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Is it still worthy the socila bookmarking, directory submission, blog commenting?
I heard that Google Penguin update will make a bad effect on the site doing this?
SO How can I make links to the page for seo? How to imrpove backlinks for seo, hence rank better.

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Short answer for : mass social-bookmarking, blanket directory drops and automated blog-comment links are low-value today and can be counterproductive. Google’s systems have gotten much better at detecting and nullifying link spam, so the safe, long-term route is to earn editorial links from reputable sites and to build pages people want to link to. (developers.google.com)

About blog comments and bookmarking: those links are usually user-generated and often annotated (rel="ugc" or nofollow). Treated as “hints,” they rarely pass meaningful ranking credit and can look spammy when done at scale — they’re better for referral traffic and relationship-building than for bulk SEO. ’s experience with comment-heavy profiles that produced no traffic is exactly the kind of outcome to avoid. (developers.google.com)

Directory submissions still have a place, but mostly for local citations and industry-specific directories where NAP consistency and real user discovery matter. Claim and maintain your Google Business Profile and the key review/listing sites for your niche rather than chasing hundreds of low-quality directories. For broader link growth, prioritize editorial placements, resource pages, original research, tools, or data that journalists and bloggers want to cite. (brightlocal.com)

Practical checklist (quick, actionable):

  1. Audit: export backlinks from Google Search Console and a crawler (Ahrefs/Moz/Majestic) and look for low-quality patterns.
  2. Clean up: request removals; use the disavow tool only if removal fails (advanced move).
  3. Earn: run targeted outreach (broken-link fixes, resource outreach, guest contributions that add real value, digital PR and original data).
  4. Measure: track referral traffic and conversions, not just link counts. Don’t obsess about multiple links from the same domain — Google’s treatment of multiple links and anchor text is not a fixed “first-link” rule, so prioritize relevance and editorial context instead of trying to game counts. (developers.google.com)

Summary: take ’s instinct to build things worth linking to, but pair it with focused outreach and a clean backlink audit. Editorial, relevant links and measurable referral traffic beat bulk bookmarking every time.

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Member Avatar for Markantony1

I think these activities are still matter to building backlinks, but built links with high PR websites.
you can do article submision, blod posting, forum discussion, press release and PPT, PDF submisson to improve rank on SERP.

Member Avatar for Anu_5

yeah High PR pages will give better result and boost the ranking.

Do you tell me if mutlitple links from same domain is good or not?

Member Avatar for canadafred

Don't waste your time and worry with link building strategies, other than your own stuff interlinking with each other; your internal linking system I suppose. My suggestion is Instead of searching for effective ways to artificially boost your "link popularity" with a trendy trick, try creating stuff worth linking to and that the search engine will deem credible, unique and well crafted. The search engine nor the Internet visitor wants to get to p-ages that are useless other than the fact they rank well. Everybody wants something fresh and significant. Linking strategists are a sad bunch of SEOers, making meaningless crap- seem important.

Member Avatar for Arjun_6

directory submission, social bookmarking and blog commenting these are the best ways to build the links to your website. We can get quality backlinks via this off page techniques.

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Everybody share create link that worth linking but in begining it is difficult to have and also if you want link to some product based page they will not get the link easily

Arjun_6

Thanks

Member Avatar for Zueas

I'll answer with the example. I saw the sites which had about 25-30 Trust Rank according to Majestic SEO tool. I was excited of the backlink profile as there were more than 500 authority sites (!)
But according to SEOquake tool, there was not any traffic at all... I couldn`t realize what is the problem and probably thought that there was a problem with SEOquake. Next I noticed that all links of this site was in comments with the great number of spam links. So.. The plug-in worked correctly and as it appears this site was just under the Google sanctions...) So the conclusions make by yourselves..) Obviously)

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@ Zueas It means you says that blog commenting is not good for seo?

Member Avatar for kevinbelgiean

Social Bookmarking, Directory Submission and Blog Commenting are still an effective techniques for obtaining backlinks. However, try to utilize high quality, PA, DA and page ranked websites for building backlinks to avoid unnecessary spam issues.

Member Avatar for jeffjames

I think it would be better to continue with social bookmarking ,blog commenting and directory submissions as it plays significant role for getting targeted traffic and also improves rankings.

Edited by happygeek because: spam removed
Member Avatar for Anu_5

All are saying to do this but on high PR with more authrity and yeah I am doing this. I also try to not overwhlem with so much of the links.

Yeah I got this but we need to be careful and also we must not have many links from same website also.

Edited by happygeek because: spam reference removed
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thanks for sharing will chk it

Member Avatar for IT-INDIA.com

Social bookmarking is good IF

  1. the page/URL you are sharing has nice and rich content
  2. you are not making more than 5 bookmarks a day spread over 12 hrs, it should look natural
  3. if domain is aged, that's a + point
  4. Just don't drop your link on a social site, go there, take feel of the site, socialize with people.

Apply above for blog commenting too. Focus hard on niche.

Cheers!

Member Avatar for evelyn1

Posting Bookmark and directory submission counts to promote your site. But the submission sites must have a good PR and high quality . With Blog posting they will be productive only when you have a commentry session and regular update of it.

Evelyn
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Member Avatar for kavipriya2691

If you want to build backlinks, blog commenting, social bookmarking and guest posting are some effective ways.

Member Avatar for Tarini

Directory submission is quite out dated thing now. Blog commenting is goof for now

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