Google Indexing via Bookmarking Sites

[praveensewak]

Hi. I have been playing around with some very basic SEO on my site for couple of weeks now. It seems that getting your site on online bookmarking sites, especially digg, can get you indexed in Google immediately. Usually, it takes about 1-2 weeks for Google to pick up new URLs.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is this a new trend now? I remember the same used to happen when you created a blog on blogger, or such... But not anymore... Does Google know about this (would explain why they bought/buying? digg).

[Receptional Andy]

Hi praveensewak, and welcome to WebmasterWorld :)

I can't say that I've monitored indexing of content that's linked solely from a social networking site, so I'm afraid I can't comment specifically.

My expectation would be that you'd see content picked up via this type of mechanism (as via RSS and similar) appear in results for a short period, and then drop out again before settling in the index.

[chronic]

Getting on digg, stumblupon, youtube, deli.c.i.ous. (#@#$# punctuation?), etc has been known to drive real users to your site, and google has been using this as a 'sign of quality' for some time. Enough social traffic, and it's a ticket out of the authority sandbox.

It can also be faked.

[Jon_King]

>It can also be faked.

Rather easiliy faked. It seems to me that would mean a low ranking weight.

[ecmedia]

But aren't all these links nofollow? Technically G should not follow these links.

What may happen though is that becoming popular on Digg may get you new links and then if they are dofollow G may index you.