Social Bookmark Case Study Results

In order to determine the value of social bookmarking sites, I am running a case-study to see how fast the links from these types of sites are indexed (Social Bookmark Case Study).  For the case study, I created a simple Squidoo page (Powerful Worship Songs) that I could add to the various social bookmarking sites.

This post documents the result of the case study and shows that some social bookmarking sites are much better at getting indexed than others.  One caveat to this case study, is that fact that I directly linked to each entry from the original post.  This may have helped the entries get indexed faster than they would have otherwise.  Here are the results based on Yahoo's site explorer:

1. StumbleUpon
2. Reddit
3. Digg
4. www.lensroll.com: Indexed in 10 days.
5. www.squidom.com: Indexed in 2 days.
6. www.nfer.org: Indexed in 4 days.
7. www.pageranked.com: Indexed in 8 days (deindexed in 20 days).
8. www.bookmarkshub.info
9. www.free-sitesubmit.com
10. www.blogdup.com
11. www.lhzyy.net: Indexed in 6 days (deindexed in 15 days)
12. www.hibo5k.com: Indexed in 3 days.
13. www.jotlinks.com
14. www.geofeedz.com
15. www.blurpalicious.com: Indexed in 4 days (deindexed in 17 days).
16. www.sticktothis.com 
17. www.hubmarks.com
18. submitbookmark.info
19. birat.net: Indexed in 3 days (3 links).

It appears that using social bookmarking sites is a little hit and miss.  Some of the sites seem to get indexed fairly quickly, and others seem to get buried.  I am also concerned with how fast the links become de-indexed as the entries get buried.  I will keep updating this page with the results over the next month.

Social Bookmarking Case Study

A lot of webmasters suggest submitting your site(s) and page(s) to social bookmarking sites.  With the large number of social bookmarking sites available, this looks like a great way generate back links to a site.  But, I am also a little cautious about the actual value.  I want to make sure that I am focusing my link building efforts in the best possible direction.

So, I am setting up a fun lens on Squidoo (Powerful Worship Songs) to test the effect of submitting the lens to a list of social bookmarking sites.  I will submit to the larger sites (i.e. stumbleupon, reddit, etc...), but I will also submit to the multitude of pligg type sites.  The experiment is to see how many of these bookmarked links are indexed within the first week and first month.

My goal with this experiment is to test the value of getting quality back links from social bookmarking sites.  At the end, I should have a considerable amount of data to decide whether to continue submitting any more sites to social bookmarking sites.  I am varying the anchor text and descriptions for the submissions to make the links appear more natural. 

Here is a list of the bookmarking sites links I placed (if you feel inclined, go ahead and vote for the site):

1. StumbleUpon
2. Reddit
3. Digg
4. www.lensroll.com  
5. www.squidom.com
6. www.nfer.org
7. www.pageranked.com
8. www.bookmarkshub.info
9. www.free-sitesubmit.com
10. www.blogdup.com
11. www.lhzyy.net
12. www.hibo5k.com
13. www.jotlinks.com
14. www.geofeedz.com
15. www.blurpalicious.com 
16. www.sticktothis.com 
17. www.hubmarks.com
18. submitbookmark.info
19. birat.net - added March 15

I Am Back

I took a couple of years off from my online endeavors, but I am now back.  This time around I am focusing on creating long-term value through quality content.  I got burnt out chasing the short term gains of PPC to PPA offers.  Every time I had a winning combination, the offer I was using would be discontinued or paused.  So all my hard work was wasted up to that point.

This year I am focusing on creating quality content in a couple of niches that I have had success in the past.  I know that this will take longer to pay off then PPC to PPA compaigns, but it will also pay out for a longer amount of time.