I do social bookmarking for fun, for backlinks for traffic and for promotion.

Just to let you know that don’t get excited with Social bookmarking sites for backlinks. Most of these sites are nofollow sites. However having backlinks from these sites are good for top ranking and also they bring traffic if social bookmarking is done properly.

By default all sites mentioned below are nofollow until and unless specified.

If you know if any other good social bookmarking sites then don’t hesitate to drop the link in the comment.

Social bookmarking Sites

Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon is a web discovery portal. I like StumbleUpon a lot. I prefer Stubmleupon over digg as it gets a lot of traffic for popular bookmarks. However you need to be regular user with quality submissions to get good traffic. Just bookmarking will not help.

Digg

Digg is busted. Digg is rigged and completely useless. You will never get any of your bookmarks to be in top as all of the top bookmarks are rigged and manually manipulated. You will never get any non American story in the top either as it is all for Americans by American. so if you dream to get a story on front page of digg then forget about it. Just submit your story and forget about traffic. A link from digg is better than no link.
Take my advice and don’t try to waste your precious time in making a story in the top on digg.

Delicious

Delicious is another failed Yahoo investment which will be dumped sooner or later. Yahoo is notorious for buying out new concepts and burying it to wipe out any competitions and also in favour of it’s own products. As far as social bookmarking is concerned it is good to have links from delicious but again don’t waste your time in it. Submit with proper tags and forget.

Reddit

Reddit has exploited digg’s disastrous makeover a lot and at one point it seemed that digg will disappear giving way for reddit. Reddit is good for F word stories and uncontrolled swearing on any topics. It is crooks den ;) Good to have links and if your stories are weird then you might get traffic too.

Newsmarking

This is a good bookmarking site with clean links and moderated. This is a DoFollow site, baclkinks are dofollow.

DSABO – Discover Stories And BOokmark

DoFollow Social bookmarking site which is clean and allows you to add metatags for the stories and images. Good stories are pushed to front page immediately.

Multiply – Nice bookmarking site, you can get your own subdomain.

Netvouz – In the past it is used to very good bookmarking site but after revamp it looks ugly and meaningless. However worth bookmarking it just for the heck of it ;)

Folkd
Diigo
Blinklist
Faves

Cadillactight

Dropjack – It is rubbish and spammy.

Mister Wong – This is now paid bookmarking site and useless. Bloody idiots!! They blocked old user accounts and now demanding ransom to allow access.

Moolets – Useless

Brightkite – Not a social bookmarking site but a social group texting site.

Twitter Like

Jaiku

AOL Lifestream

Clip Share Sites

These sites allow you to share clips. Clips could be any image or any specific segment of a website. Most of these sites are quite good and high PR. In addition to backlinks you also get good traffic from these sites.

Clipmark
Amplify

Pligg based Social Bookmarking Sites

Pligg is a free open source php script developed for bookmarking. It is kind of copy of old Digg.

tagza.com

Bukmark – Good as story goes to home page immediately after submission.
social-bookmarking.net

Drigg based Social bookmarking sites

Drigg is a Drupal based Social Bookmarking script. It is not a Drupal module but it comes as standalone script which contains Drupal and drigg module integrated tightly.

Nice Social Bookmarking Sites

These bookmarking sites are niche and should not be spammed with irrelevant bookmarks
http://fwisp.com/ Business related links only.

Social Shopping Sites

Kaboodle – This is the best social shopping site. I’ve been using it since long time.
Wists – New and not so good.

Such nofollow sites then remain good only for traffic.

Following are some of the best dofollow social bookmarking sites which I’ve been using for quite some time. These dofollow social bookmarking sites are best for link building.

These dofollow sites are not only god for traffic but also they would be helpful in getting top 10 ranking for your website.

I’ll keep adding more sites as I come across them.

If you know any such good dofollow sites then drop it in the comment below.

Last Updated – 26-Sep-2010

1) DSABO – Discover Stories And Bookmark

Fed up with digg & digg-like bookmarking sites I launched this site on my own. It has got all benefit of SEO. The links are DOFOLLOW, you can specify your own Metatags, comments can have links and so on.

