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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