A Social Bookmarking Experiment

[Menard]

In another thread we got into discussing the weight given to social bookmarking sites in determining a site's page strength.

In one particular case, I joined one of these sites, http://del.icio.us/ which is used by a page strength tester to determine the potential page strength of a site, and bookmarked a site of mine. On a subsequent check of the site's page strength, it was increased due to this addition of the bookmark.

Now that was a test and does not necessarily reflect how search engines would weigh such factors; but it might be interesting to find out.

What I propose, for any of you who are interested, is that we all join several of these bookmarking sites and bookmark each other's sites. This will not only provide each of us with bookmarks (and thusly, links) on several of these sites, but it will provide us with multiple instances of our sites on these bookmarking sites.

In addition to http://del.icio.us/ , there is also http://digg.com/ .

Please add any other such sites to the list.

Anybody interested?

[Menard]

Well, I just got a look around at Digg, and it looks like a worthless resource as far as being able to bookmark our sites; unless someone knows how to add bookmarks on there (their navigation is pretty pitiful).

[Manu]

You may wanna see this thread for a list of social bookmarking sites
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=1831733

[Andy]

I am not interested in social bookmark sites. I leave it to visitors to bookmark my pages if they feel like it. I would rather add content to my sites than potentially waste time figuring out how to bookmark my sites at these places 

[Menard]

I am not interested in social bookmark sites. I leave it to visitors to bookmark my pages if they feel like it. I would rather add content to my sites than potentially waste time figuring out how to bookmark my sites at these places 

[Menard]

You may wanna see this thread for a list of social bookmarking sites
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=1831733

Cool. Thanks.

[Andy]

I am not interested in social bookmark sites.

I didn't mean to be a kill joy just wanted to say my opinion. I know some people love these sites and good luck to all that use them to bookmark their own pages   

[john846]

I must admit, some bookmark type sites do send some traffic, but trying to make it convert is much harder than trying to make search engine traffic convert.

Digg is a place where you list a summary of an article with someone elses sites link in and then people digg it. The more diggs it gets the popular the article is likely to be and after a certain amount of diggs the article could reach the homepage and get you large amounts of traffic that is more than likely to just use up your bandwidth and get you a handful of backlinks.

[dfasdy]

Is it still a good idea to socialbookmarking each others site now as compared to 2006? I mean are they still working well in term of getting direct traffics and Search Engine traffics?