dofollow socialmarker social bookmarking

Lets face it, not all “dofollow” bookmarking sites are created equal. Lately I was examining some incoming links to Some Extra Pennies. I decided to pay special attention to links coming from bookmarking sites and to my surprise I found that most links from these sources are not counted by Google only a hand full of them even appeared in Google’s Webmaster Tools. Then I enrolled myself on a mission to find which were the most useful bookmarking sites around. After realizing it is almost impossible to carry on with a research of this magnitude in a short time I decided to investigate most of the sites marked as “dofollow” on Socialmarker since these are the ones that can actually transmit some link juice to sites.
Having used this tool for quite a few times on some on my own posts I noticed that most links are not counted by Yahoo or Google. I quickly noticed what was happening on most of them. Some bookmarking sites construct pages in ASPX or other languages that construct pages depending on user preferences and do not assign a particular url to your folder making it impossible for crawlers to visit. Others have buggy applications making it impossible to publish your bookmarks to the public which includes search engines. Other bookmarking sites where marked as “dofollow” and where not or redirect to your page using a strange url generated by the bookmarking site itself. So after checking links out for some time I came with four picks.
So here are my picks when it comes to no nonsense bookmarking sites:
Oyax Page rank 4
Furl Page rank 7
Folkd Page Rank 7
Mister Wong Page Rank 7
Note: Mister Wong detects if you are only bookmarking a site in particular and may block you bookmarks making them “private” so bookmark other pages from other people to add credibility to your profile, not really sure about the other sites though but I have not had any inconveniences using them to bookmark my sites.
Update: Furl was sold to Diigo and is now No Follow
Have you used these sites before? What are your results?
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Dennis Edell said:
Hiya Pennies, I dropped by for 2 reasons today…
1. Excellent article, I’m always on the lookout for things to help the cause…so to speak, and do follow social sites do it in spades!
2. I just found you from Javo’s site, and now I’m a subscriber
September 27th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Dennis
Hi Dennis, it makes me very happy to know that you liked the article and thanks a lot for subscribing.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Codrut Turcanu @ best blogging platform said:
I have heard about the last one.
I wonder what specific results have you seen from these “promo” submissions…
Maybe you could write another post on that?
October 4th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Visit Bohol said:
The most difficult bookmarking site is StumbleUpon. It’s hard to navigate the site. I rarely use it. Furl.net is pretty easy to use. Dofollow bookmarking sites will stay for long for sure.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Condruct
Social Bookmarking is the way to go. When you submit an entry these sites generate a “tag” that performs very well in search engines and gets your site indexed at light speed. I have gotten excellent results with just bookmarking and article marketing in a niche site I am currently working on which is a highly competitive niche. Of course you have to attack long tail keywords that are less competitive in order for your “bookmarking tag” to crush almost every listing and include your main keyword so that your site get the real juice you are seeking. It is very important to do intensive keyword research it will payoff in the end believe me.
@Bohol Stumble upon is great for traffic. Some Extra Pennies received almost 400 visitors in a day from just one thumbs up. But Stumble is more complicated and submitting your own site too much will get it blocked. So leave that to your visitors. After one of your pages get the first thumbs up from someone you can give it the thumbs up yourself and push it further.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Ajith Edassery said:
I guess spurl.net with PR6 figures in that list as well…though PR of the homepage means pretty much nothing unless you get on to the front page for a while.
Cheers,
Ajith
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Archie Pennies said:
@Ajith
I have been testing Spurl for quite some time but I was unable to make my bookmarks public until recently. The API used to give a page not found error. Around a week ago I was able to “publish my bookmark collection” to the public. I am still waiting to see if google picks those links up and displays them in Webmasters tools. If they show up, then I will add Spurl to the list. And thank you a lot for visiting my blog. Have a nice week.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Build Niche Store Tutorials said:
Thanks for this.. I use mr wong and wondered why some of my bookmarks were being make private.. I have had good success with twitter as well… definetly worth using with the ones listed.
November 24th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Ej Wisher said:
Stumbleupon is easy to navigate I don’t know what your talking about to be honest.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Archie Pennies said:
@Ej What makes Stumble Upon not good for bookmarking your site is that if you keep submitting URLs from the same domain, the system stops sending the usual avalanche of traffic it is expected. If an account “discovers” consecutively pages from a specific domain it blocks the account from “discovering” more pages from that domain. Thumbs up are handled different from discovered pages. A discovered page is a first time thumbs up. Leave that to your visitors instead if you notice traffic from a page from Stumble, it means somebody submitted it, after this giving a thumbs up will not hurt. Just Google “banned from stumble upon” and you will see what I mean. Rule of the Thumb: Submitting a bunch of your posts to stumble upon will only get your site banned from the system. Submit a few and let others submit them for you. And it is “No Follow”.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
frank said:
It may have been no-follow but the code I’m looking at where someone stumbled my site shows no rel=nofollow attribute to the url. Also shows as do follow with the firefox plugin for follow/no follow links.

is what showed also viewing source code.
also this :
var url = ‘http://www.somesite.com/’;
some top level SeO people have also stated some redirected links still pass on the link juice.
