Comments on: Do You Have A Social Marketing Plan? http://socialmarketingjournal.com/2008/06/21/social-marketing-plan-3/ Social Media Marketing Optimization Blog. Sat, 02 May 2009 00:42:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris Lang http://socialmarketingjournal.com/2008/06/21/social-marketing-plan-3/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Chris Lang Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:36:32 +0000 http://socialmarketingjournal.com/2008/06/21/do-you-have-a-social-marketing-plan/#comment-994 I have been testing social bookmarking sites heavily the last 6 months and here is one thing I found. Using SocialMarker or other submission sites can damage your Google rankings. I want to tell you that submitting your own content over and over is absolutely the worst thing you can do on social bookmarking sites. I have tested this heavily and if your profile is full of nothing but your own domain then this is found to be a negative indicator to Google. Also I have found that if you submit to all the bookmarking sites at almost the same time you get very little credit in Google. Think about it, if your site was actually submitted by different users at all these sites then the timestamp would not be within minutes of each other. I did a test. My friend blogged an article on Blogger and did not submit to any social sites. I published my own article about the same time. I submitted to all my social sites within 10 minutes of one another. His article was #1 on blogsearch for 2 days, mine never even showed up. My blog is way more powerful. 2000 links, PR 3 and a 19 in Technorati. His no links, PR 0 and nothing in Technorati. In another test we published one of my articles and then over the course of 24 hours added the post to social bookmarking sites. I went to Websearch the next day top ten and held #1 on Blogsearch for a week. I call this natural progression and it is so far a true story. I believe that Google is testing social bookmarking sites as a indicator of a blog quality in preperation to buy Digg and begin using them as another blog ranking tool. I have been testing social bookmarking sites heavily the last 6 months and here is one thing I found.

Using SocialMarker or other submission sites can damage your Google rankings.

I want to tell you that submitting your own content over and over is absolutely the worst thing you can do on social bookmarking sites.

I have tested this heavily and if your profile is full of nothing but your own domain then this is found to be a negative indicator to Google.

Also I have found that if you submit to all the bookmarking sites at almost the same time you get very little credit in Google. Think about it, if your site was actually submitted by different users at all these sites then the timestamp would not be within minutes of each other.

I did a test. My friend blogged an article on Blogger and did not submit to any social sites. I published my own article about the same time. I submitted to all my social sites within 10 minutes of one another. His article was #1 on blogsearch for 2 days, mine never even showed up. My blog is way more powerful. 2000 links, PR 3 and a 19 in Technorati. His no links, PR 0 and nothing in Technorati.

In another test we published one of my articles and then over the course of 24 hours added the post to social bookmarking sites. I went to Websearch the next day top ten and held #1 on Blogsearch for a week.

I call this natural progression and it is so far a true story. I believe that Google is testing social bookmarking sites as a indicator of a blog quality in preperation to buy Digg and begin using them as another blog ranking tool.

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