Are links your nemisis rather than a powerful tool?
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!
Great advise and the list is very handy. Have bookmarked and look forward to visiting you regularly to get updates. Thanks.
Hey Jeff,
Thanks for the mention. In the context of what you are talking about 9rules does allow you to customize your experience through the use of a profile. However, what you are talking about is more of what Chawlk does its sister sites. An account on Chawlk or any of the other sites allows you to use one account/profile across all the sites along with 9rules.
The older version of 9rules has all of this contained on one domain, but we have since made some changes to lessen the confusion and build up individual communities catering to specific genres.
Nice list Jeff, but maintaining an active and productive account in all of these networks would have to be close to impossible. Personally, I’d be a little worried about creating a multitude of inactive accounts across networks. Could it not potentially lead to accusations as a social media spammer if a user noticed?
Thanks for the list but many of them uses nofollow
@ Comparison Shopping … thanks for the comment and bookmark!
@Scrvis … thanks for the clarification!
@ James … creating accounts isn’t a problem. The more accounts, the busier a social media site looks, so the happier they are. Also … best to try out a multitude of sites before committing to using them. How do I know which are worthwhile without testing first.
@ forumistan … correct, they use NoFollow for some elements, but not for profile links.
The question is weather those sites will keep their links dofollow and if this risk is worth the time necessary to build a strong profile.
great job. i will try these site.
Profile links on edopter (http://www.edopter.com) are followed too.
Thanks for the useful tip- it’s a pain to create these profiles…now if only you had suggestions for Managing all 22 profiles once you actually have them…
propeller.com follows too.
there must be 10 on that list I had never heard of. good job. us link builders like those kinds of lists 🙂
Hey, thanks for this list… I swear, there will always be new sites that I have to continue to check out lol… I mean, I haven’t even heard of half of those sites!
Jay
Hi Jeff, thank you for this great list of Web2.0 do follow sites. Until now, I’ve got a very good experience with Digg, Propeller(PR5 profile), Reddit and SlashDot.
There are a couple on that list which the profile links are nofollow.
This may be harder to maintain than you realise. 🙂
Thanks for the list:) Those are good social communities and might be potential niches as well.
Great list. Add Squidoo.com. It’s great for various link juice plus rankes well in the SERPs.
I am right in thinking that no follow will still give you a backlink, just without an PR boost?
There is a wrong TLD for bibsonomy – it is bibsonomy.org and not (bibsonomy.com is a parked domain).
Wow, thank you very much. I have definitely booked this and will pop back to see when you update. This will save us a lot of time. exSEOllent
This can be a touchy area, as you could be considered a social network spammer. As long as you generate good content and then use the social networks to promote it, I believe that’s fine. It’s really a question of what your comfortable witih.