Ladies and Gents, boys and girls, you are in for a treat. I am feeling particularly magnanimous this holiday season and figure this year I’m going to dish out some incredible ways to build backlinks.

As you all know, Search Engine Optimization, especially when it come to ranking high in the “big 3” – yahoo, msn (bing), and google, primarily revolves around the quality and quantity of links pointing to your site.  Here are a couple of great ways to build tons and tons of backlinks like a professional, without downloading any programs or spending a huge amount of time emailing webmasters, begging for links.

First things first, the easiest way to get a link to your site is to post a comment on a blog with your link in the comment, or your url provided so that your “name” is the anchor text for your link.  E.g. – “Hey, nice article on puppies.  I have a black lab.”  Enter your name, email, and website and presto! One backlink down.

The only problem with this is that some of these links don’t count.  Wait Justin, what do you mean some of these links don’t count?

Well, google devised this way of evening the playing field so that happy SEO nerds like me couldn’t merely comment a thousand blogs and then jump to the top for a given keyword.  This is done through inserting rel=“no follow” into the <a> tag (link code), and is automatically done by default by most blogging platforms: wordpress, blogger, typepad, etc.

Now a number of webmasters do not agree with this, and they have enabled “dofollow”, meaning they will give your link credit if they decide to approve your comment.

So, we don’t want to waste our time commenting blogs that don’t “dofollow”.  Firefox has a wonderful add-on that will show you which links are dofollow and which are nofollow: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687.  Bon appétit!

Wait, Justin, knowing whether I’m going to get a good link for commenting a certain blog is awesome, but how do I find these blogs?

First things first, we want a high PR for our website, correct?  So lets ask ourselves, what kind of websites almost always have high pagerank that we can post a comments on?  Why .edu and .gov sites of course!

Enter this into google, of course replacing the word “keyword” with the phrase that you want to rank highly for:

site:.edu inurl:blog “keyword”
site:.gov inurl:blog “keyword”

As you visit each site, make sure your dofollow plugin is enabled.  When you find a good dofollow .edu or .gov site, note the site, and leave a good, relevant comment – DO NOT SPAM!!! – and every couple of days stop back by and comment another article.

You can do the same search for all other site types by merely searching google for:

inurl:blog “keyword”

Another great place to get backlinks quickly is DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites.  Here’s a list (in order of pagerank with alexa traffic rank).  Create an account, register or suggest your site, and watch the traffic start rolling in!

Pagerank 9

  • technorati.com 694
  • slashdot.org 1,605

Pagerank 8

  • reddit.com 574
  • mixx.com 854
  • propeller.com 2,027

Pagerank  7

  • metafilter.com 2,451
  • wikio.com 3,331
  • care2.com 3,190
  • folkd.com 4,098
  • connotea.org 8,197

Pagerank 6

  • dzone.com 3,836
  • sphinn.com 4,945
  • linkagogo.com 11,499
  • kirtsy.com 16,850
  • tipd.com 23,528
  • kwoff.com 24,261
  • bloghop.com 31,217
  • weheartgossip.com 32,225

Pagerank 5

  • indianpad.com 3,185
  • spotback.com 11,391
  • mylinkvault.com 12,748
  • buddymarks.com 13,857
  • plime.com 18,583
  • designfloat.com 22,384
  • web2list.com 23,051
  • fcc.com 37,050
  • linkatopia.com 40,811
  • iliketotallyloveit.com 42,754
  • japansoc.com 60,200
  • buzzup.com 68,384
  • scoopit.co.nz 91,077
  • ngopost.org 94,741

Pagerank 4

  • humsurfer.com 1,321
  • a1-webmarks.com 10,230
  • oyax.com 11,312
  • socialogs.com 19,806
  • quadriot.com 22,255
  • blurpalicious.com 22,742
  • wagg.it 23,275
  • uvouch.com 24,122
  • blogmarks.net 24,989
  • maple.nu 27,330
  • mysitevote.com 33,282
  • blogbookmark.com 33,810
  • blogengage.com 38,085
  • pageactive.org 40,026
  • totalpad.com 47,978
  • solinkable.com 48,485
  • graphic-design-links.com 52,491
  • justpoint.org 55,067
  • indiareporting.com 60,218
  • feedmarker.com 67,554
  • pfbuzz.com 83,239
  • websapiens.net 86,767
  • ioch.org 14,140,955

Happy Holidays to all and I hope you use your new SEO Super Powers wisely! Next week I’ll be talking about CommentLuv, so check back here at GeekEstate regularly!

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  1. drewmeyers on December 30, 2009 10:24 am

    “DO NOT SPAM!!!”

