Social Bookmarking Sites Which Don’t Use NoFollow
November 16, 2007 | Written by annliu | Filed Under SMO, eBay and Google News
In his Social Bookmarks Article, Loren Baker wrote:
Social bookmarking allows web users to search, share, organize, and store the bookmarks of different web pages. Most of the services that provide social bookmarking encourage you to organize bookmarks with informal tags …
The tagging and descriptions used in bookmarking is referred to as external meta data and can have huge benefits in SEO, because the information used in the tagging is not controlled by the site owners, but by the public. In essence, the information in external meta tags should be much more valuable than external inbound link anchor text or directory co citation.
NoFollow is a non-standard HTML attribute value which is used to police the outbound link value of user generated content, especially blog commenting. NoFollow is used to communicate with search engines to tell them that a link should not be used to pass on link juice, or “Page Rank”.
To help you developing better SEO strategies, he listed down those social bookmarking sites that do not use nofollow in their HTML tags, which is important for you to understand.
So go here and find out which social bookmarking sites in his list.
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Here is another one which is not on the list and it does not use nofollow :
http://en.coolest.ws