Comments on: Destroy Your Blog Rankings Linking To Digg or Technorati?

By: moserw

moserw — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:13:10 +0000

Really good site here Andy. Bookmarking it right away. Was reading on Social Media Marketing on Caroline Middlebrook when your link featured in the comments section and I followed it up. Lots of interesting articles here and very helpful too.

By: Jon Marks

Jon Marks — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:37:35 +0000

I’m glad to see you mention the Digg badge. I have used that several times and have have had some GREAT results with it. I strongly recommend everyone use it. Just be sure to use the code so that the title and description defaults. That way you can control the anchor text.

By: maiq

maiq — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:24:06 +0000

I agree about Technorati and Wikipedia, but for bookmarking links you could use a plugin like share this or something.

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:40:25 +0000

Would be nice if everyone no-followed Wikipedia and it lost its high rankings for some things – many SEOs would have happy clients.

I guess the same will go for linking to knol now?

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By: Subconscious Mind

Subconscious Mind — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:38:27 +0000

i thought this was a great article, and i did wonder about the effect of linking out to social bookmarking sites. but does it really matter if you follow comments?

there is a social bookmarking plugin that has the option to use nofollow on the links, and i think it is more descriptive than sociable which i used to use. the plugin is called “bookmark me”

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:57:23 +0000

Mike, all you have to do is stick nofollow on the links, but you only have the links on your homepage, so it wouldn’t be any potential penalty (and that is only speculation reading a 2 year old patent)

I would also think of a way to have bookmarks that are specific to each page of content.
I am not sure which CMS you are using, but there should be a way to have the permalinks added to the submit URL

By: Mike Rad

Mike Rad — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:47:16 +0000

Google…. who would have thought that social bookmarking links or references to Wikipedia can harm tour blog/site. I own a car website and i’ve started using social bookmarking to brand it and increase its popularity – I still have quite a few links to social bookmarking sites on my index page, but after reading your post Andy I am seriously thinking of removing them.

I was wondering if it also works the other way around – do you trigger some sort of filters if you have too many links from wikipedia or digg for example, pointing towards your website. Any advice on that?

Thanks!