It is all organic, no sponsored stories, no digg or bury brigade, no faking, no spamming.

My effort is to keep this site clean and free from all the vices which plagues most of the so called TOP bookmarking sites.

Some of the best features of this Social Bookmarking Sites are:

• DOFOLLOW Links
• Title
• Metatags – Keywords and Description
• Add your own image – this feature is flexible as some of the bookmarking sites pick up any image available on a web page
• You can specify comments in the link
• No fake Voting
• Spam Free
• Highly moderated content
• You can create your own Blog
• Submit Articles
• Socialize
• Add links to your homepage and blogs

I’m still working on this site to improve it further. Any suggestions are welcome.

2) Newsmarking.com

News Marking is relatively new dofollow bookmarking site. The published stories are dofollow. The unpublished stories are nofollow. So until your story is published (by administrator) it will remain nofollow.

This is the best dofollow newsmarking site I’ve come across. There are no restrictions on the topics you submit or how many you submit as long as you don’t spam your stories will be approved.

There are penalties as well. If you try to abuse the system your account will be deleted and all stories will be deleted.

3) Multiply.com

Multiply is not just a social bookmarking site, it is more of a social networking site where you can bookmark as well as create blog. The links inside blog posts are no follow. It is a secret which I’m sharing with those who are not yet aware of the full potentials of multiply.

Using social bookmarking sites to promote your content is a smart and rewarding act for your SEO. Each of these social bookmarking sites has millions of users and visitors each day. A story which makes it to the front page can send you thousands of new visitors, build you dozens of inbound links and increase your SEO. The following post will take a look at 3 social bookmarking websites you can’t ignore.

Digg

Digg is the king of all the social bookmarking websites online today. People come from all over the world to keep up with current events, find entertaining articles, look at pictures, watch video and find rare content they may not have been able to discover themselves. Smart website owners utilize websites like Digg to help promote their content by submitting their pages to Digg. Depending on the quality of your article, it could either be hit or miss, some submissions make the front page while others are lost in the thousands of other links submitted each day.

However, Digg has such a high Page Rank and is indexed at such an alarming speed that creating a Digg submission will shoot your link very high on the search engine results. If you had trouble reaching top ranking for your targeted keyword, submitting your page to Digg will help you reach very high results literally hours.  Creating an account is very easy; you could even use your Facebook login information.

Using Digg correctly will help increase your visitor count while building valuable inbound links when these visitors further promote your pages via Twitter and other social networking. Your SEO campaign should include Digg as one of the sources to bring new traffic.

StumbleUpon

Unlike Digg, StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site for users to submit interesting articles to allow other users to discover them either from the StumbleUpon website or by “Stumbling”. The main appeal of StumbleUpon is the ability to “Stumble”, as mentioned before, which allows a user to press a button to take them to a random website based on preferences they choose. StumbleUpon is a great source of gaining new visitors and increasing your search engine rank while improving your SEO.

Submitting your pages to StumbleUpon, within their correct category, has the potential to send you hundreds, if not thousands of new visitors to your website.

Delicious

Delicious is yet another social bookmarking website. Delicious has been around for quite some time, so it has a great Page Rank and has built a user base of over 5 million. Much like Digg and StumbleUpon, you are able to submit websites and web pages to Delicious.

Correctly tagging your submission is important to make sure it’s relevant to the information you provide. Often, you may want to tag your submission with a popular tag, so it will show up in these results without getting lost with all the other links. Delicious can send you a massive amount of new visitors, and as mentioned before, this will increase your Search Engine Optimization as your page will be linked to and regularly visited.

Every website owner should utilize the power of social bookmarking for their Search Engine Optimization efforts. Each account takes only a few minutes while the submission process takes even less. If you become active on the community, you will also help to build your reputation. As you increase your exposure of your website through social bookmarking, you will see a very nice increase of visitors and search engine rank, the goal of your Search Engine Optimization .