Building high quality links involves grueling efforts most of the time, may it be through search and mainly in building it. The most effective ones are usually content based (tedious) and sometimes need approval from the owner of the site you’re trying to get a link from, such as guest blogging, article marketing, resource request, blog commenting and the list moves on.
But the good news is, particularly to those who are just starting their link building campaign, is that there are many high quality and authoritative sites/pages out there that you can get links from for free and instantly. And here are the nominees for the best “easy free backlinks” you can get for your website.
Site Profiles
o PR – 6
o After making your site’s profile you can email them to request for dofollow links to be allowed on your page.
o Anchor text for your keywords are allowed
o Fast crawl rates
o Gains Pagerank when backlinks are built to link to it.
o The page can be done in just 5 minutes.
o PR – 8
o Dofollow link of the URL of your website
o No need to build a page, just search your domain name through Alexa and once you find it, build 1 backlink to direct crawlers to your site’s info page in Alexa, then eventually reach your website to pass through trust.
o PR – 8
o Nofollow link but passes massive amount of trust and authority to your site
o Fast crawl rates
o Making a company profile page through Wikipedia may only take you 10 – 20 minutes. Just sign up there and write something unique, professional and concise about your website.
Web 2.0 Profiles
o PR – 9
o Dofollow link of the URL of your website
o Fast crawl rates
o Passes through high volume of Pagerank juice when it gains PR
o If links are built to your Youtube page, it’s possible to reach PR 5 – 7
o Profile page can be done in just 3 minutes, you can also choose to upload some videos to make it livelier.
o PR – 8
o Dofollow Anchor text link pointing to your site
o Fast crawl rates
o Lensmaster page ranks easily on SERPs (very advantageous for branding)
o Passes through Pagerank, authority and trust rank.
o You can make a Squidoo Lensmaster page in just 2 minutes, just fill up the necessary details and you can then include an anchor text link to your site (using your preferred keyword) through the bio section.
o PR – 9
o Nofollow link of the URL of your site that’s capable of passing trust.
o Can easily rank for your brand’s name on search engine results’ top page.
o Gains high Pagerank if external links are built for it.
o Has fast crawl rates and is good for your site’s page indexation.
o Sign up for a Twitter account and include your site’s URL on your profile, then that’s it.
o PR – 10
o Nofollow URL link of your website.
o Can quickly rank on SERPs for your brand name.
o Fast crawl rates and good for page indexing.
o Easily gains PR along the process, as long as the page is active and has external links pointing to it, however it’s not capable of passing through Pagerank but do pass trust and authority to your site.
o It’s easy to build one and will only take you a few minutes to complete all the necessary details for your Facebook Fanpage.
o PR – 8
o Allows nofollow anchor text link on your profile (you can choose your desired keyword)
o Fast crawl rates and can help boost your targeted keyword to rank on SERPs.
o Highly trusted by search engines and can help increase traffic to your website.
o Signing up and making your Stumbleupon profile can only take 2 – 3 minutes of your time.
Web 2.0 and RSS Feed Submissions
o PR – 8
o Fast crawl rates and can help your site get indexed fast.
o Nofollow link to your submitted article/page, but helps in generating traffic, especially if it gets aggregated by interested users. Note: it’s best to submit high quality contents to make this really work.
o Submitting your site/blog entry to Digg only takes less than 2 minutes.
o PR – 8
o Find a relevant question to the niche of your site and answer it. Include your website’s URL along the answer as the reference.
o Have super fast crawl rates, that the link you’ve built can be crawled in just hours.
o Nofollow attributed URL hyperlink, but passes through large amount of trust to your site.
o Finding a question and answering one will only take 3 – 5 minutes.
o PR – 7
o Allows dofollow links to your site (URL and/or Anchor text).
o Has fast crawl rates and automatically syndicates your blog’s feed.
o Setting up for an account is easy and only takes a few minutes, which will include making your profile and submitting your RSS feed.
Social Bookmarking Profiles
o PR – 8
o Allows dofollow anchor text links pointing to your site, and also allows as many backlinks as you want to be saved using your preferred key phrases.
o Links you submit can be viewed publicly, which means it’s accessible to search engine crawlers.
o Moderate crawl rates, so you need to build at least one link to it.
o Signing up and adding of links can be done within 2 – 3 minutes.
o PR – 7
o Have fast crawl rates and can fetch up your bookmarked pages within 24 hours.
o Dofollow links and usage of targeted keywords as anchor texts are allowed.
o Overall task only takes 2 – 3 minutes to finish.
o PR – 5
o Anchor texts for your keywords are allowed, and links built through your profile page are also dofollow.
o Gives do 2 dofollow links instantly, where one is the anchor text version of the bookmarked page, and the other one is the site’s domain name.
