you cannot ignore a valuable audience just because a site uses no follow.
In actual fact it’s Furony.com. The sites with no follow are probably better value as they are real, as they are not spammed by backlink hunters.
As a person who genuinely wanted something, which bookmark site would you end up actually using?

But I am very worried about all these toe nail clippings! Is this a code name for some secret society of what? (LOL joke)

But I am never lending you a hot water bottle Caroline!

Peter

Mike Huang
November 29, 2007

Good to see you’re back and blogging Caroline :) This is just a great post, I’m sure most of us will use these tips!

-Mike

Vanessa Salvia
November 29, 2007

Hi Caroline, Thanks for the valuable info as usual! SocialPoster is similar to SocialMarker but I haven’t used it. Can you tell if there is a difference between them?

Emma Nelson
November 30, 2007

Thanks, that’s some useful info, I may actually have to follow your advice and do it. I’ve been following your blog for awhile now, and you’ve had some amazing success. Your subscriber count is very impressive. Best of luck.

Making Sales Making Money
November 30, 2007

I may have to work with this a while, been a rough week for a technology challenged blogger like myself

Stephen Cronin
November 30, 2007

I’ve been meaning to sign up with more social bookmarking sites (to get more traffic - but if they are dofollow, then that’s even more reason to do so).

I was going to use OnlyWire which seems to be similar to SocialMarker (but it only has 8 of the sites you listed). Thanks for making me aware of SocialMarker. I’ll have to look into both of these further.

Heather
November 30, 2007

Wow Caroline - this is something new for me and gives me some work to do! You sure do provide great information and comprehensive detail. Thank you!

Evan Hadkins
November 30, 2007

Thanks Caroline.

Another gem like commenting strategy.

Very much appreciated.

Craig Ritchie
November 30, 2007

Wow. Fantastic info Caroline. Thanks.

I do, however, wonder about the delicious no-follow statement you’re making — I’m sure you’re correct, but why is it that my Google Alerts send me pages from delicious and what are apparently links from delicious taggers?

It seems to me Google is following them, no?

Dennis Edell
November 30, 2007

This is an awesome post indeed. Just be very careful. It is true that you can get penalized for self-bookmarking, spam or not, and it is my understanding that they don’t really care how many “other” sites you bookmark in between.

Ivy
November 30, 2007

Another post with great value Caroline! I’m stumbling it.

Caroline - this is just the article I needed to be working “smartly” - thanks - I love my subscription to your blog since it’s always got practical tips. Is your blog a “do follow” that gives backlinks. - Cyndee Haydon

Gnaka
November 30, 2007

That’s a nice list Caroline!

And I agree with other commentators above that even no follow link on major sites can be valuable. They have the potential to bring a lot of indirect backlinks to your blog!

One more thing I have observed in my Google webmaster account is, Google follow even no-follow links. It is still not known, whether they give any weightage to it or not!

Ron
November 30, 2007

Hi Caroline,

Hope you are doing better,

A little tip when bookmarking that can be of benefit when done RESPONSIBLY and not all the time is to use more than one tag (2-3) where available. Each tag is basically another page.

Also in regards to those in question about if a site has no-follow or not, a good add on for firefox is SEOquake.

It has an option than put a thin line through a link if it is a no-follow plus give some other good info about the site

bmunch
November 30, 2007

Nice of you to list the dofollow social bookmarking sites. Normally a list like that will just list out the norm but you take it a step further by listing dofollow sites.

You are really providing informative content.

Tay
November 30, 2007

Wow, Caroline - I’ve never done this before and you’ve certainly given me a lot of work to get caught up on! In the most recent PR update (and the first since my new domain), I didn’t get the kind of rankings for my internal pages that I’d hoped for. Now I have a better solution of increasing my backlinks. Thanks tons! :)

Alan
November 30, 2007

Cyndee Haydon: Carolines links are no-follow.

Caroline Middlebrook
November 30, 2007

@Patrick, This was the very issue I discussed a few weeks back in my post about the differences between social bookmarking and story submission. The key difference is that with story submission like Digg, you are unloading your content onto other people for their approval. Using PURELY bookmarking sites, your bookmarks are your own for you to do with as you please.

@Deborah, funnily enough I’ve not actually done this very much yet! I don’t use this strategy for this blog but I have been experimenting with it for my niche site which I haven’t done much with yet so I’ve just bookmarked about 5 pages so far so I don’t have much traffic info to report yet.

