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One way backlinks to the pages of a domain give it authority in Google over time. One strategy to gain these backlinks is to bookmark your content in social marking sites that do not use the ‘nofollow’ tag. Generally speaking, the higher the PageRank (PR) of the site, the better.

Here’s 22 such sites that I have been using (PR in brackets):

UPDATED 6th April 2008

1. Backflip
2. Bibsonomy
3. LinkaGoGo
4. Mister-Wong
5. Spurl
6. Buddy Marks (5)
7. MyLinkVault (5)
8. SpotBack (5)
9. A1 Webmarks (4)
10. ClipClip (4)
11. Connectedy (4)
12. OYAX (4)
13. MyVmarks (4)
14. TeDigo (4)
15. Complore (3)
16. ez4u (3)
17. Info4It (3)
18. MyPIP (3)
19. Space-Ed (3)
20. SyncOne (3)
21. Yattle (2)
22. Upchuckr (0)

Why Use Social Bookmarking?

Every time you add a bookmark to one of your pages in one of these sites you create a backlink. If you bookmark every piece of content you create in all of these sites you can build a lot backlinks over time. I talked about social bookmarking in an earlier post and discussed how it differs to news submission, which I do not do for my niche sites.

For the purposes of backlinks, you want to make sure that the bookmarking sites provide a real, do-follow link. This rules out the biggest of the bunch - Delicious as it is no-follow. I found lots of big no-follow sites and I also found several that don’t provide real backlinks - they use their own form of dynamic link which does not count as a backlink.

One other thing to be aware of is that even though these are your personal bookmarks, you need to ensure that they are public - that way other people (Google really) can find them. But be careful, some bookmarking sites such as Connotea have a specific niche and probably wont appreciate your toenail clipping bookmarks.
Some Notable Additions

There are some bookmarking sites that are either nofollow or they use a dynamic link structure. However, even a nofollow link can be valuable to some extent because Google is not the only search engine and there is also the issue of human readers. 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 the next section of this post I point you towards several services that allow you to bookmark at many sites all in one go. Under these circumstances adding your links to a few extra sites can take just a few seconds more so for that reason I have also listed below a few extra bookmarking sites that don’t offer real dofollow backlinks but are very high profile and worth using under those circumstances:

1. Delicious (8)
2. Furl (8)
3. Blinklist (7)
4. Folkd (7)
5. NetVous
6. Simpy

Source : www.caroline-middlebrook.com

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