30 Comments on Delicious Links and How To Get DoFollow Links From Delicious

Leanne King on Sun, 10th Jan 2010 9:15 pm


Great post Daniel The other thing to remember with bookmarking is to use themed bookmarks ie an account for a car lover, an account for a cooking wizz etc and I totally agree banana daiquiris are yummy!

Daniel McGonagle on Mon, 11th Jan 2010 11:38 am


Hey Leanne, thanks for stopping by. Looking forward to your updated ebook

Link Building Services on Mon, 11th Jan 2010 1:14 pm


Great little insight and work around here that I never knew about! Thank you for sharing.

Do you know what kind of value these might actually pass, seeing as they are within an RSS feed?

Daniel McGonagle on Mon, 11th Jan 2010 1:20 pm


Hi, thanks for stopping by.

The real value is adding another spoke in a whitehat link wheel basically, and this added spoke provides Dofollow backlinks so worth doing in my opinion.

There as so many web 2.0 like places to bookmark and get backlinks from that it can get overwhelming and confusing for people, but if there’s a property that can provide more benefit over the others, then it makes sense to scale things DOWN to what helps the most, while doing less.

I see some BlogCatalog urls showing up a lot more than I used to, feedagg and feedage urls, too so these are properties I pay attention to and if they remain visible SERPs contenders on their own then I will send some links their way, too.

Thanks,

Dan

David N on Wed, 13th Jan 2010 4:15 am


Look, you guys are making this far more difficult than it needs to be. It makes no difference the theme of your SB accounts. What counts are links but don’t discount on page SEO. Have your keyword phrase on page and add links with relevant anchor text. That’s really all you need to do. These complicated schemes are BS.

Traxxas Stampede on Thu, 14th Jan 2010 12:51 am


Hi,

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for
Please write more articles on dofollow backlinking
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link building services on Thu, 14th Jan 2010 2:28 am


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Dave on Thu, 14th Jan 2010 6:09 am


Dan,

I told u it doesn’t work like that Delete all u want… it doesn’t work like that.

Daniel McGonagle on Thu, 14th Jan 2010 10:19 am


Not sure what your point or added value to this conversation is…

We spoke privately and I explained this to you. Please add value to the convo if you want future comments accepted, you don’t have to agree with me (not sure why you wouldn’t) but as long as we’re polite and adding value to the discussion, then there’s no reason to remove a comment.

Thanks,

Dan

Daniel McGonagle on Thu, 14th Jan 2010 6:16 pm


I’d have to agree with David here about the social bookmarking accounts, there’s really no need to make user profiles of any kind with the keywords you’re targeting in the names. Using real names will reduce risks of having accounts banned, but I still recommend getting Twitter Profiles with your keywords in there because that IS a web 2.0 entity that will rank well for your specific keywords with ease and can be used to direct traffic back to your main site).

Hubs, lenses, wetpaints etc… should have Kws in title but it’s really all about getting high quality backlinks from those entities, not just getting them to rank well for your terms. You really don’t want your articles or web 2.0 properties to out rank your main sites, but as long as they link back to you somehow they shouldn’t overtake your site in the SERPs for those kws.

David, adding some Dofollow links from a trusted site like authority takes 5 seconds, and well worth the effort.

Frank H. on Sat, 16th Jan 2010 1:07 am


Hi Dan:

Thanks so much for sharing this information. I always passed on
Delicious and never thought it could be used like this. I am now thinking of using in my linkwheels. I am curious about something however, do you use this Web 2.0 property as a Hub or Spoke? Or, do you use in another way?

Thanks Again for Sharing,

Frank H. and Team SEO Philippines

Daniel McGonagle on Sat, 16th Jan 2010 11:10 am


Hey Frank,

I use it as just another “DoFollow RSS directory” type of link, one that requires manual creation unfortunately…

One thing I read but haven’t trusted yet is some bookmarks in Delicious, not TAGS, but some bookmarks in Delicious turn into DoFollow links if more than 2 people with 2 different accounts bookmark it. That raises some interesting possibilities because I do believe there are some plugins and scripts which can pull in certain URLs and bookmark them on Delicious, so if you create a link collector/Edge NEtwork type of site that auto bookmarks to Delicious (I don’t know if this is possible) then you could auto create DoFollow links on Delicious if you had

One site (SITE A) auto social bookmarking its urls to Delicious account A, and another site RSS scraping content from Site A, placing backlinks to it on Site B, so when site B auto social bookmarks to Delicious, it’s really bookmarking the Site A url to Delicious just do it to a seperate Delicious account.

