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eHow.com is another website that you can build a dofollow link from your profile. eHow is a website that you can write “how to” guides for anything, but unfortunately for them, they nofollow all the links inside articles. Pretty weird, they allow dofollow links for their profiles where the real spam would happen anyway…
At any rate, go sign up for a free profile and in the “more about me” area on your profile, you can use HTML that will show up on your profile page.
Just like any other newly created profile link, I highly recommend that you bulk up the power of your link by submitting your profile page to socialmarker. I will be posting plenty more social websites with strong authority that you can utilize for your link building campaigns in the near future, so stay tuned.
Thanks again…you da man!
Makin a few friends and taking part in the site a bit will help the profile stick as well. Great tip Collin…you’ve been busy this week :p
While social bookmarking & social media sites such as this does provide an opportunity for links, I do question the value of these links when it comes to longterm benefits obtained for any sustained traffic. Sure, you can gain a quick “juicing” of your page ranking in Google, but that’s like chasing your tail.
Any viable link building campaign should involve finding strong links, one-way links at that, from relevant sites. This will not only improve rankings, but will increase the amount of traffic to a site that has a chance of converting! Many of these link building strategies will do nothing more than harm your SEO than help it.
Granted, I have used some of these methods that you talk about at one point, but now have focused my methods on building quality, one-way links, with relevant anchor text from relevant sites, and have seen major increases in traffic, and conversion!
Hi Barry
I guess it breaks down into two activities - marketing and branding. I would see linkbuilding as marketing, you may get some traffic but it’s more about raising your profile, and the activities you describe as having long-term strategic “brand” benefits.
Cheers
Orrdee
There’s nothing to lose here though I feel. It won’t take up too much time, you get to choose your anchor text, and you don’t have to worry about your link disappearing. And you’re right, pointing links at your profile page helps to bolster the link strength as well.
It’s still not relevant traffic. While it only takes a few minutes to do this, it will provide a link, but what’s the value?
I spent 30 minutes today and obtained 10 links from relevant domains with an anchor text of my chosing. How did I accomplish this? Easy, I just emailed the sites and asked for it.
Sent 15 emails, 1 at a time, and got 10 links and those links are generating traffic for me already, about 50 visitors, and I have about 10 conversions so far, including a pile of subscribers to my newsletter.
I would take those links any day over these.
@Barry and other skeptics (above):
Today I was googling the term “Sacramento weddings”, and was scouring the back pages looking for potential link sites and found an article about Wedding Reception places in Sacramento, written by another e-how member.
Now I thought— if I could write an “optimized” article, that used my key words (Sacramento Weddings) in the text, maybe that article (with link) would score higher in Google than the other member’s article (which has shorter text and lacks key word depth).
I’ll report back again (in another comment) when I see the results of the google SERP for this page in a couple of weeks.
[Another site that I found (and it indexes in Google very fast) is "Galaxy" -- its more of a classified ads site but you make a profile page, looks like another Cookbook item???]
e-how article that I wrote TODAY:
http://www.ehow.com/how_471265.....to-ca.html
It is highly speculated that in the future Google will devalue forum, blog, and social networking links. Google is always looking for ways to thwart those that try to exploit their algorithm.
Great trick
I am new to link building but am curious how you can easy tell which links are dofollow and which ones are not. In your eHow example - how could I tell that my profile think is dofollow but the article links are not?
Thanks in advance!
i must say that this is the greatest link building promotions that can give more links and traffic for the site
I thought ehow is a no-follow.
not to worry, you would go to
http://www.dapper.net and create a free rss feed and then go to socialmarker.com
You can definately rank profile pages, but it may take some link building apart from bookmarking.
ya. very interesting method in link building.
Thanks a lot for sharing.
some of you are trying to rank your profile? forget that! just use the profile to build backlinks for pages you want on page one of google… the reason you social bookmark your ehow profile is to pass on some link juice which ends on you “PRIMARY” page/s