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Hello friends,

After submitting my websites to social bookmarking sites for a few months, I have gained some experiences about popular and not-too-popular social bookmarking sites.

Popular social bookmarking sites are not better than new social bookmarking sites.

Why?

When I submit one link to a popular one like digg.com, my link is nowhere in the next few minutes. The new or not-too-popular social bookmarking sites have my link there for a few hours or few days.

My link is easily indexed if I submit to old social bookmarking sites.

I hope I am not wrong.

Any idea is appreciated.

Thanks.

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Short expert summary: observations like ’s are common — big bookmarking portals and small/new ones behave differently, but which helps your site depends on a few technical and practical factors. Several replies here already touch on traffic and authority; below is a concise explanation of why results vary and a simple experiment to prove what matters for your pages.

Why behavior differs (brief): search engines discover URLs through high-quality feeds and frequent crawling, but they also filter low-value or duplicate signals. A submission that sits on a small site’s front page longer isn’t automatically more valuable if that site is rarely crawled, uses JavaScript-only rendering, or blocks indexation via robots/meta tags. Conversely, a popular portal may expose your URL quickly but bury it behind votes or paywalled lists. Redirects, canonical tags, server response codes, and link attributes (follow/nofollow) influence whether a bookmark becomes a discoverable/indexed backlink.

Quick controlled test you can run (practical): publish a short, unique test page and include a nonce phrase you can search for; submit the same URL to a handful of sites from each category (large, mid, niche, local). Track index time and referrals. Use Google Search Console URL inspection and referral reports in Analytics. Search queries to check indexing:

site:yourdomain.com "unique-test-phrase-XYZ123"
intitle:"unique-test-phrase-XYZ123"

Check hourly for 48–72 hours, then daily for up to two weeks, and record first-crawl and first-index times plus referral visits.

Troubleshooting checklist and final notes: confirm the page returns 200 OK, has noindex/canonical issues, and is viewable without login; check that the bookmarking listing pages are crawlable and not rel="nofollow" if you expect SEO benefit. Keep submissions varied (titles/descriptions) to avoid duplicate filters, and combine bookmarking with targeted outreach and content that earns natural links (as suggests). Run a small experiment first — measured data beats guesses.

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Member Avatar for snapshot

All forms of traffic building can be useful but it would be a mistake simply focusing on the social bookmarking portals for building traffic for the websites.

Member Avatar for joesmith.aj

Digg like sites will help to index faster, the new sites as you told having your link on top indicates it wasn't used by others.

Member Avatar for cantthink

You have to take into consideration each site's PR and dofollow/nofollow status. That's the only way you could be sure that any links on them would be of value toyou

Member Avatar for jay 11

You have to take into consideration each site's PR and dofollow/nofollow status. That's the only way you could be sure that any links on them would be of value toyou

i disagree.. relevant citations can provide value regardless of toolbar pagerank and nofollow status.

Member Avatar for joelchrist

you may be top on not popular book marking sites, also they will provide less traffic, but sites like digg will provide you more traffic.

Member Avatar for joeblacksmith

thanks everybody, great useful information, i also reccomend local websites

Member Avatar for infinique

It's all dependent on the PR of the social site as well as whether it is dofollow.

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