Being Popular Removes Your NoFollow Tag on Digg

Zack — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:13:00 +0000

NoFollow links have seem to become all the craze lately, much to the dismay of Social Media Marketers and SEO specialists. Many sites are making links NoFollow as webmasters and site administrators are trying to encourage people to provide better content in their posts. A lot of these sites, also provide ample room for user interaction whether in comments sections or via a Social Networking site, and if they do not add in the NoFollow tag, then their pages are spammed with links, which search engines such as Google hate (which is why they force sites such as Wikipedia and Twitter into NoFollow tags so as not to litter the search results page with a bunch of nonsense Tweets)

Digg has become the new site to join the ranks of the NoFollow tag…. sort of. Digg has started adding the NoFollow link to posts that are not popular. Digg has implemented NoFollow links to all its posts aside from those that make it to the home page. Everything else, when you click on the link, rather than take you to that page, it creates what looks like a portal to the site, where you can view the site in its entirety, but with a Digg toolbar and frames.

I am not sure the reason they are implementing this feature to their site, whether it was due to spamming reasons, Google forced them into it or they are just trying to force people to start adding in more relevant data with better content. Whatever the reasons are, I do know that I will be much more focused on getting my information to a main page, so that we do not lose any traffic to our site.

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Article by Zack Zucker, Director of Operations, Turbo Social Media

How Important are Social Bookmarking sites in Content Syndication for Social Media Marketing?

Matthew Arndt — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:30:18 +0000

Many people have heard of things like “The Digg Effect”, where a link to a blog post gets pushed to the top of Digg.com (one of the biggest social bookmarking sites out there for those of your just getting acquainted with the term) and the server crashing as a result of having hundreds of thousands of visitors to the website in a matter of minutes. BUT, there are better reasons than just an influx of traffic to your website as a reason to syndicate to the social bookmarking websites.

In this post, I will share with you a few secrets that we have found when it comes to syndicating content.

Syndicating your content to social bookmarking websites can create additional listings in the search engines.

Below, I have posted a screen shot that shows the search for “Dallas Zerona” from one of our clients Dr. Jade Malay of http://www.BodyByZeronaLaser.com . As you can see from the image, the top 5 results are a mix of social bookmarking links that we submitted on her behalf with a double listing for her actual website! (Click the image below for a larger view)

Syndicating your content to social bookmarking sites can help to drive traffic.

In this screen snip is proof that Dr Don of http://www.TheZeronaLaser.com got traffic as a result of the syndication to the social bookmarking sites. (Click the image below for a larger view)

Syndicating your content to social bookmarking sites can result in a higher Google Page Rank for the page submitted.

After less than a month of this post by Dr Don, with the syndication done correctly, this page received a Google Page Ranking of 3/10. While this may not seem like a big deal to the majority of you, most sites take a VERY long time to get a Page Rank of 3, and this was done in about a month!

Bottom line here is that syndicating content to social bookmarking websites is extremely important for optimizing your SEO and Social Media Marketing efforts. Of course, there are some other principals that you should always do when you are using social bookmarking sites like making sure to use unique titles and descriptions for each bookmarking site as well as encouraging your friends to write reviews, and “digg”, “thumbs up”, or comment on the bookmark. Although we all know how time consuming this process can be, it is incredibly important in the overall scheme of your social media marketing.

To learn more about Social Media Marketing and Social Bookmarking, fill out the form on the right to watch our free video series or give me a call at 877-673-7096.

Thank You, and I encourage you to leave and comments or questions below. To learn more about the video series, Medical Professionals should click here and Entrepreneurs should click here.

Article by Matthew Arndt, President, Turbo Social Media

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