I think what you were wanting to say is that by fully engaging in social networking and bookmarking and making the effort to make friends and network then you can build a little more link authority. Yes, I’m sure that can and will get abused, but in theory your point is exactly what those networks want us to do anyway, make more connections! If there is link juice that trickles out of the engagement then all the better! I mean why would del.icio.us not want us to tag articles as detailedly as we have time for? Isn’t that good for the community!?

I thought that you made some great points and presented the whole case from an angle that is commonly ignored or simply not thought about. Great post in my book!

I used MashallK’s profile as an example of Twitter done right… tweeting good stuff and building up a following of people for visibility on the network and in the search engines too.

If you were doing white-hat social media marketing for a cool brand, this is important. If you were interested in making your own awesome personal social media profiles visible - this would work just the same. If you are a spammer, you could probably use any of these techniques to carry out your work.

It’s up to you. But whatever you do, your social media profiles won’t be very visible without enough internal links.

That was awesome.

applause

Brett, the reason people like Marshall have 1,500 followers is because he provides good content and people choose to follow him. You can’t force links on twitter like you can on other sites (e.g. Tribe). While yes, you are getting linkjuice, the quality of the link is poor, and the algorithms know this.

Thanks for your thoughts on this, and I respect your opinions a lot. You would want to rank for “Blockbuster Video” if it was your own brand and someone was pouring all their energy into making a website bashing you and badmouthing you.