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This is a link building goldmine that you all should spend at least 30 minutes using because it is an incredibly simple, long term link building site that will help build your pagerank and increase your search engine traffic for very little effort.
Today’s link building tip is a site called Help. The site is much like Yahoo Answers as well as my previously mentioned posts about Unasked and Yedda. The difference is that HELP.com is a lot bigger and has a ton of members that you can build links from. Unlike the other smaller question and answer sites, HELP.com is gigantic and is now owned by CNET. By being owned by a multi-billion dollar company, the first thought that crosses my mind is that there is no webmaster who will manage the sites on a day to day basis, so my links will stay there forever.
A few months ago when I was testing out the site (to see if it was worthy of a post on my blog), I did one example post. Just checking back on it now, the link is still there and the page even has a pagerank of 1. This link took about 15 seconds worth of my time, so that is why I am recommending you spend a few minutes building links with HELP.com today so that you can get the benefit of the pagerank boost for the minimum amount of work involved.
HELP.com is an authority website with a strong pagerank 6/10, and it looks like that number isn’t going down anytime soon. Go to HELP.com, make an account, find a few random questions, answer them, and find a way to include your link. (Update: Upon testing, you cannot insert HTML into comments, so you cannot get any anchor text links. However, if you are the one asking the question you can include as many dofollow anchor text links as you want. So start asking simple questions! ) — You will thank me later when the next Google toolbar pagerank update happens. 
PS: If you are having trouble thinking of a way to get a legit link, heres a little 5 second inspiration.
This is part 33 of my series called the link building cookbook that aims to be the ultimate untapped link building resource on the web.
Hey Collin.
Cool tip mate.
I like how you always show an example of your link building. But i’m starting to think that it’s vital. Because before this post i don’t think that specific help page(http://help.com/post/164366-what-do-you-think-of-my-blog) was indexed by google, but once you posted a link to it on this blog google spidered it thus the link is now worth something.
What are your thoughts on this? If we post on such sites such as help, unasked and yedda is it it important that we build a backlink or two until the page is indexed?
Cheers
In theory that would make sense, but actually that isn’t the link I was referring to.
The link that was indexed, cached, and given a pagerank already was:
http://help.com/post/106182-ci.....ore-we-get
I had never even mentioned it in this blog post until this comment. The other one was just a tip to help the link building newbies get a quick start, although linking to it sure does get it spidered quickly, so it is a win win for me.
Forgot to mention this in the last comment… but what I am trying to say is that you do not need backlinks to your posts for them to get pagerank, as my example comment above has a PR1 and has been indexed for over a month, and it has zero links to it.
I’m trying to leave links there but it isn’t taking html.
I put a link like this: http://www.alcholtreatmentclinics.com
and like this:
Alcohol Treatment and both came out as just text.
Am I doing it wrong? “That’s what she said”
Hi Collin
It seems that help.com is stripping the html code from posts.
In the preview it looks fine but when submitting the reply it strips the “<” from the html tags.
Here is an example http://help.com/post/164462-my.....ke-him-bio
Am I doing something wrong or that they changed their policy?
Thanks
Their comments don’t allow html anymore, but if you post a question you can insert HTML. See my example in the post.
Hi I having trouble making any use out of these question websites.
Could you give me a example of a page where you have managed to get a link indexed. I tired out the pervious site that you mentioned. But it seems like a hell of a lot of work for what don’t seem to be very high quality links.
Thanks
Thanks for the review of HELP. I hadn’t heard of this website before, and I agree with you that it could be a very rewarding experience. Great review
Hey collin. You had given a nice post regarding the help.com. I didn’t listen like this website before. I don’t think that this type of website would exist until watching your blog. Thanks for giving us the information.
I tried. Sigh… it doesn’t seem to work anymore.
I will go over an try another way of tagging.
Yeah! it does work: http://help.com/post/164366-wh.....ly-3785156
You da man,, keep these coming.. I love this blog !
hi thanks for your information
i use stumble as well it’s good to boost traffics
but the traffics not for long terms
as i know when stumble a site
the description is important
but can you change the anchor text
Not on the comments, but yes if you are the one asking the question.
Another Great Tip….thanks Collin
Yup I agree! I will have to try this link building method out.
another great tip from the Link Building master! (Bows reverently)
It seems that you can actually put links in comments. Just type in http://yourwebsite.com and it pops up as a link.
Max’s tip works .. dont use html .. just put url .. u will loose anchor text but u gain a link
Hi Collin,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience! I’m always looking for ways to improve myself and I’m glad to have found your blog. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thanks Colin. Will check it out. Keep these nuggets coming…..
This is a really cool site… also great to find answers to actual problems LOL
Great tip..but I think they removed the ability to add links when asking a question. It didn’t work for me.
Just to let you all know, I just added one post and the link IS working, DOFOLLOW, even just the link, with no html anchor text.
Good enough!
Gabriel
great tip!
i always look for nofollow tags.. if i don’t see no follow tags and high PR page that is a definite site to post on!