@Peter, actually that is not what I’m saying at all - this is NOT STORY SUBMISSION, you don’t need to get approval from the sites, check the relevancy (well you do if the bookmarking site has a specific niche) - you just bookmark your chosen pages and that’s it.

@Vanessa, there’s lots of different services to automate the submissions - Social Poster, Social Marker, OnlyWire and they all do pretty much the same thing but in slightly different ways. Just uses the one(s) you are most comfortable with.

@Craig, No Google Alerts is different. When you set up an alert (I have one for “twitter” for example) then Google uses that as a search query and will send you an email of everything that matches that query. That is not the same as following a link when doing it’s crawl and passing on link-juice which can increase search authority. Totally different thing entirely.

@Clearwater, no I do not use do-follow links in my comments section if that’s what you mean :)

@Gnaka, yes that is true that it is not really known what the “nofollow” tag does and also, other search engines such as Yahoo ignore it completely. However it takes time to do all this bookmarking so I figure by concentrating on the do-follow ones you’re getting more bang for your buck so to speak.

@Ron, I use the Firefox plugin SearchStatus which highlights all no-follow links in pink making them extremely obvious.

paradise5000
November 30, 2007

Thank you Caroline, this is a good article and valuble information.

Port Orange Juice
December 3, 2007

Thanks for great social bookmarking information. I will subscribe to your RSS feed. I has been self bookmarking for a while and didn’t know that it was detrimental to Google placement. Keep the info coming.

Eric
December 4, 2007

Hey Caroline,

Great list, but one thing… I just had a look at Blinklist, and it looks like it’s a no-follow link to me…

Eric

Internet Junkie
December 8, 2007

I sent an email to StumbleUpon and asked them if stumbling my blog posts would be considered as spamming and the answer was yes!
I have been writing articles for Associated Content and submitted them all to different Bookmarking sites, I also bookmarked my blog (only the main URL).
After reading your post I will start bookmarking other blog’s posts and mix a few of my own (only the ones that give real info, not the toenail clippings!)

Indian Bookmarking site
December 9, 2007

Hello

Nice collection of Top Bookmarking sites. I just came across another indian Bookmarking site.

http://www.Tagza.com

Mostly you will find every kind of links there.

Joodle Doodle
December 14, 2007

Excellent list of do-follow bookmarks! If you have any more and new ones please consider adding them to do the list!

TechDune
December 16, 2007

Thanks Caroline,
I have never heard of these sites, need to try some of them.

Doug
January 3, 2008

Hey here is one that I created last week.

Upchuckr.com I created a wordpress plugin already for the site.

Vlad
January 4, 2008

It’s funny that I have come across this post on BumpZee (another do-follow community) just before I wanted to post a question about the fate of “no nofollow” movement among bloggers. I have supporter of removing nofollow in the blog comments, however I am starting to change my mind in that respect… So I may eventually remove them from my blog.

I hope that Google would just abolish nofollow completely and rely on some other method to attribute the importance of links and pages. Thanks for your post though- very informative.

Vlad
January 5, 2008

Furl is using redirects, so the absence of nofollow is not that big of a deal.

James
January 5, 2008

I noticed however, that most of this pages are not cached by Google. While it is true that there are nonofollows, Google still cannot read the page :(

Diyana Alcheva
January 7, 2008

Thanks Caroline,

I was researching more about socialmarker and how to use it in the most beneficial way and I came across your post after i did a search on google.

I am so glad I did!

I am gathering infomation on Social bookmarking so that I can teach it to our group of beginners network marketers on the Internet.

I am going to download the MemoKeys software and subscribe by e-mail so that I don’t miss any valuable post you make from now on.

You are someone to definately follow and learn from.

Diyana Alcheva
January 7, 2008

I wanted to see which of the 24 sites I had to save to my favourites and manually submit to and so I started counting which ones were already in socialmarker.

I was able to find only 9 and not 13. Maybe they had deleted the other 4 since you posted this article? Or is it possible that some of the sites are known with other names as well?

Sam Dodd
January 7, 2008

This is a great article win a ton of useful information. Thanks so much for sharing what I am sure took you hours of research.

Franck Silvestre
January 8, 2008

Thank you for the list, and all the best for your Internet venture.

