I got this interesting email yesterday from the owner of niche portal builder about social bookmarking and its use in SEO and thought id share it with you guys
Benny
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Hey Benny,
Just wanted to give you a heads up on a new software I'm going to
launch soon that'll get you hundreds of one way backlinks and blast your
page rank through the roof.
I plan to release limited copies of this, so as to avoid abuse of this
powerful tool.
If you are curious as to how the software does this read the rest of
the mail or scroll down to the end to sign up for the launch
notification...
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As SEO professionals we are constantly searching for ways to get our
sites ranked and indexed better.
We all know that backlinks are "life blood" that get a site ranked
higher in the search engines.
Black hat SEO experts in the quest to get one way backlinks till now
relied on various methods like blog comment spam and referer log spam.
The latest technique is using social bookmarking to get one way back
links.
What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is utilizing a web service, where users create a
public repository of bookmarks pertaining to sites that they like.
The concept of social bookmarking dates back to 1996 with the
launch of itList.com, followed by services like Blink and Hotlinks and
many more. But,the popularity of Social Bookmarking increased with the
advent of the most popular bookmarking site till date, del.icio.us.
To the uninitated, these bookmarks may seem like geekspeak, but from an
SEO standpoint these can build you a massive amount of backlinks which
seem to originate from authority sites.
So how does one go about utilizing these social bookmarking services?
You simply sign up for an account and then post your urls. Each post
requires you to enter the url, a title for the anchor text, a short
description and of course the tags under which you want your link
bookmarked.
A tag is a keyword which acts like a subject or category. Each user
"tags" a webpage or image using his own unique tag. An image or webpage
may have multiple tags that identify it. Webpages and images with
identical tags are then linked together and users may use the tag to search
for similar webpages and images.
Most of these services give you a personalized book mark page that has
all your bookmarks displayed, and though when you start out the
pagerank of your personalized page might be zero, it slowly builds up over
time.
An additional important point worth looking at is that each tag page on
the site has a pagerank which gets passed on to your site.
For example the page for the tag "advertising" has a pagerank of 3.
Below is a list of various services that you can utilize to boost your
page rank
1) http://del.icio.us/ : This one of the most popular of all social
bookmarking sites and has a huge pagerank of 8.
2) http://digg.com: Digg is a technology news website where users
submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide
which stories go on the homepage, the users do. Digg is a site with a
pagerank of 7
3) http://www.reddit.com, Page Rank 7
4)http://www.blinklist.com, page rank 6
5) http://www.simpy.com, page rank 6
A great way to get visitors to your sites to bookmark your website is
using a neat service available at
http://ekstreme.com/socializer/
This service provides a small snippet of code that when added to your
site creates a special link on your site. When any visitor clicks on
this link they are provided with a large list of social bookmarking sites
which they can add your site to.
In case your website is a wordpress blog a similar wordpress plugin
called Sociable that can be found at
Thus, using social bookmarking you can improve the ranking of your
website and gain valuable pagerank.
end of theory 
To sign up for the launch notification visit
Cheers
Satya
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