Delicious for Link Building?

Posted by Pixelhead

The last post in this series on Social Bookmarks was Social Bookmarking with Delicious, where in I introduced the series and highlighted the post with a video about Delicious, which you should watch if you have not done so. This long over due social bookmarking video goes over my opinion about Delicious and suggests a few other social bookmarking sites that would be better used for the general purpose of link building.

Is Delicious Good for Link Building?

My advice, don’t use Delicious as a means of getting direct one way links since all Delicious links are currently no-follow. However, if you concentrate on creating a site that is truly helpful or entertaining, then visitors will gladly bookmark your website in Delicious as well as any of the other bookmarking sites that your visitors use. If you get a ton of Delicious bookmarks within a short period, your page will go to the home page, which will result in more people visiting your site. The thing that is important about Delicious, is that it is a bookmarking site, which means if they do bookmark you, they are doing so because they intend on revisiting.

Link Building with Social Bookmarking

Using Social bookmarking sites for link building is and can be done very easily. There are services such as those offered by WLmarketing that will create profiles on numerous social bookmarking sites. There are also services, such as Social Submitter, that allow you to easily post a link to many bookmarking sites at once. I myself have only tried one of the mass submission services one time, and did receive questionable results. Many of the links that are built with these tools have little if any link juice. When submitted like this, unless you take the time to develop your profile on each of these sites, the traffic return will be minimal if any.

A Few Other Social Bookmarking Sites

Digg- Who has not heard of Digg, if you have not, here are some Digg posts for your to read. Links are good links, and if you get to the front page of Digg, expect a ton of traffic…make sure your host can handle the traffic load.

Stumbleupon-links are either redirects or nofollow, so there is no juice here. But again Stumbleupon can give you a lot of traffic. Here are some Stumbleupon posts if you need more info.

Mixx- Within the last month I started using Mixx on a regular basis. With a little regular Mixxing my Karma is already over 400…woot. I have not done any reviews of Mixx yet, but at least one of these is forthcoming. Link juice is questionable for mixx since many of the links are redirects. However, it does as I said before have a very positive community. I also like the ability to create community portals that closely resemble your website.

Solinkable – I just started using Solinkable after one of the site owners left a comment here. Since that time I have come to really like the ease of using Solinkable. Its “Promoted/Queued Links system follows the Digg system, but Gravity follows that of Reddit.” meaning you can vote on stories that others submit and your friends can do the same. Its a pretty new site, however the thing that I like about it that the links are all direct, and blog links that are added show up as trackbacks. Since it is such a young site, I would sign up and add Solinkable to your Bookmarks toolbar. Visit the Solinkable blog and sign up to receive updates of developments as the happen.

Social bookmarks are just another source of potential links. As Wayne said in his post about Social Submitter, use common sense when using social bookmarks. When link building in general, remember to use variety, so over doing it with the bookmarks could potentially hurt you.

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What bookmarks do you use?

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Written by Pixelhead on December 18th, 2008 with 29 comments.
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#1. December 18th, 2008, at 5:31 AM.

Hi Pixelhead,

Have you tried using SocialMarker.com for social bookmarking before? And if so, how would you say that it compares to Social Submitter. In other words.. I do a fair share of social bookmarking… would you recommend one over the other, or are they more or less the same?

BTW thanks for the analysis of Delicious! While I try to bookmark my articles to as many relevant sites that I can.. I’m not always 100% sure of the SEO/link benefits that many of them have over the next.

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#2. December 18th, 2008, at 10:02 AM.

I use Propeller for a long time, but recently they have changed their linking system to no-follow also. But quality of traffic got better. Other services that i use beside ones that you metioned are: Care2 and Reddit.

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#3. December 18th, 2008, at 1:44 PM.

wow this is the first time I heard about that, in Spain most of the people think that is one of the best way of getting direct links.
thanks for the time you just save me and greetings from Spain,
Sawsana

Pixelhead
#4. December 18th, 2008, at 4:16 PM.

Accountatns in Phoenix, I have used that service..that was actually the service that I used the one time I used a submission service. I really can not make a recommendation for either product. But what I will tell you is to use the bookmarks cautiously. As I have said before, use variety with your backlinks.

Jon, I have used Reditt, but not Care2..I did not know that was a bookmarking site. It’s just for environmentally related sites is it not?

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#6. December 18th, 2008, at 4:52 PM.

That might be a bit out of my price range…but it does sound sweet.

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#7. December 22nd, 2008, at 11:14 PM.

Wow thanks for the plug! Glad to hear that you’re enjoying SoLinkable, that’s great news.

As for social bookmarking – Reddit has my heart, but Digg was my first love. I haven’t used StumbleUpon enough to really comment on it, but it has brought me huge amounts of traffic in the past (In one hour a few months ago it brought in over 700 UV).