Shane
January 8, 2008

Great list! I’m using a few of them already; will have to check out the rest.

Quick question: (This will make me sound like a newbie) How do you tell if a site has ‘nofollow’ tags or not? Not knowing how to do this on my own makes a list like this even more valuable.

BTW: I found this post through a link on another site on Digg. I don’t just use these sites for promoting my stuff - I find lots of interesting stuff. By spending time on these places, I also stand out as a real community member rather than someone just promoting my own stuff.

Thanks,

Shane

Fare Soldi
January 9, 2008

I love this post. So much inspiring. I will use all of the tips. Thanks Caroline. You are Great.

Your Italian Fan,
Francesco

allie
January 9, 2008

Awesome post. I am going to do this tonight!

Caroline Middlebrook
January 9, 2008

@Diyana, yeah the problem with this kind of post is that it can become out of date almost as soon as it is written.

@Shane, I use a plugin called “search status” which has an option to highlight nofollow links in a bright pink background. There are other plugins that do the same thing.

joe leighton
January 10, 2008

hi carol….great article. great tips. thank you, thank you & thanks again.

much of my marketing is done via videos posted to youtube, myspace & about 25 other video sites. as you know, these video sites assign a unique URL to each video.

do you reckon that posting these URL’s (with title, tags, etc.)to social bookmarking sites will increase the SE ranking of these videos?

thanks in advance for the professional advice. regards, joe

ps. all comments welcome.

Caroline Middlebrook
January 10, 2008

@Joe, yes it should do - the idea is that you have a bunch of backlinks pointing to a page that are all tagged with a keyword and Google sees this and bosts the authority of that page as a result.

Robert
January 11, 2008

Hi, Caroline.

Good list!

However, I notice #13 (Xilnus) is no longer working. Going to the main page, I noticed the developer made a comment to the effect that the bookmarking service was just an experiment.

You may want to delete Xilnus from your posted list.

Caroline Middlebrook
January 11, 2008

@Robert, hmm odd, it’s still working for me.

jayen
January 12, 2008

Great post Caroline, thanks very much for all the links to the tools. I’m currently creating accounts with all the sites that work with social maker, already done so with onlywire (doesn’t seem to work with most of them ;-(), i’ll be using both services since that for the most part they work with different sites.
Ok, off to bookmark this post ;-)

Thanks

Jayen

jayen
January 12, 2008

mmm, from what i can see “MyJeeves / Ask” doesn’t have any kind of public page where the Search Engines can find your links! Maybe i’m wrong??

Jayen

James
January 14, 2008

Is this the case

“I noticed however, that most of this pages are not cached by Google. While it is true that there are nonofollows, Google still cannot read the page”

Or will they get cached eventually.

alibata
January 14, 2008

seems like diigo doesn’t support dofollow? correct me if I’m wrong.
If we can suggest, you can add Jackool Social Bookmarker in the list.

kip
January 14, 2008

you have interesting articles. thanks for posting it. I suscribe to you blog :) CHEERS!

Sorin
January 15, 2008

I am the owner of SocialMarker.com.
The sites you emailed me will be added.

There are a lot of cool features to be added for SocialMarker which will make it the fastest and best social bookmarking tool!

Marvin
January 16, 2008

I’m only now beginning to explore social book marking as a means of improving page rank. Needless to say I greatly appreciate the value of experience represented on this blog. I wish to thank Caroline for the excellent job she’s done in pulling all this info together. I’ll be subscribing and look forward to more great posts.

kip
January 16, 2008

I tried the socialmarker.com software- pretty cool!!!!

Razvan
January 16, 2008

Hi Caroline.

With http://www.socialmarking.com you can easily bookmark any site to 130+ social bookmarking services. It also have buttons and blog plugins.

Caroline Middlebrook
January 16, 2008

@Sorin, ahh that’s great news! I think I will need to revisit this post and update it with the latest information as contained in the comments here.

Kryvast
January 21, 2008

Nice lists but some of this are nofollow…

micfo.com
January 21, 2008

Nice list, Thanks Caroline!

John
January 21, 2008

Hi Caroline,

This is a great article about how to achieve more links with bookmarking. Very helpful.

Allen H
January 24, 2008

Awesome list and explanation of social bookmarking and how to make the best use of them.

