How to Get Nine Easy Backlinks from Social Media Profiles
Link-building is one of the most important activities you can do to maximize search engine optimization (SEO) for your website; it’s also one of the most daunting. Luckily, there are dozens of sites you’re likely already familiar with that can get you started. These sites provide dofollow links – also called backlinks – which incorporate HTML markup that informs the search engines to follow the destination inside the link. With the ability to influence the target page’s PageRank, dofollow links require minimal effort and, for the most part, are under your control.
Dofollow links offer a wealth of benefits:
- They help improve indexing when good quality links are created;
- They increase credibility and ranking in search engines;
- They boost traffic to your website.
Many sites alternatively use nofollow links, so it’s imperative to understand the difference between the two. Every URL on a webpage is either a nofollow or dofollow link. A nofollow link means that the HTML code instructs search engines to ignore the link, meaning the link’s target page will get no benefit.
Because the vast majority of social media sites only provide nofollow links, it’s important to concentrate only on those sites that allow dofollow links. Here’s a guide to getting those backlinks:
- YouTube: The video sharing platform allows you to add a description to any uploaded video and to include a website address. However, links in those sections are nofollow. To get a dofollow link, the URL must be placed on the YouTube channel header.
- Hub Pages: Hub Pages is picky; to be able to have a dofollow link, you must meet its requirements. Your account either needs to have a certain number of points (75) or the score of a particular hub needs to be at least 40 to create dofollow links in hubs. Dofollow links are not allowed in comments or profiles.
- WordPress: When you create a post on a free-hosted WordPress blog, you have a choice of making the links in the entry either dofollow or nofollow via the content management system; however,all comment links and profile links are nofollow.
- Blogger (Blogspot): As Google property, Blogger links that you get from posts are dofollow, however links in the comments area are nofollow.
- Tumblr: Tumblr is another popular blogging platform whose trackbacks from reblogged posts are nofollow. However, if you share a link to content on Tumblr by clicking the green “Link” button, those links will be dofollow.
- Reddit: Reddit links to your post directly (not via a redirect), and all links from it are dofollow.
- LinkedIn: Your LinkedIn feed is full of short links to third-party sites that are dofollow. These pass PageRank via a 301 redirect,but many are not searchable on Google and likely not taken into account in determining PageRank. However, those in the “My Publications” section in your public LinkedIn Profile are dofollow and are accessible via 302 redirects.
- BizSugar: BizSugar is a great social media platform that allows you to share small business news and tips on topics such as entrepreneurship. The links you add on your content are dofollow.
- Google+:
On Google+, not all links are created equal. For example, the links you get when sharing text content are nofollow, as are the ones in the comments section of posts. However, if you specifically go to the “Share what’s new” section and click on the link icon, you will be provided with a dofollow link.In the latest Panda 4.0 release on May 19th, it appears that Google has shut down the dofollow link capability, and has made Google+ profile links nofollow.
With the sites above, you will have a great start to your link-building efforts. Don’t have time to post to several different sites? Social media management tools can help you manage many of them. Once you get started and begin to see results, it will become a habit that’s worth continuing.
Edit: Entry was edited to reflect Google+ capabilities changes.
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These Information were really helpful. Never Knew about BizSugar which I tried and saw the true benefit of it. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for information
is really helpful info for those want to build some link
Thank you for this great information. BizSugar is really good
Never knew about bizsugar and many thanks
Had a crack with Google + but with no success. Posted from the specific section mentioned above, under the link section, and all links to the website I was trying to create a backlink for contained the no follow tag. Could this have been recently changed or am I maybe doing it wrong?
Hi, Tim. Thanks for replying. Google had another update recently, so we are double-checking that procedure on this has not changed.
Tim, looks like you’re not doing anything wrong. In the latest Panda 4.0 release on May 19th, it appears that they may have shut down the dofollow link capability. Google even made profile links nofollow. There has been no official release from Google addressing this, but that is usually they operate.
Sorry we can’t help with that!
Thanks for the update Stephen! have had success with the other listed social mediums at least. Thanks for the response
No problem. Thanks for reading!
Hii thanks for posting top 9 sites but my question is do profile backlinks still works for getting good rank in google ?
In last 1 year we have seen lots of new updates from google, which are not supporting backlinks .
