Social bookmarking sites for one way links

04 Dec

Posted by Google Success as Search Engine, SEO Tips

It is no secret that a website must get lots of quality incoming links for ranking high in search engines. These days however, search engines are getting smarter; they have realized how easy it is to arrange link exchanges, so reciprocal links just don’t count any more. Now the emphasis is on getting ’one way links’ (a link from another site to yours without you giving a reciprocal link to the site).

Few days ago I was analyzing the backlinks to my website and I could find some high PR links to my site such as this one del.icio.us/coop/seo. That was great !! I discovered one more way of getting free incoming links which are relevant and of high quality. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, furl.net, blinklist.com, blogmarks.net, linkrolling.com can serve as an important source of incoming links to your website.

For those who are new to social bookmarking, it is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public website and ‘tagging’ them with keywords. And bookmarking is the practice of saving the address of the website you wish to visit in the future. At social bookmark sites you get a public space to post your bookmarks and comments on your favorite web pages to share with other surfers. Most of these social bookmark sites have high PageRank and are heavily spidered by the search engines. These links are one way links from high PR sites, with keywords of your choice in the anchor text and can help you in boosting your link popularity.

So how to go about it? All you need to do is create your account at few such social bookmarking sites. Link to pages from your own sites as well as from some other sites, and refrain from spamming.

This is a time consuming job, but there are some tools avaliable which can automate this job. BookmarkingDemon is one such tool. If you wish to know more, you can download free report from BookMarkingDemon about how to get incoming links from social bookmarking sites.

Technorati Tags: incoming links, ranking, search engine, Social bookmarking, PageRank, link popularity

9 Responses

JBagley

December 15th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
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I never thought about bookmarking sites like delicious are actually offering one-way backlinks. There are tons of social bookmarking sites, and if you tag your sites properly, you could have tons of backlinks for some really popular tags/keywords.

In terms of link exchanges, have they almost become obsolete?
Nick Mazza

December 16th, 2006 at 1:51 am
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Good call about the bookmarking sites…I recently had my site, adgridwork, bookmarked to delicious and within a couple days, my visitor count had tripled. Another good site to mention is stumbleupon.com. Another good source of traffic (however most of the SU users have 0 attention span so you really need to grab their interests right away
Manisha

December 20th, 2006 at 5:07 am
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Raj, the delicious link you point to on delicious shows me a PR of 0. Why do you feel it is a high PR link?

If I did create links on social bookmarking sites, it would be more for the traffic than the PR I would gain from them. The next task would be to convert the traffic and increase my RoI.
TAGNEWS

January 4th, 2007 at 6:28 am
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In addition to the major sites, consider submitting to smaller, niche-sites like tagne.ws - everything Blogging, SEO, RSS etc.
MIchael Herzog

January 6th, 2007 at 7:34 am
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Thanks. This Tip was new to me and I think it was a valuable one.
Harekrishna Patel

January 23rd, 2007 at 1:47 pm
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Any links which are listed under any category or any page in http://del.icio.us will enabled with the rel=”nofollow” function which has the effect that search engine spiders apply no importance to the link for ranking purposes.
justluxe

June 9th, 2007 at 3:47 am
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Wow Great Info. I’ll give this a try.Is it tue about the nofollow thing though?
Wealth Magnet System

September 21st, 2007 at 1:51 am
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If these links have the “nofollow” tag as stated above then how can the contribute any pagerank help to the target site?
Angela

November 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 am
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I appreciate the tips you gave. I heard about social bookmarking before and took it lightly, but now is a different story.