Why bother with Delicious when the bookmarks are no-follow?
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i'm wondering why people suggest Delicious as a social bookmarking service for SEO when from what I can see all the urls are set to no-follow?
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thanks for answering this - makes sense.
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You do not want to build a link profile with 100% do-follow links you can also include some no-follow to make the profile look natural.
Also Delicious has a great amount of traffic.
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Search engines are increasingly using signals from social networks to determine the trustworthiness and value of webpages. If people are bookmarking your pages or sharing on other networks, this suggests that you have a quality site and are less likely to be a spammer.
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If your links are growing "NATURALLY" there is no way all of them could be do-follow. There should be a proportion of no-follow with do-follow.
Also, no-follow links can be very useful when it comes to traffic. Most websites like youtube delicious etc. have no-follow but they can bring some good targeted traffic to your website.
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