Getting Links from the Top 50 Domains
The good folks over at SEOMoz have provided us with a list of the Top 500 Linked Domains according to the Linkscape index. I thought it would be interesting to start churning through the list and finding out how search marketers, spammers, etc. are finding ways to get their links on each of these incredible domains. Some of them are incredibly sneaky and blackhat (check out the Flickr and AOL links, for example).
Here is a list of the top 50 or so. (Sometimes we have to resort to subdomains)…
- Google.com: get in the directory
- Adobe.com: followed forum links
- Blogspot.com: If you cant figure out how to get a link on blogspot, give up now.
- Yahoo.com: join the directory
- Youtube.com: Create your own channel
- Wikipedia.org: Add it, it will be nofollowed, but still worth it.
- W3.org : Newsletter Auto-Linking
- Facebook.com: Facebook Apps (check out the retailer icons)
- WordPress.org: Write a Good Plugin (Author Homepage)
- Myspace.com: If you can’t figure out how to get a link on myspace, you need to give up on SEO.
Check out the link to gamespot on this page. - Microsoft.com: Amapedia FTW
- Macromedia.com: Get Mentioned, hard link to get
- WordPress.com: Create a Blog, If you can’t figure out how to get a link on wordpress.com, you need to give up on SEO.
- Flickr.com: Add and Edit a Comment
Create a comment with a link in it like this… <a rel=”follow” href=”http://www.yoursite.com”>text</a>. Flickr will add a nofollow after the HREF, but the rel=”follow” will already have been parsed. Sneaky, eh? - StatCounter.com: Member profile Contact Info
- Miibeian.gov.cn : Good luck
- Msn.com: Movies Search Results
- Apple.com: Get Written About. Yeah, this one is tough.
- AOL.com: Propeller cross-domain. Now that is clever!
- MapQuest.com : Map Listings
- Sourceforge.net: Forum Profile Pages
- NYtimes.com: It never ceases to amaze me what spammers can find.
- Feedburner.com: Feed Links Count.
- CNN.com: Create a Fan Nation Blog
- Free.fr: Create a Site
- Tripod.com: If you don’t know how to get a link from tripod, you need to give up on SEO.
- Live.com: Create a blog on Windows Live Spaces
- Go.com: Create a Sports Nation Fan Blog
- Addthis.com: Only nofollows from forum links.
- Typepad.com: Create a Blog
- PHPbb.com: Signature Links
- Digg.com: Go Popular. Write fantastic content and get on the homepage of Digg to get PR flowing links.
- technorati.com: Site Reactions Pages and others
- del.icio.us (now delicious.com): Get mentioned on the blog
- php.net: Become a Mirror
- imdb.com: make a movie or documentary
- about.com: followed links in the forums
- ebay.com: user pages have followed links
- rambler.ru: forum links followed
- blogger.com: Get into the “Blogs I follow”
- fc2.com: Blog
- joomla.org: followed links in the forum
- google.de: Directory
- creativecommons.org: Try installing ccHost and mentioning your installation
- Mysql.com: Forge Comments
How to Find Link Targets
I thought it may make sense to mention how to find some of these link targets. While there are some more sophisticated tools available to those willing to delve in blackhat strategies, the easiest thing to do is find out what others are doing. Let’s say your target is myspace.com
- Check the linkfromdomain command in Bing to find out .
- Then choose a domain from the list and check for links to it in site explorer from myspace. This will help you find the actual pages on myspace that link out.
- Then go to a few of those pages and look in the source code for examples of how that link was placed. Make sure to check for nofollow
- The other option is just search google for site:yourtarget.com “cheap viagra”. Chances are, if there is a hole, it has been exploited by someone promoting generic pills.
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Not sure I understand the Flickr entry. Can you explain a little more?
Wow, very interesting! Thanks for the tip.
I think Flickr must have changed because I have tried this several times and is not working for me, Flickr removes the first rel tag each time I try this method.
Oops! It does work. I was confused because I thought you were talking about the description and not the comments. Yes, it does work in the comments.
At least someone has found that. I hope that Flickr will now fix this.
I think I will stick to the old fashioned way of getting my links. The best I have had was from creating a WordPress plugin..
I am guessing Google will not count it, but I started a test and will report back if it works or not.
I maybe retarded but how can you get SEO links from myspace?….i guess i should give up on SEO.
Interesting list and I think the idea has some merit, but I’m not sure people should count on child inheritance from the mother domains. That would be too simple.
These Websites offer some visibility to people, and visibility has always been important to marketing. I doubt most of them would help much with search engine optimization, though.
Very Interesting, it is not possible to get a link a each Website.
Great info thanks seems like this is becoming more important by the day!
“Blogspot.com: If you cant figure out how to get a link on blogspot, give up now.”
^ Now dat dere is darn funny! ^
Very interesting, thank you for the information!
I’m with Ryan,
I thought all links from myspace were redirected as 302’s through the msplinks domain. Can you show me on example of a direct link (using image alt text) from an image in Myspace?
Cheers
Idea is good!!! But, do you think Google giving importance to comment links?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
Thank You, MERCI!
Nice tips.
Yer I think Flickr stopped these likes after Dave Nayor did a live example in a seminar on how to get these links.
I approve of this entire post.
“IMDB – Make a movie” – Not the simplest advice ever, but full marks for logic!
r.e #14 Flikr: Matt Cutts has already said publicly that Google will make sure in the future that rel=”nofollow” takes precedence in links. http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=5339458995acf256&hl=en
I think number 14 is quite a cheeky one really, and I wouldn’t do it personally. Also, Matt Cutts said the nofollow will take precedence (in future at least) – so I’m sure adding ‘follow’ to a link won’t do anything.
I did a blog post on the nofollow exploitation last month:
http://webtoastie.co.uk/nofollow-exploitations/
Great post! Thank you for sharing!
hey thanks a lot for that list and tips.
Hi Author,
Kieron already reconfirmed that Matt Cutts has said quite clearly that in instances when people attempt to confuse links by adding an additional rel attribute the nofollow will take priority, and that they will update their engine accordingly. Therefore #14 is a pointelss excercise (for building a follow link anyway)
Not sure if this is valid anymore, but re: IMDB you can actually pay to create an actor profile (or used to be able to). Then link out to your “profile site”…
Thanks from France, very interesting, i hope that Stéphane will wake up and use it.
Thanks for this link, it’s very good link
Damn spammers are smart 🙂
thanks for the list
i think to get site listed in google directory, site need to get listed first and dmoz and it will automatically appear there. IMO,
wow, so much of info, am sure budding new spammers will find this really helpful 😛
some of it is good though, i mean if someone cares to put meaningful and helpful posts and replies then a backlink from the forum or a comment is well earned, but the question is, how many will do that…
just went through most of those links and they were badly spammed 🙁
This is a useful list but I would double check that the links you are building are for pages that actually get indexed by search engines. I found many forum comments not indexed. If Google can’t find the links, it doesn’t really help you.
Great Post. I think no good PR website give us link in our Website.
You can ensure they get picked up by linking your profiles together. Or chuck a couple of spammy links at them.
Great list, thanks. Hope that people will not all walk thru this list in the same pattern now…
Very interesting, thank you!
Getting in the Google directory is a good way. It can take you time, however.
Has anyone accomplished all or most of these?
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great tips, dmoz for sure takes a while to get included though, i think i’ll start in the middle and go about it randomly
Wow, this is an amazing list. Thank you so much, I’ll let you know if it really works after a while.
Great Post.
The link after 11) didnt work – thanks
very interesting 🙂