Lists of Social Bookmarking Sites

Jan 15, 2010 by

Recently I have been spending quite much time with testing the effects of a link building done exclusively with Social Bookmarking sites. That’s the reason why I wanted to find some good lists of dofollow social bookmarking sites. And since a few weeks I am still in a need of a(n almost) perfect social bookmarking site list.

Simple social bookmarking site lists

First I started with an appropriate search expression which led me to sites like Socialposter.com. The problem with the list this site features is that although I could filter this list by dofollow/nofollow or social news/social bookmarking sites, 79 is not a big number when it comes to submitting links to sites where you can normally get only a relatively low value link.

Why I went through this list I realized what’s the difference between a social news site and a social bookmarking site and especially what’s the difference between a site under strong editorial control and an other site with basically no anti-spam measures. Finally I have opted for the latter category since I wanted to promote non-English content with this method.

Social submitter software tools

Later when I found a similar site called SocialMarker or something similar, I came across an ad of a social submitter software. There I could find a bit more extensive site list perhaps. First I have got to a special landing page which was created by the worst online marketing standards with yellow highlights, strong dashed borders and long list of testimonials and other bullshit. Finally I got the developers’ page (SEO Dev Groups’ Social Submitter) where I could download a plain list of the social bookmarking sites this software works with from here.

But before I found this PDF file I have came accross an other Social Submitter service, which is Social Maximizer. Unlike Social Submitter this is not a DIY tool but you can purchase individual submissions for a few cents with this system. This is just a side note because before I decided that before using a mass submission tool, I would do something manually, just to see a few social bookmarking sites and get some overview of this niche market.

Social Maximizer offers also a public list of the Social bookmarking sites where you can submit your web sites to: it is slightly better than Social Submitter’s — althoug URLs are not clickable, you can see the Page Rank values which can help you to decide whether to open that URL at all. (I didn’t want to use Page Rank 0 sites in the beginning.)

Now that I found a bunch of sites to work with, I guess my quest came to its end, therefore I will never find any similarly usable social bookmarking list to some of the directory lists I have already worked with. Maybe this is a sign that the social bookmarking sites are much less useful for link building, therefore no one was interested in compiling a really great resource?

Non-English social bookmarking sites

During my search for different social bookmarking lists I have found a (mainly) German Social Bookmarking site list with 78 sites included. Unfortunately I could not discover better lists than this. Then I had an idea of looking for bookmarking sites in smaller languages, but it was the (almost complete) lack of these sites was a bit disappointing. For instance the biggest Czech social bookmarking list was this I could found (already including some international sites). Having a dozen of social bookmarking sites in a country is not that much, but later I realized that this is not unique to Czech and Slovak languages, because there is only a dozen of Hungarian social bookmarking sites at the time of writing as Turbobookmark.com presented. This is an otherwise interesting concept, because I have nowhere seen a multilanguage bookmarking site submitter.

Bookmarking site lists by CMS

While doing link building on these sites I have quickly realized that the majority of these sites are powered by just a few CMS-es like Pligg or PHPDugg or sometimes Scuttle. Although I could not find any usable directory lists previously (show me a directory of PHP LD powered directories!), I was still hoping to find a good list of Pligg-powered sites for instance. I haven’t spent much time searching but the only thing I came across was this 108 Different Class C IP PHPDug Site List.

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Specialized web directory lists

Dec 28, 2009 by

While creating a directory just by installing a directory script and starting to collect different directories might seem a relatively simple task to accomplish, but if you want to own a really usable directory list, not only you should keep that list up-to-date (because web directories often change: many of the free directories become later paid ones, and many of them are just shut down after a certain period), but  you should also collect a bit more information than a link a title and a short description, or simply give something more to help link builders and directory owners.

If you have managed to collect thousands of web directories, even a relatively simple concept would make your list usable. While the web-directories.ws directory list is built with PHP Link Directory Script without adding any considerable extra feature to the standard PHPLD feature set, the size of this collection makes it an excellent resource especially when you are looking for regional or niche directories.

