Social bookmark trading is nothing new, it’s been happening ever since social bookmarking sites grew in popularity. Lavalinx just took the idea of exchanging bookmarks to a whole new level.  We created a system that makes social bookmarking, management and exchange more efficient, easy and effective.

To help you better understand what we’re doing I have included a few frequently asked questions and our response to each.

What is a Social Page?

A Lavalinx Social Page is any page in your site that you want bookmarked in social sites. You can bookmark these pages yourself with our easy-to-use bookmarking wizard, or you can initiate social bookmarking trades with others and have them bookmark them.

Why should I bookmark my pages using Lavalinx?

Current bookmarking tools help you to effeciently bookmark your own pages on multiple social sites, which is great if you want to fill your social accounts with all of your own pages. The problem with this is that, by bookmarking too many of your own pages, you’ll eventually be marked as a spammer by most of the social sites, and could get your account banned.

With Lavalinx you have the option of bookmarking your own pages, or entering into social bookmark trades that would have other users bookmark your pages. For social bookmarking, this gives Lavalinx a huge advantage because now your social accounts will be filled with diverse, interesting pages from other users, and you will be getting other users to discover and vote on your pages.

How many social sites can be involved in a bookmark exchange?

In a social bookmark exchange you are only limited by the number of social sites you and your trade partner have. In a each trade scenario an equal number of social sites are used for fairness in trading. If you have 10 social sites and your trade partner has 10, you can trade with up to 10 social sites in a single trade. If you only had 4 social sites and your trade partner had 10, your trade would be limited to 4 social sites.

Does social bookmarking help my organic rankings?

Yes! Most of the social sites that have been added to Lavalinx give you a hard “dofollow” backlink.

Does Lavalinx automatically add links to social sites?

No. All links posted to social sites are made via a wizard that populates your page information into a submission form. We make it easy as possible, but it is not automated.

What’s the difference between a Public and Private social bookmarking site in Lavalinx?

All social bookmarking sites in Lavalinx marked as “public” are social sites that offer a public and spiderable user account. Because these sites are spiderable Lavalinx can verify that social bookmarks have been made or not. So, in a social bookmark exchange we can verfiy that both parties fulfill their side of the trade.

All social bookmarking sites in Lavalinx marked as “private” are social sites that can be used for your own bookmarking, but cannot be used in a social exchange.

Does Lavalinx keep track of the pages bookmarked?

Lavalinx will keep track of all the pages you bookmark yourself and the bookmarks that are received via trades and exchanges. Lavalinx also keeps track of which social sites your pages are bookmarked on ie. StumbleUpon, Digg, Mixx etc.

How many social bookmarking sites can I submit to?

Right now Lavalinx has 45 social bookmarking sites, but we are adding more weekly. We make every effort to add social sites that will either have social traffic value, or SEO link value.

Tags: social bookmark exchange, social bookmark trading, Social Bookmarking, social bookmarks

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 11:32 am and is filed under SEO, Social Bookmarking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Edit this entry.

I’ve been noticing more and more websites allowing you to auto-bookmark your pages into social bookmarking sites. The SEO world is finally catching onto our idea. Well, none of them introduce “exchange” into their websites. LavaLinx still has the trump on exchange. We need more users in our pool to create social exchanges from.

We will continually improve LavaLinx into the most successful SEO-management tool. Constantly, we research new social sites to include in our growing list of bookmarking sites. Please check the list of sites often, after logging into LavaLinx.com, click on Social Bookmarks, then click Social Bookmark Accounts. Any sites you have signed up for and saved in LavaLinx will show up there. With any new sites you may not have a profile yet for, we will have a sign-up link for that social site.

