Double Your Search Traffic
If your website is already ranking in the top Google results for your profitable keywords, you can double your website listing and traffic by creating and ranking another similar web page. So, instead of just one listing in the search results Google will return two listings for your website. This page may contain the product reviews, customers’ testimonials, product editions, editor’s picks, and some other information.
To get that second page listed within the Google results, link to it heavily from other pages of your website. Google will automatically attach it as an indented result next to your first listing. See an example of a double website listing below.
If internal links do not help the new page rank in the search engine, you may need to build links to it from external sites as well.
When it comes to link building, traditional link building methods such as directory submission, article submission, press releases, reciprocal linking, blog commenting and some other are great. That’s what almost all webmasters do for solid long-term results.
But sometimes when you’re at the beginning of your link building campaign, you may want to quickly get a couple of quality "DoFollow" links. With all that said, I’d like to share with you a couple of quick "DoFollow" link building opportunities for your new web page:
- Post on educational blogs. You can search for blogs set up on trusted academic domains and leave a relevant comment. Many of those blogs may be NoFollow but not all. You can enter a search query like below into Fast Blog Finder Gold Edition to search for .edu blogs in your niche. Then filter the blogs by the Type to show only DoFollow links and read the posts. If you feel you can add something to the conversation, leave your comment to get a DoFollow link in return.
Example:"some keywords" inurl:".edu"
- Setup a profile on Twitter. In your profile settings you can type a couple of links into the Bio field, for example, www.yourdomain2.com, www.yourdomain2.com, etc. Note that if you only setup an account, that will do no good. But if you are an active user, those links may send some traffic to your website and give some SEO benefit.
- Post on LinkedIn Answers website. You can setup a user account on LinkedIn Answers, search for questions relevant to your market niche and post answers. Be serious and use your regular user name, write a helpful answer and include a link to your website or blog for more information.
- Use DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites. There are a number of social bookmarking sites where the links located on the first page are "DoFollow". You can start with less popular websites that require fewer votes to get to the front page.
Here are some of "DoFollow" social bookmarking sites:
Furl (PR7)
Backflip (PR6)
Bibsonomy (PR6)
LinkaGoGo (PR6)
Mister-Wong (PR6)
Raw Sugar (PR6)
Spurl (PR6)
Buddy Marks (PR5)
Jumptags (PR5)
MyJeeves / Ask (PR5)
It’s a good idea to add a "Bookmark It" button to your website. This will make it easy for your readers to vote for your site in social bookmarking services. You can use this free Social bookmarking tool to generate a code with the "Bookmark It" image and a link to a list of 80+ social bookmarking services.
Example of the code: <a href="http://www.expertarticles.com/bookmark/?url=http://www.fastblogfinder.com& title=Fast Blog Finder">Bookmark with Your Social Network</a>
You place the "Bookmark It" button on your website or blog. By clicking just one button your readers will be able to vote for your website in dozens of social bookmarking sites.
Note that these tricky tactics cannot compete with general link building methods and I do not want you to focus on them as your primary methods to get links. I just want you to keep them in mind as unconventional link building ideas that sometimes may be helpful to kick start your link building process.
Please, share your thoughts in comments.
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This is great information. I am excited about applying these linking strategies to my website. Thanks much.
Nice post! I learnt a couple of things…first of all there are a couple social bookmarking sites I didn’t know about…thanks.
Next is the KeywordLuv plugin…thats a new one to me and I like it.
I do have one problem though , why don’t your links open in a new window? It is a pain using the backbutton , especially since I plan on going to have a better look at KeywordLuv. Just a thought
I knew about Yahoo Answers but not LinkedIn Answers, that’s great. Thanks for listing which social sites are do follow.
I have to do my own link building. I can’t afford a high priced SEO; so, your suggestions are very valuable to me. The socil networking approach is new to me, I will follow your directions.
Julia,
Great tips once again. The bad things about many of the DoFoloow blogs is that once they get found by “the majority” it becomes a SPAM blog and then the blog owners convert to rel=NoFollow. Thanks to your software a found a high PR DoFollow Blog that is still obscure. Keep up the good work.
