social bookmark is not effective as before

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Two weeks ago I outsouced 100's manual social bookmarking.No increase of backlings or traffic at all now.I've checked links on the report,all of them is valid though can not bring any benifit to my website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Doug Wakefield
    Its too easy to spam to make a huge difference.

    I still do it, but more for link diversity than for the direct benefit.
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    • Profile picture of the author joejoechen
      Originally Posted by Doug Wakefield View Post

      I still do it, but more for link diversity than for the direct benefit.
      Spot on bro. Social bookmarking has not been effective for me 2 years ago, it won't be now, and it will not be in the future. I had copies of Bookmarking demon and other software that a couple of my staff is using daily for my different websites, but seriously they only account for a VERY MINOR role in SEO, the useful part of Social Bookmarking is rather more on the link diversity purpose.

      If you really want to do social bookmarking, don't waste money to have it manually submitted, choose the BEST 10 social bookmarking sites, and do it yourself within half an hour. The effect would be near as close as doing on 100 sites as most bookmarking sites are highly spammed it's not even useful anymore..

      Joe
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Cheetah
    two weeks are not enough to reach to a conclusion. Give it some more time
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    • Profile picture of the author caksut
      Originally Posted by jugroo View Post

      two weeks are not enough to reach to a conclusion. Give it some more time
      be patient, it needs time to get perfect result. still keep on the track
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  • Profile picture of the author jushuaburnham
    Not all social bookmarking are good for backlinks mosty of them are for gaining traffic but in order to get the traffic you wish you must build network with your account invite some member to join your network.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Dolan
    All links are good generally for improving your ranking even when they don't pass the "link juice" - the speed at which you build them maybe for a while a problem, but they should be seen as long term.

    Make sure the rest of the SEO stuff is happening to maximize the effect.
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  • Profile picture of the author browse15
    My understanding is that expecting drastic results from a one time activity is not a fair deal.

    Secondly, the top ten sites will fetch you more traffic than 90% of the remaining sites. So, if you don't have an advertising budget, submit you site to top 10 social bookmarking site and do it consistently, you will see good traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Georgech
    social bookmarking backlinks are still as effective although more and more are becoming nofollow.

    I am still building reasonable amount of social media backlinks in combine with other backlinks to make my links look more natural.

    Besides, the traffic that social backlinks generate is one of the factor for search engines to determine your organic search rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author WeddingDances
    yea social bookmarking does not have the power it once had but is still good for some traffic, rankings, and backlinks
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  • Profile picture of the author jonnyhardbaked
    I still believe in social bookmarking. I think you should give it more time. For me social bookmarking remains effective.
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  • Profile picture of the author KristofferIM
    I never use social bookmarking for link building purposes. They are simply not that valuable in that sense. Instead, I use them to get my stuff index. They still work for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author jhonsean
    soical bookmarking is still effective for me I usually use this for fast indexing.
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  • Profile picture of the author rain21
    wait some time and see, however quantity is not so important, important is quality of back links.
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  • Profile picture of the author bay37
    SBs are extremely valuable for link building purposes. You're just doing it wrong. Search the forum for more info on how to do it properly.
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  • Profile picture of the author hotlinkz
    Originally Posted by asimovgxj View Post

    Two weeks ago I outsouced 100's manual social bookmarking.No increase of backlings or traffic at all now.I've checked links on the report,all of them is valid though can not bring any benifit to my website.
    Some additional information would help in getting an answer to your concern.

    1. What type results were you expecting?
    2. How long after the campaign did you reassess backlinks and traffic?
    3. Generally, what market are you targeting?
    4. How did you check the 100s of links in your report?
    5. What other marketing and promotion efforts were in place at this time?

    Social bookmarking is still effective, even with the overwhelming loads of obvious spam, you can still get results. Of course social bookmarking alone will rarely get the job done. You will also need to bolster your presence using other content-based and brand-based marketing tools and resources.
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  • Profile picture of the author jhnbrwn
    No, its not the thing so, social bookmarking is still effective, but the thing is, SEO is long terminal process, you will get your fruit after quite a longer time ( hope so, and for sure too )


    Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author samual james
    I strongly believe if you site is listed on popular bookmarking site like digg, delicious and if you shared interesting content over there you will get good amount of traffic. it takes times dude its not about just submission, try to build profile that will helps you in getting votes and like so other people can like or share it across the web.
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  • Profile picture of the author izapharry
    My Google don't show every back link to your site so check your back link in any back link checker site or yahoo. And how you define which activity is good for Ranking of your sites. One more thing just try to do "Dofollow" bookmarking.
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