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What is the effect of bookmarking our website in social bookmarking websites in connection with SEO? It is true that bookmarking brings huge traffic in a few days - on a short term basis. Does the links help in better ranking with SE ?

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This thread’s debate between link-value and traffic (see posts from , and ) is still the right question — but the answer has shifted. Social bookmarks can be useful as a distribution channel to get your content seen, but they are not a dependable way to “buy” ranking credit; Google representatives have said links from generic bookmarking sites are generally ignored for ranking. (Search Engine Journal summary of John Mueller’s comments).

Technically, link handling has changed: Google now expects publishers to mark paid or user-generated links with rel values like sponsored and ugc, and treats those attributes (and nofollow) as hints rather than absolute rules. Use the right rel attributes and understand what they signal to Google. (Google guidance on qualifying outbound links).

Practical takeaway and safe approach: treat bookmarking as promotion, not link building. Do targeted posts in genuine communities (where real users might click, share, and — crucially — create editorial links), measure the results, and stop any mass/automated submission programs that try to game results. Google’s spam policies warn that manipulative link schemes and paid link networks can cause action against a site. (Google spam/link‑spam guidance).

Concrete next steps: 1) prioritize creating link‑worthy assets and outreach; 2) use bookmarking only to seed discovery in real communities; 3) track referral and indexing impact with Google Search Console and analytics. For context on social activity as an indirect amplifier (not a direct ranking lever), see a recent industry summary. (SEMrush on social signals and SEO).

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Member Avatar for stymiee

This is all hype. While you can get links from these sites their value is no better then submitting to directories really. Unless you can get your submissions dugg or similar it isn't a good SEO strategy to focus on (and most submissions do not get dugg). Submit your stuff and forget about it. Definitely don't fixate on it.

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Social bookmarking is useful if you have a good title tag asociated with good content on yor site.If the title is good but the content on the site is not useful you will be burried.
Also you need to have many user that bookmarks your post in short time from the post.
Some social bookmarking use nofolow tag.
Social bookmarking traffic is very poor converting.
Social bookmarking depends on the networks of friend , I know that at digg 15% of users post 80% of total posts.

If think if you want to have sucess with social bookmarking is to have a network of webmaster that bookmarks post from the network using a probability algoritm because if the same number of webmaster bookmarks the same post social bookmarking sites will see that like spam , but using a algoritm that look like someone bookmarks some sites randomly(not all) and in random days it is a chance to get something.

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I had submitted my links and details to over 100 social bookmarking websites hiring some one to do the job. Whatever I spent to hire him was worth that money - as my traffic increased much within a few days. It was not on a long term basis, but still for those days of increased traffic, I could earn a handsome figure.

I wanted to know about how will those links in the social bookmarking websites help in SEO. Though not all the websites, but atleast the most popular ones will be doing some good as I hope!!

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Most of social bookmarking web sites used "nofollow" tag and for that reason, they will never help your to rank well.

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I saw that in google webmaster tools are showed nofolow links.
So remain the question if are good or no.

Member Avatar for stymiee

Google has publicly confirmed that links with nofollow have no value whatsoever.

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Linkd for social bookmarking sites will do help bring in link traffic from readers but technically it will not help SE ranking so there's NO SEO benefit.

Still, having a text link from a high PR, old webpage do help SE ranking

Member Avatar for stymiee

Still, having a text link from a high PR, old webpage do help SE ranking

As long as those links are
:

1) On topic
2) Not using nofollow

Then that is true.

Member Avatar for Janetjuli

If you social bookmark properly and supply good quality content, you can expect to gain dozens of quality back links as other bookmarkers, bookmark your content. This technique is a popular tool for successful search engine optimization and the best feature of social bookmarking is that it is free to use.

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If you social bookmark properly and supply good quality content, you can expect to gain dozens of quality back links as other bookmarkers, bookmark your content. This technique is a popular tool for successful search engine optimization and the best feature of social bookmarking is that it is free to use

Member Avatar for stymiee

If you social bookmark properly and supply good quality content, you can expect to gain dozens of quality back links as other bookmarkers, bookmark your content. This technique is a popular tool for successful search engine optimization and the best feature of social bookmarking is that it is free to use.

Actually most social bookmarking sites use "nofollow" in their links so those links are worthless from an SEO point of view.

Member Avatar for Estreetloans

We are about to add some bookmarkign buttons to our site. We have original content on our site that people have had an interest in. Ill have to see if it makes a difference before and after with traffic?

Member Avatar for stymiee

Add those buttons now. People can't use them unless they are there. Just don't expect them to be used frequently.

Member Avatar for Estreetloans

Do you know where I would go to start adding these buttons?

Thanks

Member Avatar for guinanie

Social Bookmarking can help boost traffic for a site unless you post quality content and with unique title.

Member Avatar for Estreetloans

I just got those buttons up on one site and we are slowly getting these buttons on our other site thats a little older.

I was trying to find the best way to utilize the content, it is all unique for our site. So hopefully this will increase our traffic. I will have to see how it turns out.

Thanks for everyones help!

Member Avatar for cooluks

Social Bookmarking are good source of backlinks and generate traffics....

Member Avatar for stymiee

Social Bookmarking are good source of backlinks and generate traffics....

Actually they are not good for generating backlinks. Most social bookmarking sites use nofollow in their links which mean they are worth to search engines.

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Spammers have ruined it for the rest of us :(

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Social bookmarkings works for my blogs. I find some backlinks from one of my social bookmarks when I checked it yesterday.

Member Avatar for TREVOR13

A quality content in your article is a big help for the socialbookmark submission to get more traffic..

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