Working Social Bookmarks

Social Media
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I was reading a thread regarding social bookmarking links that have “dofollow”:

[QUOTE=susu2010;4531168]It’s what you do after making those bookmarks that really counts…[/QUOTE]

And that is my question - there was quite a long list in that thread of links using “dofollow” (it’s 3 months old so suggested I start a new topic). Now first, must every site be joined? I’m guessing yes? Then you add links? Then what?

I have so fallen behind on this “social bookmarking” and I’ve read so many conflicting arguments for and against - the nofollow, the dofollow, the “it’s an utter waste of time” argument, the “most are junk sites” and so on it goes.

What’s the REAL scoop? Because I did spend hours joining about 20 of them and adding links a while back, but I just don’t and haven’t seen any benefit from it. I did not find the sites interesting to surf, nor did I care what others bookmarked and where do people get the time to actually site down and surf the zillions of postings people make?

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The only social bookmarking websites from which I received benefits are digg and mixx. I recently wrote some articles, dugg them and when for example doing a Google search on the article title my article was way behind digg’s submitted link.

Therefore, I think adding to your website 4-5 SB websites is enough, though find the ones that provide value to your site. :slight_smile:

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Social bookmarks are just giving additional backlinks which is beneficial in the search engine’s rankings. Dofollow or not it will still count because there are still people in there that are surfing for information so you contents might still be stumbled over by them.

Some other bookmarking site can rank well in Google so it is also a great benefit. I see sites like jumptags, digg, mister wong. etc. that ranked well in Google on their own so taking time to bookmark things is beneficial.

To automate things, you can use socialmarker. BTW, it is semi-automatic site where you can browse sites and bookmark your links.

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Therefore, I think adding to your website 4-5 SB websites is enough, though find the ones that provide value to your site.

Now that I could handle, thanks kappa84! I did join Digg but boy, one sure can get lost among the zillions of posts, but I figure it doesn’t hurt to try. But how often does a person submit something w/o becoming a pain - or is more better? I’ve been using it quite conservatively; perhaps that’s why I’m not seeing many results?

Social bookmarks are just giving additional backlinks which is beneficial in the search engine’s rankings. Dofollow or not it will still count because there are still people in there that are surfing for information so you contents might still be stumbled over by them.

So the bottom line of social bookmarking is the much desired backlinks? That makes sense - thank you dwaynekyle.

Another concern I have… Many of those sites want you to download something for your browser, but I don’t care to do that. There’s too many and I’m not about to run all that junk on my computer - do any of those really serve a purpose?

To automate things, you can use socialmarker. BTW, it is semi-automatic site where you can browse sites and bookmark your links.

Another thank you, dwaynekyle! :slight_smile: I will check that out ASAP.

I sure don’t mind doing the “leg” work, but I DO mind wasting my time - I just don’t have that much to waste and sometimes I just feel as if I’m spinning my wheels online, you know? there’s SO much and things move so fast. I sincerely appreciate both of you taking a moment to help clue me in!

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Of course you didn’t see any benefit from it. Why would you? What incentive did you offer other to visit your site? You joined, submitted a single link, and then never came back.

To really get the benefit of social bookmarking you can’t just sign up to 20 sites and expect everyone to jump at the one link you just submitted. You need to actually join the community. Pick maybe 2 or 3 and spend time with the site. Make friends and network with the other people there. If you begin to care about them, they will begin to care about you. Only then will you start to see the true value a social bookmarking site can bring.

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Why can’t you people use social networks for their intended purpose (sharing your favourite sites or good news stories you’ve read, etc). How many times do we need to keep repeating over and over to you that using social networks to deliberately post your website and it’s content to attempt to get some sort of return or gain from it is strictly against most social networks terms of service agreements… all you are doing is spamming, clear and simple. If you want to get yourself blacklisted, banned and possibly hounded by lawyers, go ahead and start polluting the services with your stuff, otherwise use the website for it’s intended purpose and keep your business activities (within it) to a MINIMUM. :frowning: You want to attract visitors to your websites, focus on producing quality content and people will link to you using social sites on their own, spamming and advertising your stuff yourself is almost always a case in point that you have nothing of any worth to offer. :nono:

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In reference to a inspiring, exciting and friendly e-mail rec’d from Sarah HAWK Taylor, Community Manager I will now give example as to what happens to “newbies” that stop popping in. THAT POST ABOVE and…this:

You joined, submitted a single link, and then never came back.

To really get the benefit of social bookmarking you can’t just sign up to 20 sites and expect everyone to jump at the one link you just submitted. You need to actually join the community. Pick maybe 2 or 3 and spend time with the site. Make friends and network with the other people there. If you begin to care about them, they will begin to care about you. Only then will you start to see the true value a social bookmarking site can bring.

