Building quality links to your site will help it grow, and gain organic traffic from search engines. This is key to the success of your blog or website. So what social sites are good for link building?
Best Social Sites For Link Building
Hub Pages is a great option for link building. You need to build your profile to have a ranking above 74 before your links get nofollow taken from them. This isn’t hard if you plan to have more that 4-5 hubs.
Squidoo is a good option. You can create a lens on any of your niche topics and embed follow links back to your main sites.
Both these sites give you tools to create great media rich content, and is ideal for link building.
Best article sites For Link Building
The best options for building links using articles sites are:
E-zine – The articles can rank well in Google, and links in the resource box will carry a good amount of strength.
Go-articles – Another good option link building, articles can rank well in Google, and the links well worth your effort.
Tips for build linking on these sites
Articles on the above sites can rank quite well in Google, and the links can carry a lot of value, but for you to get the most out of them, you need to do more than just write content and hope. Good readable content is a must. Read other hubs and lenses and see what content is performing well.
Here are a couple of hubs I have created to give you an idea of the sort of level expected. Both are only very new though. I didn’t put too much effort in to either of them, as I find it easy to write about MMO topics.
Other thoughts
A good strategy for building quality links to your site is do more than simply create content on these sites, but to create content which links to your site, then build links to that content as well. A few links from social bookmarking sites will help your hubs, squidoo’s and articles to perform much better, and give much more value to them.
tom from Kotlina Klodzka
Squidoo is great but requires a lot of effort. Not everyone likes that. But if you’re willing to spend some time you will see great results.
aaron from best cell phone accessories
I agree squidoo is a great resource tool but I feel it is really becoming bogged down making it harder for your lenses to get indexed.
Rik from Motorbike Insurance Online
There seems to be a real buzz about HubPages at the moment, with Courtney Tuttle and a few of the other big IMers pushing them. Like Aaron said above, Squidoo is getting more and more abused right now – let’s hope HubPages doesn’t go the same way!
Stefan from Web Design Beach
Well i can’t agree with Kotlina. I think every social network requires a lot of effort, and that should be normal. It’s not normal to expect big returns from something if you have invested smalls. That’s the way should work with quality socials too. We have seen what happened with the ones that were easy, many have fallen over time, and only the best and quality ones like Squidoo and Ezines for example has survived.
Kasper from l4u
Nice – didn’t know about HubPages. Thanks.
Do anyone have experience with paid links btw? Will some of them still carry good value?
Snv from SEO Consultant India
From all the above sites I go through Squido and Ezine for the articles….these are really good sites as they truly benefits you in several aspects….and also in getting link juice…..too
Steve from jordans
I can see people creating hubs and lenses and then to promote them on social media or social bookmarking sites. Even they do enough seo to push them in Google to get traffic on them. I thought it will outrank your current rankings and they became your own competition. Thanks for writing a post to get some benefit form them. I am going to create a and try a few of them.
james from freesat
I love ezinearticles and go articles – they are both super easy to use. I find squidoo and hubpages a bit cumbersome but they do rank well
Cheaper from Business Gas Prices
I agree with James, ezinearticles and go articles are great to use.
jordans
@freesat, How you find that squidoo and hubpages are difficult than others? I think they are even more easy and more beneficial.
Snv from Seo uk
I had gone through this social sites they are very well in getting some link juice and also serves very well….
james from freesat
hey Jordans
I just find the web based interface of hub pages and squidoo a bit annoying to use. I like to write my content in notepad and upload it quickly….with squidoo and hub pages, it just takes more time because of the interactive onscreen website builder. The article sites I like because they are just simple text boxes…cut, paste and bam, you’re done!
Marco from sistemisti
i don’t think squidoo worth the time it require
Ninah from Free Articles for Sites
Aside from providing quality backlinks, Ezinearticles.com has also been able to give me great traffic that converts to income. The only problem is that they can be very strict with article quality.
Alex from 0845 numbers
I agree. I don’t think Squidoo is worth the amount of time it takes to make it successful.
I have had made an effort but cannot pursue it any longer.
Thanks for the article.
Indore from Corporate Housing new York
I agree with you. Squidoo is a great resource tool. But it want lot of efforts.
Tom from Fiberblend
I’ve been with Squidoo for a while, but I agree it takes alot of time. I’ve found more success with the article directories such as the ones mentioned here and also buzzle (but you have to agree for it be unique to them or they won’t publish).
Amy from Free Xbox 360
Goarticles is a brilliant resource if you write good articles. