SEO Resources, Where to Start and a List of 30 DoFollow Websites
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Isn’t this a descriptive title? Perfect for SEO, I could have placed a few more keywords in it, like Useful SEO Resources or 30 Do Follow Websites to Promote Your Articles. Just kidding, well I decided to share a bit with fellow Hubbers, not from what I gather on the net, but from my personal experience and my personal practice. What you will see below is a list of a few websites I used in my quest for knowledge involving search engine optimization and some of the do follow websites I used for my article marketing campaigns.
A note on the do follow attribute. Everyone in SEO business knows that do follow applies only to Google, what bothers me about it are the SEO gurus that make you forget about no follow links, that is bad business people. It somehow feels like they don’t want you to succeed, promoting free information but telling you to look in the other direction while they get the job done. Google can get you 40% of your overall traffic at most. I get 70% of my traffic from referring sites, like HubPages or social bookmarks like Digg, Stumble Upon or Twitter. My Facebook pages are doing a wonder, but I also get traffic from Yahoo and Bing, pretty much the same amount I get from Google. Digg is a no follow website, but Yahoo indexes no follow links, so by concentrating only on do follow links you are wasting more than 60% of the traffic you might get. The idea is not to be liked by Google, it is to be liked by people, by your visitors, by your bread, so get them where you can and keep them with good content, nothing else matters. But, if you do want to be liked by Google and get that piece of the cake as well you will have to find some good do follow sites for your SEO campaign and your article marketing, so I have a list of 30 do follow sites that I use and want to share it with you. I hope my little rant didn’t make you want to leave, I think I did provide some useful info. Now let’s get to the business, first a couple of useful SEO resources, there, I used it!
The resources below are sites and blogs and tools I used and still use to brush up on some things or to help me in my campaigns or even to learn new things from fellow marketers or my personal favorite place to grab SEO knowledge, Matt Cutts.
SEO Resources
SEO Sites and Blogs
Matt Cutts
SEO Book
Forums
Warrior Forum
SEO Forum
Search Engines Info
Wikipedia
The Anatomy of a Search Engine
Link Analysis
Link Popularity
Keyword Analysis
Duplicate Content
CopyScape, the one and only.
Web Design
W3Schools
Biggest Mistakes in Web Design
Writing, Content is still the King
Matt Cutts
Digital Web Magazine
Link Bait
Creating a Community
Community Building Online
20 Community Building Tips
Press Releases
PRWeb
PR Newswire
Link Building
How to Select Sites To Request Links From
How to Build Links
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Ranting On
I think that is enough, if you need more or want more you can get the full list on my blog, Practical SEO, under useful SEO resources. I think you will find almost everything you ever needed about SEO on these sites. If you are a beginner you might want to read through my Hubs or through my blog first, if you consider you already have your basic SEO knowledge than feel free to visit these sites and learn more. Now to the list of 30 do follow websites for your article marketing.
30 Do Follow Websites
1. Ezine Articles, the number one place to submit your articles, content is king and Ezine Articles is the king’s palace.
2. HubPages, now most would name another article directory to be number two, but I don’t. I simply go by my experience and if you are good to your Hubs and your fellow Hubbers, they will be good to you. So this is a great community and if you give it your best it will pay of, I just fall in love over and over again when I see how much traffic I am getting from here.
3. Squidoo, similar site to HubPages, but there is no love like here, much harder to get followers and get them involved in a real discussion.
4. Blogger, sucking up to Google is a must, so if you want to get indexed quickly make a blog on the Blogger platform.
5. WordPress, my favorite free platform, the best thing since Linux. You simply cannot make it in the online industry without the power and great benefits of a Wordpress blog. Of course we are talking about wordpress.com in this Hub, but I will make it my business to write about Wordpress platform.
These are my top five choices, the rest is not set by rankings, it is just a list of the sites I use on a regular basis.
6. VOX, a place for your blog, can be like community if you invest some time in it.
7. LiveJournal, nowhere near a journal but good for articles and driving traffic.
8. Tumblr, one of the best blogging websites around.
9. Blog, Wordpress powered websites, no need to say more.
10. Gather, a site similar to HubPages and Squidoo, but people really don’t care too much about a community there, they stick to their groups, like on Facebook and that’s it, but it has its uses.
