Problem With Social Bookmarking
The problem with social networking sites is that you tag articles, but the links do not count when Google does its page rank calculations. I have sometimes seen a digg and readit in my list of links, but I’ve never seen del.icio.us. Technorati is always in the links. I listed 41 sites that are proven to generate a ‘legit’ inbound link from Google. Whether the value is 100% or not is impossible to tell.
I did research on several sites. One was www.marshable.com a site with 1.7 million inbound links…of which Google only recognized 609. This is a drastic problem when people are trying to build inbound links and increase their page rank and put their web pages on the tops of search engines (called Search Engine Placement)
One thing that many people do not know about link building is that older links are dropped, meaning that a website should try to add about 100 new links every month, if they want to stay at the top of the searches. Yes, this can be time consuming (100 links x about 3min per link if doing it like an SEM pro, no breaks = 5 hours. In reality, I find that IF I just worked on one URL at a time, it would take closer to 20 hours)
List of Bookmarking Sites That Generate Inbound Links
I created a list of some sites that generate inbound links. This doesn’t mean they always will. A good example is Propeller (use to be Netscape). It once gave a website the value of Digg. Within the last few weeks posts are appearing on the seo sites that suggest that propeller has dropped to Zero value. This will dreag down a lot of websites.
At one time submitting to directories works. Now, It is very difficult to find a directory that offers any value these days. That doesn’t mean that there is no value. Marshable has PR7 with only 600 recognized links. Mirella Patzer has PR4 (in less than 8 weeks) with only 171 links.
The following is a list of sites that do pass value through their links. This doesn’t mean they always will. It doesn’t mean they are the only sites. Remember - this list is based on link building and search engine placement. The list is not ranked, as ranks change so often. The list is not ordered.
almost any blogspot blog
bebo
bizsugar
blinklist
blogcatalogue
blogsvine
blogtoplist
clipmarks
diigo
ezinearticles
furl
http://www.google.com/dirhp (The directory NOT the search engine
hubpages
ibibo
Jumptags
killerstartups
mag.nolia
minxx
mybloglog
myspace
newsdots
quantcast
repptide
rollyo
simpy
snapshot
social.com
Sphinn
sproose
squidoo
startaid
Stumbleupon
Tehcnorati
webloghits
yearblook
youtube
ziapp
zimbio
There may be others. If you find more sites then please add them in a comment. If you want to see a list of 200 bookmarking sites that offer Page Rank Building Value then click this link.
How to test: If you type in your URL without the ends Not - www.mywebsite.com - just type in mywebsite. This will give you a good idea of all your inbound links. Now, type in links: http://www.mywebsite.com You’ll notice a lower number. (and if you use Google’s web analytics you’ll find even less.)
Yahoo does recognize more links, and it is possible to rank high in yahoo. Most websites never do because web owners do not authenticate for Yahoo.
View a Complete List of 200 link building/Bookmarking sites.
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