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[Live Costa Rica!]

This might have been covered already so I will apologize to the mods if it has, but I want the latest opinion on this matter...

With all the new Social Bookmarking sites what is the most legit (not a SPAM haven and educational), mature (I don't want to know about britney shaving her head), and successful (Been around for a little while). I personally like Digg, Reddit, and Mahalo. I have used Delicious and other sites in the past but they just don't seem like they do that good for rankings, nor is the other content that is posted to those "other" sites interesting, I haven't checked out Sphinn yet, but see it here on the site so I will do so.

I guess what I want to do with this thread is get a top 5 from everyone on their opinion on their favorite bookmarking sites... I will start

1. Digg
2. Reddit
3. Mahalo
4. Stumble Upon
5. Mixx

[Jill]

It depends what you goal is with social media. It's not for helping rankings, at least not directly.

[lisety]

It seems to me that social media is only helpful in attracting visitors (and possibly rankings if those visitors add your link) if you really spend a lot of time on it, and most of us don't have that kind of time. Personally, I've signed on to Facebook because I have a lot of friends there and so I'm likely to spend more time there. At least, that was the plan but somehow it's still hard to find the time

[seanwhe]

Social Media is a tricky one. As Lisety has said, it's good for connecting with and bringing people, it's not worth much when it comes to backlinks and pr.

If you are looking to build rep then try the article directories. Give in great content. Suggest sites like eZineArticles.com, Squidoo.com, HubPages.com, how-to.wired.com ...

The thing with social network sites is that you end up building your community on the social media site. Nice, but what happens when something goes wrong there? Also it does not really encourage return traffic so you don't get a good page view rate and you are always struggling to build traffic. If you can do something on the site that people want to keep coming back for, then you stand a good chance at being able to convert the freeline.

Hope this helps

[purplesoda]

Social Media Sites are great if you know how to utilize them fully. Sign up for Social Sites that ranks high and work up on your profile.

[prominade]

My favorite is propeller, mister-wong, stumble upon, digg and reddit. I love them because they brings a lot of traffic to my site and they are do follow sites

[angelinalove]

hi,
Social Bookmarking help full for the huge amount of traffic. For the backlink do the bookmarking in dofollow bookmarking sites.

[Zishan Ahmed]

Social Media site can be helpfull only if you can create a niche for yourself there.. Try and build up a place for yourself in the SM site like Facebook and Delicious..

Upgrade your site with informative and qulaity content and leave the rest the backlinks will follow soon.

[seobusiness]

Faves.com is a good one as well. It's no follow but you can get a lot of good traffic!

[marketraise seo]

My favorite is propeller, mister-wong, stumble upon, digg and reddit. I love them because they brings a lot of traffic to my site and they are do follow sites

hello
friend i have a problem how can we come
to know that weather it's a do follow or no follow site .

[Randy]

First, there is no such thing as do follow or dofollow, so people really shouldn't use this expression.

To tell if it's a nofollow simply view the source code, find the link to your site --or another site if it's not linking to yours yet-- and look to see if the <a href tag contains the following attribute: rel="nofollow"

To be completely sure you'll also want to check the Meta Robots tag to make sure they're not setting all links on the page to nofollow. And of course check the robots.txt file to make sure the page filename is not being excluded from being crawled.

Personally, I rarely if ever bother. But then again I'm not out there chasing links as much as some others seem to be.

[Jill]

Just use the searchstatus extension in firefox. It highlights nofollow links in pink.

[Jill]

Helps you rank or helps you get indexed faster? These are two completely different things.