11. MuBlogs, another WordPress powered blog.
12. Netcipia, similar to Weebly and WetPaint, but different. I don’t like those sites as they need to be promoted, it’s not a community we are talking about, so it’s just a stand alone blog.
13. SOSBlog, do follow, no follow, now they are back to do follow links, I really don’t know if they are going to make up their minds.
14. Blogster, one of my favorites.
15. Aeonity, article directory.
16. Go Articles, one of the best article directories, surely a must for anyone in article marketing.
17. Article Dashboard, article directory.
18. Amazines, another article directory.
19. Article Rich, yet another article directory.
20. Isnare, a solid article directory. (Had to remove the link to Isnare as new HubPages guidelines say that this website is prohibited)
21. Sooper Articles, and another article directory.
22. Article Click, no need to say what this is!
23. Info Barrel, I’m in love with this site, I love it more and more each day.
24. Article Slash, again, article directory.
25. Articles Factory, they don’t make articles, they sell them, it should be article shop or article stand, not factory.
26. Upublish, u publish articles on this one, so that makes it… an article directory.
27. MyBlogSite, obviously it’s not mine, it’s someone else’s blog site, but hey.
28. Article Bliss, another one.
29. Multiply, blog site, new to it but so far so good.
30. Bloguni, blog site.
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Hope This Helps
So I guess this is enough to get everyone well over their heads for the next couple of months, and don’t say I didn’t contribute to this community. Kidding, like with anything else, feel free to read my Practical SEO Blog if you want to find out more, because there will be a lot more, for beginners to learn and for the so called experts to stretch their heads. Feel free to leave a comment or two, hope it was helpful.
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Thanks Kelly :)
wow, amazing. Just how much time did it take you to post all these links? This is really a great hub, plenty of info and finally some do follow websites I can use. You know how hard is to find some of these, really useful stuff. thanks
I have to admit, I wasn't aware of half of these article directories, and the resource stuff. man, that Matt Cutts sure has some cool things to say. Thanks for the Hub, really great and useful piece of work.
Thanks guys:) Actually it took me quite some time to post the links up, but hey, I was glad to do it. I know it took me a long time before I created a big list of article directories and blogs, I had to piece them all together, so here is a hub that brings some of them in one place.
PS. Be sure to read he SEO resources links, these are some of the things you will definitely need if you decide to deal with SEO.
gr8 information... no follow is a very bad idea.. i have one suggestion for social bookmarkers and sharing.. i thnk most of u know tht.. but still i want 2 add a note on it..
join onlywire.com where you can easily bookmark and share your links..i know many of them know many others tht do this job..
wats my point is u cannot login and do all the stuff at once..like only wire provides about 50 social websites..to login and share in all those is some wat time consuming..onlywire provides a common login point for all these sites with a single addon to ur explorer..thts it..signup,bookmark and share.. and as zarko mentioned abt the 30 sites..they are awesome in driving traffic..onlywire provides access to those sites too..
awesome job zarko..even i do the same u said..and if psble i will add a link of screen shot which increased the traffic quite shortly after following these steps...2 b frank my traffic sources were dying and it was around -68% but as per today its around 209% this increase was in a span of 7 days.a total of 277% change..thts awsome isnt it..
good luck
http://www.picfront.org/d/7K4A
here is the screen shot..how it increased traffic if we follow wat zarko said..
Svaka cast majstore... :)
Thanks man, this is just what i needed. Im looking for things like this for last 7 days and it is bothering me... This part "getting backlinks" is boooooooorrriiiiiiiiiing!
onlywire is a nice site, there are alternatives, but you have a good point there, if you can automate the process without being seen as spam that is good, but if you are spamming, that will backfire on you!
Dejane, hvala puno :)
I see you contacted me via mail, I will give you some advice on how to boost your backlinks, a bit quicker and more effective :) I know it is boring, but maybe it's not, I don't find the part about making money boring! And building backlinks is all about promoting your site and making money!
