Are Your Social Sites Getting You SEO Benefit?

In studying on how to build a web site to attract prospects, I became aware of the importance of interacting on other social sites that were Do Follow. But I didn't know what Do Follow meant. So I did a little research.

Do Follow means that the search engine web crawlers follow the material on that web page. The default setting for a web page is Do Follow or on. One might ask, “Why would a web page want a setting of off?” And really the answer is simply. Many web pages are “in house” sources of information for various corporations. Others are government sites. In these and others cases, the owners do not want to open their sites to the public. So they set their web pages as No Follow.

Do Follow Social Bookmarking

SocialMarker.com has a nice list of social bookmarking sites which includes many that are not do follow for the simple fact that some of the most useful social bookmarking sites are not do follow. However, here is a larger list of do follow social bookmarking sites.

· a1-webmarks

· Backflip

· Bibsonomy

· Blinkbits

· Blinklist

· Blogger

· Blogmarks

· Blogmemes

· Blue Dot

· Bmaccess

· Bookmarktracker

· Bringr

· Buddymarks

· Business-planet

· Connectedy

· Connotea

· Corank

· de.lirio.us

· Digg

· Diigo.com

· DZone

· Excites

· Folkd

· Fritterware

· Furl

· Getigadget

· Google Bookmarks

· Healthranker

· Hugg

· Indianpad

· Jumptags

· Linkagogo

· Linkatopia

· Linkroll

· Looklater

· ma.gnolia

· Markaboo

· Marktd

· Millionsofgames

· Mr Wong

· Mixx

· Myjeeves

· Mylinkvault.com

· Myvmarks

· Oyax.com

· Pixelmo

· Plugim

· Postonfire

· Propeller

· Rawsugar

· Reddit

· Relevantlogs

· Searchallinone

· Searchles

· Shadows

· Shoutwire

· Slashdot

· Socialogs

· Spurl

· Squidoo

· Tumblr

· Unalog

· Upchukr

· Wink

· Wirefan

· Xilinus

Do Follow Blogs

The thing about do follow blogs is that the comments on these blogs are almost always blocked as no follow. The purpose is simply to eliminate the spam that attempts to use blogging sites to promote porn, gambling and other undesirable agendas. So a do follow blog is at the same time generally a no follow on blogging comments. However, there are a variety of blog sites that have disabled the no follow line on the comments section. But keep this in mind, if you are “commenting” on a do follow blog with links back to your sites, you might want to make sure the “comment” section is not set to no follow.

Do Follow Forums

Like blogs, forums can be a great source of links back to your sites. Not only are there many do follow forums, but many allow signature links, which means that you can get several links for every post you make.

On do follow forums, every post will link back to your profile where you can usually link back to your home page as well.

But don’t ever spam these forums. By contributing to them, you can build up a lot more back links.

· 6pins.com/blog/

· acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/

· atdinner.com/excellent-forums/

· bzimage.org/

· forum.hittail.com/phpbb2/index.php

· forum.hot4s.com.au/

· forum.vbulletinsetup.com

· forums.amd.com/forum/categori…=11&entercat=y

· forums.cnet.com/

· forums.comicbookresources.com/

· forums.digitalpoint.com

· forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/def…ID=20&SiteID=1

· forums.mysql.com/

· forums.onlinebookclub.org/

· forums.oracle.com/forums/cate…?categoryID=84

· forums.seroundtable.com/

· forums.ukwebmasterworld.com/

· forums.webcosmo.com

· iq69.com/forums/

· paymentprocessing.cc/

· siteownersforums.com/index.php

· softwarecommunity.intel.com/i…/en-us/Forums/

· 9mb.com

· ableton.com/forum/

· acorndomains.co.uk/

· affiliateseeking.com/forums

· bodybuildingweb.net/forum/

· businesss-forum.com

· clicks.ws/

· davidcastle.org/BB/

· dnforum.com/

· earnersforum.com/forumsindex.php

· experienceadvertising.com/forum/

· irishwebmasterforum.com

· musclesweb.net/forum/

· pakadtrader.com/forum/index.php

· sitepoint.com/forums/

· smallbusinessforums.org/

· startups.co.uk/

· submitexpress.com/bbs/

· v7n.com/forums/

· wareswapper.com/

· warriorforum.com/forum/

· warriorforum.com/forum/default.asp

· webicy.com/

· webmaster-forums.net/

· webmaster-talk.com/

· computerbb.org/

· geekpoint.net

Do Follow Video Sharing

I was able to locate this list of do follow video sharing sites.

• Blip.tv
• VideoJug
• VideoBomb
• Viddler
• WonderHowTo
• Ovi.com
• Graspr
• ConstantComedy
• ImBroadCast
• Daily Motion
• JustVideo.ca
• Viewdo.com

Interestingly I did not find YouTube on the do follow list. Would you have any feedback on this?

I hope this is helpful; however you may have additional information of value on this topic. Please provide it in the comments section.