Are links your nemisis rather than a powerful tool?

Chain Link Fence

In last week's post I talk about 4 alternative uses of social media. Point #2 I mentioned in that piece talked about "generating direct backlinks", though I wasn't able to elaborate as much as I would have liked to.

Obviously there are many ways to get links from social media. One such technique is to establish profiles on various social media, and link from your profile on those sites, back to your web site. The key obviously is in knowing which social media sites permit links, and which permit DoFollow links.

To save you some time, here are a list of 22 such sites that we're aware of:
1. Digg
2. Propeller
3. Flickr
4. Kirtsy
5. LinkedIn
6. Current
7. PostonFire
8. BloggingZoom
9. CoRank
10. Technorati
11. MyBlogLog
12. Bumpzee
13. LinkaGoGo
14. Bibsonomy
15. Mister-Wong
16. MyLinkVault
17. ClipClip
18. 9Rules
19. AssociatedContent
20. Blogoria
21. NowPublic
22. MemeStreams

Edit: June 12, 2008:
23. Mixx ... thanks to Matt Mcgee (Small Business SEM)
24. Edopter ... thanks to Andy Murdoch (mmmeeja.com)

I intend to keep updating this list over time so bookmark it now. Also, if you're aware of any such social media site, please leave a comment and let us know. We'll add it to the comprehensive list, and will link back to each person's site doing so.

Enjoy ... and happy link building!

About the Author: Jeff Quipp

I'm a sports fanatic, particularly hockey, but in reality just about any sport. If Toronto had a dog sled team ... I'd probably try to get season's tickets. Guess I'm fortunate ... I'm very happily married, and am a father of three spirited kids (two girls and a boy). They tend to like sports too ... imagine that. I've got an BA in Economics, and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University ... go Hawks go! I'm a tremendous fan of all things science and the internet, and particularly how the internet is changing our behaviours. I'm always looking to connect with more people interested in the same topics as I am, so I'd encourage you to "Friend me" in all the social media below if that's you too!

93 Comments

  1. Deepak Singh March 5, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    Jeff, really interesting article. There are lots of Social Media sites offering Profile Links but you have mentioned some of the best websites. Really Useful.

  2. Haiden March 26, 2012 at 2:52 am

    Hi Jeff, appreciate the help. Do you plan to update the list? As some have mentioned, most of these are “nofollow”…

  3. Jay (Edu link me) May 5, 2012 at 10:54 am

    This isn’t a bad list but I think it’s prudent to note that one shouldn’t create tonnes of profiles with links any more, after penguin it’s likely a tactic that was hit with google trying to lessen the effect of grey hat tactics.

  4. Edgaard February 8, 2013 at 1:12 pm

    Unfortunately most of the are nofollow linking now. But I like Current and ClipClip

  5. Arpan Jain May 7, 2013 at 7:03 pm

    Thanks for the great list Jeff, Looking for more to come in the list.

  6. Peter June 22, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    It’s too late, I think 🙂

    Does anybody know where I can find an updated list of some dofollow websites?

  7. Dewan Sohan June 25, 2013 at 11:29 am

    It’s really tough to make dofollow backlink in High PR profile. This list is awesome. Thanks to writer for sharing a good list for SEO experts.

  8. A. Ishtiaque June 28, 2013 at 9:41 am

    You are right. Social bookmarking websites play a great role. Google loves it too. But a lot of social bookmarking including a lot from this list too, have gone to no-follow which is painful for a webmaster’s point of view. Still, they play vital role on SERP.

  9. Remi@Receita de Brigadeiro August 21, 2013 at 9:39 am

    Great list of useful sites Jeff! I’m using some of them but others I had not even heard about.
    Here is my contribution: Another good one site for dofollow link is Instructables.
    Thanks and Cheers!

  10. Daniel Jacob August 21, 2013 at 12:06 pm

    Thanks Jeff! Some great information, and a great list. I have recently decided to begin taking control of my own seo for my company’s website. I quickly learned that many links are nofollow, and don’t count for as much. GRRR

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