Google, up until recently, has allowed you to create a profile for your Google account that could include a pretty nice amount of dofollow links. So if you are lucky enough to have created your Google profile several months ago, you may stand a chance at adding your website link with good anchor text for a dofollow backlink, as I have with my personal Google profile.

Although new profiles have nofollow links, I created one for oes tsetnoc anyway. I figure even if the links are nofollow, the profile still stands a chance of coming up in searches, so it can’t hurt.

What do you think about Google profiles? Well worth it, or a waste of time now that they are nofollow?

The next step after setting up the blog and a few posts was to start spreading it across the social bookmarking sites and networks.

Social Bookmarking

Many SEO tools, such as SEO for Firefox, SEO Quake, Website Grader and more value whether you have links incoming from networks such as Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon. So I bookmarked the main homepage on Delicious and StumbleUpon, and then the articles on all three.

These networks, although powerful, do not give you dofollow links, with exception to Digg, but only if you get a lot of Diggs and make the first page. So I also bookmarked the homepage on various dofollow bookmarking sites such as MyLinkVault, A1 Webmarks, Spurl and Spotback.

Social bookmarking will be an on-going process, as I will bookmark all of the new articles, and hopefully visitors will as well. Remember in link building, it’s not just getting links to the homepage – deep links to internal pages boost rankings too!

Twitter

I was a little surprised that @oestsetnoc was still available on Twitter, so that was the first thing I snagged. Twitter is a great way to find people who are interested in the same niche.

Once I setup a basic profile and sent out a few tweets, I started looking for other people doing the oes tsetnoc contest and followed them. Then I registered the account on Twellow, a Twitter directory of members that allows you to create a profile, complete with dofollow links back to your main website.

I also added this Twitter account to Tweetlater, which will automatically follow my new followers as well as send them a greeting message to learn more about this site.

Facebook

I couldn’t decide between a Facebook page or group, and so I created both, but I have decided ultimately that the group will be better, as there is more encouragement in groups for discussion. So I hope that all the contest participants will join in the oes tsetnoc Facebook group and share some tips, tricks, questions and advise.

Other Social Networks

There are several dofollow social networks that allow you to link to multiple websites on your profile page, some with anchor text, others without. Since I already have profiles on these sites (LinkedIn, Gather, Vox, etc.), I went ahead and added the main link to this site to those profiles.

Your Social Media Marketing Plan

What is your social media marketing plan? Do you do it for traffic, link building, or both?