Regards
Hi, Sumit. Thanks for reading. It appears that the May 19th update changed all profile links to nofollow. So I think the answer is that they don’t anymore. Does that answer your question?
i don’t like hubpages at all for link building. to much stress and someday your articles will be deleted for one reason or another.
I have been building backlinks for my website and never knew the Google blogger trick of listing “Favourite Websites” as a way of getting indexed. I have blogs on WP and Blogger and had some success with those.
What are your thoughts of Youtube Videos as one of the backlink sources?
I also just learned about Indexing and will be using the service soon as I am a big believer of “T.I.M.” ( time is money )
I just wish I knew about SEO a year and half ago when I started my business
Thank You
Thanks your information social media backlink
Thank you for this sharing and this nice post
Thank you for this article, I wonder if we could receive backlinks facebook. is this possible?
Thanks for your question. Generally, YouTube backlinks are no-follow, which means that they will not provide any SEO boost to your site. They are still helpful, however, in providing quality referral traffic. Generally, a healthy and natural backlink portfolio includes a share of no-follow links, so it’s always good to have a few.
Very helpful stuff, never thought to use these sites to make backlinks. Thanks!
Hi, this is very helpfull. How about the link in forum profile, such as Last FM or Behance? Are they ‘do-follow’ or ‘no follow’ link? Thanks
Youtube is my best source for getting backlinks but if we have social legit profiles with a website address in it then that would be the best method to gain high quality and high PR domain backlinks.
Thank you for sharing this resource list. This is really helpful.
Nice list of social media profiles that offer dofollow links, Its really a great resource for bloggers and business people like me. thanks for sharing this post.
Was not familiar with BizSugar yet. Thank you for mentioning it
if any one tell me,if i post some update on my facebook page,after how many likes facebook give a back-link to my website.
The content of this post was super helpful, but what makes this post great is that the author didn’t feel a need to write a thousand word article to impress Google.
I am sick of reading long rambling posts just so the author can get a word count.
Well done, Ms. Brehme
P.S. I am sick of those social sharing bars that cover the content of a page too. I have to be really interested in the content to stick around if one of those obstructs my view.
Knowledgeable article.Would you please tell how can i get backlink from yahoo.
These tips are SEO goldmine! Didn’t know all about these, all the while I was made to believe that alllinks created in social media profiles are no follow. Thank you so much for sharing. These will be of great help for all of us bloggers and website owners. Keep up the good work! Really a helpful article. Kudos to you!
Hi Stephen, Nice article.I have a question, If i’m writing my own blog from blogger. Then the links which I put on these blogs are do-follow or No-follow.
Hi, Elin. Thanks for reading. Those links are do-follow. Anything that appears in comments or replies to those entries, however, are no-follow.
Thanks for sharing great resource of social media all of them are truly worthy to get good back links from it,many thanks
Thank you for these guides on blogs,im new to all this and appreciate any help i can get .
Cheers Alison. I hadn’t seen Bizsugar before, and ended up spending a half hour reading some of their content
Given my website links in all of the above mentioned sites… Thank you so much for the tip
Really great stuff. I got a couple of them to work the first try. Thanks.
Thanks for valuable information about profile backlink. Dofollow backlink increase Google PR and all search engine ranking. Your site is very helpful.
Thanks a lot.. Really helped me a lot. Keep it up
thanks for great info… What about triberr I heard that was good for backlinks
That stinks that Google will not let the Google plus be a dofollow.
thanks for this. It was drivign me crazy as to why facebook, twitter, flickr,and instagram didnt show up in my webmaster tools. I guess they are also no follows now
Thanks for sharing.
A point worth mentioning: even though Google removed G+’s follow juice from content shared, if you’re a business with a physical address, register a Google Local page. It operates the same as your Google+ page but you get strong link juice from it. You’ll have to request a code via postcard from Google itself (takes 1-2 weeks to arrive) and then enter it within your new Local’s page once you receive it.
These sites are great places for getting a Do follow link as well as improving SEO. I didn’t know that Tumbler, Google + provide a do follow link. This post will be helpful for new bloggers like me.
Merci d’avoir mis se lien de Backlinks Dofollow.
