You can get DoFollow links from Delicious when you manually tag items of interest to you from within your Delicious account.
What’s Delicious?
- Apple pie and ice cream,
- Banana daiquiris
- Klondike bars
- and Dofollow links
Seriously, for the uninformed, Delicious is a site that is trusted, respected and of high”trust” and authority”.
You can bookmark sites of interest to you from within your account and/or by using the Delicious toolbar.
However, the real power to using Delicious isn’t with bookmarking sites an URLs of interest to you. The real and widely untapped power for using Delicious for link building comes from TAGGING urls of interest to you, not bookmarking.
Tagging URLS in Delicious creates DoFollow backlinks
After you create your Delicious account, you want to start surfing the web while logged in to your account.
As you surf the web, look for your content online and tag it using the Delicious toolbar (there’s a TAG button on the Delicious toolbar).
Delicious Tags
When you TAG something in your Delicious account, it gets added to an RSS feed created by Delicious and this “tags feed” is merely a compilation of all the urls you’ve tagged.
Delicious Links
This Delicious RSS FEED is Dofollow, so when you TAG urls with Delicious you’re creating some new Dofollow backlinks back to the URLs you tagged.
Delicious RSS Feed
How to find your Delicious Tags RSS feed?
1- Tag something, and remember what tags you used
2- Search for a tag from within your account
3- Your tags will be displayed, and you’ll see the RSS icon and individual rss feed url for that item
4- To get you rmain Delicious feed url, backpsace until you get to the “root” of the feed folder.
5- Then bookmark that main feed URL to save it
Or just try adding your Delicious username to http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/(Delicious username here) 
How this benefits you:
- You’re adding DoFollow backlinks from a trusted site.
- You can make an RSS feed url out of any content you wrote AND create a backlink all in one step.
2 Ways to Maximize the benefits from using Delicious as a link building tool
1- Use TwitterFeed to ReTweet your content onto your Twitter Profile
2- Create a site that auto-populates all your web content as blog posts
Here’s a post explaining how to create the “twitter link wheel“
Another way to get more out of this is to create an Edge Network type of site:
Here’s how you create an Edge network type of site using WordPress, Delicious, and Twitter which creates more backlinks for you.
On a seperate domain name, set up a blog whose sole purpose is to auto-publish snippets of all your website content that’s “out there”.
When you create a blog, an RSS feed is automatically created for you. TwitterFeed can be used to ReTweet your content automatically if you give it an RSS feed to pull from.
Gather all your indexed content together using Google Alerts to notify you when new articles have been distributed and indexed, when your name is mentioned, when your websites is mentioned etc… Then go to the URLS mentioning you or publishing your articles with links intact and TAG them in Delicious.
As mentioned previously your TAGs have an RSS feed, so if you set up feed pulling RSS aggregator plugins like WP O MATI Cor Feedwordpress, you can pull the content from the Delicious Feed and post it as site content. Then let TwitterFeed pick that up and ReTweet it for you.
So the idea here is to
- syndicate content to a lot of places using a service like Unique Article Wizard,
- get notified via Google alerts on what content got picked up by the search engines,
- Tag those items in Delicious to give them a DoFollow link,
- Syndicate Delicious Feed content to a WordPress blog using WP OMatic or FeedWordPress
- Allow TwitterFeed to continually post new content from your auto-blog to Twitter for you.
Why you want to use a blog to re-publish your Delicious Feed content instead of just using TwitterFeed to ReTweet your content:
- Delicious feed is yet another RSS feed that can be submitted to the RSS aggregators
- It’s yet another RSS feed url that could get scraped by other bloggers you auto-scrape content from others’ RSS feed. If you go directly form Delicious RSS feed to TwitterFeed to Twitter, you’re missing out on opportunities here
- You’re creating more content for the web, albeit only is snippet form, but will help gain links, traction, and draw more attention from people whose sites are mostly RSS scraped content
- It helps get your other content indexed better and longer
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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!
Hey Leanne, thanks for stopping by. Looking forward to your updated ebook
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?
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
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.
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.
I have visited your site and I would like to thank for posting such a valuable info. I am sure your visitors find your site as useful as I did. Bookmarking is very important in SEO it is one of a good way when it comes in site promotion or for site backlinks and it can help your site to get top in search engines and for site traffic as well.
Dan,
I told u it doesn’t work like that
Delete all u want… it doesn’t work like that.
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
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
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
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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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
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!
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.
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
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
Thanks Daniel. What plugin do you use to autopublish snippets of a website to wordpress
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.
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?
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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
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?
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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
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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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
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
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.
Hi Dan,
I have just set up this whole thing following your instructions. I am also sending my Delicious rss to Ping.fm via Twitterfeed, and onward to my Web. 2.0 sites. Does the fact that Twitterfeed changes all my link urls to bit.ly urls mean that the posted links on my Web 2.0 sites have no backlink value? Is this method therefore purely for traffic increase rather than for backlinks?
Thanks!
Good job and good questions Archie.
These bitlys still possess some SOE value despite being NoFollow since they help as index drivers for the urls they’re pointing to. Index drivers are good for developing solidly indexed content that doesn’t fall OUT of the indices and that’s basically what this does, SEO-wise.
Traffic-wise it acts much like a social bookmarking account that actually has people reading your bookmarked items.
The point of this post was to point out that you can get a DoFollow link from Delicious this way.
By the way, Feedburner does auto retweeting now but not for all the places that TwitterFeed does
I’ve been tagging my article pages in delicious account. But i dont see any backlinks to my webpages from delicious(i also created second delicious account and tagged couples of same articles),
Is there something I’m missing.
Thanks
GK, not sure what to tell you here. I see some backlinks form them in my cpanel.
However, the point here is really that these links act like index drivers that solidify the indexing of content in the web-o-sphere.
After all, Delicious is only 1 source and repeat backlinks form same source does have less and less of an effect over time, which is why you want to consider using these Delicious links merely and index drivers, not necessarily some sort of rankings booster. If I implied that or that sentiment was conveyed in this article, I will re write it so nobody expects more form this than what it really is good for.
RSS submissions and links from RSS feeds and feed files are the same scenario, they’re helpers and index drivers but not super powerful links.
I think that dofollow is most important, but you also need to have nofollow links so that the search engines sees that you are most natural. So in order to have high PR you have to be as natural as possible.
This a great post. I know delicious is nofollow sb site but with this post, I now know how to get dofollow link from them. Thanks for this post.
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This is a great post. I had not thought to use Delicious before (there are so many to choose from and so little time) but I am not going to explore this further. Frankly, some of the things you are talking about are a little more complicated than I want (and I don’t really understand them). But I got how to tag with Delicious to get dofollow links, and I think that was your main purpose. Thanks again.
This is awesome. Now can increase traffic to my site with Delicious. I’ve never even thought to do it this way. thanks…
Nice post, have implemented this and I’ll see how it helps out. Though I’ve some sites bookmarked for a while, I have now linked to my delicious profile from my webpage hoping to assist in the crawling of my delicious RSS and links.
Hey Roland, I got this straight from Dan Thies’s Link Liberation course, which was OK. It’s not a super-powerful link building method/tactic just another arrow in the quiver, really
Thanks for a superb post, Daniel. Another link-building tool to add to our arsenal. I never knew that I could utilize Delicious in this way. Will follow your clear instructions and see how it goes.
Awesome method to get Dofollow links from Delicious.
thanks for the share
Interesting stuff Daniel. Will have to try it out…
Thank you for the share mate.