Loretta
January 24, 2008

Until just now I had completely overlooked whether or not those sites links were follow or no follow. I can’t believe I wasn’t even thinking about that. Good tips.

Caroline Middlebrook
January 24, 2008

@Loretta, well even a no-follow link can be useful to some extent because Google is not the *only* search engine around and some of the others ignore that tag. And of course a link can always be found by humans too.

Rachana
January 25, 2008

Very nice list. I have bookmarked this site and hope to use that list for my reference and for my work too.

Paul
January 28, 2008

Very helpful list Caroline, I didn’t realize that some of the bookmarking sites were no follow.

Rob
January 28, 2008

Thanks Caroline, this social marker tool seems to cut down the time to add to all the sites.

Faraz
February 14, 2008

Thanks for the list Caroline.

Is your blog a do-follow blog ? :)

also how can we find if a blog is dofollow or nofollow?

Bridgette
February 14, 2008

Thank you for your article. I loved it and will have to bookmark your site. I have tried the social bookmark site. As soon as I submit something it sends me to propeller and I feel like I am on a different site. It is also asking me to submit and article. What how did I go from a bookmark to an article. I really can’t find any info on what is happening. I have contacted the owner of social bookmarking. Sounds like a great thing, just wish I could figure it out.

Also… Do you know… Do you have to go to each of the bookmark sites first and register?

van man
February 15, 2008

excellent article and i will visit the dofollow links and try them out .

SEO Speaks
February 15, 2008

Excellent post, i have seen dofollow blog list, but first time getting this extra ordinary list of dofollow social book marking websites.
In short excellent.

James Grieg
February 15, 2008

Caroline, you done a great job,
Thanks to Kip also for giving another 130 reference.
Thanks for starting dofollow SB movement.
Regards,
James.

Caroline Middlebrook
February 15, 2008

@Faraz, no mine is not a do-follow blog. One of the ways in which you can easily check is by using the Firefox browser and installing a plugin called “search status” - this has an option to highlight nofollow links in a bright pink background which makes it very obvious.

Caroline Middlebrook
February 15, 2008

@Bridgette, yes you do have to register first with all the sites that you want to use - they are “your bookmarks” remember so you need an account.

Bridgette
February 15, 2008

Yes, I am doing that now. It is taking quite a bit of time. How about the question about the social bookmark site sending you to propeller? Anyone else having that. It also asks about the article, instead of bookmark. Making me think I am not in the correct place.

The article is great by the way.

Fire Town
February 16, 2008

No wonder my competitors are getting ahead of me. ;)

Sorin
February 16, 2008

Hi guys!

I have been able to add almost every dofollow site listed here.

And to make things better I have added an option to select just dofollow websites for submissions.

SEO Speaks
February 17, 2008

Caroline, it’s great resources for social book marking websites, even those who place comments are also great resources for social book marking.
Use this link may helpful reources for visitors.
http://socialposter.com/
Regards,
SEO Speaks.

SEO Speaks’s last blog post..List of Social Book Marking Websites for SEO

Making money online
February 18, 2008

is there any other way of getting to know if a site uses nofollow than the classic page source method?????

Making money online’s last blog post..You Need a Comprehensive Plan to Increase Website Traffic

Caroline Middlebrook
February 18, 2008

@making money online, scroll up, I already answered that question :)

heroes
February 21, 2008

thank you so much for the great list

Fire Town
February 21, 2008

Thanks for the list, and cool comment luv plugin :)

Fire Town’s last blog post..ebay boycott begins

Sapan Behar
February 21, 2008

Thanks for the post, especially the link to Social Marker

Fire Town
February 21, 2008

Question: Using social marker, will all of the bookmarks have the same anchor text?

Fire Town’s last blog post..ebay boycott begins

umre
February 22, 2008

No wonder my competitors are getting ahead of me. ;)

Tom
February 23, 2008

Excellent list. I’m taking a look at all the sites mentioned

Any reason you use SocialMarker instead of OnlyWire? It seems SocialMarker has more sites, but OnlyWire is the easiest. Enter a little text, one click and done! I know, not as many sites, but the ones there from your list have very high PageRank. Any thoughts? Or does quantity win the day with this strategy? Thanks!

