My opinion on Social Bookmarking

A vanilla topic but this is where the Rubber hits the road!

The social bookmarking aspect is great for what it’s worth but social bookmarking links will only do so much for you, really.  SB links are mostly NoFollow nowadays but they can be effective if you’re getting enough of them, so really, social bookmarking for effective link building is largely dependent on getting a lot of links, which means creating  a lot of profiles.  That is Social Networking

And even for you advanced SEO-ers and readers, it’s still always good to revisit link building fundamentals.

What are links and backlinks?

Consider them votes by other sites and virtual web properties that vote you up in the search engines’ eyes.  Generally speaking, the more links you get, the better.  However, there’s always more value given to quality backlinks over lower-quality backlinks, and a few quality backlinks could do as much for you as 2000 low-quality spam links like hreferrer spam links.

How do backlinks bring you traffic? 

The more votes/backlinks you get, the higher your rankings should be for certain keywords and phrases you optimized a site or pages for.  So if/when you start acquiring backlinks to increase your search engine rankings, you’ll start to see what is known as organic traffic from the search engines.  Organic  traffic is free traffic being sent to your site by the search engines because they ranked your site or pages for certain keywords that were searched for.

Another way links can bring traffic outside of achieving ranking sis if you have a naked link in published articles somewhere and people are clicking on the links and coming to your site.  This type of direct-traffic-from-links is seen most often with article marketing when authors leave links that are naked, or merely say, “click here”…