At least that’s how the theories go.

To answer your real question though, I don’t use this as a spoke or anything special, I just think it as an extra DoFollow RSS feed type of link and I use it specifically for adding content to my link collector site. If I do article syndication, my Googl ealerts tells me what’s getting picked up so I navigate to those urls, TAG them in Delicious to give them some link love, then my TAGs feed gets scraped onto a real blog, which in turn has its RSS feed getting Scraped by TwitterFreed Tweets or ReTweets all my blog content for me to a Twitter account.

Hope this helps a bit, so many new things to test out

Dan

Missy on Mon, 18th Jan 2010 1:04 pm


Hi, Michael:

Generally speaking how long does it take for a backlink of this type to show up? I’ve not heard of this method before, sounds awfully involved. Am wondering what is the value versus say article marketing?

Missy
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Daniel McGonagle on Mon, 18th Jan 2010 1:12 pm


Hi this is Dan,

This could get complicated, and seem like a lot of work for little gain, but that depends on how much you want to get out of it.

All it is really doing is adding another DoFollow backlink pointing towards whatever URL you want.

You mentioned article marketing…. so whenever you get an article published, just TAG it in your Delicious account to give it a little link juice.

You could set up Google alerts for your author names and/or pen names used in your articles, and when you get notified of those getting picked up, you just TAG them, takes less than a minutes to Tag 10 urls found my Google Alerts.

An easier way would be to allow trackbacks and pingbacks on blog posts you make, then when they come in, just tag them prior to deleting off your comments page.

Setting up an edge network type of site is really only useful for other reasons like finding and getting optimal link targets

michelle on Tue, 19th Jan 2010 11:03 am


Del.icious doesn’t seem to get many RSS feeds indexed, and the ones that are seem to have no Page Rank. Does this strategy assume you are linking to your Delicious feed from another source or have i missed something? Thanks!

Daniel McGonagle on Tue, 19th Jan 2010 11:49 am


Hi Michelle,

Yes it does seem that way, just like Feedburner feeds don’t get indexed. However, I DO see some backlinks here from Delicious, just not in the places I expected.

I am getting links from other people’s Delicious bookmarks, from the Delicious search engine, and I even show some backlinks from someone’s feeburner feed go figure!

I don’t see any backlinks from the yet-to-be-indexed Delicious feed though. I also see some from BlogLines, BlogCatalog, and the top RSS directories. I haven’t sent many backlinks towards the Delicious RSS feed yet so that might happen in due course unless they make it like Feedburner and don’t want to index the RSS feeds.

In my opinion, people want to get backlinks to increase site exposure, and tagging gets your site found on the Delicious search engine, which has sent backlinks my way, and Recent Bookmarks section on Delicious sends backlinks, too but those backlinks are minimal so far.

My reason for Tagging in Delicious is to get found more often on the Delicious search engine, which leads to bookmarks on other’s Delicious accounts which are also seen as backlinks, and it’s probably the easiest way to instantly create an RSS feed out of any url you want.

Every time you tag a url it gets added to RSS feed, which I then syndicate to a blog as a short post, then Retweet etc… It may not result in super powerful high Page Rank backlinks, but it does increase site exposure which is really the goal anyone should have for their sites, to be found in as many places as possible.

David on Wed, 20th Jan 2010 10:31 am


Daniel

In China where I live twitter.com and (twitterfeed) website is blocked. Use to be able to access the sites but not anymore.

Any day you have a service that sets up these various linkwheels etc -I’ll be on board

Daniel McGonagle on Wed, 20th Jan 2010 11:06 am


David, you could always outsource this task, it wouldn’t cost that much to do.

Just install TweetMeme plugin and make sure you feeds are working

David on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 8:29 am


Thanks Daniel. What plugin do you use to autopublish snippets of a website to wordpress

Daniel McGonagle on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 10:12 am


Hi David, there’s tons of free plugins that do this, look for RSS or RSS aggregators inside your Admin panel for WordPress when Adding new plugin, search by Term.

