There are some bookmarking sites that are either nofollow or they use a dynamic link structure. However, leaving aside the nofollow debate for a moment, there is also a matter of traffic. If the content you are bookmarking is high quality then it could get votes from other readers and in the case of some of the big sites, getting your bookmark on the front page can result in massive amounts of traffic! In the case of particularly big sites such as Delicious, those bookmarks often get copied to many other places so one nofollow link in delicious could actually result in about a dozen links elsewhere though this tends to happen only with popular links.
In this situation I’d recommend submitting to these sites also, and just forget about whether or not they follow!
The DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites ListUPDATED May 2010
- Folkd [V] (8)
- Oneview (German) (7)
- Spurl (6)
- LinkaGoGo (6)
- MyLinkVault (6)
- SpotBack (5)
- A1 Webmarks (5)
- Tagza [V] (5)
- DoFollowDigg [V] (5)
- Plime [V] (5)
- Searchles [V] (5)
- Feedmarker (4)
- TeDigo (4)
- Memfrag (4)
- Upnews (Italian) (4)
- MySiteVote [V] (4)
- OldRec [V] (4)
- Wagg It [V] (4)
- Otherwhirled [V] (4)
- OYAX (3)
- MyPIP (3)
- Yattle (3)
- Kabulis (3)
- Bukmark [V] (3)
- Ciudadlaberinto [V] (3)
- Cool Search [V] (3)
- ColdJung [V] (3)
- Gozoof [V] (3)
- Ziki [V] (2)
- Agroots [V] (2)
- Best of India [V] (2)
- Yet Another Social News Website [V] (2)
- Promote Your Website Free [V] (2)
- Zobbed [V] (2)
- Dizzed [V] (2)
The purpose of this exercise is to generate backlinks to our content pages that help them rank better in Google. I’ll assume that each piece of content is optimised for some keyword. There are usually three places where you can add information:
- The title
- Tags
- Description
Make sure your keyword is in all three of them. Note that the title especially usually becomes the anchor text that is used in the resulting link so the title is arguably the most important element to get right.