This is really a great hub. Very helpful, I will come back to this one for sure.
Thanks Daisy :) Your welcome to come any time, I will be making a similar one very soon.
Really interesting Hub
I think your definately right when it comes to Hubpages.. the admiration here is the best I have witnessed. And you are right, ezinearticles.com is the king's palace!
King's palace :) Yeah, I admire myself for coming up with such a nice and catchy description! Thanks for the comment :)
Zark, this honestly may be one of the top ten hubs I have/will save on hubpages, thank you so much for this info. And it's good to know as I am on quite a few of them and wordpress is probably my fav I'm starting to like stumbleupon and finding some good content and try to support hubs like this one. and everywhere else. but you need to know the very best website is for bloggers of all creative mediums and forums only members can see, It's mine lol but what a hell of a job wow, I keep trying to learn, I'll get =we'll probably start 2012 lol and its created in wordpress.
thanks again, off to rate you up!
Wow, what a great list of resources. W3Schools has been a constant resource for me, and I think every SEO should keep up with Matt C.
Thanks Kimberly the Vampire, i really appreciate your comment, I rally tried to provide something of use here, glad I see I really did :) Can't wait till 2012!
@"FindYourSearch", W3Schools, is great for any info about PHP, HTML, CSS or any other web related language, and my favorite part, their validator, I will have to include a direct link for the validator in this or in some other hub!
Zarko thanks for the big tips here. Just too much to read in the one sitting so I am bookmarking it for sure and twitter. (Thank Kimberly for my visit it is on her FB)
Thanks Agvulpes :) And thanks Kimberly :)
I am struggling with this one - thank you very much! The do follow and no follow and all the different backlinks are difficult to fully understand. You are a great resource. Wonderful layout and explanations.
Thank Goldie, I really depreciate it :) You can use the resources in this Hub to learn more about SEO and do follow and no follow links and backlinks. If you are still struggling with the SEO basics then you should first check out my Practical SEO blog as it is intended for beginners.
Fantastic hub and great list!
Thanks Karla :) Coming from you it really is a compliment!
Good advice. For sure, Wordpress is superb and must rank as the best user-friendly package around?
I would agree, user-friendly is exactly the best description for Wordpress platform :)
I love the list of resources! I am new to SEO and I will be checking out your hubs for beginners. Thanks so much!
Hi Zarko,
Your hub's very comprehensive--it's a great list to help some of us who are trying to learn about SEO, backlinks, etc. You're the first person I've heard say no-follow links are important! Thanks for this information!
Thanks SpecialK, there will be more on basic SEO :)
@Successful Living, well yeah, all links are important, the only question is who do you worship, Google or some demi God like Yahoo.
Think about this, if you rank top ten in Yahoo, that will increase your traffic, and which is easier to do, Google top ten or Yahoo top ten? People don't realize that if you rank in Yahoo top ten (and it is a bit easier) you will be in Google top ten in a matter of weeks!
Nice work Zarko, very useful hub and I have marked it as such. Sorry it took me a while to get to look at some of your hubs, but I can see now that it was my loss not coming to look sooner.
It's never too late :) Thanks Brian, i really appreciate it. Hope you really found it useful!
Hi Zarkozivkovic.... Very helpful article... Can you also explain how to get good traffic....
Getting traffic is also a longer process, a part of SEO. SEO is all about getting organic traffic, by increasing your position in the search engines you will get more traffic, that is the whole idea.
Besides pure SEO and ranking you also need to follow certain guidelines in order to get traffic. make a large social network using Twitter, Facebook, Stumble Upon and other social media sites, HubPages is also a great place to make connections and drive traffic to your website. Besides SERP and social media sites you also need to utilize promotions, link baits, which makes people want to come by and spread the word. Word of mouth is one of the best ways to get quality traffic. As far as link bait goes, just look at this hub, it's not a great link bait but it is a perfect example, I gave people something they need and they keep coming back more and more, put something that people need on your site and they will come.
there are plenty of other ways to get good traffic, you can check my Practical SEO blog for more if you are interested, you can find the link in the Hub above:) Hope this helps a bit!