o Crawl rate is average, so links pointing to it are needed to ensure that they get indexed by crawlers. *Note: Pinging your social bookmarking profiles is also a good way to let search engines know and visit them.
o This task takes 2 – 3 minutes to finish, including signing up and URL submission.
o PR – 5
o Dofollow link attribute and use of anchor text of your targeted keyword are enabled.
o Links you submit are viewed publicly, so search engines are able to reach them, however you need to build links to them to make sure crawlers can reach and have your main site indexed.
o Creating an account and building your site’s backlink through Mylinkvault.com only takes 2 – 3 minutes.
o PR – 5
o Dofollow attributed links.
o Allows keywords as anchor texts.
o Can place as many links as you like.
o Moderate crawl rate, but doesn’t necessarily need backlinks to have it indexed, since mine was automatically crawled by search crawlers and got indexed on its own.
o Overall task takes 2 -3 minutes.
o PR – 4
o Dofollow links and can use your targeted keyword as anchor text.
o Gives 2 dofollow backlinks instantly (the anchor text link and the domain name)
o Slow crawl rate and it’s advisable to build links through it to get indexed.
o Overall task takes 2 -3 minutes.
o PR – 4
o Allows usage of keywords as anchor texts, and they are dofollow as well.
o You can also place a dofollow link (only URL) on your profile’s main website section.
o You can add as many anchor text links as you like.
o Fast crawl rate, but I suggest that you still build links to it.
o Signing up and submitting your URLs will only take 2 – 3 minutes on this task.
Final Blow
Once you have built all these pages from high quality and authoritative websites, you can then interlink them, instead of building artificial links through other networks just to have them indexed. You can also make a page/post (like what I’m doing now) that will contain all of those external links, to make certain that your links from these sites will be counted by search engines.
One day is enough to build and invest on high quality – but free links – through all of the given websites. But the important thing is that you do make your links look valuable not just to search engines, but to real people as well. Guarantee that the description that you’ll be using for your site’s links are powerful and confident; always remember that “quality always wins the search engine game”.
Taking actions for your own SEO strategies should start with something, so begin with those that can help you further along the way. Link building is a business investment, be wise on it.
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Thanks for the analysis of each site and whether or not it passes page rank. This is one of the more comprehensive lists of this kind I’ve seen. I’m going to test this out and see what happens.
-George
Thank you for the having taken the time to compile such a thorough list of high-quality back link sources – a time-saver! It is interesting to know that in spite of the “no-follow” applied to some links, they still have the ability to lend Trust and Authority. It all adds-up
This is really helpful for a newbie like me. I’m still trying to understand all of this backlinking stuff. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and insight. @__J_o_y__ on Twitter ღ(◠‿◠)ღ
Hi there …. this was a really useful post. I have to say that these types of post rarely are – they tend to make suggestions for spammy link sources. The Alexa profile is a very clever idea. Many thanks for sharing that one!
This is really helpful! Thanks for putting the dofollow info in too. Now to work and see if the theory works for me! Cheers,
Matteo
thanks you for this useful post, it´s time to use this techniques on my web, let´s see what happen…
It’s a common trend amongst SEO’s that they do not want to reveal anything they learn out of their own research. Kaiserthesage is probably trying to break the rules. Thank you so very much.
So would you recommend to build all of these links quickly within a sites existence? or wait and spread them out?
I have used all these ways in my link building work.Really all are very important and helpful sites to get quality backlinks.
Great list, I think I’ll use it to promote my new site.
FYI on MyBlogLog, Yahoo is shutting it down.
Great article Kaiserthesage!
I have just one question. What do you mean by:
“build 1 backlink to direct crawlers to your site’s info page in Alexa, then eventually reach your website to pass through trust.”
Where should I build that 1 backlink? On my website?
I mean link to your Alexa site info, like what I’ve done above, where I linked to my site’s Alexa siteinfo page, so search engines can crawl that page.
hi,
great stuff that you bring in
Thank you for the info, Radu
This is very helpful information. Thanks for post this information on backlinking.
Wikipedia is one of my favorites place for link building but yuo must be carefull with spamming.
After making 1o links they will email you about spam.
Great article, thank you!
I notice oyax does say in terms/conditions: it is personal, non commercial use only. ?
I am going to give the Alexa idea a shot tonight and give it some time to see if there is any truth to it… I thought the links were actually “nofollow.” Worth a shot. Still trying to decide what would be the quickest means of creating a backlink for the Alexa site info page.
I agree ! This is a very effective list and Youtube is actually the best way of gaining quality traffic to your website fast and free.
Thanks for the list of sites. I had to review this post to get the list. I really enjoyed the information you provided.
I am going to Squidoo and StumbleUpon and having trouble finding where you say they allow for a anchor text by choosing a keyword. There is no where that I can find where you can choose a keyword. ???
Also, there’s no where to leave a link in Yahoo — you can post a URL, but it’s not hyperlinked. Same goes for Folkd.
