
The easiest way to get your first (or extra) external links is to submit your pages (links) to social bookmarking websites. But then come several problems. What are the best social bookmarking sites? What’s better: “nofollow” or “dofollow” links? I’ve prepared the answers..
Firstly.. what means “nofollow” and “dofollow”?
1) NoFollow – this means, that Google’s crawlers will not follow and will not index your link. The posted link won’t be counted as an external link.. though it’ll bring you some fresh direct traffic! Cool, huh?
PS Search engines like Yahoo don’t mind your “nofollow” links. They simply ignore “nofollow” attributes.
2) DoFollow – actually, there is no any “dofollow” meta tag. But that’s how is called a link, when it has no “nofollow” attribute. The good news is that search engine robots will index your “dofollow” links and that will raise your position in search results according to PR of the website, where you’ve submitted your link. Confused about that?
Check out this example.
OK, I hope the above info is clear enough. Now meet my collection of the best social bookmarking sites divided into “no follow” and “do follow” categories.
Updated on the 6th Apr. 2010
Scheme of the list: URL – Google Pagerank – Alexa ranking – note
NoFollow Social Bookmarking Websites:
- www.reddit.com – 8 – 308 – “dofollow” > what’s hot, top and saved submissions, new and controversial > “nofollow”
- www.digg.com – 8 – 106
- www.delicious.org – 8 – 340
- www.mister-wong.com – 8 – 2,217
- www.slashdot.org – 7 – 1,245 – author links and all submissions that are not on the front page – “noffolow”
- www.jumptags.com – 7 – 1,505 – you can also submit your RSS feed
- www.blinklist.com – 7 – 3,799
- www.bibsonomy.org – 7 – 5,175 – design is not attractive
- www.2collab.com – 7 – 44,958 – due to spam attacks registration is closed… already more than 3 months, Alexa is falling;
- www.diigo.com – 6 – 1,792
- www.simpy.com – 6 – 9,734 – all of the submissions appear on the front page, though they stay there not too long
- www.netvouz.com – 6 – 24,101
- www.bookmarks.com – 6 – 38,365 – not social enough
- www.faves.com – 5 – 3,639 – friendly looking
- www.url.org – 5 – 5,374 – spammy
- www.dropjack.com – 5 – 6,786 – spammy
- www.clipclip.org – 5 – 17,934
- www.humsurfer.com – 4 – 1,891 – India, World news, slow page loading;
- www.getboo.com – 4 – 34,630 – old-looking site
- – 4 – 58,824 – currently is spammed
- www.dnhour.com – 4 – 66,592 – domaining
- www.groxx.com – 4 – 95,709 – different news
- www.wirefan.com – 3 – 9,714 – jumped from PR 0 to PR 3 on the latest PR update, spammy;
- www.pr4links.com – 3 – 32,121 – desert-looking
DoFollow Social Bookmarking Websites:
- buzz.yahoo.com – 8 – 4 – world news
- www.mixx.com – 8 – 746 – great for social media blogs
- www.propeller.com – 8 – 1,735 – great, but sometimes too slow, no anchor text in links to your pages
- www.wikio.com – 8 – 2,198 – you can submit your RSS feed or publish an article, any topics, though tech news rule :)
- www.slashdot.org – 7 – 1,245 – “dofollow” in posts on the front page;
- www.folkd.com – 7 – 1,333 – spammy
- www.metafilter.com – 7 – 2,042 – overlinked pages, world news
- www.n4g.com – 7 – 2,369 – news for gamers
- www.current.com – 7 – 3,001 – redirects, cloaking, not sure if it’s “dofollow”
- news.ycombinator.com – 7 – 3,001 – hacker news
- www.connotea.org – 7 – 5,364 – convenient, but not social, a simple bookmarker
- www.dzone.com – 6 – 2,490 – for all kinds of developers
- www.clipmarks.com – 6 – 3,117 – barely social
- www.sphinn.com – 6 – 5,918 – SEO, blogging, cruel moderators
- www.designbump.com – 6 – 10,093 – design, cool one
- www.tipd.com – 6 – 11,965 – financial topics, barely social, the front page is PR 6, all the rest are PR 4
- www.kwoff.com – 6 – 15,177 – spammy, problems with the design
- www.buzzflash.net – 6 – 17,952 – barely social, only the front page is PR 6, all the rest are N/A
- www.designfloat.com – 5 – 7,404 – design
- www.mylinkvault.com – 5 – 7,160 – nice
- www.buddymarks.com – 5 – 7,456 – spammy
- www.spotback.com – 5 – 8,434 – strange
- www.kirtsy.com – 5 – 9,233 – only the front page is PR 5, all the rest are N/A
- blogengage.com – 5 – 12,158 – blogging
- www.faqpal.com – 5 – 21,048 – blogging
- scriptandstyle.com – 5 – 24,360 – design, cool
- fwisp.com – 5 – 31,929 – finance, business
- www.plugim.com – 5 – 38,412 – seems to be dead
- www.ngopost.org – 5 – 48,983
- fleck.com – 5 – 73,111 – small network, for bookmarks
- www.socialogs.com – 4 – 9,872 – cloaking, not passing link juice
- www.blurpalicious.com – 4 – 10,081 – spammy
- www.postonfire.com – 4 – 10,376 – not sure if it’s working
- www.quadriot.com – 4 – 13,473
- www.rambhai.com – 4 – 16,678 – India news
- thewebblend.com – 4 – 19,462 – cool, design
- www.blogmarks.net – 4 – 20,589
- www.memfrag.com – 4 – 24,089 – simple bookmarker
- www.linkatopia.com – 4 – 62,851 – slowly dying
- www.bloggerden.com – 4 – 70,155 – blogging
- www.mmosocialnetwork.com – 4 – 70,449 – blogging
- www.overflowlegal.com – 4 – 104,200
- www.momshare.net – 4 – 129,119 – barely active, Mom-powered social news and networking
- www.totalpad.com – 3 – 17,592 – only the front page is PR 6, all the rest are N/A
- www.stumpedia.com – 3 – 19,210 – submit only URLs, good one
- www.sturvs.com – 3 – 36,071
- www.sweepsgoat.com – 3 – 38,261 – spammy, for those who run contests
- www.xerpi.com – 3 – 41,924 – simple bookmarker
- www.binarylaw.com – 3 – 241,671 – law and tech submissions, Alexa has greatly decreased
- pfbuzz.com – 2 – 27,862 – personal finance
Updated on the 6th Apr. 2010
If you’re a real psycho – visit insane list of 700+ social bookmarking sites.







Nice lists, we are DoFollow at http://www.faqpal.com as well.
First of all I would like to introduce my PR2 do follow social bookmarking site http://www.bookmarkshub.info
faves.com is a nofollow site and why slashdot.org is both in nofollow and dofollow sections?
FAQPAL,
Thanks, added. I already used to submit my URLs to your web.
-no name-,
1. Next time pick your real name, but not “social bookmarking site”;
2. Your web is below PR 3, come back, when it becomes at least PR 3..;
3. Thanks for the correction. Updated.
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