    Indeed! I am getting extremely tired of deleting comments on geek estate from people who are keyword spamming the name/link, and in most cases it's pretty obvious those people are just commenting for the sake of link building and have no interest in the actual conversation taking place. If you're not adding real value with your links, don't bother — you'll just end up tagged as SPAM.

  2. Justin Bartlett on December 30, 2009 11:56 am

    Just added a new post that I think you'll enjoy ;)

  3. Les on December 30, 2009 2:15 pm

    Thanks for the link to the NoDoFollow and the great ideas for building backlinks. Backlinks are the one thing I'm still struggling with for our site.

  4. Justin Bartlett on December 30, 2009 2:36 pm

    I have a list of a couple hundred sites your welcome to; e-mail me at justin@modificationzoom.com

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  6. Jay Thompson on December 30, 2009 8:47 pm

    “So, we don’t want to waste our time commenting blogs that don’t “dofollow”.”

    Commenting only for a link is the last reason (IMO) one should leave comment. There is absolutely nothing wrong with commenting simply for the sake of adding to the conversation.

    It's hardly a “waste of time” to join in a good discussion.

    Disqus is no-follow, so I guess every comment left here on Geek Estate is just a waste of time?

  7. geschenkefrmnner on December 30, 2009 10:10 pm

    Hi,
    Very informative.Great ideas regarding backlinks.I also believe a good way to improve your search engine optimization scores and Google rankings is through building of backlinks
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  8. Justin Bartlett on December 30, 2009 10:26 pm

    Agh! I'm so misinterpreted! Jay, I totally agree with you, please don't crucify me for typing at 100 WPM!

  9. Innover Mind on December 30, 2009 10:33 pm

    Page rank is very important aspect of internet marketing. It helps to keep our site at the top of various search engines. Analyzing your competition could be a sensible place to begin when optimizing your internet site for search engine placement.

  10. Jay Thompson on December 30, 2009 10:38 pm

    No worries Justin! (and can you loan me about 20WPM?)

  11. Jay Thompson on December 30, 2009 10:42 pm

    Speaking of keyword spamming the comment name…

  12. Joe Stampone on December 31, 2009 8:01 am

    I agree with Jay. Commenting is about adding to the conversation, SEO just happens to be an added bonus to commenting. However, not only does commenting add to the conversation, but also shows your expertise on a given subject. For example, if you leave a particular thought-provoking comment on Geek Estate, one may click through your name and land on your website.

  13. pierrebatbatian on December 31, 2009 2:33 pm

    AMAZING article, i've been looking for something like this for a very long time. i was about to buy the guide on SEOMOZ.org about greating backlinks. probably not anymore.

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  15. Tony Sena on January 1, 2010 10:56 pm

    One of my blogs was listed on a Do Follow list, even though it's not and I get a ridiculous amount of spam comments. Majority of it's blatant spam! I can't stand comments that say “thanks for sharing”!

  16. wine club on January 4, 2010 9:56 am

    Thank you for the list, one thing I will mention is that there has been a bit of research that has shown that no-follow links are somehow counted by G. I've seen a few IMers get websites ranked for competitive keywords using only a few no-follow links.

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  21. TJ Corruthers on February 28, 2010 8:35 pm

    THere are so me no follow links that google can see,well i think these links comes from reputable sites

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  28. SanDiegoRealEstateAgent on April 19, 2010 3:56 pm

    Is there a way to do a mass submission to all of these social bookmarking sites when I make a new blog post? Kind of like what Ping.FM does for social networking sites?

  29. chrisraines on April 22, 2010 10:50 am

    Youtube is a great opportunity for backlinks. The Cevado.com syndication service automatically creates videos with voice over for all your listings and posts them to Youtube, AOL Video, and of course all the Major Listing sites, plus they automatically post them to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. The result is 1000s of links back to your site.

  30. DotNetNuke programmers on May 3, 2010 2:20 am

    thanks for this useful list. its very hard to find list like this whenever I visit many site for the do follow blog list they have written under the the niche of dofollow list but most of them are no follow thanks for this useful list.

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  33. website builder on August 7, 2010 5:02 pm

    I guess there is no other way to fight spam unless blocking the account from posting on your blog again or closing the comment on certain page of website.

  34. Naples Web Design Companies on August 14, 2010 4:37 am

    Yes there are automated submission programs in doing social bookmarking such as Bookmarking Demon but I suggest you do the manual submission because white hat techniques are love by most search engines especially Google.

  35. San Diego Real Estate Agent on August 16, 2010 6:00 pm

    How many article submiussions a week/month would be too many to the point where it would be considered spam?

  36. backlink for seo on August 29, 2010 5:52 pm

    Do you have any idea to automatic bookmarking to the many bookmarking site you list by outsorcing or any automatic software.

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