Tom’s last blog post..We Are Free of the Past

Mike Dammann
February 23, 2008

I have no preferece either way, whatever is clever :)

Ufc Videos
February 24, 2008

well first of all thanks for this and the great link for social marker too bad some of the bookmarking sites are down

Mike Dammann
February 24, 2008

When using social marker, don´t you use the same anchor in all social bookmarking sites?

Mike Dammann’s last blog post..Ghost Busters

Burn The Fat Friend
February 27, 2008

Thanks, Caroline. Terrific, useful list and common sense advice as always. It is a pity that some of the so-called ‘gurus’ encourage people to open up to 40 accounts at each site to get more links! If that isn’t spamming, I don’t know what is. In the end, such irresponsibility is going to spoil it for all of us. Glad you have a different take on things. If we use these services in a responsible way, we can all build stronger sites over the long-term.

NITMIX
February 29, 2008

A few folks have mentioned Onlywire but I don’t think that they have made one advantage clear.

Once you have an OnlyWire acvcount you enter your login details for the site they list and then just add a few lines for each page you wish to mark. Once you submit your stored logins are used to automatically access the sites in their list.

At the moment the following site from your list above can be done with a single click from OnlyWire.

Blinklist
Furl
Backflip
Bobsonomy
RawSugar
Spurl
Xilnus
Diigo

It is a shame OnlyWire hasn’t been expanded since it started but it may be to do with the interfacing to the various log ins.

Hope that helps

Guru Bob
March 11, 2008

Thanks for the list Caroline. There are so many SB sites so it is useful to find the ones that are working for others.

Guru Bob

NITMIX
March 11, 2008

These are not split between DoFollow and NoFDollow but it is the largest list of We2.0 site I know of

http://www.allthingsweb2.com/

Worth a look for 2.0 niche sites.

Drupal SEO
March 11, 2008

While searching on internet I found your blog very interesting. Thanks for posting the list of Social Bookmarking sites.

Thanks for giving information of dofollow social bookmark sites. I believe that dofollow social bookmark sites will be more popular than nofollow social bookmark in the future because of giving backlinks to visitors or the members. Let’s promote dofollow SB!

elaine
March 15, 2008

very good idea, learn much from you.

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Jon_H
March 15, 2008

Thanks for the great post. Today, I am just cruising around and learning more about how to use social media properly.

Love oyur Wordpress Niche Sites ebook. I thibnk you did a great job. I read it before even finishing reading all these great comments.

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Arnel Pineda
March 16, 2008

thanks so much for this post.. i keep on coming back to this page as my reference… I never grew tired of reading it again and again and again!

THanks again mate!

Global Fusion
March 17, 2008

Caroline,

Thanks for the list. I found this post while ago and decided to work on your suggestions. They were right on target.

One thing I found out is that even though Delicio.us does not allow links to be followed, most smaller social bookmark sites allow you to import your bookmarks from them. So I tried for the heck of experimenting and realized that my Delicio.us bookmarks can be replicated automatically in several other sites.

Now, my question for you is: 1) Could that be considered spamming if done at a mass scale? Let’s say 4-5 different accounts from different people, with different IP’s? I would think so. 2) Would this method be effective to get links even though a massive increase of links from social bookmarks can be filtered out by Google and or penalized. 3)What if you link ratio gets unbalance by the presence of too many auto generated links like the ones from social bookmarks?

Your thoughts are appreciated

Kind regards,

Global Fusion
March 17, 2008

BTW, I forgot to say thanks for the tip on the MemoKeys II Lite. Terrific little peace of software that has been helping me a lot to automatize all kinds of tasks. Cannot live without it now. lol

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NITMIX
March 17, 2008

I think you know the answer to a) ;-)

I believe that links are only of use if they are form the path for regular spider visits and many posts to Web 2.0 as simple too deep to fall into this category. Look at your logs to see where spidering is coming from. Finding a few well spidered pages to post on will do you more good than hundreds of un-indexed posts.

Caroline Middlebrook
March 17, 2008

@Global Fusion, actually that’s a good point about Delicious. Another point is that many of the Delicious links get re-posted elsewhere and those other sites are sometimes do-follow.

To answer your question - yes if you use multiple accounts I would consider that spamming. And frankly, why bother? If you posted content on a daily basis and used this method on every post then you would be creating over 700 links (30×24) a month for your site. That should be enough.

