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Does Bookmarking Your Artickes REALLY Help??

by ikelove
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I've finally got into bookmarking my articles that I wrote for my site with one of the social bookmarking sites, Delicious, in order to give some link juice to my site so my keywords can move further up on google. The thing is, I really didn't know what to expect because I had never used a social bookmarking site before, so I just assumed that on these sites I'd be placing more backlinks to my site using my keywords as anchor text. However, I learned that really all I'm doing is placing a link to my ezine article.

How in the world does this help me get ranked higher on google? Providing a link to an ezine article doesn't seem to be much of any help whatsoever and I'm wondering what's the whole purpose of it, other than what seems to me a SLIGHT chance someone may come across your article on one of these social bookmarking sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author howard542
    You know I started doing that about 2 years ago and I can honestly say i've not seen a dramatic improvement. But my rank in serps hasn't declined......
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    • Profile picture of the author ikelove
      Yea, I don't see it as really doing anything. It seems more as if participating in messageboards and having a link to your site posted on the bottom of your post does more for boosting you on google than posting links on social bookmarking sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Doug Wakefield
      It can help, depending on the strength of the competition.

      If you plan on doing this regularly I would invest in a tool to automate it. Social bot comes to mind as a cheap option.

      I should add that you are probably better off with the bookmarks to your site, though using a tool would allow you to do both easily enough.
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      • Profile picture of the author Manuelcrc
        If the process is not automated, making considerable impact would not be easy.
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      • Profile picture of the author ikelove
        Originally Posted by Clintoc View Post

        It can help, depending on the strength of the competition.

        If you plan on doing this regularly I would invest in a tool to automate it. Social bot comes to mind as a cheap option.

        I should add that you are probably better off with the bookmarks to your site, though using a tool would allow you to do both easily enough.
        Would it be better to bookmark my site than to bookmark my articles on ezine?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Does NOT Bookmarking Your Articles REALLY Help??

    LOL

    That is what I thought...
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  • Profile picture of the author marigot
    One of the ideas in social bookmarking when it comes to search engines is that your link building is a "tiered effort". By having branches, there is more power in the keyword.

    If you are using your keyword on a bookmarking site, linking to your article, which presumably contains your keyword, and then that links to your site, your link is stronger.

    What that is supposed to do is move your site higher up in the results for that keyword. But, to be honest, that is not going to happen immediately, nor is it going to happen just because of one article and one bookmark. It takes a continual effort.

    That is why many say they do not see any movement because they are focused on a small effort that really does no good and they expect to see something immediately. The other point is that the sites at the top of the rankings may be old sites that have had regular and consistent strategies in place, so they maintain their positions. One or two articles and bookmarks are not going to dethrone them.

    If you publish your articles under your own name, there is no reason why you cannot bookmark your own site and the articles as well, on different days. Or use two accts to brand your online name for the articles and use your personal acct for your site.

    How in the world does this help me get ranked higher on google? Providing a link to an ezine article doesn't seem to be much of any help whatsoever and I'm wondering what's the whole purpose of it
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  • Profile picture of the author OKFarmgirl
    I submit all of my articles to Digg.com, Stumbleupon.com and SheToldMe.com. I notice that I get traffic, but most of it is bounced. However, I did find that when I searched my keywords on one article, the SheToldMe link came up on the second page whereas I have no idea how far back my own page is. So, I don't know. I get more traffic from forums and whatnot.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimbojack
    Bookmarking helps to get traffic and the article get cached faster that is the only value I see.

    Pretty agree with Clintoc..

    You have to look at your competitors backlinks...
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  • Profile picture of the author PureFX
    Getting links from high PR domains is a better use of time in my experience. I bookmark to speed up the indexing process, but submitting to hundreds of directories is monotonous and pointless.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rob Cornish
      From what I can gather it used to work very well (when not so many people were doing it perhaps!). In my experience (since I started in April last year) I really haven't seen any big results in terms of ranking improvements or link building.

      That said, with a site like socialmarker.com you can really bookmark an article to the 10-15 bookmarking sites in 5 minutes or so, so I think its still worth doing in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheTroglodyte
    It use to be a big help but I believe Google has seriously nerfed the power of a social bookmark back link.

    I still manually do it to 5 or 6 top sites because it only takes about 30 seconds and it will help your site or page to get indexed faster at the least.
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  • Profile picture of the author adnima
    I used to use Onlywire to bookmark my articles that I posted on my blog. It automatically bookmarked the articles to about 20-30 sites that you pre-signed up to so was an easy way of doing this. I saw no real ranking difference in the SERPS for the articles so concluded that it was not an effective way of boosting rankings, though it may have been at one time. There are better SEO strategies you can employ to build backlinks to your articles/sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author jhonsean
    I think It doesn't have an impact but in traffic it will help. It makes a little improvement in pr rankings but that not as much as.
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