Is del.icio.us popularity good/bad/indifferent for google

[sdadesky]

I thought for sure this topic would have been exhaustively covered in this forum but a "quick search" attempt yielded nothing on topic.

My first inclination would have been to think that Google and others would treat these social linkages as very weak IBL's, and almost completely discount any linkages made from them.

Then I performed a few keyword searches on del.icio.us new search engine http://del.icio.us/search/?all=hotels and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the results. So I'm almost completely reconsidering the proposition.

Has anybody had any experience with this?

[flood6]

I had a long answer written up about how links get pushed off to minor pages so fast it wouldn't help, but then I just looked at the source.

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive,nofollow,noindex"/>

That means that the SEs will never know your link was ever on that site.

[sdadesky]

I had a long answer written up about how links get pushed off to minor pages so fast it wouldn't help, but then I just looked at the source.

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive,nofollow,noindex"/>

That means that the SEs will never know your link was ever on that site.

That does seem rather definitive... Thanks for the observation.

[flood6]

I was pretty surprised when I saw that, too.

I guess they did that in an attempt to avoid spam. I suppose they don't need the SE traffic, they just run off word-of-mouth.

[sdadesky]

Regardless, it probably makes sense to publish your own sites at least once in these guides. After all, the del.icio.us site is made for recommending sites you like to others, and people use these INSTEAD of a google or yahoo to find sites.

I believe del.icio.us allows you to see all category matches for a specific person (or all users). So if you find someone who generally has your own (naturally exquisite and discriminating) tastes, you will want to see his personal link preferences.

But this no longer belongs in Google forum...