IS a reason new people coming to learn and share and discover don’t come back after a few posts.

First of all, the 2nd quote? Totally clueless. I tried to learn the ropes using 12 different social bookmarking sites - just read my original post. I never said I ‘dropped a link and left’ - this rude poster is assuming and you know what they say about that.

Hasta la vista. You’ve shoved off a middle-aged, 50 year old just trying to work for her living, share, learn and grow with other like minded people. But I don’t want to be like minded with you if it means being treated in this fashion for a simple query.

:injured:

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fitnfree, sorry if you thought that was aimed at you but it wasn’t (my apologies if you took it to think I was aiming it at your original post), it was aimed at other posters who were posting random inefficient advice (promoting funnelling junk into those services). In answer to your question, dofollow essentially means search engines index it and thereby give you a higher search position in relation to the relevance of your content (as a subsequent link), nofollow means search engines ignore the link but people may still visit your website. Essentially how it works is you sign up for a social network, start using the website and people with similar interests will be told by the social network (depending on what one it is) that you may be worth checking out (at least your content)… the key to social networks is having an actual presence and audience online before you bother to make use of them, you won’t see any benefits from the service if you haven’t got anyone following you, as such their simply a method to keep in touch with your audience in a more interactive way (not somewhere to contribute and expect traffic to return on it’s own accord), traffic isn’t (generally) a self-fulfilling prophecy unless you have the audience. :slight_smile:

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I thought this was excellent advice. This makes absolute sense: this is how you use social sites. Even on forums, when I see someone giving good advice, or saying interesting things, I do often look at their home page or their signatures, just to check them out. Same makes sense for non-forum social sites.

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[FONT=“Georgia”]There are quite a few Trinis (because the whole of Trinidad is on Facebook) who really use Facebook Pages well in their promotion.

For them, their primary effort is to not use the site as a “bookmark”, but instead use it to be social.

You’re better off learning from example so I’ll just post the links and invite you to have a glance yourself.

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The first is Drink! Winebar’s Facebook Page.

I did some photography there once. When I met the guy, he had this real’ lively, optimistic personality and a lot of that comes through on his Facebook Page. And it works! He’s gathered himself a following of loyal fans/customers (like my sister, for one), who follow along intimately and show up to many of his events.

A post once that made me smile; Someone lost their flashdrive in the bar once and he posted a notice on FB. How cool is that? :smiley:

You know what that post said? That post said your bar is looking out for you.

And yes, the customer retrieved his flashdrive.

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Another great example; Laura Ferreira Studios.

Like Dale (the Drink! guy), Laura has a great personality. Not so warm as Dale; Laura’s more cheeky-but-fun. But again, she just lets it flow onto her Wall naturally.

She mostly posts goofy comments, intersped with mentioning her new products, projects and what she’s working on. She creates the impression of a young woman, highly enthusiastic about what she does, who’s busy all the time doing it.

Added to the fact that she does great work, she draws loyal followers in like a magnet. So much so with her Facebook Page that she stopped pushing her proper website.

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So best I can tell yuh is to check them out. Learn by observation.

But mostly, from what I’ve seen, it’s a matter of being loose and friendly. It’s a social network; So to get the most out of it you need to be social.

That said, I’m bad at social networking myself, hahahaha. I’ve tried it before but didn’t have the discipline to keep updating my status constantly.

Anyways, I hope that helped in some way.

Check out the pages. Look at their older posts. See how they interact warmly with their customers/fans (Drink! a little more warmly).

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The biggest advantage of social bookmarking site is not only traffic but quality backlink.
so always do that, also I trust mainly on digg,facebook,twitter,mixx and hubpages to brought traffic on my site.

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I actually don’t do digg (well, I actually if anything I twit a bit :D)… but I’ve always heard that digg right now was not good… basically because of the gazillion of thread posted and due to people that abused the system quite a bit (that is, called their gazillion friends to digg their article).

So I guess if you’re the lucky one to be featured… fantastic! else I am not sure if it is any good. … A bit like Google, if you come to think of it… if your page is on the first page of results… great… else, oh my! :smiley:

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I agree with Stomme… great piece of advice here… don’t go for the 100… just choose the 2-3 that would suit your needs and use them… build your network and things will start to happen. It takes time and effort but the quality will be higher and that will provide benefits in the end.

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I’m glad I’m not alone. I’m going to keep pushing this point until everyone else starts listening. :slight_smile:

To the OP: I meant no disrespect and I was only trying to help. When somebody says that social bookmarking isn’t working for them, the first thought that pops into my head is that they’re just spamming (for good reason).

However, if you’re unable to take a simple comment or criticism without getting upset and storming off, you’re going to find it hard to “make” it on the web.

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I’ve had good traffic coming from delicious, but you have to have a niche market for that.