Wow this is a goldmine I just found. Great information, easy layout, it is a comprehensive guide for SEO tactics.
Bookmarking it for a lifetime. Very helpful, some of them I know but it never hurts to go through again and benefit from it.
Thank you Kaur, I appreciate all the positive feedback I received in the last week.
I simply can't believe how much visits this hub had in just a week :)
Hey Zarko, amazing! I am new in this line (SEO) but what you write here is a tonic for me. I read this article 3times at a time. Thanks friend.
@Zarkozivkovic you do not have to be surprised, Good effort and a great hub always draws attention and is well appreciated around Hubpages. Cheers for many more visits down the line.
Thanks Emas :)
@Kaur, I guess you are right, just the feedback I've been getting is incredible, thank you guys, all of you :)
This is an awesome hub! Thanks for sharing this. This will be very useful to me and I'm sure many other people will find it useful as well. Voted up!
Very useful, thanks. I think we all need constant reminders and updates ref. SEO and this was very hlpful
Thumbs up - this page is getting bookmarked.
Very much like the dofollow list
Thanks for the feedback guys, hope you really find it useful :)
Since When was HubPages Do-Follow ?
If it is I am not aware of it. Nor does it pop up on any link pop checks I do on http://www.info-intel.com .
I am confused.
This is a good hub though. Useful, and pro.
Great and useful hub my friend which I have printed out for bedtime reading, I know, my lovelife is crap ; )
@TattooGuy, my love life is almost the same, so don't worry about it, it goes with the job :)
@VizFact, I looked over your profile and you have 19 hubs so far, I can't imagine how on earth did you manage to write 19 hubs without seeing and hearing that HubPages are do follow, well they are no follow if you have a score under 75, but you don't! Plus, the link you gave in your comment and the reference you used is not of value as info-intel is not an authority website so i doubt you really use it for looking at do follow and no follow links, it is a new website with not so many visitors!
Which in this case I am going to consider as promotion from your side! By the way, comments are no follow here :)
If you want to see do follow and no follow links in your browser on any website just install one of many Firefox or Chrome SEO plugins, there are dozens that do the job! If you don't know where to find one here is another useful link that I can add to my hub: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/568 or you can get more here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q
Thank you for the information, and for the quick education.
I believe in providing quality so I don't worry too much about follow links, and I wasn't trying to (spam) promote as I am not selling anything directly, and I focus on quality.
Again, thanks for the informative response !
Really appreciate the time you have put in to this very valuable directory of sites. Thanks!! Great article.
@pharamcist, thank you and the time was well spent:)
@VizFact, as I see your hubs your statement is right and we need more high quality :) There are plenty of free tools that can be installed in your browser that will make life much easier for those not dealing with SEO professionally.
Sorry about the "quick education" but I took the liberty to allow your post since you are from HubPages and I feel more comfortable if a fellow Hubber leaves a link, you have to excuse me but just in the last 24 hours I received over 20 spam comments from various sources, none of them hubbers of course. So I'm a bit edgy when I see a link. Again, sorry about that :)
Is SEO book worth it at $300+/month!?
^^ that was me up there
Wow Zark!!! I just had to bookmark this page. It is very well-written and touches on a lot of important issues. I particularly like the way that you drive home the fact that it is more important to produce quality content than to try to continuously please search engines like Google. I have stopped really focusing on Do follow or No Follow. I just write the best content I can and find related links of quality. All the rest will take care of itself. Besides, with Google's changinging algorithms CONTENT will always be KING - and they know this!
@multimastery, you got that right :) Aim to have high quality content that will please the users and the rest will fall into place. Some SEO is necessary, but it's not worth obsessing over.
If you can afford an SEO firm, great, if you can't than optimize your site with what has been said in this Hub and in the comments here and you will do just fine :)
@Alex, it all depends. If you are seriously planning on doing some SEO in the future than it might be worth $300 per month. If you are planning to do SEO for a few websites, you should better check my or many of other free SEO blogs out there, you can find plenty of free information on the net.