Etant nouveau sur un projet de site dans la plomberie, il est très difficile pour moi de bien comprendre la différence entre du Nofollow et le Dofollow.
Se lien me permet d’avancer sur mes questions.
Merci encore pour ce document.
Salut a tous, super sympa d’avoir partage se lien pour le dofollow.
this seems to be very nice collection of PR- 10 websites but the links they generally give are nofollow by default…what we can try now!!
Thumbs up for this information. Looks like, the list above sounds good. It is unfortunate that big G has taken down the dofollow link on Google +
very nice article. It was drivign me crazy as to why facebook, twitter, flickr,and instagram didnt show up in my webmaster tools. I guess they are also no follows now
Hi….. I am a new blogger and I have recently came to know how important backlinks are, specially do-follow backlinks. How do you think new bloggers like me can create do-follow backlinks.Inspite of the fact that we do genuine work, still it’s tough for us to get good quality backlinks. Please reply.
Great article. There are several other social media sites that do give do follow links besides on the ones listed above. One can do a search online.
I was searching to find out whether Tumblr provided dofollow links and eventually I came across your article. It is really difficult to get up to date information since links change from dofollow to nofollow on sites. Hopefully nothing has changed since you wrote this article. Thanks for the information.
Hi, Ramneek. I think this website article has several good tips on accomplishing this. Thanks for reading.
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Thanks for the info… i will definately going to build this nine easy backlinks..
Very useful resource, thanks for sharing!
These Information were really helpful. Never Knew about BizSugar which I tried and saw the true benefit of it. Thanks a lot for such a nice one.
Thanks for sharing this useful information. We have created two websites discountforsure.in and blogshub.net. We will build the backlinks using your tips. Thank you.
Thanks for this helpful post, i was already looking for a way to build backlink to my new blog
Really nice Alison, these are wonderful sets of back links! I will give them a try and let you know my results, thank you so much.
thanks a lot
Hi, I just found you web actually about this post. Nice share brother, I just understand about tumblr nofollow and dofollow. thank you
Great info for backlinks! Thanks
Thanks for sharing that info. I didn’t know about the youtube linking. I really liked your post. Keep up good work.
very nice article. It was drivign me crazy as to why facebook, twitter, flickr,and instagram didnt show up in my webmaster tools.
YouTube: The video sharing platform allows you to add a description to any uploaded video and to include a website address. However, links in those sections are nofollow. To get a dofollow link, the URL must be placed on the YouTube channel header.
where do i find the YouTube Channel Header??? to place this link you speak of?
directions in detail would be helpful thanks, i can find nothing you speak of
All the social media sites ad a nofollow rel to their links the last couple of years but in the beginning they did not do that so all the links on youtube facebook google+ etc then were dofollow , my question is the links from before they implemented the nofollow are they still count as dofollow?
So if i buy a old domain name with lots of social media links pointing to it from years ago, are all those links still dofollow and give that website a enormous amount of linkjuice, because they dont have the nofollow rel in it?
they been added to new link links but they did not change the old ones or did they and am i wrong here? does anyone knows?
Hi, Brian. We had to do some digging, but… the YouTube channel header is also named channel art; that is the place where a dofollow link can still be added. This post does a good job of explaining where it is and how to add that link in: http://www.minimatters.com/blog/youtube-links-work/
It’s hard to say. I think the best thing for you to do once you buy your former domain is to focus on building your domain ranking up again. Review Moz.co for best practices. Those old links may still apply, but it’s hard to say without specifics. Google’s algorithm has changed so much that most of those dofollows could be obsolete.
Finally an article that gets into a little more detail on which links are treated as dofollows. all this time i thought any link on these sites were dofollow’s (especially google+, wow im way off). Now i know, thanks for the great article, you saved my website’s reputation. Keep it up Allison!
Salut, Je viens de découvrir que vous web fait sur ce poste. Belle part frère, je comprends à peu près tumblr nofollow et dofollow. merci
Thanks for the list; Squidoo and Hubpages are very picky as you mentioned…I wouldnt mind wasting time on those sites.
Excellent article! We are linking to this great article on our website.
It’s difficult to say but I know the best thing for you to do once you buy your former domain is to focus on building your domain ranking up again. This will cause a redirect and Google doesnt like it much.
this was a great information resource for our professional movers. Thanks