Social
Bookmarking Sites Which Don’t Use NoFollow
: Bookmarks and Search Engines
Social bookmarking allows web users to search, share,
organize, and store the bookmarks of different web
pages. This can be done publicly or privately (in
private groups), or a combination of the two. People
who are allowed to view the bookmarks can view them
using a variety of different functions to sort and
tag them.
Most of the services that provide social bookmarking
encourage you to organize bookmarks with informal
tags. They allow bookmarks to be viewed with their
associations to the tag, including information on
the users that bookmarked those sites. Some services
will even have RSS feeds for their lists, and you
will be alerted when new bookmarks are shared, tagged,
or saved.
The tagging and descriptions used in bookmarking
is referred to as external meta data and can have
huge benefits in SEO, because the information used
in the tagging is not controlled by the site owners,
but by the public. In essence, the information in
external meta tags should be much more valuable than
external inbound link anchor text or directory co
citation. Especially if there are hundreds or thousands
of users tagging these sites.
NoFollow
is a non-standard HTML attribute value which is
used to police the outbound link value of
user generated content, especially blog commenting.
NoFollow is used to communicate with search engines
to tell them that a link should not be used to pass
on link juice, or “PageRank”.
The idea is that it will help reduce people who
spam links, making sure that search engines get better
results when keywords are searched, and many social
bookmarking sites havee implemented this strategy.
However, there are social bookmarking sites that
do not use nofollow in their HTML tags, and this
is important for you to understand when you are developing
your social SEO strategies.
Social
Bookmarking Sites Which Don’t Use NoFollow
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