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 over 80 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.

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)

Lavalinx rolled out a major upgrade this week, making it easier than ever to get relevant one way links for your site or blog.

Here are a few of the major upgrades:

1. The whole front-end website was redesigned with a more bold look-and-feel that covered a number of important usability issues. Now whether you represent an SEO agency, or if you just have a personal blog there’s an easy to follow path to signup. In fact, we have signup calls-to-action all over the website, so there shouldn’t be any problems signing up for an account.
2. The core functionality in Lavalinx for advanced link trading and social bookmark management and exchange has been an extremely effective SEO tool for those that got their sites set up properly. However, getting a site setup properly has been a challenge. We spent the last couple months developing a setup wizard that makes it easier than ever to get your site set up for advanced link trading and social bookmark exchange.
3. We’ve added an Automated Trade Suggestion tool that makes finding relevant link partners easier than ever. Why? Because our comprehensive algorithm does it for you. Based on tagged pages we can find the most relevant reciprocal, triangle and parallel link trades. Just keep your pages tagged properly and we’ll keep finding the most relevant trade scenarios.
4. We’ve totally revamped the way social bookmarking accounts are managed making it a simple process to setup and manage your accounts. We’ve also differentiated between social bookmarking sites that can be used in trades, and ones that can be used for private or personal bookmarking.
5. We are now offering a Wordpress plugin that will “talk” to Lavalinx allowing bloggers to more easily manage Receiving and Sending pages and Social bookmark pages.
6. We fixed a number of bugs and made a number of smaller improvements

We are constantly looking at ways to improve and innovate the link building process. We appreciate your feedback.

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.