Comments on: Social Bookmarking and SEO

By: Social Media Optimization is Key to Blog Marketing

Social Media Optimization is Key to Blog Marketing — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:19:49 +0000

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By: Doug Heil, white hat seo troll

Doug Heil, white hat seo troll — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:57:32 +0000

[...] Heil the Don Quixote of search. Forever ranting about whats not ethical in search optimization. He also happens to be a SEO professional providing services via his site [...]

By: Andy MacDonald - Blogging & Marketing Tips

Andy MacDonald - Blogging & Marketing Tips — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:50:37 +0000

An interesting tip. Ive never thought to look for dofollow sites before, but ive just done a search of google and found a ton of them. Im about to look into it a little more now. Thanks for the tip Lyndoman.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:10:34 +0000

Doug, you have failed to get it straight. There are a number of beginner posts about linkbait and how to take advantage of social media. There are a quite a few on this blog.

If you need a good beginners guide I will be welcome to point you to one. I know it can get confusing sometimes.

I think you have confused traffic as the point of social media marketing, that is not the point. The point is to attract links, using social media as a vehicle to put content in front of eyeballs and persuading bloggers and website masters to give up a link.

As far as I am aware, linkbuilding is still a crucial part of seo, unless you have found a way around it.

By: Doug Heil

Doug Heil — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:32:24 +0000

So; let me get this straight; many of you and those of you who frequent “spin.com” think that the word “social” and the word “SEO” go together?

That news to me and I’ve been at this SEO stuff for over ten years now. Go figure. Let me know when I should start doing this so-called “SOCIAL” crap, ok? My clients will keep looking “down” at your sites from the top of the serps in the meantime.

By: Nengorama

Nengorama — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:50:00 +0000

Hi,

Clear, concise and useful. Good post and good comments also! I have one question: does anyone know if Google looks at the user’s Google Bookmarks in order to personalize the search results?

By: Robert T

Robert T — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:58:24 +0000

Agree with Jeff above, not much weight on this type of link but with larger quantities some love.

To me, like reciprocal links, if social links are sought they shouldn’t be a huge percentage of total links to a site.

Not bad for deep links, but little trust.

By: Backyardlight shopper

Backyardlight shopper — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:29:14 +0000

great post, i really appreciate your clear way of explaining how to work on social networking sites to develop effective back link for a website. its really a useful information for all SEO. How do we can give title with keyword (which is spam protected)?

By: Jan from thrusites design

Jan from thrusites design — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:28:57 +0000

Well, social bookmarking is fine, but there is no stable traffic from such source. I know it because one day my site received about 200 visits from stumbleupon, but it stopped later.

… Social bookmarking is always questionable, but worth sometimes. BTW, I stumbled this page just now :) .

By: Jeff Woelker

Jeff Woelker — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:28:09 +0000

The one question I have is: If everyone can set up a fake/real social networking site, and everyone can post links on that site, what value or “trust rank” will Google, etc. associate with that site?

My vote, little to none. Anyone else’s thoughts?

I think social media optimization is a good value add, but definitely not the end all for SEO.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:10:36 +0000

If you’re interested in social bookmarking and SEO, here’s a link to a PPT presentation I did on the topic at SES New York over at slideshare: http://tinyurl.com/399fsh

It’s basic but has links to some useful tools.

By: mcrilf

mcrilf — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:47:21 +0000

Like the Google alerts test!

And that list of social bookmarking sites is useful – boy I didn’t realise there were quite that many. Basically, think of a made-up word … like ‘bwobble’ … and there’ll be a social network called that ;) !!!

Do you think they’ll all start to put nofollow on their links? Then we’ll all be off to find the next thing in link building!

By: Marty

Marty — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:19:01 +0000

I think you should set up a Google alert for the phrase “fungus between a marathon runners toes.” :)

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:23:47 +0000

Good information. I typically use social bookmarking sites to try and draw links from others, but haven’t really focused on the value of the links from those sites themselves. Thanks.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:29:24 +0000

That’s interesting, I have been looking at doing social bookmarking for the niche sites that I am building. I wouldn’t have thought about your Google alert test though – most ingenious :)