MyBlogLog no longer exists. neither does SpotBack. http://wagg.it/ also seems to be out of commission.
Other stuff is helpful, thanks.
I’ve used about a third of these sites in the past so with an extra 10 or so listed this a really useful list. I’m glad you stressed interlinking the sites as this is what can take the time so I’m glad you think its worth it!
This has helped me A LOT when it comes to building links to my sites. Thank you, man! I O U 1
Nice list to jumpstart linkbuilding for a new site. Though I am not sure if profile links whole so much weight – esp. after the panda update. What has been your experience with this type of links post panda?
Awesome Article, All the ways are pretty easy and awesome. Thanks buddy
Thanks Jason. I tested all the links. Most of them are useful.:)
I suggest leading firm’s forums as they all are PR9/PR8. I mean forums of MySQL, Cisco etc. We can have profile links. But, our contribution must be meaningful.
This list is so helpful. Haven’t heard of Wagg.it and a few other sites before. Thank you so much for sharing
This is a great list. Great information about all of the do follow and no follow links. I will be using this for my SEO work on my website.
The information in this article is totally useful and rare! Thanks Kaiserthesage, surely I’ll add to my quality list
Great article. Always appreciate seeing DO-Follow opportunities.
I think the some advices are a little bit outdated. For example, the links from YouTube are now with the redirect posted, without any SEO value. The Folkd has the same strategy, with the redirect in the link. Bad news for SEO…
Another great resource from your website/blog. These are fantastic ways to get links and at the same time, promote your content. With this article, you made it very easy to read and follow. I have already implemented the missing links from your mentioned websites! I will always read your blog and learn new things.
I had never heard of the Wagg site either, so thank you. Another day, another SEO lesson learned!
Just stumbled upon this article and signed up for most of the sites you mentioned. Thanks very much for this – in a sea of blah blah blah seo articles… this one is tops! Thanks again
Woof!!
Nice list. And thanks for the new informations. This helps me to improve my sites at the search engine. And it also gives me good and trustable links!
Great list ! Some of these sites were unknown to me. Thanks a lot!
Hi Kaiser, this is a great list. I love PRs of the pages in your post
. Thanks for your effort to build this good list.
Thanks KAISERTHESAGE , I’ll work on getting some of those!
I never knew that you could get a Alexa back-link that easily. Thanks for the info this will help me in my day to day tasks! =)
Thanks for the great list. Good advise for boosting search engine results too.
Thanks Kaiser, These sites are very useful and are helpful in making site crawl fast.
Regards,
Bill Graham
Thanks Kaiser, especially for the Alexa tip.
Probably best to spread these links out over a period of 2-3 months to avoid Googler getting too suspicious. By the way, it seems that mylinkvault.com is brojen – it just wont let me add a new link.
Regards, Paul
This is pure gold Jason, I’ve just actioned the tip about Alexa.
Wikipedia is a great one, but difficult to crack it seems, I did set up a brand profile for one of my projects on Wikipedia, but another Wiki user voted for removal, then it disappeared, apparently due to nothing note worthy, yet it featured content that was more note worthy than a huge amount of pages I’ve come across, yet they remain there :s
Going to go through the rest of these links as soon as I can, great stuff cheers.
I use bookmarking for generation of buzz and possibly to get my stuff indexed, little more. My favorite form of linkbuilding comes from getting links on pages that already exist, are indexed, and carry PR as opposed to creating new, bare pages that you’ll need to build up as well. In large I’m referring to link-exchanges and blog posts. Youtube might be the only exception, but that’s because A, it’s massive and B, I’m on it regularly so it seems easy to watch something, leave a comment after, and build some authority to your page.
Great list. I was pretty doubtful about Squidoo for a long time. I made like 3-4 lenses and forgot about them for a few months. I ran across them while looking at my backlinks, and noticed the three of them were PR2, and the fourth was PR1. Now I wish I put more time into making them.
Hi Jason this is a cool list thanks. Just one thing, if you are also linking to these pages would the fact that it becomes a reciprocal link be an issue? I’ve always wondered about that because I know there is much less value in reciprocal links than there used to be.
Thanks
Dan
This is one of the best list I’ve found for submitting links online. Good job.
Just wanted to thank you for the content. I’ve subscribed to your RSS Feed and have been loving all the SEO talk. In particular, this post is a great read and a terrific resource. Cheers
Great list. The only issue I have is that you say the no follow sites offer trust rank without any proof. It’s better to say we think they offer trust even though they are nofollow unless you can prove they do. I do agree though they can be great pages to rank to control your brand or reputation.
Really a nice Post man, Actually i was searching for online submission tool and came across your blog. But found it really intresting and tried to create links on all you explored here.
Thanks…
n please tell me in anyone knows any Online submission tools for free like socialmonkee, textlinks etc.
