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What is the impact of social bookmarking in SEO

by localflavourstours
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Is it still worth to use social booking marking site to generate backlink? Can anyone please explain about the impact.
#bookmarking #impact #seo #social
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  • Profile picture of the author Blakers1
    Most SEO's will tell you no, but I think the answer is that it depends. I still see some value in finding a niche appropriate sub-reddit to post our blog articles to.

    However, it's not going to do much, if anything to your overall ranking. I just do it on occasion to increase our anchor text diversity and number of referring domains.

    The biggest off-page gains are coming from editorial links on niche relevant authority sites. You have to earn those through outreach. Hope that helps answer your question.
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  • Profile picture of the author expmrb
    Social bookmarking is good only if you can earn some backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Social bookmarking is a gigantic waste of time and provides no SEO value.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    There are some niches where social networking can bring you some targeted traffic but on the whole, social networks are a complete waste of time for most websites.

    Google has said more times than anyone can count that links in social networks do not help you rank. Bing/Yahoo, on the other hand, specifically state in their webmaster guidelines to use social networks to boost your SEO, so things might be different with them.

    As expmrb said, it is theoretically possible to earn links through social networking but the cases of that happening are few and far between - especially for things like eCommerce sites. If one out of 1,000 people that use social networks even have a website that they can link to you from, I would be shocked in most market niches.
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  • Profile picture of the author avemfly619619
    Social bookmarking has great effect on keyword ranking.
    Always try to post on high authority sites.
    Before going to social bookmarking, you should make sure about on-oage seo.
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  • Profile picture of the author Castor Troy1
    Bookmark is very useful to make backlinks for a website. It is works nice with high DA sites, but one thing it wont be worth if one site is submitted in one site again and again, but one site can be submitted in one site after 2 months.
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  • Profile picture of the author YourGoToWriter
    Given it is a good do follow social bookmarking site, it can generate more traffic and, of course, give you quality backlinks. There is really no such thing as "waste of time" with right strategy and attitude.

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  • Profile picture of the author Hostech Support
    Social bookmarking plays an important role as it is a way for users to stock, manage, search, and operate "bookmarks" of website pages. In Seo, they are helpful for building backlinks through different Social Bookmarking sites. Users save links to web pages that they like or want to share, using social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking is also simultaneously known as folksonomy, collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.

    Social Bookmarking Sites:
    1. Digg
    2. Delicious
    3. Stumbleupon
    4. Scoop.it
    5. Reddit
    6. Bizsugar
    7. Slashdot
    8. Scoop.it
    9. Newsvine
    10. Folkd.com
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    Sigh ... I often get very frustrated on this forum watching the blind leading the blind down the path to nowhere. Social bookmarks absolutely will not help your site rank and could very well get it penalized.

    Check out bullet point #8 in Google's Link Schemes page, where it lists "Low-quality directory or bookmark site links" as a violation of their Webmaster Guidelines - https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/66356?hl=en
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    I cant believe people are STILL asking these questions.
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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by John Romaine View Post

      I cant believe people are STILL asking these questions.
      I'm not sure why you are surprised. More people than not here seem to still believe that comment links, forum links, directory links, press release links, Web 2.0 properties, social network links and more schemes from a decade ago than I can remember are still valid ways of boosting your rankings. Why not add social bookmarking to the list of bad advice?
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    What is the impact of social bookmarking in SEO
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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Bacon is the answer.
      True enough. Bacon is ALWAYS a good answer!
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    Originally Posted by localflavourstours View Post

    Is it still worth to use social booking marking site to generate backlink? Can anyone please explain about the impact.
    It only helps if it generates backlinks from other sites. Having a link from Twitter, Facebook etc.. has no direct ranking value, BUT if a user of the social media network visits your site from the network and decided to link to it from their blog you've gained a backlink (assuming it's not nofollowed).

    Think of it like a radio ad, can pull in direct traffic, but won't have much impact on your backlink profile.

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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by SEO-Dave View Post

      It only helps if it generates backlinks from other sites. Having a link from Twitter, Facebook etc.. has no direct ranking value, BUT if a user of the social media network visits your site from the network and decided to link to it from their blog you've gained a backlink (assuming it's not nofollowed).

      Think of it like a radio ad, can pull in direct traffic, but won't have much impact on your backlink profile.

      David
      True enough, but for most people here, if one out of 100 followers of theirs on Twitter, Facebook, etc. even has a website they can link to them from, I'd be shocked. Then, what percentage of that likely less than 1% will link to you?
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      • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
        Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

        True enough, but for most people here, if one out of 100 followers of theirs on Twitter, Facebook, etc. even has a website they can link to them from, I'd be shocked. Then, what percentage of that likely less than 1% will link to you?
        I own Twitter accounts with 100,000+ followers, some of my accounts generate well over a million impressions a month. If a single Tweet shared over all of them generates 1 backlink a week it's worth it considering it's on top of the direct social network reach/traffic.

        It all adds up. If I asked now for some of you to link to my SEO Gold site and one person drops me a link, was worth asking: I was writing this response anyway, took me a few seconds to ask for the link (I don't seriously expect a link, just an example).

        I wouldn't suggest putting a LOT of effort into social networks as a link building platform, there's far more effective link building techniques (greater ROI).

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        • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
          Very few of the people here are in the website industry, marketing to owners of websites like you are. You are not even close to the typical person on this forum that has just tossed up a website trying to sell some products. Especially for those in a traditional eCommerce/affiliate model, not only will you never get thousands of followers, but practically zero of the followers you do get will own a website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaden Taylor
    Through Social Bookmarking, your website and web pages crawl fast and easily.
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  • Profile picture of the author wittycookieca
    SEO is a dubious region of business that all associations with any sort of online transmit need to invest energy getting the chance to get it. Social bookmarking is a zone of SEO that causes an immense measure of perplexity and head scratching. Social bookmarking sites, for example, Stumbleupon and Reddit can in truth be capable stages that contribute decidedly to a SEO battle. The site pages we bookmarked at social bookmarking locales is seen as an uncommon one-route interface inside the eyes of web crawlers. What's more, everybody realizes that the fine one way connects help us to create blog guests and Google site page Rank. That is the reason website improvement specialists include social bookmarking in their SEO hones.
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  • Profile picture of the author logoartistdesign
    Yes, Social bookmarking is goood for generating traffic to your site one of the effective method in seo.
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  • Profile picture of the author itsak11
    Now days, SEO has been completely changed. So do social bookmarking on high domain authority sites only. Social Bookmarking will help you to generate some backlinks only.
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  • Profile picture of the author tommen
    Originally Posted by localflavourstours View Post

    Is it still worth to use social booking marking site to generate backlink? Can anyone please explain about the impact.
    I think social bookmarking can make more harm than good these days. Personally, I focus on creating useful and helpful content.

    One thing that you should definitely look into is Pinterest.com when it comes to "modern" social bookmarking. I receive great results with it and it is quick and simple to use as well. Go to YouTube and find some "how to" videos about it.
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