Delicious Social Networks Benefits
Posted on February 9, 2012 by Nick Wilson
Delicious is one of the more professional online bookmarking websites and at the same time, acts as a social media website. This unique combination helps create backlinks as well as massive user interest and quality communication between niche markets. The majority of webmasters, that participate in SMO, are heavily involved in the Delicious network because it has many benefits to a websites Off-site SEO.
How Does Delicious Help?
The primary purpose of Delicious is an online bookmarking feature so you can access your bookmarks in places other than just your desktop or laptop. You are able to access your favorite webpages by simply logging into the Delicious site, you can even do this on your phone or PDA if you want. You can also tag your bookmarks which makes it easier to find your favorite pages based on how they are tagged.
Example: You tag a page about building backlinks, so you give it the tag “SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ” or “social media”, which allows you to click the tag later on to find it.
Can It Help Your Site?
By saving these webpages with tags, Delicious is able to use them and index the submitted webpages. It sounds similar to Google in its decision making, but its not. Google shows websites based on algorithm compliance, where as Delicious shows webpages based on rank and user feedback. The more users that tag and save a page, the more traffic that pages receives because it’s ranked better.
There is some controversy as to how much impact Delicious has on Google and other search engines. Many think they are holding a lot of power due to their direct relevance to search terms where others believe there is no weight behind the name because of spam saving. The only statement a webmaster can makes for sure is that Google is always watching and things never stay the same.


