Backlinks from social bookmarking/news sites

by Hyaku_Man

Posted: 16 years ago 21 replies

Hi, friendly folks. I feel I should know the answer to this already, but I don't, so I'll ask you people who are more knowledgeable and experienced than me.

When I post my articles/blog entries on social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, reddit.com, StumbleUpon, Digg.com, etc. do those count as backlinks back to my site that improve SEO? I know I get some direct traffic through those, but my main intention is to increase backlinks for SEO and I wonder how much affect I'm having. I've been using all of the above sites, plus a number of others that I simultaneously submit using Onlywire.

Thanks for your help, wise ones!

#backlinks #bookmarking or news #sites #social

scene4u

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Hyaku_Man

Some will have some benefits but not as much as they used to and you may hope. To can only be a part of your link building strategy. Google is starting to disregard sites like Digg unless over 25 people have dugg the link.

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paul65

16 years ago

Hello,

One thing you want to be careful of if your only intention is to get backlinks. There are many sites that you will not get a backlink from because they are placing a rel=nofollow tag in your link. This means that the search engine will not follow the link or give credit for it. One way you can check this is by going to your browser tool bar choose page then choose the "View Source" option and see if the rel=nofollow tag is in your link.

Now there are many good sites that do not include this tag but there are those that do so you will want to check it out :--)

Here is an example <a rel="nofollow" href="http://yoursitelink" title="yoursitename" target="_blank">your site name</a>

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Hyaku_Man 16 years ago

Thanks for the input, Rob. You're probably right that I need to diversify my approach.

And it makes sense that those links give exposure to search engines, even when nofollow.
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- Internet Income 16 years ago
  
  You need to add blog commenting making sure the blog your commenting on is relevant to your website, to increase backlinks.
  
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  websitemoneynow 16 years ago
  
  Stick to article marketing and forum marketing and genuine one way backlinks which google sees as a rating of your sites content moreless which will give you huge returns .
  
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Gunter Eibl

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Rob Ferrall

I know, for a fact, that Google does follow "nofollow" links and uses these types of links for discovery

Here is what Google says:

"We don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web."
Source: About rel="nofollow" - Webmaster Help Center

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peteinoz

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Rob Ferrall

Regardless of what Google says, they do follow nofollow links - there's no way around this unless they changed it within the last 3 months or so.

I could drudge up a quote by Matt Cutts saying essentially the same thing as you've quoted above - it might even be verbatim what is said above - I think the quote was on searchenginewatch.com or seomoz.org.

That being said - just because Google says something does not mean it's true. Part of the reason that there is so much crappy SEO advice floating around today is because people do not test things for themselves - they take the words of others, run with it and spread the gossip and lies.

Google saying this doesn't not negate the fact that a document, referenced in one location on the entire internet - a "nofollow" link on Youtube - was listed in Google's results within 24 hours of placement on Youtube. Nofollow links can be followed by Google and can lead to discovery - I only don't know if any weight is given to these links. I certainly wouldn't trust Google to tell us the truth in this regard.

Well Said Rob

I concur exactly

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Ryan79

16 years ago

I agree with you Rob, I submitted some of my new websites to only social bookmark and google indexed them with 48h. Now I should test things by myself rather than reading SEO ebooks.

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SurviveUnemployment

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Ryan79

I agree with you Rob, I submitted some of my new websites to only social bookmark and google indexed them with 48h. Now I should test things by myself rather than reading SEO ebooks.

That's probably really good advice. I plopped a page on a PR2 blog last night and it came up second from the top on a very popular keyword within 2 hours. Blasted me with traffic. I think I know why, but it needs further testing, and damned if I'm telling anybody my theory.

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flashgordon 16 years ago

I'd agree with Rob on this. Social bookmarking is one method of an overall strategy for gaining backlinks. Some methods provide "more powerful" results, but in order to not get slapped or lose any ranking, I always advocate diversifying your methods and ways of getting backlinks.

Also, thanks for the tip on RSS feeds from the bookmarking sites... I like that idea.
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- Terrybear 16 years ago
  
  No doubt, the bookmarking site mentioned is all nofollow. Based on my experience, nofollow link still can help you on SERP, but definately not the PR. I is because nofollow never provide any PR juice.
  
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Solidsnake

Banned 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Hyaku_Man

I don't want to disappoint you as much as I don't you to waste your time with onlywire... Most social bookmarking sites are nofollow...manual submission will have more chance of success than using ineffective onlywire...

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Hyaku_Man 16 years ago

Only 3 responses so far and I've already learned a ton. Thanks for the very useful information, everyone!

I had heard about the no follow tags, but I didn't know how to check for them, so that's very useful.

Solidsnake, it's not disappointing. Actually I feel that my blogs are making great progress. I just wonder if I'm using my time as efficiently as I can. Your information helped me understand that with regards to onlywire.
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peteinoz

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Solidsnake

Hey,

you obviously have not been reading any of my badass reports.. where you learn that

sites like delicious my have no follow tags...

BUT and its a BIG BUT

Your user accounts on this and many other social sites, have their Own RSS Feeds. that Do NOT have no follow tags in them

Can you see where this leads

I go over this and many more rss strategies in my reports, see my sig and software to automate it etc.

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Lightlysalted

16 years ago

most social bookmarking sites are NO fOLLOW, which means that Google won't give any credit toy uor link. However you will still get some traffic from having posted it.

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peteinoz

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Paid Surveys

most social bookmarking sites are NO fOLLOW, which means that Google won't give any credit toy uor link. However you will still get some traffic from having posted it.

Hey

you obviously didnt read my post directly above yours

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Solidsnake

Banned 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Hyaku_Man

If your intention is backlings, better to post comments on blogs instead of posting in social bookmarks..

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Gunter Eibl 16 years ago

Hi Rob

if you could dig out the Matt Cutts comment where he says Google follows the nofollow links I would be interested reading it.

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