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!
Your list is amazing. You saved me so much time. Great job.
I will start on monday right away…have a nice weekend 🙂
It’s getting harder and harder to get a good social network with dofollows. Precious list. Really nice time saver. God bless.
Thanks for the nice list!
but I`m afraid many of these sites do not use dofollow anymore. since the list is 2 years old..
Thanks for the list! It’s a difficult task because many sites move from DoFollow to NoFollow as they become more popular, and it’s hard to say how valuable some of the links from less popular sites are.
One place I would recommend is AboutUs.org, which selectively DoFollows link on website profiles — details at AboutUs.org/DoFollow.
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Though this is really a very old post, things have been changed so much now. Most of them no longer allow dofollow links.
A lot of the sites above are now nofollow, maybe a good idea to revise and do an updated post with sites. Out with the the old, in with the new: Sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, and Ezines still offer do follow, but be sure to provide unique worthy content!
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Yeah, it looks like this list is very outdated. 95% of the sites on the list either don’t let you even have a link or if they do it’s completely no follow.
Nice list, though not up-to-date.
Perhaps you can update it?
Hi there! I am currently reading the book “The Art of SEO” and this blog was mentioned, on p305. (Congratulations!)
Anyway, I thought you might like to consider keeping this post up-to-date due to the fact it’s being widely promoted. That, and the fact I’m trying to find some good “nofollow” links…
I agree with the previous comment. This list is pretty old. Propeller seems to be no more. You can add Plaxo.I will add some more as I come accross them.
Is Reddit a dofollow site? Quite an old looking list I don’t recognize most of those sites.
Thanks for the heads-up re. Reddit. We’re looking into publishing an update to the list.
To bad i diddnt find this list aerlier, does anybody know where i can find an uo to date list ?
Very cool, i’m going to create a profile on all of these and do an analysis to see how much it actually helps though.
Thanks for the list.
2 things: Propeller no longer exists (AOL ate it) and Flickr links are now nofollow.
Shame that Flickr links are now nofollow as I had a nice photo album on there to my personal site. Facebook is on and off on different sections of its site for nofollow depending on where you post.
More and more social sites stop the dofollow. So did LinkedIn unfortunately. But I think slideshare still does.
Anyone of you can tell me what the problem is with articlebase as most of the articles we post there come as no follow, would it be a problem with our account or is it just articlebase’s policy?
We also publish in ezine and others and have no problems at all.
Do Google and Bing frown on sharing your own links on all these social sites?
I mean, let’s say I create a Digg profile, and the only think I ever put in my Digg profile are links to my own site. Won’t Google pick up on this, and discredit the links (and maybe my site as well)?
How about creating a blog on WordPress.com and Blogspot.com and then creating dofollow links on those? Does this work, or is that considered spamming your links?
Considering many of these sites have become no-follow, is it really worth the time to post in these sites, if you ultimate intention is to get a Do-Follow link?
Do no-follow links count anyway? Many people say no, other say yes. Confusing!