I had one site that had nothing but a stumble links pointing to it which ended up gaining PR as well.
but yes generally speaking your correct in the statement about spamming your own sites can get you into issues with them. now if you have friends in different parts of the world hitting you up now and then that’s a different story…. differing accounts/users and differing world wide ISP addys
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 am
joe said:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.apple.com = nofollow
but:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/click_redir.php?webtb=1&t=4936262ecb6ac&src=user&topic=427&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmoremerchant.com%2Fbloggers-get-50-via-paypal-today
= follow
looking at link #1 with the various firefox dofollow tools shows link #1 as 100 % for sure no follow but link #2 ( also from stumble ) as 100 % dofollow , go figure
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 am
joe said:
well at least on the page they appear on…. now reposted here both show as nofollow , odd
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 am
Archie Pennies said:
@ Joe I just checked the second link you posted. It appears that the link points to and Iframe. Iframes normally stop crawlers from even looking at the page below. I personally do not know if they are actually reading the page bellow but from the source code I see with Firefox there isn’t even a link to the actual page. The source code itself is from the Iframe. Sometimes a crawler my get around the if there is a no frame tag but I took a quick glance and didn’t found it. I will try to follow that link with a text browser to see what happens. But at first glance all I saw was Java script and some links pointing to Stumble Upon. Sorry for the late reply College is killing me.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
AC said:
Thanks for the informative article. Do you think the comments/traffic that come from DoFollow are worth the trouble/spam? Isn’t there a detriment to your PR by allowing this?
January 4th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Archie Pennies said:
@AC Thanks for visiting! Well it depends on what comments you allow. While page rank is believed to leak from followed comments, sometimes comments from users with sites relevant to a blog will have a positive effect. For example, if a site is about cars and a lot of people with sites about cars comment in a post and leave their link as the commenter name search engines might think that this is good resource with lots of content and a links to relevant sites. Just be careful with the sites that are linked to especially with autoblogs, splogs and trackback spam. If a comment looks fishy try a copy - paste on Google to see if the same comment appears on a site in order to verify if it is comment spam or not. As for leaving comments in do follow blogs, the real boost comes with blogs that allow keywords as the name. Check out comment policies. If the blogger does not allow keywords use your name. You still get some link juice but it will probably not help much when it comes to boosting search engine rankings for the desired keyword.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Web Development said:
That’s nice list but there are some other bookmarking websites for dofollow links. Like……….
http://slashdot.org
http://digg.com
http://technorati.com
http://www.furl.net
http://www.backflip.com
http://www.hugg.com
http://www.mixx.com
http://ma.gnolia.com
http://www.connotea.org
http://mystuff.ask.com
http://www.reddit.com
http://www.dzone.com
http://www.folkd.com
http://multiply.com
http://www.searchles.com
http://de.lirio.us
http://www.dotnetkicks.com
http://www.bloghop.com
http://www.plime.com
http://www.bibsonomy.org
http://www.clipclip.org
http://linkagogo.com
http://www.spurl.net
http://www.zlitt.com
http://www.indianpad.com
http://www.tumblr.com
http://www.myvmarks.com
http://www.listible.com
http://www.bringr.com
http://faves.com
http://www.linkinn.com
http://spotback.com
http://www.mylinkvault.com
http://my.xilinus.com
http://linkatopia.com
http://www.bumpzee.com
http://www.bookmarktracker.com
http://www.healthranker.com
http://www.a1-webmarks.com
http://www.wirefan.com
http://www.bmaccess.net
http://blogmarks.net
http://www.diigo.com
http://www.oyax.com
http://socialogs.com
http://www.contentpop.com
http://www.pixelmo.com
http://www.memfrag.com
http://getigadget.com
http://www.jumptags.com
http://www.plugim.com
http://www.syncone.net
http://postonfire.com
http://www.business-planet.net
http://www.hatedorloved.com
http://www.bookmarks.com
http://www.yattle.com
http://www.kapely.net
http://www.givealink.org
http://totagit.com
http://socialblink.com
http://wigleytagz.com
http://buzztagz.com
http://youtagz.com
http://space-ed.com
April 1st, 2009 at 7:54 am
Make Money Online | How to make money from home said:
4 quality pick is good enough. involvement with too many bookmarking sites can be distracting
April 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am
Max said:
Web Development, thanks for this list!!!
April 7th, 2009 at 5:14 am
iZeby said:
Social bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts. Even libraries have found social bookmarking to be useful as an easy way to provide lists of informative links to patrons.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Marketing Forums said:
Very well written post however, I would recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section.
Keep up the good work.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:36 am
Jack Clarke said:
I have installed DoFollow on all my blogs hopefully this will attract more visitors and more links for everyone.
- Jack
April 27th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
mahi said:
thanx for this post.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Philer said:
Another good dofollow bookmarking site with PR: http://kawilihan.com Check it and join with us.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Savings said:
I see dofollow sites depreciate in value soon. Not saying it’s not worth using but should be used for improving awareness rather than anything else.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:17 am
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