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Social Bookmarking Websites that use DoFollow Links

I found another list of social bookmarking websites that can help improve your link popularity because they use dofollow links.

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Social bookmarking sites keep user busy with sharing articles and link like social networking sites. Your link can become popular fast and divert traffic to your website, If you have a good number of friends on social bookmarking site. Social bookmarking build links back to your website also. If you use bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, and Technorati, Stumbleupon properly, you allow other users to add your relevant links to their sites and marketing lists and your URLs go viral as a result of sharing these links. But you must have to share links on an dofollow website to build backlink. If you share your link on a nofollow bookmarking site that do not help building backlink.

DoFollow is the opposite of “NoFollow”. No follow tag tells search engine not to follow the links. So more do follow back links help you to get higher page rank.

Here they have organized almost 50 social bookmarking dofollow sites shorted in order of page rank.

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What Complications Does Social Media Marketing Give To SEOs?

If you are a working SEO I’m sure you’ve noticed the rise of social media marketing. I’m curious if this has given you any complications in your business. What challenges, if any, does social media marketing give you in your business?

Obviously, there are benefits to marketing through social media, even for SEOs. But is there a downside? Have you lost business from your SEO clients who went seeking a social media alternative? Or have you noticed that social media results from your competition have edged in on your organic search listings in some niches? Have you tried to use social media for your own marketing only to find it a waste of time?

I use social media and I’ve used it successfully. But I’m interested in knowing what challenges you’ve had with it and how you overcame those. Discuss.

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Why I’m Not All aTwitter Over Google Buzz

Google Buzz is getting a lot of attention lately, but I don’t care. I’m not even going to test drive it.

I see Google as a search engine. Nothing more. It’s not a barometer of my social connections. It isn’t a metric for my social graph. And I don’t care how many people are excited about Buzzworthy content. Quite frankly, I think the name Google Buzz is rather ridiculous. Yahoo! has used the name Buzz for its social bookmarking service for years so Google is a little bit late to the party here.

About the only thing unique about Google Buzz is the fact that it is integrated with Gmail. If you are not a Gmail user then you can’t use Google Buzz. I’m not a Gmail user.

Yes, I have a Gmail account because Google automatically gives you one when you establish a Google account. But I don’t use it. I do use Google AdSense, I use Google Analytics, I use Google AdWords when I feel like spending money. I use Google Webmaster Tools, Google Reader and several other Google services as well. But I don’t use Gmail.

The reason I don’t use Gmail is because I already have several e-mail addresses and I check them all through MS Outlook. I really don’t have an interest in web-based e-mail. I still have my Yahoo! mail account from several years ago, but I only check it once every two or three months. Gmail doesn’t interest me.

Google Buzz incorporates a social network using your Gmail friends, Google Reader friends, Picasa friends and YouTube friends. Personally, I prefer Flickr to Picasa. I have a Picasa account, but I only have two or three photos there. The rest of them are at Flickr. I love YouTube, but I don’t need Google Buzz.

If I want to share a YouTube video then I use Twitter or Facebook. I have deleted a lot of my Google Reader blog subscriptions because many of the bloggers I follow are on Twitter. Therefore, Google Reader is a secondary service for me  now while Twitter is my primary subscription service. Since I don’t use Gmail, I don’t have any Gmail friends; therefore, using Google Buzz would be like swatting a single fly with a 20-pound sledgehammer.

I took Google Wave for a test drive. It’s a great tool. But none of my friends were using it so it was useless. Google Buzz is just like that. If you don’t have any Gmail friends or none of your social friends are using the tool then it’s useless.

One more reason I don’t use Gmail and have no interest in Google Buzz is because I want to maintain at least some level of privacy. If Google is the only service I use then one company will have all the information they want about me and potentially everyone in the world as well. By spreading myself around to various services – YouTube for video sharing, Google for advertising, Yahoo! for photo sharing, Bing for certain types of searches, Twitter for one-to-many communication and Facebook for social networking, I can better manage a level of privacy I hope to enjoy.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not particularly excited about Google Buzz. It just doesn’t get my Twitter wings a-flappin’.

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Social Networking Websites That Use DoFollow Tags

Social Bookmarking can bring in a lot of traffic. The quality of that traffic is improving as we go forward and more people begin using social networking. But many of the bigger social media websites use a NoFllow tag for links.

Bookmarking at these sites is still important because of the traffic it can bring you and the fact that those you shared your link with might also blog about it on their own blogs.

But the social media websites below help you achieve this and they don’t use the NoFollow tag, so you can be building links while you bookmark. Here is a short list of DoFollow Social Bookmarking sites.

The credit goes to WebQuirk.com

Google Caffeine and Twitter

This is from a press release from OnlinePRNews.com

Online PR News – 02-February-2010 – SEO Internet Marketing firm monitors live ‘Real Time’ search results for a select group of keyword phrases and finds leading Social Media Marketing companies are incorporating targeted Twitter strategies. Irbtrax SEO Internet Marketing forecasts a tremendous surge in the use of Social Media Marketing services as an effective Internet Marketing strategy once the value of Google Caffeine’s ‘Real Time’ search is fully realized.

“There’s no doubt it will contribute to a variety of new marketing possibilities. However, based on what I saw it appears many companies are still taking a wait and see approach instead of being more pro-active.”

My questions are;

Have you used Google Caffeine?

If yes, what is your experience with it?

Do you agree with what is said in that press release?

What are some other ways we can benefit from Google Caffeine?