Massive thanks for posting these sites, Most of them are DoFollow links but its still a great way to start of a new blog by passing some trust. Cheers
Really nice list. But kaiser,but not all of the sites are offering the dofollow links E.g Aboutus.org ( Nofollow link),youtube( Redirect the links) …
You can also consider to add lookuppage.com,bbpress.org to the list
But getting the links will increase the d
Good list, I always find it hard to believe that more people don’t build up their AboutUs.org profile completely. Great followed links if you know the process…
I really think you should add LinkedIn to this list. Our business’s LinkedIn page is showing a PageRank of 6, and a Page Authority of 53. Hard to beat that for a followed link:
http://www.linkedin.com/company/hood-web-management-llc
As an update – yes I know the LinkedIn link is a 302 redirect, but it’s still followed, and there’s still trust advantages, etc. to take into consideration.
Many of these are No-Follow indeed but as stated by Kaiser, the authority by them is adequate.
Unfortunately good link-building opportunities are becoming difficult to come around.
I created some links from your list; however, after reading your article, I learn something good and understand more clearly about back links
Thanks for the ideas. Trying to get some quality backlinks to our site.
I am so glad that I have found this post, which is very useful to me. I didn’t like yahoo answers since they became strict with attaching my links to the answers. But I am going to try out other options so that it could benefit my page rank without affecting link juice. Thanks for the great list of websites.
Hi Jason,
Thanks for the useful tips. I had spent a few hours to sign up to these sites by following your instruction but only on the half way. Would you please tell me how I can add my link to wikipedia? Because I can’t find anywhere to do so.
Looking forward to your reply.
Good list. Interesting that some many are discontinued though. Think i spotted some 3-4 that are gone.
Love the list…Love Squidoo more. Never heard of it until your post and now I’m kind of addicted…thanks!
Hi Jason,
Thanks for the useful tips. I hadn’t seen some of these so i’ll have to use a few hours to sign up to them.
I’ve been using A1-webmarks.com and have managed to harness a fair bit of PR with a few backlinks to it.
Wow very nice list especially for us that are just getting into the game of SEO. I commend you on your great Blog. Bookmarked. Keep up the good work. If there is one question I had for you it is about the frequency of creating the backlinks on these profile sites? I’m guessing creating all at once in a days work is probably not such a good idea. What kind of “drip” frequency do you recommend from your experience?
Wow. That’s my evening planned out! I’m gonna go through each of these steps one by one
Amazing useful information Kaiser – thanks!
Mateo
WOW! Great post you have here Kaiser. Looking forward to an update on this with more sites. @Kane, yeah I think LinkedIn is also great to start in promoting your site.
Hi Kaiser,
thanks a lot for share these nice resources !
I already know some of these sites, some others not…
May I add another one?
For istance, “About.me” : PageRank 7.
Make easily your profile, with your link, that will be DoFollow.
Hey mate,
Just letting you know that spotback.com is no longer in the game
Regards.
Hi Jason! Great post. I added the items here to my linkbuilding spreadsheet for use with my clients.
I have a question though. I’ve been using social bookmarking inconsistently for years. However, I did notice that out of these sites, StumbleUpon is the one that brings significant traffic. Do you think I should still continue submitting my blog posts to the social bookmarking sites you mentioned?
Thanks!
Thanks for a great resource. With these links, instead of the spammy ones that are mostly floating around, I’m sure that the sites I’ve created for my affiliate business will rank higher and can be of value to internet users,
Thanks Kaiser,
This was some great info on how to build quality backlinks
I have bookmarked this so I can come back and read up.
You are a great writer in my book and hope to see more from
you.
Thank you for the free links kaiserthesage! I will do this as soon as possible. It may be time consuming but I bet it’s worth it when the day is over. Thanks!
Great post.
What about including Pinterest? Have you found value in this?
Thanks for this extremely valuable information. Its hard to find so many quality backlinks at one place and one time.
Hello Jason!
Are these links still safe to use post-Penguin mayhem? I suggested this to my client, and he went nuts; saying he was penalized by Google before and I should just stick to the usual game plan. Honestly, I think sticking to his plan wouldn’t get us anywhere.
Hi there it’s me, I am also visiting this site regularly, this web site is genuinely pleasant and the viewers are really sharing fastidious thoughts.
Thanks for this write-up Jason. It’s a great help.
Hey,
Great list,
Just wen through all of them. Hopefully those backlinks will give a boost in my SERPS.
Thanks!
Hi Jason
Great article thanks for that. I picked up a few new links I hadnt seen before. Heres a few to add to the list:
http://amazon.com
https://addons.mozilla.org
http://my.opera.com
The link in Alexa is “no-follow”. However, this is an excellent tip. Thank you!
But most of the sites are not working. And some sites dont have Page Rank,,
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