Sites that will give you free good links (dofollow)

[Irule22]

Hey Cynic. I have a website that sells autographed movie posters, photos, etc. Check it out...Autograph Dreams - Movie Posters, Autographed, Celebrity, Cast Signed, Photo, Scarface, Godfather, Hollywood Memorabilia, Television Memorabilia. I am new to all of this and am learning how to get traffic up, so I am going to need alot of "Hand Holding".

[Irule22]

Wow, I just saw how the link popped up in this thread, how the HECK did it show up like that??

[GreenBean]

Hey! I can answer that.... I think LOL. You inserted a link and ergo it comes up in the thread. (sort of,maybe?)

[The_Cynic]

Hey there Gary,

When you post a url it automatically grabs the page title to use as the anchor text.

---Dump the login requirement, it will Kill your sales conversion ratio. You will get email addresses after they buy anyway. Plus it is much cleaner to give a freebie away to build a mailing list.

--I checked out your site. Yahoo says you have 930+ links but almost all of those come from anythingwholesalaz. Your google page rank is 0.

----Did the Brody guys do your site? If they did, you should ask for money back because they gave you a CRAP file structure. Those database query string URLs are search engine death.
----You should remove the links to their site

---Not to even mention your dupe content issues.

As it stands your site will have a very hard time in the Search engines.

I did see you had some digg submissions too. That's a good use of your time, You should think of developing some content pages that will get dugg.

As for me linking from my sites, I am sorry to say that I am extremely wary of autographed stuff. I have read estimates that 95% of the autographed stuff out there is bogus. No disrespect to you on that, but I would want to see some proof that your autographs are kosher before I link.

Overall, Sorry to say, but I recommend, scrapping your site and getting a free word press download and a free wordpress css template. That will fix the url problem and give you a seo friendly basis to work on. Or keep the site up and redo another one with wordpress.

[411guru]

Gary,

You only have 5 links in google when I search for your address. Not good. Google is not picking up your product urls. Did you have google analytics or google webmasters tool. You should submit your site map to google. It will help google find all your pages faster, not just home page. Also set google bot crawl rate to high.

[Irule22]

Hey Cynic, I sent you a PM with some other questions, but just wanted to thank you on here as well for such informative and helpful suggestions. Thanks.

[The_Cynic]

I came across a neat little tip to get tip to get several hundred links.

There are literally thousands of free software download sites. Some of the most downloaded programs are niche screensavers. ex. AC/DC screensavers, KISS screensavers, etc...., Through creative commons and others you can get clean, roayalty free pics to use in your screensavers

Now bear with me, There is a lot of crap adware that also get gets into a lot of screensaver downloads, since to install a screensaver you give a .exe active x permission. I am not talking about adding any adware or malware. Let me be CLEAR. I am trying the experiment of making a few CLEAN screensavers, and then giving them as free downloads from pages that will greatly benefit from the links, then submitting the screensavers to free software download sites

The questions for me,

-How many links will giving away a screensaver get me?

plus ancillary questions,

-are the links good ?, and

-what effect will the links from mostly non relevant software download sites do for me?

Preliminary answers

-- You will get as many links as the sites you submit the screensaver to, up to 2,000 sites, submitted = 2,000 links

-- Most software download sites will give 2 links, one to the direct download file and another one to your page on which the download is found.
From preliminary checking 80- 90% of the links are good.

(Note, name your screensaver with the KEYWORDS you want to rank for)

-- Non relevant site links do not count as much as links from relevant sites and in certain cases they can distort your link profile. HOWEVER, from my own experiments with comment Kahuna and few other scripts, I say that those links will still give a HUGE boost to your serps ranking.

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To get started, there a few cheap sources for screensaver makers, and then you just fill out a simple pad file for form completes.

The only real limitation is the amount of time you want to spend making screensavers and submitting them to the free download sites.

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----- WARNING!!!!! keep your screensavers CLEAN. The software sites review submissions for malware and adware, messing with those will probably do your site more harm that good.

