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!
Digg is a nofollow site
I only believe in digg ,mrwong and reddit
…no more ..:)
Thanks for the list. I though digg and others were nofollow. I don’t know if the changed it. Thanks anyway
This is a good list but there are many more social sites that are “dofollow”.
I have seen a list of 100 such sites earlier, not sure where. But it is just a good recall too of great dofollow sites. Thanks for it.
Thanks for the info! Learned a lot form it!
Thanks for the great list. Have been trying a few different SEO techniques and will now add social bookmarking to my list of things to look into further.
Looks like http:memestreams.net is nofollow on profile pages.
Mixx is nofollow also
Thanks Jeff, for the list. I found Kristy, Now Public and Mylinkvault very interesting. I will be signing up on every one of them. Thanks for the good work.
Some of the sites listed are helpful in terms of online reputation management. Simply register your targeted brand name or name as your profile name and you are ready to manage your own reputation.
Anna Nguyen
Not sure if you’re still updating this list or not but some of these sites seem to have gone either the nofollow route, most notably Flickr, or started passing the outbound links through a redirect, like Propeller and LinkedIn have done.
I’d be interested in seeing an up-to-date version of this list.
Thanks, Simply register your targeted brand name or name as your profile name and you are ready to manage your own reputation.
Hey, thanks for this list.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.
Should I not bother at all getting backlinks if I know they are no follow? 🙂
Thanks for this list – very, very helpful! I appreciate your hard work compiling it!
Thanks for the list. This will save my time i am working on Social Media. Can you post Do follow book marking sites List.
Thanks again,.
Nice list. Would like to see date list was created…when u get to a page age is important in a fast moving biz. Also 6 mth update please. Hey, that guy who owned one of the sites did not post back to remove the site. Must have wanted the traffic!!
Great post, Jeff! Thanks for the social media sites. Quite a few I haven’t looked at. It can also be useful to search for good article directories that allow dofollow profile links.
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Impressive. Thanks for compiling this for us Jeff. I used some of the links and there links that are new to me. So I’ll sure check each one of them. Page bookmarked. 😉
Great list thanks, few of these have switched to no-follow but still a very nice list