Does Socialbookmarking still work?

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Hi guys, I just wanted your input on this question. According to your opinion and experience, is social bookmarking still a good and effective way of building quality backlinks? If yes, then which do follow social bookmarking websites do you find the most effective?
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  • Profile picture of the author Henryj93
    I dont think they are "quality" backlinks, but they are helpful if you index them. But social bookmarking is not the best method and you should not solely rely on it.
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    • Profile picture of the author packerfan
      Scenario A: spam social bookmarking sites for backlinks. That dosen't work.

      Scenario B: Join and become an active member of the community, and drive tons of traffic to your site. That can certainly work.
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    • Profile picture of the author Royalking
      Originally Posted by Henryj93 View Post

      I dont think they are "quality" backlinks, but they are helpful if you index them. But social bookmarking is not the best method and you should not solely rely on it.
      They do work for me and the one i use the most is digg. There are others also that i use but digg is the best of them.
      Other social bookmarking sites - buddymarks, jumptags, delicious, reddit, diigo, pinterest
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  • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
    They work very well. In my experience they are one of the best methods right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author danlew
    Social bookmarks are still very effective right now, and they are highly praised even after the Google Panda update. Most of the SEO clients right now are buying social bookmarking services for higher exposure.
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  • Profile picture of the author elizabethjean733
    Yes why not it is still very effective and important method to rank your site fast and get good traffic, but there is more need to make your community on these sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Juvv2096
    its not the be all and end all but it should be part of your SEO strategy.
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  • Profile picture of the author artemporio
    bookmarking like digg, delicious, squidoo, faves, reddit etc is still the good option. I checkd it in analytics and noticed that i get some traffic from these sites. so, i think its a good option to bookmark on these sites
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  • Profile picture of the author Theeban
    From my experience, there are lots of nofollow bookmark sites, few dofollow sites. However, those bookmarks also required to build up a SEO strategy in order to make the natural backlinking processes. So, even if they offer dofollow or nofollow - it is better to have them. However, there are bookmark sites which are filled with spammy content and use to disappear quickly - do not get links from those sites as far as those do not have QUALITY....

    Go for NOFOLLOW or DOFOLLOW bookmark sites if they have QUALITY and have good PR or etc... that really helps, do not ignore that method of getting backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author niknik
    I would say its a valid part of marketing your site and should be done reguarly
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbacklinks
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    Digg
    Delicious
    Twitter
    Facebook

    are some really great places to get social backlinks. I use them personally
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  • Profile picture of the author bilal9999
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    • Profile picture of the author wordsofmagic
      I still find social book marketing highly effective to obtaining quality backlinks.

      Hope this helps,
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      • Profile picture of the author octavyo
        Social Bookmarking still works but this should be only one of many backlinking methods.

        Unless you have an extremly low competition keyword SB alone won`t help you grab top search engine rankings.

        However What I would recommend you to do is to create a nice website (good design) using an seo friendly theme (atahualpa is the best in my opinion and it`s also free)

        Post usefull and unique content on your website regulary. The content must be informative to the reader so they will come back to your website for more.

        Including pictures with the posts might be a good ideea to improve how your website looks.

        Why am I saying this ?

        Well after the latest Panda updates Google looks at "social signals" for a particular site. Social signal mean facebook likes, twiter shares, google +1`s etc... The more you have the better. So yes SB it`s important but your main goal would be to have other do this for you (your visitors) and the only way you can achieve this is by having a nice design with good, unique and informative content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jerome15
    for me, i don't only focus on Social Bookmark, we should do other types of backlinking and social bookmarking is one of my link building method.
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  • Profile picture of the author extremejava
    Social Bookmarking can get you some backlinks even if not great backlinks
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  • Profile picture of the author Bofu2U
    Social Bookmarks are still extremely good for ranking sites. Like, extremely good.
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  • Profile picture of the author JeremiahSay
    Take time to build them up, it works!

    Don't use social media just for the sack of gaining backlinks etc (in other word, spamming), i t doesn't work that way..

    Hope this help,
    Jeremiah
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  • Profile picture of the author Arav
    Yes, it's still helpful and will be more effective if you consistently vary the 'Keyword' and description.
    Then it'll leave less Footprint and be effective for driving traffic as well as getting backlink.
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  • Profile picture of the author bermuda
    Social bookmarking solutions and projects can be valuable ways of generating traffic streams for websites, and sometimes opportunities to win some packs of links, but like any other internet tasks to be done appropriately, it is essential to carry out the jobs or posting updates on sites and promoting content pages patiently and with insight. It is not just the matter of posting URL of content pages on such portals and then assuming that everything has been done professionally.

    Many times the submitted addresses to such sites will be gone with the wind after a few days because they simply fail to win some favorable votes from admins of the sites or moderators of the portals. On the other hand, you can find high quality materials which have been prepared by experts reaching highly visited parts of the sites, winning lots of approvals by visitors, the pages absorbing hundreds of clicks and possibly leading to gaining tens of one-way strong links.
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  • Profile picture of the author prashanth502
    can i have all best bookmarking list plz
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    • Profile picture of the author packerfan
      Originally Posted by prashanth502 View Post

      can i have all best bookmarking list plz
      Sure go here

      Everything you need to know about pretty much anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author echelon
    As far as I can tell, social bookmarking worked for me. However, lately I have been using another method for seo. There is even a wso thread I saw that advertised social bookmarks and the seller had the example of a site that was said to have ranked high fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author aaronclancy
    By bookmarking, you can get your articles/site indexed in Google very fast. This is the main reason for Bookmarking. Bookmarking Demon is a good tool for helping to automate the process.
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  • Profile picture of the author cartogo
    - in my experience in off page SEO, social bookmarking is still working for creating backlinks for your sites. This could also help you to generate traffic for your sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author cheapstuff
    Still good to use them but not a huge focus these days. The only way to tell which ones will help you however is through testing since every niche has a different community. There are the top ones however like Twitter, Facebook and so on and so forth however I think you really should test them yourself.

    Also if one does grow huge or change its coding to help for SEO at least you are already there for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Absolute Logo
    Twitter, Digg and Facebook are great for social bookmarking.
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  • Profile picture of the author forest l
    Yes social bookmarking are still helpful. Bookmarking are most beneficial for the sites that are new and SEO work on the site is at initial stage. They are the best way of getting some good and high PR links to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author slickymedia
    Yes they still work if used properly and not bookmarking alone. I target my web 2.0 properties with Social bookmarking
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  • Profile picture of the author gsmbooster
    Yes, I also agree with the fact that social bookmarking still works. I would like to add that social bookmarking helps us to get quality backlinks to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author lagger
    social bookmarks = lots of spiders and quick indexing.

    Some say its great for moving up in the serps, but I yet so see that.
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  • Profile picture of the author braydenblake
    Yes, Social Bookmarking still works. And they're getting more useful now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Buum
    Social bookmarking work for me. However I don't end with just submission. I spend some time on digging my links.
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  • Profile picture of the author dotgirish
    It still works very well .(Period)
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  • Profile picture of the author IMSince2003
    When I want a new site indexed quickly, I throw some SB links at it and it gets indexed within a few hours. Also, Digg sometimes gets a site indexed almost instantly.
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  • Profile picture of the author millaselfe
    Social bookmarking still is working now. Gives me good result.
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  • Profile picture of the author alexfallon
    SB helps my site to get indexed quickly. So I can say that it still works.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaryMartha
    digg, reddit, stumble upon, facebook, twitter these all are good sites for dofollow back links
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwineddy
    yups... socialbookmarking still working. I daily do some bookmarking for my sites. and its really does work for my site..
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