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   9/09/09

   pixelshots

   hmmmmmmmm nobody seems to be having an answer... or is ma question that insignificant..but i really feels this problem

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   9/09/09

   JP2112

   You're saying that a twitter page with a link to YOUR article is ranking higher than the actual article, and that's a problem? The people going to those sites are probably moving on to your actual site. Isn't that (at least partially) the point of using those social networking sites, to drive traffic to your site? Or am I not understanding the problem.

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   9/09/09

   harriselizabeth

   Your blog can rank even if you don't submit it to social bookmarking sites. How? Well, I have seen blogs that were not promoted and yet they ranked in SEs. What's the secret? Provide good contents. That's it.

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      9/09/09

      timethief

      I don't think that's what he's getting at. I think JP has isolated what he means.
      
      Not many of us blogger have blogs that have PageRanks that are higher than the social network sites we promote our posts on do.
      
      Consequently, when we promote a post on BC or on another social network the entry from the social network is found higher in the SERPs than the original post in our blog is found.
      
      That's the trade-off we make when we become members of social networks and promote our posts in them. The reason we do it is because the social network will targeted send traffic to the original post -- more traffic than our original post would have otherwise garnered.
      
      The other benefits we stand to derive from that targeted traffic is a a higher likelihood that readers will become regular readers, and a higher likelihood that some of those targeted readers may choose to backlink to our posts in new posts of their own.
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      9/09/09

      JP2112

      Search engine spiders are constantly following links and discovering new content. So even though you "know" that certain sites weren't promoted, it had to make it into the search engine somehow.
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   9/09/09

   DaneMorgan

   You have to ask yourself what the real goal is. For MOST "search phrases" people end up ranking for, it doesn't really matter who shows up #1 or #100 because No One Is Typing It In To The Search Engine! So for the vast majority of posts you are going to get more traffic from a good bookmark (better if you actually promote the bookmark a little) and they have a higher SERP ranking than you would if you were in the number one spot anyhow.
   
   You have to use the bookmarking wisely though. Articles can rank for things that actually get searched and bring traffic through for you, not su much bookmarks. So if you are using bookmarks, you need to develop a following and best of all if that following is social and others can see that Jim follows you and start following you also (Think SU, Twitter, etc) You don't worry about page rank, SERPS, link juice and all that, you just build a network that allows you to leverage the trust people have for the people who are following you.
   
   Now, on a site like BC, you can start your own forum section, or join one that is closely related, post great posts and actually rank for good search terms and get the follow through traffic and the trust leverage.

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   9/09/09

   pixelshots

   thanx guys.. great help you did.. but i learned from a mistake i made.. I accidently happened to give my blog's name and the profile names of those bookmarking sites the same.. And now rather my blog name comes above for the query 'pixelshots' my bookmarking and other profile names comes up.. hmm i think that was the mistake i made..
   
   really tahnk you all for the reply s
   
   cu around

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   9/09/09

   DougP

   "Will my pages had received the traffic went to twitter and others if i haven't bookmarked them??"
   
   In the SERPs (search engine result pages) for your keywords, are your pages showing one spot below your Twitter page, or twenty spots below your Twitter page?

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