Custom web sites like  Info Vilesilencer Directory List — which is most likely the oldest list of its kind — can offer some handy features for sorting and handling directory lists during a certain link building campaign. This site for instance not only collects information about the Page Rank and Alexa Rank values of the directories, but also has its own ranking system in order to help to evaluate the importance of  the directories listed. In addition to this, the site also lets you to download its directory list in a downloadable excel spreadsheet.

Some directory lists, like directorycritic.com accept only paid or reciprocal listing when it comes to submitting, others like the Info Vilesilencer directory list offer free submission but manually check certain requirements before listing the submitted directories.

A good directory list usually displays some additional info about the directories such as the type of the directory (Free, Reciprocal, Paid), IP address, web pages indexed by Google, age of the site, etc., but as far as I know only linksadmin.net collects automatically activity data about the listed web directories, such as the date of the last update or the date of the latest submission accepted. Sorting by this information can you prevent you from wasting your precious time for submitting your site to defunct directories.

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Simple lists of directories

Dec 15, 2009 by

There are a lot of lists of directories compiled by different webmasters here and there, basically published in personal blogs or in webmaster forums. Although these lists are much less than a directory of directories, they are useful resources if you are looking for directories covering a certain niche. Many times these lists are a kind of by-product of a link building campaign, thus reflecting the experience of the link builder who published that list.

There are certain problems with these lists however: the worst is when someone submits to a lot of directories, and when it is done simply includes all of the directories where he just sent the link suggestions. It’s better when only those link directories get listed which accepted those link submissions. Last but not least the best of all, when a list is actively maintained, simply because the link builder in question uses that list as an everyday tool for link building campaigns.

So when you come across a simple directory list, first check the publication date. If it was published more than a year ago, then chances are high that the list will not be really useful, just because there will be many dead links and some other links where the description will not match the actual state (e.g. a link directory became a paid directory meanwhile).

A typical example of these simple directory lists can be found at http://www.evilscience.org/list-of-free-directories-from-serbia-croatia-and-bosnia/ Although this list was compiled more than a year ago most likely it is still the most comprehensive list of ex-Yugoslavian (That is: Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian) link directories.

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Lists of searching engines as searching aids

Dec 1, 2009 by

Lists of searching engines as searching aids

Before Google became the tool for searching on the web thus signalling the end of the golden era of web directories, there were more — equally viable — options to choose for web search. Since these crawler based search engines or human edited link directories could in many cases cover only a certain region or provide search results in a certain language, once you needed to search in an other language or wanted to find information related to other countries than US, knowing which search tools covered a certain geography or language might have been handy. That’s the reason why the first directories of directories (and search engines) emerged.

search engine colossus screen captureOne of the oldest but still maintained link collection, and  a good example for these search engine lists is Search Engine Colossus. This directory lists the search tools organized by countries and antonomous regions (or something like that). As for the quality of  this web site, given the age (more than 10 yrs old!) and the scope of the site there are quite a few search engines and directories listed which are practically defunct by now although still online (not accepting new link submissions, not crawling the web anymore).  The age is also reflected in the oldschool design of the site.  Nevertheless the page is still maintained, and still offers a good starting point if you want to discover a specific region on the web. In addition to this if you possess a local search engine a link directory, it is worth contacting the site owner: Bryan Strome, since this site can lead some traffic to your search solution, and it could pass some link juice as well (at the time of writing the site is unranked by Google’s PageRank algo though).

Other example of these worldwide search engine lists can be found on an Italian site called Segnali di Vita (means “signs of life” in English). Although the purpose and the concept of the entire site is not quite clear for me, this link collection has most likely a higher traffic than Search Engine Colossus has — based on my experience, you get slightly more visitors from this site if your directory is listed at both sites.

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