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The first thing I do to start building back links that are going to get noticed by search engines and draw the spiders to my site is to social bookmark my site to some of the do-follow sites. Book marking to the “do follow” sites is important here because you want the spiders to follow through and visit your links so that your site can be included in the index.

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A short, practical update to the discussion: social bookmarking still helps with discovery and short-term referral traffic, but it is not a silver-bullet SEO tactic and the rules have changed since this thread began. Many replies here (for example and ) focus on link attributes; that used to be the primary concern, but search engines now rely more on context, quality and clear signals from publishers than on raw counts of bookmarks.

Google changed how link attributes are handled in 2019 — rel="sponsored" and rel="ugc" were added, and nofollow became a hint rather than an absolute directive. That means obsessing over “do-follow” bookmark lists is less useful than earning real editorial links and relevant referral traffic. (Google: Evolving “nofollow” — new ways to identify the nature of links). (developers.google.com)

Be careful with scale and automation. Google warns that large-scale, low-quality link programs (mass article/guest-post campaigns, automated submissions, widgetized links) are link-scheme signals that can trigger manual actions; quality beats volume. Manual curation and genuine community engagement work better than blasting every bookmark site. (Google: A reminder about links in large-scale article campaigns). (developers.google.com)

Practical checklist tied to points from this thread (for example and ):

  • Prioritize platforms where your audience actually spends time; one good placement trumps dozens of irrelevant ones.
  • Create “link-worthy” assets (original data, tools, long how-tos, unique visuals) instead of mass-submitting thin content.
  • Measure everything with UTM tags and your analytics—use Google’s Campaign URL Builder to generate trackable links. (GA Campaign URL Builder). (ga-dev-tools.web.app)

If an aggregator or bookmarking site is outranking your original (as worried about with Digg), insist on proper attribution or use rel="canonical"/301 redirects to consolidate signals to the original URL — Google documents canonicalization best practices. (Consolidate duplicate URLs / rel=\"canonical\"). (developers.google.com)

Finally: social activity is mainly useful for visibility and referral traffic, not as a direct ranking lever. Use social/bookmarking as one measured channel in a diversified promotion plan that prioritizes audience fit and editorial endorsement. (Why social signals help discovery but aren’t a direct ranking factor). (semrush.com)

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Member Avatar for jkthomas

but every site have own process after book mark to promote that mark it is too critical

Member Avatar for seo2india

i agree with u...

Member Avatar for shawndersk

Yes , I would say "dofollow" bookmarking is most important

Member Avatar for tamimadam

Yes , I would say "dofollow" bookmarking is most important

Yes it is true!

Member Avatar for matthewchung

The social bookmarking helps the online users to collect as well as to share the desirable websites or pages within their friends circle.It happens that some pages of your web site are poorly indexed or not indexed at all. Such bookmarks will make these pages visible to search engines through a social bookmarking system.

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Yes it is one of the ways to have a successful SEO Campaign.

Member Avatar for anna mariya

ya this is good this is a part of seo and this is very help full for website promotion

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it is true

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Yes, definitely social bookmarking is one of the effective way to get traffic to your site. Sites which have high PR does help in getting more traffic.

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Member Avatar for sgtechin

social bookmarking is good but we can only depend on this only.

Make sure u post only those articles on Social sites that are fully geek in information and on current topics.

Member Avatar for commodity

Yes,M agree with this Social Book marking is good way to get traffic on site.Nice way to promote your website.

Member Avatar for rajeevmehtaa

True Also u can get Backlinks

Member Avatar for netvani

Social bookmarking can add traffic to your site but of course the ratio will not be 1:1. Probably your site should be bookmarked to different social bookmarking sites for positive results of traffic. And I agree also to one of the comments here that it really depends on the social bookmarking sites with regards to its policies in site bookmarking.

Member Avatar for darenbresman

Yes Social bookmarking is very good way i agree with you

Member Avatar for kerin1539

Yes, Social bookmarking is one of the effective ways to get traffic. But only social bookmarking will not help you get more traffic you have to use other ways also like directory submission, blog posting and commenting, article submission and link wheel.

Member Avatar for lily40

yes am agreed with you that its very important, fast and authentic way to get good results.

Member Avatar for dnvgoods

The first thing I do to start building back links that are going to get noticed by search engines and draw the spiders to my site is to social bookmark my site to some of the do-follow sites. Book marking to the “do follow” sites is important here because you want the spiders to follow through and visit your links so that your site can be included in the index.

Yes you are right, now we all know bookmarking your site takes a long time,cause there's so many social sites out there that you will spend all day just bookmarking one post. How about automation there is a site that does that, and it's free for 300 submissions a month. It's called onlywire look it up guys I use it for every blog post I do.

Member Avatar for kerin1539

I agree with you. Social bookmarking is already having an effect on search engine by votes, tagging, link popularity.

Member Avatar for PinkyDutta

I think that social bookmarking helps in generating the backlinks for a website, for traffic we generally use to social networks.

Member Avatar for steve.s

yes, it is a good way. Because it gives one way high pr backlink

Member Avatar for prcys

Its true that social bookmarking is the best method for getting the backlinks and to drive the traffic to the site. But it is also necessary to have the unique description and relevant title when doing the submission as those are the things that works more for better result with bookmarking method.

Member Avatar for datti

I dont think so, But it would helps a lot to get quick index in google. And we can receive a quality back link from here, if the website have good amount of traffic and popularity.

Member Avatar for kerin1539

Yes, Social bookmarking is good way to getting traffic and back-links to your website and also helps in improving ranking of a website in search engine.

Member Avatar for vinodkunwar

Yes, obviously social bookmarking is effective way to get traffic and storing backlink our site but site should be do fallow............Thanks,

Member Avatar for Lusi123

Social Media bookmarking is important follow and nofollow both. I know do follow is important but now a days google considering no follow in a different way. I believe good gives some value to nofollow links also which helps those link to rank in SERP.

Member Avatar for jasstiv

Social Bookmarking sites have very high traffic and high PR.and most of used quickly index link

Member Avatar for elitebag

If the social book marking can do following ,then it is good .

Member Avatar for vinodkunwar

Yes of course it's the best way to get traffic and helpful to increase keywords ranking also.

Member Avatar for gagagugu

There are lots of social bookmarking. So the workload of submitting articles is heavy. How can I reduce the workload? Does someone give me some advice?

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