Is social bookmarking of much importance?

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As the title says...is it of much importance?

I always build backlinks to my articles and I always ping them, but I dread bookmarking for some reason. I don't like to bookmark my articles. Not to mention it's risky and you can get banned if you bookmark too much of your stuff alone.

Anyway my question is; Can I just leave it out? I don't really see what it does. I feel as if it's useless for the most part.

Ok, some bookmarks tend to appear in Google, but not for long. They don't stick and I don't get much traffic from it at all. Also I can get great backlinks elsewhere. What's the point of social bookmarking anyway?:confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author gijoe
    Social bookmarks are useless, don't waste your time with that ;-)
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    • Don't be scared to get banned. So what? You can always create new accounts, it's free after all.
      Anyway, I agree that it's not very effective, at least not as long as the bookmarks are nofollow. A few high-pr dofollow ones are always nice but not necessary, in most of the cases bookmarks only help to get your content crawled faster, you should look for other backlinking methods if you want to get strong seo juice.

      However, if you have great, compelling content with the potential to go viral, you definitely want to bookmark it.
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      • Profile picture of the author bretski
        I don't go nuts with it or feel that it is absolutely necessary, BUT I do a little bit and it's part of my overall strategy. I hate it too and think it's tedious and I don't see a ton of traffic from it but since I started diversifying and using several methods to create backlinks I have seen an increase in traffic. I use SocialAdr - Automated Social Bookmarking Submission because it's free and easy once you get it set up. Not foolproof or super powerful but it's just a little something.

        Like I said, once you spend the 20 - 30 minutes to set it up it makes submitting links to social bookmarking sites pretty easy. It is not my main method of generating traffic. It's just a small piece of the puzzle. Not even the most important piece though, mind you.
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      • Profile picture of the author Aki Fagno
        Originally Posted by BacklinkExcellence View Post

        Don't be scared to get banned. So what? You can always create new accounts, it's free after all.
        Anyway, I agree that it's not very effective, at least not as long as the bookmarks are nofollow. A few high-pr dofollow ones are always nice but not necessary, in most of the cases bookmarks only help to get your content crawled faster, you should look for other backlinking methods if you want to get strong seo juice.

        However, if you have great, compelling content with the potential to go viral, you definitely want to bookmark it.
        You actually need to be very careful. Because the are some forums which won't let you create new accounts once you get banned because of IP detection.
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  • Profile picture of the author The Blueprinter
    Social bookmarking can have a huge impact if you use it. I will advice you to start with social bookmarking and you can go to socialbookmarking.com right away.
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  • Profile picture of the author edricwage
    Social bookmarking can have great impact if you bookmarked on dofollow bookmarking sites. Don't disregard bookmarking, it would still help you in building your backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author shafiqkamal
    How do you manage your accounts while bookmarking? Do you just sign up for a new account and just begin bookmarking or do you join groups in your niche and add friends or so forth?
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  • Profile picture of the author sonyadsouza
    Originally Posted by KatyaSenina View Post

    As the title says...is it of much importance?

    I always build backlinks to my articles and I always ping them, but I dread bookmarking for some reason. I don't like to bookmark my articles. Not to mention it's risky and you can get banned if you bookmark too much of your stuff alone.

    Anyway my question is; Can I just leave it out? I don't really see what it does. I feel as if it's useless for the most part.

    Ok, some bookmarks tend to appear in Google, but not for long. They don't stick and I don't get much traffic from it at all. Also I can get great backlinks elsewhere. What's the point of social bookmarking anyway?:confused:
    I am very much sure about this social Bookmarking is the best way to promote your business on the web and this way is the best platform for a new business and it helps to increase your web presence. It is useful in getting referral customers to your business. Whenever you launch a new product, you can social bookmark the product page so that everyone can access it. It enlarges the market of your product by reaching to customers around the world.
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  • Profile picture of the author greatseoservice
    Social bookmarking is just another piece of the big puzzle of seo.
    The idea behind social bookmarking would be bringing traffic from the friends you have on them
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    • Profile picture of the author BudgetSEO
      Originally Posted by greatseoservice View Post

      Social bookmarking is just another piece of the big puzzle of seo.
      The idea behind social bookmarking would be bringing traffic from the friends you have on them
      Exactly its an investment for long term SEO
      But should be coupled with article links etc.,
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  • Profile picture of the author DIGITALCHAMELEON
    Social bookmarking is helpful if used properly. In social bookmarking its not just submitting and uploading pages but you need to build a network as well.
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    Although the concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to 1996, the term social bookmarking is a relatively new and was first used in 2003 by Delicious web service. The term 'tagging' is also associated with social bookmarking. Using social bookmarking, users can search, save, manage, and organize web pages/websites for sharing or for remembering. With the rising number and growing popularity of online book marking services, social book marking is also called social book marketing. Over time, book marking services have proven to be excellent tools for online marketing. When combined with Search Engine Optimization, social book marking can be the key to success of online marketing campaigns.
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  • Profile picture of the author hezell1989
    Social bookmarking is a great source of backlinks. Also very nice for fast indexing
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  • Profile picture of the author pc101seo
    yah, It helps your site or links to be index

    Sharing and Bookmarking Services offer website owners two main advantage:

    1. Links: Every time someone shares or bookmarks a web page an additional link to the shared/bookmarked page is created. These links are indexed by the search engines (e.g. Google and Yahoo). It is common knowledge that search ranking is weighted heavily by the number of links to every web page i.e. the more links the more ‘important’ the search engines deem the page.
    2. Expanded Audience: Sharing and bookmarking services (especially sharing services) list the pages submitted to the services. Anyone visiting and searching the sharing (or bookmarking) service may be presented with a link to the original content. This translates into a greatly expanded potential audience.
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  • Profile picture of the author rhrayan
    yes ,social book marking is useful for getting back link and visit.
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  • Profile picture of the author unitedsolutions
    I find it really helpful in getting my sites and links indexed quickly..
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    • Profile picture of the author Yurii
      social bookmarking sites are numerous and very active in getting members.
      In other words, the competition in the field is very tough, it is powerful tools through which you can promote your business or website online because hundreds of people sign up on these sites everyday, posting content on them can increase your web traffic, improve your page ranking on search engine and generally boost your presence in world wide web.
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  • Profile picture of the author agravity
    Bookmarking is one of the best activity to get your page cached
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    • Profile picture of the author Jenb
      If you are going to do the work, make sure it gets found. And getting ranked higher would be pretty good too!
      There are some great automated free ways to do it, so it does not have to be a manual chore. Give them a try.
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      • Profile picture of the author Boris_yo
        Bookmarking (follow, nofollow) should pass TrustRank to target domain. I don't know about relevancy though and anchor text value. I know that mixing follow, nofollow links will make promotion look more organic so yes, i think bookmarking article no more than once should be enough.
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  • Profile picture of the author jonnyhardbaked
    Social Bookmarking is very important in getting backlinks and traffics. For me it is one of the most effective ways of building links.
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  • Profile picture of the author KristofferIM
    I use social bookmarks to get stuff indexed, nothing else.
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