Link Building Guide Part 2 - Social Profile Bumping

Hi Stu,
Nice post, but I’m not sure about all those 20 sites above are dofollow links. For example, I’m 99% sure that digg nofollows the links on your “digg.com/users/username” page.
I also (although am less sure here) thought Technorati nofollowed the links… they seem to nofollow everything on there
Same with magnolia…

I could be wrong though, but from what I’ve seen they’re nofollowed?

Very nice post. Got me to thinking a bit more about using profiles for backlinking in terms of inner linking between profile pages. Makes a good bit of sense since it seems somewhat natural in the social networking world… nice tip

Also, as far as the dofollow/nofollow debate is concerned, who cares. You pointed it out already “A Link is a Link, no matter where it comes from” - if it’s nofollow and the engines actually adhere to it, you get your site spidered (deep links) - I really think it’s a non-issue. The marketing FUD on this topic has been really good…

Nice post, you’ve obviously put a lot of time into this. I agree that some of these sites use nofollow rules but then .. do Google et al adhere to this anyway?

Nice post, although profile building / linking can and does get boring at times, it is a great way to build up links. Nofollow or not, links can only be helpful in the long run.

@gadget:

Google advocate “nofollow” and mention it quite a bit in their webmaster blog. They’d be hypocrites if they didn’t adhere to it!

Even if the link is no-follow, as long as there is anchor text, it’s still telling the spider something. But Myspace ads java around the link, so if you’re gonna use myspace with this technique, you’ll want to use the workaround to get rid of the java and give the link seo benefit.

You should have mentioned that Stuart!

Once again, some quality info Stuart. Your readers may find Social Marker to be a handy tool for shortcutting this process. SM will submit to 30 social bookmarking sites all at once. http://www.socialmarker.com/

Very interesting article, I have certainly learnt a lot as with all of your articles.

Great read!! Valuable information! Thanks so much

Dead on. Setting up your social bookmarking profiles correctly is a must for link building. The idea of building a spreadsheet is invaluable. I use a spreadsheet to not only track my profile URLs and passwords, but also how frequently I participate. The links are good, but active participation is where I see a real boost.

great post and great blog. I hope to learn a lot here. I’m just begining with my blog: http://earningmoneywithblogs.blogspot.com/

THANKS.
HAPPY NEW YEAR

What I like about this technique is that the site quickly gains trust with the Google, and the sandbox effect will be much less if the site is new.

Can you explain the “interlink them with one another”

By interlink them with one another do you mean book mark the profiles?

Wish you had a white board

Thanks a lot i think im getting a hang of this now..

I still wonder just to make sure. I have now created 50 profiles to start with.
Should i now start with profile 1 and just bookmark the other 49 profiles there? Then just continue with profile 2 and do the same? I understand that i need to get the first 1 or 2 in google index first. After all is linked together they should have pretty much power so then i use profile 1 and link to one of my aff sites and get the linkpower from 50 sites?

Thanks for a great site.

Just start with a few profiles on 5 sites. Then add more. You’ll have a natural increase in links that way instead of 50 today, 50 tomorrow, etc…

Would you use multipal bookmarking sites(with fi onlywire.com or socialmarker) or do you use just one bookmarking site and have a new profile just for this network?

So, I’m in the process of building my link mesh, and it occured to me that those of us who are building things thing could form a powerful co-op if we were to point these things at each others non-competing sites. Does such a co-op exist? If not, I’m considering trying to get something together. Thoughts?

How are we linking all our social media network together? I’m also pondering on what Stefan asked…

What stephen and dennis asked, i’d like to know the answer as well.

Here a list from DoshDosh blog of more Social News sites you can use to build up your LINKING POWER!

http://www.doshdosh.com/list-of-social-media-news-websites/

Thats a great idea, there are now tons of places where you can put your link for completely free, thats really great thing.

Thanks for the info. Me too creates a list. It helps me remember the details.

