I like to know if anyone else is interested in adding 10 of my websites to your delicious favorites... of course in exchange I would add your 10 websites to my favorites.

I frequently search delicious for websites because I know it has that "human decision" element to it; of course we are early adopters.

I can see other search engines using delicious data to influence their search engine results like they currently use the open directory data.

Delicious as a bookmark import feature that would make this process move quickly.

Please reply if you are interested.

And this helps our visitors how exactly?

In two ways:

First way: people do search their delicious favorites to find other websites that other delicious users find worthy of bookmarking.

Second way: search engine's may already or could increase the quality of their search results by taking into consideration how many people had added a particular website to their delicious favorites. So a website with more delicious votes would rank better than another website if all other things were equal.

Honestly, I would think this kind of organized bookmarking would be against their terms of service, but it does not appear to be. hmmmm.... So explain this to me again?

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Reciprocal bookmarking... :P

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That was kind of what I was thinking - hence why I revisited the TOS - but honestly, I could not find anything in there about it - any thoughts CK?

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Reciprocal bookmarking we could call it.

I'm not sure what the easiest way would be to move our bookmarks back and forth amongst each other.

Delicious has a feature where you can recommend links to other users in your network; you could create your delicious user and then we could recommend each other's bookmarks.

It works both ways; if I add a new bookmark to my favorites I have the option to recommend the bookmark to you. If this is the case then you can click on the "links for you" button to view the links that have been recommended to you. You then have the option to bookmark them your self.

Another way is to view the other guy's bookmarks and add the ones you want to your favorites.

Once we were in each other's networks things would be easy.

If anyone would like to get started please reply with your delicious username so I can add you to my network.

This won't be a big thing right away; however I can see at building up steam over the course of a year.

Yeah but honestly, isn't this delicious spam? (I have never eaten spam, is it any good?) - I think the question users need to ask themselves is not whether we "can" do this, it is whether we "should" - I don't perceive any major SEO benefit from it, but for those who consider delicious a resource and use it regularly, I don't think this represents the true intent or use of delicious. Unless you can convince me in some way that this is not just a link scheme, I would have to recommend to the members that they not take you up on your offer.

Sorry for playing devils advocate here - but I hope you understand why it is important.

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This actually isn't anything new. I know people who have been helping one another boost their bookmarks on a wide variety of social bookmarking sites ever since they started up.

The idea is pretty easy. When people search for tags and whatnot and see a site with a ton of bookmarks from different people with different IPs, they'll think it must be a good site, so they will check it out.

People have also tried to develop scripts for this, but since all the bookmarks come from the same IP, people seem to catch on pretty quickly which will usually result to the site being delisted.

Hence reciprocal bookmarking. I've never seen this in any social bookmarking ToS, and even if it was, that wouldn't stop people from doing it.

my delicious handle is brilliantpebbles

Add me to your network and send me the sites you want bookmarked by clicking on the "for:brilliantpebbles" link. I will need to approve you before you into my network before you can recommend links to me.