Nice. Thanks Anthony, that'll be my day's reading

Surely you need to promote the post though otherwise no one is ever going to find it. What's the best way for doing that?

Paid stumbles, tweets?

ok, granted but how would you drive people to whatever the interesting story is that we post via. social?

I suppose, putting grey hat areas side, I'm looking for the quickest way to boost 'social' visibility.

Thanks Anthony - Not what I was hoping for, but guess white hat is the only way!

Ryan,

Yes, I totally agree with what you're saying. It's a little harder in my industry as it's a loan site and to be honest it's fairly hard to create content for people to get too excited about, especially given the ongoing economic impact and stricter eligibility on financial products.

Also, if you've got any tips to generate twitter/social followers of a site it would be greatly received.

Ideally I wouldn't talk about grey/black hat areas at all and I didn't expect to get responses promoting social bookmarking services - guess I was hoping for a 'quick win'

What does the forum think the best strategy for social bookmarking is?

Obviously white hat, user generated would be preferable but looking slightly darker; you can obviously get services that create social bookmarks over a period of several weeks, but are they worth the investment?

Google uses WHOIS to determine the age of the domain under a current ownership, however if the WHOIS data changes and at the same time the content of the site changes dramatically, Google may reset the domain age of the site in their opinion.

I'm not sure but I would imagine Google have their own records on domain age outside of WHOIS registration.