Technitard

UPDATE: As of October 2011 there is a new Delicious in town. The new version does not appear to have an RSS Feed, but more information on its SEO potential to come. Check back, or subscribe to our feed…

Delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us) is a social bookmarking site that was one of the first of its kind. It allows  you to save web links, along with tags, a title and description, to your personal bookmarks page. This bookmarks page is public.

The value of social bookmarking sites for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is that you can place links to your own websites on  your bookmark page, and they will show up as backlinks to the search engines, giving you the all-important link authority that search engines use to rank their results.

The problem with this scenario is that for links to be counted as backlinks, the page they appear on needs to be indexed by the search engine in question. And as of this writing, I see NO delicious.com user bookmark pages appearing in the Google index. Nor do I see any of the tag pages, which contain lists of links based on bookmark tags, in the Google index.

What I do see is that 123 bookmarks have been created in the last minute. I just hope it’s not for SEO link-building, because it’s not going to work!

I just purchased a “books on CD” offering from Amazon.com that was available for download from Audible.com, which is an Amazon company. Big mistake, unless you like wasting time and money, and don’t need to actually hear the audio you purchased. If you are a glutton for punishment however, by all means purchase Audible audio from Amazon. Follow these 7 easy steps:

Step One: Pay the Money

Step Two: Realize you need to download and install the Audible Manager audio player in order to listen to your “mp3″

Step Three: Audible Player crashes when you try to install it.

Step Four: Once you get it installed and try to download your audio, your “download link” downloads a file called “admhelper” which is of no help in doing anything whatsoever, as far as I can tell.

Step Five: Chat with support who tells you that it looks like the software is not installed correctly (duh) and furthermore you don’t have an account (which I am logged into). Can they help you set one up?

Step Six: Uninstall Audible Manager, at which point the uninstaller crashes.

Step Seven: Call 1-888-283-5051 and ask for your money back. This is one process that have down pat. Obviously I’m not the first.