How much time are you spending on writing your articles? 30 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours? If you’re John Chow or Darren Rowse, then I’m betting you get plenty of link love for each article you write, but if you’re not, why not spend an extra 5 minutes each time you write an article and get 5 links to it.
I’m talking about social bookmarking here. Sites like del.icio.us, except these 5 don’t attach the rel=”nofollow” tag to their links. Register to the social bookmarking sites listed below, bookmark the submit page for all of them, and just open them up each time you write an article and bookmark that url.
Social Bookmarking sites
Furl.net (PR 8 )
- ma.gnolia.com (PR 7)
- Bibsonomy.org (PR 6)
- Mister-Wong.com (PR 6) (look at the top for the button of the english version)
- Bmaccess.net (PR 4)
Now, its true that you get links from just 5 sites this way, but it’s not that different from posting in a forum and getting links only to the homepage each time you post. They are pretty strong sites, and they should provide you with some extra strength to each article. It can help you rank better for long tail keywords that you might write about and even boost your PR for each page.
Don’t forget to tag your articles with a couple of keywords that are relevant. Usually you get a link from each tag page, either to the article, or to the page that links to you. So you either get more links to your article or you boost the PR of the page that links to you, depending on the site.
Do this, but don’t stop gathering links to your index page or other pages that you rank for. This method is just to give you an extra boost for your pages, not to be used for replacing all your link building efforts. Keep getting links from other sources as well, you don’t want all your links to come from just 5 domains.
Please make sure the bookmark is public, so it can be indexed by the search engines. It’s usually an option, to either make it private or public. Look for it, and make it public if the options exists.
Also, when you have very good articles, don’t submit them just to Digg, Reddit or Netscape. There are couple of other social media sites without the rel=”nofollow” tag attached on their links, and it can’t hurt to submit to them and get some extra link juice to those pillar articles.
Other social media sites (check if they’re appropriate to your story)
- Tweako.com (PR 6)
- PlugIM (PR 5)
- IndianPad.com (PR 5)
- Blogmemes.net (PR 5)
- Socialogs.com (PR 0 - just couple of months old - 13,000 backlinks though)
Any other social bookmarking sites that don’t have nofollow attached to their links that you know off?
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Martin responded on 12 Sep 2007 at 3:53 pm #
Nice post, Alexandru - might be worth giving a mention to http://socialposter.com which allows one to bulk submit to several social media sites at once.
Alexandru responded on 12 Sep 2007 at 4:01 pm #
Martin, normally I would’ve, except the post is about link building, and the ones I’ve spoken about here are the only ones from that list that pass link juice and they’re also social bookmarking, so you can save as many links as you want there.
Social Poster is a great tool, but useful for promoting pillar articles and linkbait. For regular posts, a minimum amount of effort to get a few links to them would be just using the sites mentioned above.
5 Great SEO Resources | Butterfly Media Romania Blog responded on 10 Oct 2007 at 2:03 pm #
[...] 5. How much time are you spending on writing your articles? 30 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours? If you’re John Chow or Darren Rowse, then I’m betting you get plenty of link love for each article you write, but if you’re not, why not spend an extra 5 minutes each time you write an article and get 5 links to it. [...]
Mr. Rob responded on 19 Oct 2007 at 3:12 am #
Not sure where you got 13,000 backinks for….Socialogs.com. more link 1 with only 100+ pages indexed.
Alexandru responded on 19 Oct 2007 at 8:11 am #
Mr. Rob, I think you searched for the www variant. The one used is without http://www. Right now Yahoo shows me 1408 pages indexed and 6000 backlinks to the entire site, but Yahoo doesn’t show all the links anymore.
Mr. Rob responded on 19 Oct 2007 at 7:56 pm #
I ran site:socialogs.com in Google and found 3240 indexed but 1 backlink according to the toolbar. Same thing on your end?
Alexandru responded on 19 Oct 2007 at 8:05 pm #
Google only shows a very small portion of the backlinks, if any. And Yahoo now shows me 41,000 backlinks to the entire site.
I’ll never understand why they don’t show everything and just mess with samples.
Mr. Rob responded on 19 Oct 2007 at 8:16 pm #
Understanding is easy. It’s their mentality.
uberdose responded on 09 Nov 2007 at 2:43 pm #
Hi Alex, thanks for this list. I just finished a plugin that can post automatically to such bookmarking sites (http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/11/09/auto-social-wordpress-plugin/). At the moment it’s just delicio.us but I will expand it. Btw., yahoo seems to count delicio.us as backlinks, and your link pages can rank on Google as well.
Alexandru responded on 09 Nov 2007 at 10:12 pm #
Hi uberdose. I’ll try it out in the weekend and post about it.
Yahoo does index del.icio.us links, as they do all nofollow links, but they don’t assign any weight to them.
joe leighton responded on 11 Dec 2007 at 3:05 pm #
alexandru….thanks a million. very informative.
re your nov 9 comment re nofollow links and yahoo & google.
by ‘doesn’t assign any weight to them’, do you mean that nofollow backlinks would provide the same benefit as a backlink with 0 page rank?
& should i assume that 0 PR is of no benefit when it comes to getting your page ranked by SE’s??? in other words, backlinks with 0 PR are worthless in this context?
regards, joe
Alexandru responded on 13 Dec 2007 at 2:11 pm #
Joe, it means that they give zero benefit, both in the PR and the authority department.. It’s not the same as PR0, since PR0 can also mean 0.93.
joe leighton responded on 10 Jan 2008 at 10:25 am #
hi carol….thank you for the helpful feedback.
much of my marketing is done via videos posted to youtube, myspace & about 25 other video sites. as you know, these video sites assign a unique URL to each video.
do you reckon that posting these URL’s (with title, tags, etc.)to social bookmarking sites will increase the SE ranking of these videos?
thanks in advance for the professional advice. regards, joe
Ghillie Suits responded on 13 Jan 2008 at 8:07 am #
Shylock, another great post on links. I never used social bookmarks before and just got done doing so. I’ve bookmarked your site and will shoot you some link love from my other blogs.