Leveraging PR From SBS Profiles
First, let me apologize for the acronym-filled title. The full title is “Leveraging Page Rank From Social Bookmarking Sites’ Profiles” but I decided that was too long.
I’m sure you’ve tried gaming some social bookmarking sites by creating a bunch of profiles, submitting your stories, and then using your army of accounts to get your story noticed.
That method is so 2006.
See, this is exactly what everybody else is doing and it’s exactly what the social bookmarking sites are on the lookout for. If you aren’t careful your accounts (or worse, IP) will be banned and all that work you did will be for nothing.
So, what’s the answer? Well, when you vote on most of these sites, your profile gets a link from that story’s page. Also, the story’s page gets a link from everyone who voted on that story. Do you see where I’m going with this?
Popular stories get hundreds (sometimes thousands) of internal links from user’s profiles and in turn link to each one of these user’s profiles. The objective is to get a link to your account’s page on as many of these stories as you can, preferably the most popular ones. Fortunately, these sites make it easy to tell which stories are the most popular (in fact, it’s why the sites exist in the first place).
Don’t think this will work? Well, let’s look at an example on digg. One of the most popular digg users is digitalgopher.
Let’s take a look at digitalgopher’s digg profile page, shall we? At the time of this writing, this user has dugg 11,707 stories, giving his profile page a PageRank of 7. Not too shabby!
So every story he diggs from now on gets a PR7 link from his profile page. I don’t think I have to tell you how valuable a PR7 page is, and that this is the easiest way I’ve ever seen of getting control of one.
However, if you think I’m going to spend days finding and digging 11,000+ stories you don’t know me very well. I automate everything and this is no exception.
To give you an example, I created a nice little script that will “favorite” the top 100 blogs (and WageRank) on Technorati.
You can use the script here, but please don’t abuse it or I’ll have to take it down.
Good luck, and happy voting!
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Good piece of advice! However, before you spend considerable amount of time following this technique, make sure that links from a specific SBS are not nofollowed. This is the case with del.icio.us and with many other as well, I guess, given the amount of spam that these SBS sites have to combat.
I like your thinking but so what? How do we take advantage of these new PR power?? Please explain in better detail of taking advantage of this PR power. Thank you
Every story you submit will get a free back link from your profile, which is the page with “PR power.”
That isnt true. Look at his old story pages. they dont have PR 7. Only the newest stories get a link from a PR 7 page.
You’re right, it’s not worth it. Forget about it. Pretend I never told you.
No problem
i have experimented a little with playing around with the social sites…can’t say i managed to rack up a pr7 profile, but on delicious i have a pr3 profile, which just helped one of my new sites get fully indexed by google in about 2 days flat…all the links from delicious show up (for each tag) as well…so it does have a benefit - presumably the ‘trust’ factor has a bearing? works for me, anyway