We all pick up a few easy links as we wander around the web. SEOs can’t visit a single website without briefly thinking, “where can I get a link on here?” It’s a mindset that you can’t turn off.
The following list is a few places where different SEOs have nabbed quick links. Some easy links to help you get a new site indexed or to diversify your link portfolio.
This gracefully photoshopped image was borrowed from the fine sausage makers at Johnsonville.
Nick Roshon – NickRoshon.com
- Slideshare.net – upload presentations, add a link to your profile (dofollow)
- Google+ Profile – Links in “Other Profiles” section are dofollowed, so this is a nobrainer – a dofollow link from Google.com!
- Flickr – you can get a link in your profile under the Website field.
Tom Harari – TomHarari.com
- Manta - Allows companies to add their site to their local business directory with a followed link.
- Crunchbase – Allows companies to add their site to this directory from TechCrunch. Links to websites within company profile are followed.
Chris Dyson – TripleSEO
- About.me - Do follow link with your choice of anchor text.
- Squidoo – Do Follow and choice of anchor text in the Lensmaster profile as well as in any Squidoo Lens you create.
Jon Cooper – Point Blank SEO
- Last.fm – Sign up, add a link in your profile.
- AboutUs.org – Write a bio for your client’s site, and make it detailed. Once it is, email dofollow@aboutus.org to make the links followed. Add as many as you’d like on the page.
- TED.com – Sign up, add a link in your profile.
- My.Opera.com – Sign up, add a link in your profile.
Anthony D. Nelson (me) – Northside SEO
- Ebay – Go to the Community section and edit your profile in HTML. Add in a few anchor text links.
- Klout – Put your full URL in your Twitter bio then sign up for an account at Klout. Have Klout use your Twitter bio.
All of the sites listed here are solid domains. They aren’t going to give you a major boost, but they also won’t send poor quality signals to the search engines.
Have you gotten links from any of these sites before? Do you have a favorite easy link that you’d like to add? Drop a comment if you have time.
Update: Sites added by commenters or late email additions
Daniel Callis – Brit-Net Internet Marketing
- Stickam - Followed RSS feed links on profile!
Tony Stocco – TonyStocco.com
Julian Sutter – SEOrigami
- istockphoto.com – Allows users to post blogs or updates which don’t filter links. A couple tweets and those pages are indexed. These post DO show up on site, so spam will get reported.
Slavik Volinsky – Volisnky Consulting
- Brands of the World – Upload your company’s vector logo and get a link to your site.
Michael J. Kovis – MichaelKovis.com
- LookupPage - Sign up and choose “I’d like a business page.” Create profile. Followed link to your business or organizations website.
- SmartViper - Simply enter your website URL and click the “Check Website” button (you may have to fill out a Captcha form). Site will be analyzed. Once done you have a unique URL along with a “followed” link.
- WooRank - Type in your URL and click the “Website Review” button. Viola! Same as above.
- Yudu Free - Register an account. When filling in the profile you can enter in your business or organizations URL along with a blog URL, if that site has one.
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http://www.stickam.com Followed RSS feed links on profile!
Thanks for your contribution. I added you to the post with a link.
Add Blip.fm to the list.
Thanks Tony! It’s nice to see another Midwest internet marketer stop by. I added your suggestion to the post with a link.
istock.com allows users to post blogs or updates which don’t filter links. A couple tweets and those pages are indexed.
These post DO show up on site, so spam will get reported.
Thanks for stopping by Julian. As with any of these sites it is recommended not to spam them in any way.
Participating on these sites helps your page stay indexed and builds up its PA by creating internal links pointing at your profile page. As you mentioned, tweeting the page helps indexation as well.
I’ve added your suggestion and gave you a link above.
One more great link is from http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/upload , but you need to upload company’s vector logo. For example:
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/logo/amazon
Thanks Slavik. I added Brands of the World to the list.
SEOmoz gives you a dofollow in your profile after you earn 200 mozpoints for free.
Great post, although I’m pretty sure flickr links are no followed!
MyBigAmbitions.com allows a dofollow link from your public profile: http://www.mybigambitions.com/
If I get spammed there will be blood. It’s a piece of piss getting a comment allowed on the blog, there’s one rule. Don’t say anything retarded.
Removed. Chris is always recommending your site to the spammers.
Haha, fair enough. I’ll have a word with him.
What I’m really interested in knowing is where a guy could get some free Johnsonvilles…
Not sure if this counts, but here goes: do a search for ["keyword" intitle:"write for us"]. Depending on the industry, you’ll find a lot of WordPress CMS based blogs. Most of them you can just submit your content and they will do a quick review. Usually the ones with DA 35-55 check less and upload quick.
Not exactly outreach free, but certainly less outreach required.
Awesome list, very valuable, thanks!
P.S arent links on slideshare.net nofollow? I couldnt see any dofollow ones on the profiles I checked…
I think that the point have always been the same in link building – diversify links as much as possible.
All these suggestions are crap. Waste of time posting on all them! How bout you all stop stuffing about and do some proper link building for a change!
Thanks for the information. Very new to the SEO world and this was very helpful.
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Nice Job! There were a few gold nuggets in here I am now definitely going to use for my clients. BAM love SEO
Thanks for those tips – I’ll certainly give them a try as I wasn’t aware of some of those urls!
Very useful urls. I got here looking for a completely different kind of stuff (regarding twitter bio) but this links got my attention right away. Of course I already knew most of them, but some are new to me.
Thanks a lot.
Opera profile is nofollow
In addition to Opera, Slideshare & WooRank are nofollow.
awesome ways of getting good links
not sure if songza.com is a do-follow link, if it is, it will only benefit you, considering that it is a PR 8 site….make a playlist according to the theme/mood of your blog or industry….