Thread: Just How Effective Is Social Bookmarking?

I assumed since the target audience of my post was questioning the effectiveness of social bookmarking in its entirety, they had no knowledge of the PR formula, NoFollows, or robots.txt.

Which is why I said "without getting too technical". Because all other things considered equal, a backlink from social bookmarking is as valid and effective as a backlink from article marketing or a forum signature or a blog post, etc. etc.

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Sure, unless the backlinks are:

• rel=follow
• redirected
• Javascripted
• On pages that block the search engine spiders

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Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Sure, unless the backlinks are:

• rel=follow
• redirected
• Javascripted
• On pages that block the search engine spiders

I have seen some links with the following attribute

rel="external "

What does that signify? a NoFollow?

Originally Posted by 5starpix

I have seen some links with the following attribute

rel="external "

What does that signify? a NoFollow?

rel="external" is just a standards compliant (strict dtd) way to open links in a new window. The strict doctype doesn't allow for the target attribute, so rel="external" is used in combination with javascript to open the links in new windows.

Here's a sitepoint article on the subject, New-Window Links in a Standards-Compliant World, though just google it, and you'll find many more, most just saying the same thing.

Alright, so basically a link with rel="external", has nothing to do with it being nofollow or dofollow, right?

Originally Posted by 5starpix

Alright, so basically a link with rel="external", has nothing to do with it being nofollow or dofollow, right?

You are right. rel="external" is used to make a link open in new window.

Originally Posted by 5starpix

Alright, so basically a link with rel="external", has nothing to do with it being nofollow or dofollow, right?

Correct, as is a rel="external" is dofollow just like normal link with no rel attribute, to make it nofollow you'd simply add that in, i.e. rel="external nofollow"

Of course it depends on your articles and niche,but social bookmarking can bring in a lot of traffic and if the sites are do follow even help you with SEO

Originally Posted by gavenecko

I am considering purchasing a social bookmarking package from someone, but I really have no idea how it works or if it will bring good traffic to one of my websites. Basically, I would like to know how effective this is and where I should look for a good bookmarking service. My websites desperately need a bit of exposure!

It's actually very effective especially if you have something of quality, value or interest where people would naturally bookmark for you then you just get free exposure.

However many people are resorting to methods to get their own sites manually and intentionally bookmark to raise their ranking.

If you get on the first page of most major social bookmarking it has the potential to actually overload your servers that's how much potential social bookmark has.

It's like free advertising when I think of it if you do it properly.

good information = traffic. social bookmarking is a very effective way to boost your traffic but without posting good and informative news, people won't click on your link