SEO with Socialbrowse
Yes! I am back. I was able to get an invitation to the Socialbrowse Beta. Socialbrowse is a new social linking site. I would describe it as a combination between Twitter, Del.icio.us and Digg or Sphinn for us SEO dorks.
Basically it is a Firefox plugin that launches a sidebar and a quick flag link in your main toolbar. Whenever you are on an interesting page you can just flag it, which does a save similar to delicious. It basically drops the link like a Tweet, then Socialbrowse aggregates everything and keeps you posted on what is hot on your sidebar. You are able to filter your sidebar by everyone or just those folks who you are following/following you (follow works similar to Twitter)
Links are categorized into things like Business, Sports, Technology, etc. Hopefully the categories will expand over time or even be customizable by users.
In terms of SEO it looks like everything is behind the wall at this point, but I think that will change when it comes out of private beta. They do give a little flavor with the popular page, and from what I can see they are not using any sort of nofollow tags. Only time will tell if that will change, but for the time being, links have the title tag as anchor text and they are a live link - good for SEO once the site gets a bit of authority.
On a side note, your profile page has a message board on it where you can have short conversations, but you can not put html in any of the text.
From an industry perspective I’d love to get a crew of SEO’s in here to see how useful it can be. I think it has some potential, especially for those of us too lazy to go to the popular page on delicious or sphinn on a regular basis - and the fact that links end up buried in a slew of tweets. I have 9 extra beta invites, and since I have not posted here in 3 months pretty much anyone who reads this can probably get one from me 
Just drop a comment.