And yes if this is the only link building strategy you use, it may look weird to Google. If you are developing real content that attracts links naturally and doing other things as well then mixing in a bit of this shoudn’t be a problem. But I think that taking things to the extreme and trying to do them on a ‘mass scale’ is always a bad idea.

Budhi
March 22, 2008

Nice post, I’ve read this topic sometime ago but reluctant to apply it but now, with the tool you mentioned I’ll give it a try.

Thanks and will come back to read more.

Scoop
March 23, 2008

Bookmark Tracker is no longer “do follow.” They are using dynamic links.

Vincent Moore
March 24, 2008

Just found your site, must give the MemoKeys II a try, it looks really handy.
Thanks

Val
March 24, 2008

Take a look at http://www.entopica.com/, a new social bookmarking website
It is an online system that allows you to easily access, categorize, share and store your bookmarks online
Entopica offers a free registration and it is both quick and easy. Register now and discover a whole new world of social bookmarking

Chantix
March 24, 2008

Thanks a lot,this ia a nice post, I’ve read this topic sometime ago but reluctant to apply it but now, with the tool you mentioned I’ll give it a try.

Misha
March 27, 2008

Thanks for the list and advice Caroline, it is really useful :)

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Warner Carter
March 28, 2008

Thanks for this information I have been looking for which sites follow for 2 weeks and you dropped it in my lap.

I did a post about you today too.

Warner Carter’s last blog post..Advanced Social Bookmarking Automation

Nrwler Halle
March 29, 2008

Thanks for your great list. There are so many social bookmarkers that dont follow in the web…
Such a list is really usefull.

Rick
March 29, 2008

Nice list, will keep me busy today.
great site
Thanks a lot

rienarry
March 29, 2008

Thanks for posting the list of Social Bookmarking sites. That’s helpful for me.. will try one by one. :) success always.

Hi Caroline, I wish I could see a list of “dofollow” blogs in your blog. The list of dofollow bookmarking sites have been sited in many forum sites. You have become an authority on this area.

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Gitaarles Den Haag
April 5, 2008

Great advice. I’ll get right on it for my own site!
Thanks!

Jens

Marvin
April 5, 2008

I have already left a comment on this post but couldn’t resist doing it again. There’s a ton of so called Gurus out there that sell over hyped, often over priced information.

Few Gurus give the kind of specific useful information which Caroline generously and freely offers in this article. As someone with lots of real world business experience I appreciate real value when I see it and what Caroline offers here is not only real but also really valuable.

Congratulations to Caroline for laying down a trail which is easy to follow and actually leads somewhere.

Guru Bob
April 7, 2008

Fantastic post. You know the property maxim… location, location, location? Well, on the internet if you are in the business of creating content, the maxim should be bookmark, bookmark, bookmark!

Cool domains
April 7, 2008

Thanks for your well researched article. I just followed your tips and got to bookmark to over 50 sites in just 1 hour on a slow connection.
Marketing tools

I actually have a theory that Google pays no attention to the “no-follow” tag anyway. As an experiment I uploaded a new site with no backlinks, posted it to a Delicious account, and lo and behold, watched as it got indexed a few weeks later. Anyone else have similar experiences?

orgu modelleri
April 8, 2008

Thanks for this information I have been looking for which sites follow for 2 weeks and you dropped it in my lap.

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Diet
April 9, 2008

Thanks Caroline,

this is very useful list!
Bookmark!

André
April 10, 2008

Excellent post. This is my definition of quality content!

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Q5 Webdesign
April 10, 2008

This is very helpfull. Looking for ages for good Follow Blogs. Thanks so much.

Mark

Ebook
April 13, 2008

@Making money online
To detect dofollow or nofollow you can use firefox plugin: Search Status or Seo For Firefox.

@Caroline Middlebrook
Why don’t you use Brians Threaded Comments so we can reply other comments easily

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Caroline Middlebrook
April 13, 2008

@Ebook, the main reason that I don’t use threaded comments is that I would bloat out the comment count with my own replies and I don’t want to do that. The way I do it now I reply to a whole bunch of people using the @name notation and if I had threaded comments I would have to do them all individually.

David Leonhardt
April 17, 2008

Great list. Thanks.

I also see in Yahoo backlinks Reddit, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Searchles and I think Magnolia, too.

