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[amabaie]

Suppose you have your link at www.furl.net/item.jsp?id=###### (THe #### would be a whole bunch of numbers). What is the benefit of this? Who sees it? How does one get people to visit this page?

Just what is the PR value of social bookmarking? Is there a way to reach other Furl or Del.icio.us users?

Has anyone had any success using this to generate targeted traffic, blogger interest or other benefits?

[Jill]

I've played with Del.icio.us a bit and find it kind of fun surfing people's bookmarks.

But I haven't detected any search engine benefit.

In fact, I just checked and my page with Jill's Bookmarks isn't cached by Google. (Let's see if that link helps!)

Has anyone seen any Del.icio.us pages in Google? I've not noticed them.

I think there's certainly a possiblity of a traffic benefit from these, but not quite so sure of a search engine benefit. But I haven't looked at it enough to really know for sure. I keep hearing SEOs talk about it, like it's the next best thing to sliced bread, but haven't been sure why!

[qwerty]

It can be very useful for building audiences, and I know Rand has discussed the value of getting onto the "popular" page there, but I can't speak to that, as none of my stuff has gotten there.

[juliesjewels]

Has anyone seen any Del.icio.us pages in Google? I've not noticed them.

This is an old thread, but for what it's worth, I saw someone's Del.icio.us page which was loaded with tags about the term I was using in the search show up on page 4 in Google today.

[roxyyo]

I've tested this using very nichey keywords and I've noticed that the tags of bookmark pages get indexed and show up in search results before the bookmark pages get indexed. I also wanted to see if social bookmarking helped new urls get indexed faster. Nope. The value is that other people surfing tags and other bookmark pages might see your link, even better follow it, and even better, bookmark it themselves...and so on, and so on. So your link better be cool.

And I've also found this helpful in reputation management situations when you want to push off negative blog or forum posts from search results, to use the tagging feature for a company's name and build a page with several deep links with the company name in titles and link descriptions. You *can* get ranking from tags and the bookmark page pretty fast, depending on how much existing info is up about the company. The popularity of these bookmark pages' domains must be giving the pages some benefit/weight, as the pages themselves are not much in and of themselves.

[idrive]

Good to see the question here as I have been pondering it. With deli.cio.us I am wondering if there is benefit in building a network - the more users linked together with an underlying theme - will that help?

Another idea I was wondering was your user profile on sites like flickr. If you put up photos that people like will they look at your profile and come to your site from there?

I think that a site such as Squidoo where you create a lens and join lens together, and these lens get mentioned on a front page and therefore perhaps carry some visibility might also be an idea.

If anyone wants to experiment I am game to help out ;-)

In the meantime I'll add Jill to my delicious network :-)

[roxyyo]

Interesting idea, Darlene. I'm wondering how you can get targeted traffic through photos for some businesses/industries. I guess it would work better for some than others.

[jehochman]

I have a site where we put up some clipart and I quickly typed an ALT attribute to describe the picture, "business woman." Well we get about 100 visitors per week from that without even trying. Of course, none of them convert because it's not part of the strategy.

If you sell something that people want a picture of, it wouldn't hurt to optimize for image search. Maybe you can include your product in the picture, and put a GPL license caption on the graphic to encourage people to copy and spread it around. That could be great for branding.

[roxyyo]

I'd love to find an image/video keyword research tool.

[roxyyo]

Hmmm, interesting. I noticed that Yahoo site explorer is listing Del.icio.us back links.

[qwerty]

That's not surprising. Guess who owns del.icio.us

[roxyyo]

Oooh! I can guess!

[Randy]

Bet you would guess right too.

Y! owns a lot of stuff that doesn't necessarily get well publicized.