Posting on education blogs! That’s an awesome idea. Do you think that the social bookmark links count as much as links from blogs etc?
Excellent tips! I have have good success with setting up several pages on different websites and free blogging platforms which were all linked together and bookmarked on various sites. Not forgetting doing some videos too! Linking is important and the more you can do yourself the better
Michael
This is a fantastic topic Julia. I especially found the Social Bookingmarking advice very helpful.
Great practical tips. If I may be so bold here are a few additions to your list:
#1 - This works also works for “inurl:.gov”. Believe it or not there are a couple places you can place links, you just have to be sure you stay on topic, they are heavily moderated.
#3 - I have had lost of success using Yahoo Anwsers too.
#4 - For social bookmarking I also like to use Mixx. They use DoFollow tags plus I’ve noticed that they way they index you end up getting lots of back-links from a single post.
Hope this helps!
Charles
The Twitter suggestion is a good one. The top web marketer in my company’s industry has created a significant number of backlinks by setting up profiles on similar sites and having its employees set up profiles with links back to the company site. I’m sure those links don’t get much traffic, but they do seem to be getting tallied by search engines.
This sounds like helpful information, so thank you very much. I must admit, though, it seems crazy (so to speak) that professionals in the helping fields of medicine, psychotherapy, nursing, physical therapy, etc., are required to dance as hard and fast to the tune of a new search engine algogrithm as someone who sells tires or high-speed internet services. I am very appreciative of the fact that most of the individuals and couples that I see have been referred by physicians, other therapists, and patients/clients themselves. I wonder, though, what is a newly-minted psychologist or physician in private practice–or a small business owner of any sort–supposed to do, if they’re not hip to the lingo of social networking sites, in-bound links, and so on? The SEO companies are expensive (and, yes, and arguably worth it), and the learn-it-yourself approach can take weeks.
At any rate, thank you again for your advice.–No doubt it will be very useful to most everyone who reads it.
nice list of dofollow bookmarking sites
great way to get some link juice
I think social bookmarks really can pay off it done in the right way, I have used Digg and found it really good for getting indexed and customers to the site.
Great Information! Even though we are a leading UK Private Investigation company and our site listing is always within the first 2 pages of the majoy search engines we dont find that our initail traffic rates are as we would like! We are always looking for more methods etc that can help and therefor your information is very welcomed……
Oh and your information pariculary on bookmarking is very interesting / helpful…………….. Thanks Josh - D&C Private Investigators.
hello, i am a loyal customer, your blogfinder software is a main part of my SEO strategy. I have 5 profiles with all the dofollow social networks, ones not on your list you can use are;
digg
propeller
newsvine
reddit
a-1webmarks
connectedy
mixx
cheers
Those are some really good ideas. I have been trying to use the social bookmarking more in my linking stratagies. I have seen some of them in my cpanel stats, so I know they are working. I wish I knew more of the different syntax to use when searching for the different sites, like you used “inurl”. Is there a place to learn some of these syntax’s?
Thanks, Steve
LinkedIn Answers seems a great idea. Didnt know about this one. Some great ideas there.
I’ve used Digg but dont overdo it. I submitted too many pages from the same site and got banned
Yet another excellent post! SEO tweaks like this can make all the difference, but the best tool by far is the fast blog finder software - great job and keep up the good work!
Julia:
Thank you for sharing even more useful and informative information everyone can benefit from using.
We always look forward to your communications. Your insights and suggestions are very helpful.
Really good tips and ideas.I am new in internet marketing and still learning about everything.I like your site because is easy to follow and very useful.
Cheers.
Instead of just using Twitter I like to set up a number of “micro blogs” and then use the tool at hellotxt.com to submit to all of them at once. Great little time saver.
Nice!
Educational blogs plus videos and some audio makes students easier to learn and studying in the internet makes more fun and interesting.
I find that social bookmarking is good more for short term effects, as it gives a spike to my traffic but does not sustain, unless I keep on at it — which is time-consuming. I get more long term results from my article submissions.
Some very good points to build upon, I have recently just started with the Social Networks and find them very time consuming but recommended to acquire some decent back links.I tend to lean toward article writing and content writing as one well written article can send you traffic for years to come.