For whatever reason, we come across social sites that work for some time and then encounter problems within their own site, or change their URL (we have to update LavaLinx to this fact), or that site simply is down one day. All these reasons can create issues for all of us users where we might not be able to complete a social trade right away. The LavaLinx team is out on the front lines, making social trades, so hopefully we will become aware of the issues as soon as they happen. Please be patient with us if you have to wait a bit longer than expected. Or shoot us a quick email letting us know your issue. We are happy to receive feedback from our users. With all of that said, I hope we continue to gain more quality LavaLinx users, just like the ones we already have.

Tags: bookmarking sites, exchange, feedback, lavalinx, seo-management tool, social bookmarking exchange, social sites

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 10:17 am and is filed under Social Bookmarking, Using LavaLinx. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Edit this entry.

Because Lavalinx allows users to exchange bookmarks and bookmark their own pages, we are constantly looking for decent social bookmarking sites. We actually have a list of 900 bookmarking sites, but the list below are the ones we’ve added to Lavalinx so far. We try and track down social bookmarking sites that will give our users the most SEO value and/or social traffic.

We’ve listed all the social sites, that we are currently aware of, that offer hard (dofollow) links. We’ve also included all the social sites that add a nofollow to the link and social sites that just do a redirect on links.

We would like to expand this list, so please send us links to other social sites, particularly sites that provide a hard link.

Hard links DoFollow

http://digg.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.reddit.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.oyax.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.freelink.org (with keywords in title)

http://www.syncone.net (with keywords in title)

http://spotback.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.blipoo.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.tumblr.com (with keywords in title)

http://buddymarks.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.connotea.org (with keywords in title)

http://www.contentpop.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.indianpad.com (with keywords in title)

http://earthfrisk.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.mister-wong.com (with keywords in title, although this site will make all your links “private” if they get the slightest whiff of spam)

http://www.searchles.com (with keywords in title, although this site will make all your links “private” if they get the slightest whiff of spam)

http://www.plime.com (with keywords in title, although this social site is really particular about stories submitted. They must be unusual or weird stories.)

http://multiply.com (hard link on URL only)

http://sphinn.com (hard link on URL only)

http://www.mixx.com (hard link on URL only)

http://www.blogbookmark.com (hard link on URL only)

http://www.quickieclick.com (hard link on images only)

Hard links NoFollow

http://delicious.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.diigo.com (with keywords in title)

http://claimid.com (with keywords in title)

http://faves.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.jumptags.com (with keywords in title)

http://www.clipclip.org (on URL only)

http://www.stumbleupon.com (on images only)

Redirects

http://furl.net (URL text display)

http://www.folkd.com (URL text display)

http://www.propeller.com (URL text display)

http://www.streakr.com (URL text dispay)

http://www.dizzed.com (URL text display)

Tags: dofollow, hard links, link value, nofollow, SEO, Social Bookmarking

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at 5:49 pm and is filed under SEO, Social Bookmarking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

We are extremely excited to introduce the newest functionality from Lavalinx — Social Bookmarking Management and Exchange.

Now you can manage all your social bookmarking sites in one interface including knowing which of your pages you have bookmarked personally as well as getting other social bookmarking users to bookmark your pages.

What’s so great about Social Bookmarking?

1. Instant social traffic. A well written news article or blog post has the potential to drive massive traffic to your site. (I have had over 20,000 searches in a single day from both Digg and StumbleUpon!)
2. Hundreds of one-way links to your website in a short amount of time.  (Many of these are hard links, but even those that are not probably influence the rankings anyway.)
3. Backlinks appear very quickly in Search Engines.  Most links on regular pages often take weeks or months to be indexed.  We have seen a majority of our social backlinks get indexed within a couple days.

Why exchange Social Bookmarks?

1. More links.  If you bookmark a page in 10 of your favorite bookmarking sites, you get 10 links.  If you do 4 exchanges with other users that each have 10 bookmarking sites, you can get 40 links.
2. Different discoverers.  It is much more effective if all of the recommendations for your pages don’t come from you.

Tags: link building, social bookmark trades, Social Bookmarking, social bookmarking exchange