In the end I would say no, it's not worth it. Everything they offer can be found for free, including their courses and their tools. There is a free alternative to any SEO tool they offer, or any other SEO site.
Thanks for the reply, that's what I figured when looking at various internet marketing forums like WF and Digital Point
You rock dude!
This is an amazing list. I use about half of the sites you mention, but have never heard of the other half. My only disagreement is with Wordpress. They are extremely picky and I have had quite a few blogs shut down for no apparent reason. I put a banner ad on the side bar and I guess that is a no no. I put adsense on the side bar and that got me kicked out as well. I even had a blog where I detailed my personal diet with no outbound links whatsoever shut down. It just appears to be to risky to spend time blogging there because it could all be taken away at any time (for no apparent reason).
Either way, thanks for an absolutely fantastic resource!
this good seo
@HealthFreak, thanks :) As far as Wordpress goes I never did have such problems nor did I hear about that, although I think that Adsense is not allowed, but I will have to check that, not sure. Did you ever ask the support team what happened and why were your blogs shut down, did they give you any explanation?
Personally I have over 3 years of experience running sites on wordpress platform and creating blogs on wordpres.com , only positive experience with both :) The thing I like more about wordpress is that it can be customized in any possible way you wish...
Really cool hub. Good Job.
Great tip! Good job!
Much help for me :) trying out Ezine Articles now for starters
never heard of warrior.Thanks, I bookmarked it.
How cool is this article. I love the part about the no follow links. Seo guys take this way to far. Yep a link is a link.
It all depends where you are targeting and what you are doing!
Also, commenting blogs, some are follows, some are no follows. Truthfully I don't care as long as I can contribute to the conversation in some and I can leave a link there!
Thanks so much.
This will be going on the Hubpages Tribe Blog.
Marty Ware
The SEO DAD & The creator of the Hubpages Tribe!
Thanks guys and thanks Marty, link is a link and Google isn't the only search engine we should aim for the top rank.
Very good article. If you like using Wordpress as your platform, lookup http://ownablog.com which is powered by wordpress. I believe they allow users 10 free blogs with over 400 templates to choose from. They also split adsense revenue. I also wrote my first hub on Own a Blog.
The hub you wrote can hardly be considered as hub since it has around 100 words! I suggest making it bigger, or the editorial will remove it, as they should. It's pure promotion and nothing more.
The website looks cool and since it's powered by wordpress it has a chance of making it, but for now it isn't of any SEO importance since the domain is PR0 and the website is brand new. So, I'll wait until it matures a bit before I start using it :)
Odlican post, hvala puno na korisnim informacijama
Nema na cemu Moon :) hvala na komplimentu
great post, very informative , thnx and keep us informed
Very informative and on point. Great job!
I have to disagree with you some. While wordpress and google blogs can be dofollow, most of them aren't. So it is a bit misleading to have them in your list of do follow sites.
What are you talking about? have you read the Hub at all???
I have listed sites powered by wordpress that are do follow, it is clearly stated that wordpress.com is in question as the original, plus blogger is do follow, what other google blogs did I mention. I am talking about free platforms where you can create your own blog, not other people's blogs. If you wish you can set the links to be no follow, but that is your choice.
Please people, if you haven't read the hub, don't post comments!
Your point there is accurate, my apologies in misunderstanding it.
I still think it's worth noting that commenting sections on these sites are not do-follow but you are accurate in your descriptions of your own created blogs on these services.
Great reference.. I will use your hub in some of my future SEO posts!
Like Warriorforum & SEOforum, i have found one more forum V7N. This forum is like digital point but they've strict rules and moderation and good contributors as well. Nice Hub,Voted Up. :)
Thanks guys, appreciate it :)
@rnbguru, the reason why comments are no follow is simple and I totally support it, it is to lower the number of spam comments. I use no follow comments on each of my blogs and websites, people use comment software to spam and post links.
Just take HubPages for example, comments are no follow but links in the hubs are do follow if you have a 75 profile score, which is not hard to get by the way. If the comments were do follow there would be thousands of spam comments per minute since this is a popular site, it is as simple as that :)
Great Info
very nice
follow me please
Dude, this is some VERY good stuff. I'll make sure that I bookmark this in case I get lost in some of the resources you have provided. Thank you.