But WP O MATIC and Feedwordpress are the 2 most popular ones.

Robert on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 2:11 pm


Daniel,

This is some awesome stuff. I would have never thought of it. I will be sure to get the Delicious tool bard and do some tagging. Also thanks for mentioning the Wp O Matic and Feedwordpress, I’ve been looking for a way to make my site into an aggregate.

This Fake blog that you make with the aggregate, curious to see if it gets any traffic?
Robert´s last blog ..Lesson 2: Choosing a Blog Topic

Daniel McGonagle on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 3:17 pm


Hey Robert, thanks for stopping by.

The “fake” blog had its alexa go from 400k to 267k in a couple of weeks, not that that is a real indicator but always nice to see the Alexa movement going in the right direction.

Every now and then I add a real blog post to that site to keep some longer content interspersed there, with the snippets, too.

Suggestion: Write your mini-blog post intro description in Delicious when tagging so when WP O MATIC picks it up you don’t have to write another snippet. Make sure WP O MATIC is only grabbing this content as a draft, so you can quickly tweak it and make sure the source URL is in there properly.

It also helps if you put the source URL of tagged content into your Delicious Tag comments.description so you don’t have to hunt that down prior to publishing it as a blog post. Use WP O Matic’s inherent templates which link to source, just know that when these templates link to SOURCE it links to an RSS feed and you want to link to a source URL not your main Delicious Feed url, which is why you want to add the source URL to your Delicious tags comments.

It will make more sense once you have WP O MATIC installed and you play around with the options/settings.

Thanks,

Dan

Robert on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 4:53 pm


Great tips! I seen you mentioned Google Alerts, I’ve never used this tool before. What terms are you searching to get alerted on? Are you searching for blogs that re-posted your articles?
Robert´s last blog ..Lesson 2: Choosing a Blog Topic

Daniel McGonagle on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 5:25 pm


I started off just doing alerts for my name since that was one common denominator for all the articles I’ve written. If I wanted to, I could do a search for all niche related terms, then use alerts to pick the best content and re-post it to an auto-blog.

Do THAT enough time and your auto-site should be like an authority/mini-Twitter site for your niche, along with being an index driver for your content dispersed and syndicated throughout the web

Kelinci on Sat, 30th Jan 2010 7:06 am


long time I look for article backlink from delicious. Finnaly I find your blog. Thanks for your article is really helpful.
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Jeff Persons on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 2:46 pm


Hi Dan,

I’ve got a question. I have written 8 articles and they have been going to 100 directories each. Consequently these articles are all over the web. For instance I can find any one of these in 8 different places each. That’s a lot of Delicious bookmarks! Will Delicious get pissed? Is it spamy? Would it be better to link only once each article on Ezines or another article directory?

Thanks,

Jeff Persons

Daniel McGonagle on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 3:13 pm


Hey Jeff, welcome.

I’m from “Meffa” by the way.

The best way to go about tagging your submitted articles is to use Google alerts and to tag the first ones alerts finds. If all 8 are basically the same, just spun then submitted, then I would only tag (different from bookmarking!) the first articles URL that showed up in the SERPs.

If all 8 show up, or all 800 URLs (8 articles X 100 directories) then I would do a quick site evaluation on the sites hosting your articles and tag what you deem are the best sites.

So if a site/article directory had PR4, Alexa 120k… then I’d tag that article URL versus one on a site whose main page PR is less and has a less impressive Alexa score.

PageRank and Alexa ratings are inaccurate for sure, but when you combine them together you can sort of get a quick idea of how well the search engines like/dislike a site.

Thanks,

Dan

Jeff Persons on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 6:55 pm


Thanks Dan,

I’ll be selective and discrete.

Whats “Meffa”?

Daniel McGonagle on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 7:22 pm


Hey Jeff, I thought you were from the Boston area, judging by your URL in your comments.

“Meffa” refers to phonetical pronunciation of a city near Boston, about 7 miles out

Brad on Thu, 4th Feb 2010 1:22 am


I’m a little confused on the difference between Tag and Bookmark .
Are you putting the URL of your site into the tag line when you bookmark an article or blog or whatever it is you’re bookmarking? Just wondering because I have every category page and most pages bookmarked but don’t see any links coming from there.

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