Hi again,

Just wonder if any of you guys have any probs gettign the profiles indexed? I have interlinked about 30 of them and have some of my older domains pointing on two or three of them. Still they get indexed for awhile.. and then a week later they gone again. They seem to jump in and out of google index and it seems really hard to keep them there. Any ideas on this?

Br,
Stefan

Don’t forget about http://www.onlywire.com to speed things up a little

Think I’ve got a lot of job to do but all the same, thanks for the advise and the links

I’ve set up an initial network of 20 and interlinked them all but please can I clarify how to build the links within the network. If I’ve got an existing site and I want a particular page to perform, do I submit the page to all 20 sites in my network (or 50 or 100 when my network grows). What would your recommendation be having used the technique sucessfully?

Anyone find somewhere to put a follow link on wink.com?

David,

I think u are correct. There are people already doing it.

Great technique..

But what anchor text do we need to put when we bookmark other profiles? do we put something like “myname’s profile on digg” or whatever ? or we put some keywords that we want to ?

also what Russell asked, I am interested in the answer, too.

Thanks a lot!

Ok I need some help.

So I have created 20 Digg accounts. Activated them and now I’m ready to go? What do I do next?

Wow glad I stubled upon this site. I have an affiliate site I want to promote, should I use my own keyword rich domain and redirect to my affiliate site ?

Is it a good idea for my link to go to a capture page or should it go to a complete website? I ask this because I’ve read that stumbleupon users dont like sales pages too much.

Stuart,

Should they actually be interlinked (all reciprocals) or would it be better to do a bunch of triangles? Wouldn’t this be harder to look unnatural and also wont it work better on passing some authority? I have done them as you described so far but am wondering if triangular linking would work better?

btw - this works great for getting sites indexed fast

Some very nice tips here, thanks for sharing.

good post, but is there an answer for russell and Zoran.
im having trouble grasping that part. do we submit our website to each one of the profiles, or just one of them.

hi,
i have a questions, do we make an account to these social bookmarking site for each of the domains we are trying to promote? so if we are trying to market 2 websites, are we goingto have 2 different accounts for digg ( as an example )

nice post. thanks for the new knowledge

Incredible tip man. Kudos to you!

Stuart, I am finding some sites with follow links but using an image for the anchor and some others with follow links but they are redirects using a script on the bookmark site.

Can you comment on the SEO worth of these?

PS. Keep up the good work.. I’ve been a long time reader of your blog.

Sorry, I am a little lost and see that there are a few others that are experiencing some uncertainties with regards to how to do this. Would it be possible for someone to explain in a textual flowchart? For example, verify this is correct or modify it for the rest of us…Create Excel Spread Sheet to track usernames, passwords, tags/ ancor text used, and page of website submitted==>Create multiple profiles on various, popular social bookmarking websites and update excel spreadsheet with username and passwords==>Submit site pages to all (this is wehre I am confused…do I submit links to each profile?) profiles and update excel with ancor text and page link submitted==>Link profiles together so that you have your own social network of “friends” who share the same interests in websites as you…kind of like online multiple personality disorder

So, is this right?

Thanks stuart, Ive been using social marker to quickly get links from 40 social bookmarking sites, each with new content from my sites. I hadnt thought of bookmarking the profiles of other SM sites.

This site is a great source on information. I never realized the importance of back linking until now. Also using profiles in genius. Thanks!

Thanks for the great tips…I second Fivestar using Social Marker to speed up social media submissions. I’d rather be spending my time reading more great posts!

Thing is wikipedia is meant to be nofollow. However I am sure that after getting a few wikipedia links, my rankings went up

Greatly appreciated , but it does seem like a merry go round , ha ha . I can’t quit backlinking .

Of course wikipedia still counts. Why would google discount such a ‘fair’ voting system?

Very nice idee but in my opinion the massively usage of social bookmarking profiles will have the effect that google will don´t consider such links.

I am still not convinced of the value of most social bookmark profile backlinks , but a link is a link.