First of all, since I always like to pay special attention to beginners, I would like to explain exactly what dofollow social bookmarking sites are. Social bookmarking sites, to avoid spam submissions, usually add nofollows, which are basically an instruction that the Google bot receives telling it not to pay attention to the link on your site to yours. Therefore, the link does not improve the PageRank of your site, which is one of the most important factors, if not the most important, to get the first positions in Google.
Are these links useless then? The answer is no. They are still useful if you want traffic, publicity for your site, and interest from readers, among other things. However, dofollow social bookmarking sites do exist. Right now we are talking about smaller websites, not the most famous ones, but the presentation is helpful. It won’t replace a quality SEO and social media marketing strategy, but it can be an interesting part of it.
Here is a very comprehensive list of some dofollow social bookmarking sites that I have put together. You may find more spam here than usual, and remember that these sites tend to come and go quickly; you may have to go through the list and double check from time to time, but they are still a valid option:
flip back
flashing list
blogoria
chain marking
chip brand
Connotes
Current
Diego
Dizzy
ebaum’s world
feed marker
popular
gozoof
Jim’s Free Links
giant brand
kingtop
kwoff
MyLinkVault
my pip
oyax
oyax
planet blog
pencil
then force
social item
tagza
Tamils
Taqza
astoro
bisonomy
blog mark
bookland online
marker-label
chain master
cyjournalist
contentpop
counting
massive
delmaster
expert opinions
eyorl
ezinesocialmark
first bookmark
firstdigg
firstwebonline
free link vault.
main links
manualsocialmarks
memory fragment
multiplysocial
mysocialbookmark
mywebdesktop
qiinga
reebiesup
royal list
seoblisting
social builder
socialarth
sociotectmark
punctual bonding
prick
surfurls
technoratitags
elreclamoid
the life recorder
elmenumagico
tweakonews
review of ugotes
voting ship
path2marks
wedelia
xilinus
yomashnews
yucafe
zangkok
So how do we discover nofollow links anyway? Although I am usually a Google Chrome user, for this I recommend using the Mozilla Firefox browser, since it allows you to install what are called add-ons. If you search for ‘firefox nofollow addon’, you will be able to install a number of programs that mark nofollow links with red highlighting, a handy trick for any webmaster. Whenever you come to a website that is marked red, you will know that the links placed there are not useful for SEO purposes. On the other hand, if there is no red highlight, you are good to go.
Other good ways to get dofollow links is to submit the work you write to certain PR (or press release) sites. While the traffic on these isn’t generally huge, dofollow links are valuable – same situation as with the dofollow social bookmarking sites we listed earlier… These PR sites don’t value quality content as much, so it’s okay to send out less informative or newsworthy items, like ads about your business, which, let’s face it, might be a little less interesting to the general public.