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Social bookmarking for SEO. Part one: Submit you link to many sites at once.

Egor Kunovsky — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:35:24 +0000

Social bookmarking seems to be the web 2.0 version of what catalogues and directories were originally created for back when the web was born – sites that contain useful links. Or trusted links. Or categorized links. All kinds of links.

But with social bookmarking instead of a few trusted editors for each directory (or topic within the directory as in DMOZ) here comes the power of the crowd that chooses the best sites and pages, instead or limited number of categories – myriads of tags that describe the links as precisely as possible and instead of just one place where the link would be found in a catalog, one wise submission to a social bookmaking site might mean tens or hundreds of links to your site syndicated all over the Internet.

Submitting your link to social bookmarking sites might seem a nice alternative to submitting it to directories. You do not have to wait till the link is approved by the editor (it will appear at the site at once, you can add as many tags describing the links as you need, and much more. If you just want to keep your bookmarks somewhere online instead of just within your browser and share selected links with a few friends and colleagues then any of social bookmarking sites will do for you. You can even go to semi-automatic submission to several sites, with the help of this tool for example.

You can test it on our page if you like: Socialize this page

If you follow this link above, you’ll get a list of services the link will be submitted to. And choosing any service in which you already have an account will bring you directly to the page where you add your link. You will not even have to type the link and page title into each form, the tool will do that for you.

But of course for each good idea there will be people who misuse it. People who will try to spam the social bookmarking sites. And of course these sites will fight such spammers. Some sites would use redirects instead of direct links. Some sites would use nofollow. This means that while any site from the list they use at
this Socializer tool will be fine for just using it to store your link collection not each and every one of them will be fine for SEO. My own top list will include del.icio.us, Yahoo MyWeb and stumbleupon.com and in the following posts I’ll cover each of them more in detail, explain why I chose these 3 sites and give a list of services that seem a complete waste of time for someone who is promoting a site, not just collecting links for fun or future use.

Other people did the search for you already

Peter Melnikov — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:28:22 +0000

I might be late with this link (solid part of experienced internet users already use this tool) however I couldn’t post a notice about it for those of you who still have no idea about it. It’s really hard to find the information that has real value to you, because there are tons of the web sites cached by Search Engine’s clawlers (hey – our guys at SEO dpt promote a lot of web sites resulting at TOP10 positions while they might not be a kind of resources that have value for end customers in the specified period of time).
Fortunately, you don’t have it to do all the searching yourself. Check out del.icio.us, a social bookmarking tool that lets you see the latest Web resources to be “discovered” by other users who are searching for the same topics you are.

I just tried “project management” search and found the open source clon of basecamp I was hunting for couple of weeks. Hopefully we will integrate it into our project management process for some teams that use Agile methodology soon.

Speed of loading your page in Atlanta USA or Hong Kong CHINA?

Peter Melnikov — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:44:28 +0000

SEO PM Mike just forwarded the link to nice tool checking the upload time of any web site in different locations of the world. The results include a timestamp for the check, the location checked from, the result of the check, amount of data received in kilobytes (KBytes), the response time in seconds (Secs), and the transfer rate in kilobits per second (Kbps).

Internet wayback machine

Peter Melnikov — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:13:52 +0000

Roman from SEO department passed me another cool link to the wayback internet machine. Here you can browse through 40 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. I played with it for a while and found some interesting old looks of today’s e-monsters. Did you know that Froogle existed in 1998?

Testing web site in Safari

Peter Melnikov — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:51:16 +0000

The question of cross browser compatibility is a common topic among Web developers. We have a bunch of customers requesting complete redesign services and coming with the web sites developed several years ago with possibility to be viewed correctly only in Internet Explorer. It’s not longer a question if you should have your website cross-browser accommodating. Believe it or not but at the time of this post slightly more than 20% of Internet users use a browser other than IE. This information comes from W3Schools.com, which has been keeping tabs on browser usage since January 2002.

Web developers might say: “You right – we are going to use Mozilla and IE for testing purpose”. What about Mac users? There are quite a few emulators of Mac OS out there, and it’s real nightmare to install them. Better bookmart the SafariTest – just enter your URL in the box and click View. SafariTest will return a screenshot of your page as viewed with Safari.