Thanks so much for sharing this valuable information. Hoping to get more traffic for my hubs.
Thanks Carbbylion and thanks Elayne :)
Very useful hub. Tons of great info.
This is a nice hub, filled with great information. I am beginning to learn the nuts and bolts of SEO. So far, much of the info I have read is very helpful, and I am starting to see results by applying what I learned. Thanks for the hub.
great hub with lots of helpful links, all in one place....thanks for sharing
This is a GREAT reference. Thanks for taking the time to put it together.
This is a brilliant hub! We will bookmark it for your list of Do Follow Links.
What makes this hub special for us is that you have pointed out the value of referring sites for web traffic.
Our 'main' business is our own website (which we won't name as we're not trying to spam here). About 40% of our traffic is from search engines, but that always has a high bounce rate. About 50% is from referring sites, including HubPages, but WordPress is our key site. These are much more productive in our experience. The numbers of viewers who go through more than two or three pages is very satisfactory. Most people writing about how to generate traffic concentrate on the Search Engines, but you haver written about something that we have found more valuable.
Thanks for a great hub.
Thank you Guys, really :)
Special Thank to both Patricias :) Referring sites are the key to success until you become a well know brand, but most of us never get there, which doesn't mean we can't make solid money online. After all, the people that come through referring sites have a much better idea what they are looking for and what to expect than the one coming from the search engines, hence the bounce rate.
I recently learned about do-follow links and you're completely right about how "SEO Gurus" will make you completely forget about no-follow ones. For the past week I've been focusing on do-follow only and it hasn't even crossed my mind that it's only for Google. Thanks for this hub, very informative and taught me something I didn't know!
Lots of information... and thanks for copyscape.. :)
this hub is very useful..great job...
I would have never thought about using these before. I am glad that I have a list of good quality do follow sites now. All I know is that it is becoming harder and more competitive than what it was just a mere two years ago when I first thought about learning about the internet and business.
Thank you for the great information that you give here in this article!
I think that I need to go back and start from scratch, just when I though that I was getting a grasp on all of the SEO stuff wow still have a lot to learn, now I am going to go through your hubs, thanks
If your basic knowledge of SEO matches with what is written here then you don't need to start from scratch, just try to learn what is new and implement that. If you do want to start from scratch then I could suggest visiting my blog and going through SEO basics category, you will find everything you need there.
Great tips. No doubt do follow links are of great importance but one cannot neglect the no follow links because the are also a great source of attracting traffic to your website. I think the best SEO practice is to use each and every ethical and legal method. Only then one can stay competitive.
Your article was very informative and thanks for the links too.
A quick note about no-follow though. It is my findings that the "Big G" is getting smarter by the minute and is analyzing links a bit differently and can determine that everything linked to your site is do-follow and may actually start penalizing this(?). I try to maintain a combonation of both. This looks more natural to the "Big G".
@seox2, you are right, we need to have both.
@Locally Motivated, the same, you are right, don't know about penalizing but it wouldn't surprise me. but here is some food for thought!!!
Since Google Caffeine was put in use I noticed Google indexing plenty of no follow links, but I still can't figure out what are it's criteria for that, as it obviously ignores most of them. If anyone can shed some light on this that would be great!
Very informative post. I especially liked the list of 30 do-follow sites. These are a great link building addition.
i truthfully enjoy your own writing kind, very remarkable,
don’t give up as well as keep writing due to the fact that it simply just worth to follow it.
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nice information about seo trips thanks for sharing
Informative hub ZarkoZivkovic! Thanks.
Regarding EzineArticles, I would like to add that Google loves its backlinks because it is the only Articles Directory that is reviewing the submitted articles manually to ensure the quality.
It's not the only article directory that reviews articles manually, but they are the best there is, that is why Google loves them :)
Personally I think they are beginning to slack off, because I have sen a share of spun articles on Ezine recently, which was impossible two years back!
Great information. I have wondered about the difference between having a blog on Blogger one on Wordpress. Which would be better? Thanks for the hub. Great job.