Nice post and straight to the point.
Very interesting post, as well as we can find the right blog in our writing language.
As a portuguese native writer and marketeer, I’ve not many choices with DoFollow blogs, but I’m fighting against my lazyness in order to start trying social sites. May be some english articles could do form me what I’m looking…
I use social poster which has an option to post to DoFollow social Sites only. I have read in a few places that you should never submit your own websites. What do you think?
Thanks, Tom
thank you for share.
great way to export our bookmark and import them to other social bookmark.
Is there any social bookmark that has import facility out there ?
I see such as digg, reddit etc as mention by “learn to drive” has no provide this option.
So it’s hard to write one by one from many other previous my favourit site.
Thank you Julia for a very informative post.
I have the free version of Fast Blog Finder and after reading your post am now going to upgrade to the Gold Version.
I didn’t know about the Example:”some keywords” inurl:”.edu” strategey, but can see massive benefits to using it now.
Thanks for sharing
Regards
Rob.
Wrong advice on twitter- No SEO benefit -no follow links
I can really attest to the power of using dofollow social bookmarking sites. I have taken a newly launched site from zero to over 6000 unique visitors in July and the site was only launched in late May. I have used social bookmarking almost exclusively to promote the site, so this method works really well.
I am now getting to the stage where I am close to launching the product and am going to start posting to blogs via fast blog finder. It will be interesting to see how this pans out over the next couple of months.
I’ll report back in September.
Thanks for the great post!
I have the Gold Edition and am very pleased to know that i can use the inurl operator for edu blogs. I am also using socialmarker . com to submit to all those social sites with dofollow just like what you’ve suggested above.
Just a quick question, when you said
“But sometimes when you’re at the beginning of your link building campaign, you may want to quickly get a couple of quality “DoFollow” links.”
Do you mean what using the 4 strategies listed in this post are only for short term and NOT long term?
thanks
Judy
Cheers for this never really thought too much about link building to the inner pages .But yes 2 results in the top 10 has got to be better than 1
The clever people over at Stompernet have actually proved that have two links from your web site show up in Google as a ‘buddy pair’ is actually much better than at first thought. The click through rates go up dramatically if you can achieve a buddy pair!
Hi Julia
I have just started using the free version of fast blog finder to try and get another page in the top 10 I was wondering is there some thing that we can do to find out if unknown is do follow or no follow
Cheers David
Unless less I missed something everything here is about the link and not link text. In your example for the phrase “Blog Commeting Software” did the link text to the url …/downloads include that phrase? Or was it a different phrase. Was the goal to get to listing for the same “keyword phrase”? Or were you trying to get that page listed for any search that pulls up your home page?
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Hello David,
You can filter the blogs by the Type field and separate only Unknown blogs. Then select all Unknown blogs, click the right mouse button and select the “Detect link type using deep scan” option. The Blog Finder will scan the latest 10 posts on those blogs and if there are any comments for 10 latest posts, the Blog Finder will detect the link type. In the result, the accuracy of detecting the link type greatly increases.
Good tips- not so sure about Twitter though. Maybe I’m just too old, but I just don’t get Twitter.
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Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I searched for a while to find the right answer to my questions!
Thanks for the post… I totally agree. Many times the obvious choices for gaining links are found out quickly, and the spammed like crazy. As a result, the admins enable the ‘nofollow’ attribute becuase their site is flooded with garbage. I for one, am glad NOT to be part of that crazy trip.
Thanks for keeping the dofollow blogs a little bit under the radar so that there are still plenty available for the rest of us non-spammers.
Excellent information Julia.I am an IM newbie and have just started trying to build my links and your info is what I need right now.I find that it is very hard when you are just starting out to find where to go to get this sort of info.I will certainly follow your posts now and when I know a little more will be able to contribute .
Thank you for the tips! I’ve been researching many SEO sites & have not come across this information. I’ve bookmarked the site so I can refer back to this information anytime. I ran this info past a couple friends that specialize in seo & they had never heard about Fast Blog Finder. I think they will quickly become avid users in the near future. I can’t wait to try it out as well. Thanks again for the help!