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#8. December 23rd, 2008, at 1:08 AM.

Very useful information. i’m just getting into the SEO game and have been learning a lot. Thanks for the info. I’ll definitely be checking back soon!

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#9. December 23rd, 2008, at 5:38 PM.

@SoLinkable – I really like your site! I can defiantly see why Pixel uses it so much. It is a great site and has the potential to be huge. I would love some tips on who to gain Karma if you or Pixel have any?

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#10. December 25th, 2008, at 6:36 PM.

I’ve used social marker and I think its very good. I haven’t used social submitter. Does it pretty much do the same thing as social marker? Also with bookmarking, are the links as good as normal links from websites? I will check out solinkable.

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#11. December 26th, 2008, at 10:47 AM.

Hi This really interesting Article. I was not aware of mixx and Solinkable. I have knowledge about dig and stumbleupon. This is really informative for me. You have shared good knowledge with all.

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#12. December 27th, 2008, at 8:07 AM.

I just use Stumble Upon and Digg. Never tried Delicious and other social bookmarking sites. I guess i must try them out to improve my sites link building.

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#13. December 27th, 2008, at 8:32 AM.

great stories..
i usually using delicious to attract more visitor in my blog, to build backlink i prefer directory submission.
Is there any software than can automate these social bookmarking submitting process? can you recommend me, which one should i choose?

Pixelhead
#14. December 27th, 2008, at 2:11 PM.

Bloggersource, I have used the one suggested in the first comment. I might also give Wayne’s tool a try.

John, as I have said in the past, variety is what you need to think about…variety in sources, and variety of link text.

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#15. December 27th, 2008, at 5:47 PM.

I’m really glad I found this blog. Actually some useful suggestions concerning backlinks. Not the usual submit to link directory stuff.

Keep up the good work!

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#16. December 27th, 2008, at 9:19 PM.

I use elefanta.pl and linker.pl they are great polish link systems. Delicious made their lings nofollow because more links and less content can realyy hurt Your PR.

Joel M
#17. December 29th, 2008, at 4:41 PM.

I haven’t tried the social bookmarking slant yet. But I suspicion that Google is already on to it as a used and abused method of getting backlinks.

Pixelhead
#18. December 29th, 2008, at 5:17 PM.

I agree totally Joel. I think a limited amount of Bookmark development is OK, but as with any link building you should be conservative with it for sure.
I would rather develop profiles and networks where I can get others to vote for my site and I vote for theirs.

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#19. December 30th, 2008, at 12:58 PM.

delicious is the best way to generate huge traffic for the website. It is hard to use but it gives a huge and great result.

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#20. January 1st, 2009, at 5:55 AM.

Thanks for all the great information.
I didn’t know how much I didn’t know.

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#21. January 1st, 2009, at 8:42 PM.

I haven’t really made it a point to make use of social bookmarking sites in order to increase backlinks. I do get how it works, but I guess I’ve been a bit lazy. For now, I make do with Mister Wong.

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#22. January 3rd, 2009, at 6:35 AM.

Thanks for the extremely useful information. It is amazing what you learn each day. Having links on reviews sites also helps big time.

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#23. January 3rd, 2009, at 10:53 AM.

I don’t know much about social bookmarking, but this post has some really good guides that I can use in the future if ever I would choose to use social bookmarking. I tried stumbleupon, though.

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#24. January 27th, 2009, at 5:59 AM.

I have not used Social bookmarking for any of my clients yet. Infact, in India, use of social bookmarking sites is very less compared to another countries. After reading lots of blogs, I think i should start using social bookmarking sites to promote our client’s sites and business whose interests mainly lies in usa and uk market.

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#25. March 8th, 2009, at 3:37 PM.

I use delicious and reddit all the time. and everything works well on my side.

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#26. October 19th, 2009, at 8:35 AM.

Unfortunately, it is hard to get bookmark by many people in short period. because most of delicious visitors like to bookmark about news or something different. If a blog talking about SEO, link building and so on. What so different in compare with other blogs.

Ruri.

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#27. November 3rd, 2009, at 4:55 PM.

You are right about Delicious. The true benefits will come only if you can get your web site bookmarked many times. If your web site or an article from your web site gets on the home page than it can bring huge traffic to your web site. Recently I checked the traffic with compete.com and this was the estimation I got 1.906.224. It is very very popular. However, I do not know how accurate the numbers are.

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#28. February 11th, 2010, at 9:48 AM.

I have used Reditt, but not Care2..I did not know that was a bookmarking site. It’s just for environmentally related sites is it not?

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#29. February 11th, 2010, at 9:56 AM.

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