[The_Cynic]

I have been thinking about the question of how a raft of links from nonrelevent sites will do for your serps. A couple of examples come to mind that illustrate the point.

The search term "Buy Viagra" -- one of the most competitive on the net. the # 18 result is a --linked in page--, that was basically used as a proxy to drive traffic to the sites that were linked to from that page. In checking out the page's backlinks I found about a hundred bacl links from crappy chinese forums, those forum links had nothing to do with viagra. They were just weak ass forums run copied windows server software that is a walk to exploit. Pure non relevant spam links, but they propelled the page to #18 for one of the most competitive search terms on the net. ( Note doman trust of --LinkedIn-- had a big part to do in the success too). Plus those forum injection spam links have a very short life.

Now compare that to links from software download sites (as I suggest above). Most of the download sites are "trusted" high PR domains. The links are longer term too, as long as your download link still works, the other link should work too.

-- now what if you combined the proxy page technique (ala Linkedin, squidoo, etc..) with the download site links? I think you could have an unbeatable technique here to own the serps.

IMO of course, but I would love to hear any of your thoughts on this. cheers!

[The_Cynic]

I found another site that gives free good do follow links.

ScrnShots: Share your inspiration

The account is free and they allow for a source link which is a good do follow link.

example

ScrnShots: spoongraphics's Screenshots

see the link in the top right nav bar under description

The PR of the site is 4, not great great, but hey for a free good link, not bad either.

[2001kx]

so how is this working out for you?

Comment Kahuna | Free Link Building Software

i just downloaded and am gonna play with it...i need lots of help on my 0 rank new website..

[The_Cynic]

Overall, it's pretty good, although some of the forums which they classify as do follow were in fact rel=nofollow. For about 15 minutes time you can jam out 10 links in relevant forums.

For a freebie it's good.

It finds relevant forums, so your posts can be on topic.

[2001kx]

it quit working for me?
when i do a search with commentluv nothing comes up no matter what keyword i use?

[2001kx]

Originally Posted by 2001kx

it quit working for me?
when i do a search with commentluv nothing comes up no matter what keyword i use?

i fixed it...had to delete everything and start over.

[The_Cynic]

Another place to get 3 or 4 good links is a yahoo profile. The members area of yahoo is PR 7 but I am sure the profile stuff is discounted by google. No matter still a nice free good link source.

example

portlandposterpole's Yahoo! profile

[2eXclusiive]

Do you know of any "paid" do-follow links for very good ranking sites?

[aspkin]

There are tons of sites where you can buy backlinks fairly cheap. Do a Google search for backlinks.

[2eXclusiive]

Yea, but how can you tell the garbage ones from the good ones. The good ones are more difficult to find.

[The_Cynic]

The best company to buy links is text Link Ads, Text Link Ads - Smart Link Marketing They are expensive, but they they have some awesome sites high PR, authority sites.

I would look at writing some link bait or a doing a widget. More links /$ with those.


Also don't discount the value of links you can get by giving away a screensaver as I posted about above.

[The_Cynic]

I neglected to mention one other source of free good links. You Ebay about me page. There was an ebay proposal to nix off ebay links from all ebay pages, but they reversed it. You can link from your ebay about me page. The links are good. I checked.

warning ebay link

http://cgi3.ebay.com/robots.txt

You can link from your listings as long you follow their restrictive rules.

---- Also ebay store URLs can be very strong on the SERPS. If you want your ebay store to rank just point a few links at it. That's something that just proved itself to me firsthand.

Cheers!

[The_Cynic]

A couple new ones

jeqq.com

linkatopia.com

and

bringr.com

All good links

[The_Cynic]

A few others I have had luck with

Mixx - Latest news and top videos and photos from around the web

and plime.com*:*popular links

Plime is funny because they supposedly vote on what gets in to their system. But, I have had submissions that were "Voted" down but the urls are still good and they still show in the serps.

Plime urls are good in the serps, that's for sure

[aspkin]

Interesting... I need to spend like 4 hours and go through all these sites for backlinks.