David Leonhardt’s last blog post..5 Reasons to Shorten Your URLs

Caroline Middlebrook
April 17, 2008

@David, Reddit and Mixx are social NEWS sites, not bookmarking sites. These are different beasts and should be treated with care. As for StumbleUpon - if you submit all your stuff to SU as you would bookmark them as shown here your domain will be blacklisted!

Thanks so much for this list. It is very helpful. Provided a couple bookmarking sites I did not know about. Quality Content here. Thanks again

Gio Suryo
April 19, 2008

Thanks for the great article, Caroline. There’s one thing regarding the no-follow tags in your comments section. I use SearchStatus plugin myself, so I can see that the URLs that we include in our comments are indeed marked in pink, BUT our name is not. This makes me wonder because our name on the left of our post is also a link to our website (provided we enter one when we post our comments). My assumption is that the no-follow tag is only for the comments’ space and our names are do-follow. Is that right?

Gio Suryo’s last blog post..American Idol Top 8 Results Show

Gio Suryo
April 19, 2008

By the way, I see that Yaro Starak was visiting your blog earlier. And you are even mentioned by Shoemoney on his blog sometime ago. I guess all those hard work do pay off.

Millionaire Mindset
April 19, 2008

I think social bookmarking is a great way to build backlinks to your site but I find that it is kind of like cutting corners in SEO development because a lot of social bookmarking pages/profiles provide nothing but backlinks .

Caroline Middlebrook
April 19, 2008

@Gio, hmmmm I could have sworn my blog was nofollow!! But you’re right - I’ll have to check my theme. That would certainly explain the increase in spam comments recently hehe.

And yeah it’s nice to see Yaro stop by from time to time!

Gio Suryo
April 19, 2008

Caroline, I see that you got the comment posters’ name part no-followed. Now I rather regret that I told you about it (just kidding, LOL). I just hope the others won’t hate me for it ;)

Caroline Middlebrook
April 19, 2008

@Gio, actually I’m really glad you did. I never wanted to be dofollow as it attracts too much spam from the automated comment software. It turned out to be my Gravatar plugin which is a shame really as I liked the little pics! I’ll try and find another one.

Ami
April 24, 2008

Hi Caroline, Thanks for Such a a Nice List of SB websites.
Still it was earlier about to 24, am i right?
And Here Spurl.net, is not working since very long time, because of heavy spam attacks. If you can find out more SB websites than it will be great for me.

Anil Raju Addipalli
April 24, 2008

Given Very valuable Information Thank YOu

Caroline Middlebrook
April 24, 2008

@Ami, yeah it was 24 at first but I actually had to remove 8 of them in my update! But I found some new ones to bring it up to 21. That’s the trouble with this kind of post - it’s always out of date!

Saeed
April 24, 2008

Many thanks for info. So useful for me.

çiçek
April 24, 2008

well first of all thanks for this and the great link for social marker too

makes money online
April 25, 2008

thanks a lot Caroline and thanks for great links

makes money onlines last blog post..Cow’s Big Traffic Campaign

adisak
April 27, 2008

Hi admin

My website oopza.com is also no use do-follow.
Please kindly add my website in the list.

Caroline Middlebrook
April 28, 2008

@adisak, This list is for sites that are purely social bookmarking. Your site is a social news site that has a voting element and I have made a very clear distinction between those two kinds of sites.

gwtm
April 30, 2008

Nice pile of collections Caroline, thank you very much. Especially the section of speeding up the bookmarking process.

gwtms last blog post..Zotero: Firefox extension for student and researcher

Space-Ed
May 1, 2008

You may want to add space-ed.com it is still new but it is dofollow..

Space-Eds last blog post..Random Blog

dev
May 6, 2008

Very useful article, thanks. I bookmarked it.

devs last blog post..Offtopic: A picture of the sky

Pete
May 6, 2008

Would it be possible for our free (no registration) bookmarking section to be added to your list.

http://www.businessservicesuk.com/social-bookmarking-service.php

@Pete, this list is for people to be able to bookmark *any* of their own content. I notice that your site seems to be specific to businesses in the UK so it is not really suitable. I wouldn’t want to responsible for your site getting a ton of off-topic bookmarks!

Hosting
May 9, 2008

This is a nice list. I will definitely be using it later on. Thanks Caroline :-)!

Hostings last blog post..siteground.com

I’m only now beginning to explore social book marking as a means of improving page rank. Needless to say I greatly appreciate the value of experience represented on this blog.


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