Hi Belliot, depends on what you need. If we are talking about free platforms and wordpress.com than some people will go for Blogger because it can be monetized, but besides that, Wordpress has much more options and customization menus that make Blogger look like a toy. But at the same time it is very easy to use, once you start using Wordpress you will be hooked.
In my book, Wordpress is by far better than Blogger in any possible way. But if you want to monetize your blog you will either have to go with Blogger or purchase a domain and install wordpress on it.
I wouldn't classify Blogger as a dofollow site. And google doesn't 'love it' as has been proved countless times.
You can manually remove nofollow tags in blogger but not all newbies would be aware of how to do that.
Otherwise, good article.
@WryLilt..is that so? Well I would love to know in which word Blogger is no follow. Blogger is do follow by default, you don't have to remove anything to make it do follow! Check your resources before you comment. Second... what makes you think that Google doesn't love its own product? Since you haven't provided an answer I would love to hear one, that is if you have something to back up your claim with :)
I always enjoy reading other peoples hubs, it often gives me ideas that I never had before and inspires.
Thanks for keeping it simple for everyone to understand!
This is an excellent list of resources. I really appreciate the time you took to create this list. I'm pretty new to HP, but have written for some other sites. I'm looking to focus more time here.
Creating backlinks is a place I've lacked. Oh whew, you do have InfoBarrel up there. I was gonna give ya a bad time, but carefully went through the list again. That's where I write the most. I love it.
I don't understand the purpose of Ezine. Do you submit new articles and the benefit is the bio link? For example, on IB we can't have duplicate content (yay), so I don't see how I can submit an article to Ezine.
Well you can submit it but I wouldn't recommend it. The fact is that IB will not pick up on the same article if it is written under the same name you have on IB, you are the author and you can post wherever you like. But again, if you have duplicate content on most of these site you only achieve half of the effect.
You see, when you submit one article to multiple article directories you leave a backlink on each. The half you get is the opportunity for other to syndicate your content and for some people to follow through on that link back to your site. But the half you will not receive is the number of backlinks. The number will not be equal to the number of articles submitted. Google will not credit you for each article as they are all the same, so from 10 articles you will be lucky to get 3 links, but I doubt it. That is the problem with submitting one article to multiple directories JP! I never submit duplicate content, I know it's much slower this way, but in the end it's more natural and I get the full benefits for each article :)
PS. the benefit of EZine... Well yeah, the bio box or resource box is where you make a pitch, that should be practiced whenever you write an article, never pitch in the first paragraph, in fact, leave it for the end. Make the article useful so the people will be interested, the purpose of Ezine is also to establish yourself as an expert in a certain topic or niche. So Ezines are very beneficial if you invest into them!
Loved it.
Thanks, this is an incredibly helpful article. I'm also glad to hear there are others out there that believe in the power of content for no follow links.
Zarko I can't keep up with you man! You have a lot of knowledge in that head of yours. Thanks for all of this free information on SEO my friend. Cheers, Martin
No problem Martin, glad I could provide something useful for all of you guys :)
Great ideas, and ueasful SEO resources! Thank you to sharing them with us! I bookmark it for further reading. Yeah-eh-heah
Excellent and very helpful list, Zarko. Thanks. I've been meaning to get round to providing my own list of useful articles, sites and resources I use or find helpful, and this hub must certainly be in that list.
Thanks Pierre and thanks Teresa, hope you found it useful!
Great post. And great list of do-follow sites. I had heard of most of them, but quite a few are new to me. I'll definitely check them out.
Great job on the hub dude.
Some new dofollow sites that I have not tested before on your list. Thanks for the heads up.
Great list and wonderful hub. Thanks for sharing! You have taught me a lot. Rated up and awesome!
Great article. Does anybody know why certain hubs come up with no-follow links?
Excellent list of resources! Thanks! One to bookmark, especially for the dofollow sites. I haven't yet read through all the comments, so I don't know if someone has mentioned that Livejournal has now changed to nofollow. Pity, but I guess a mix of dofollow and nofollow won't hurt!
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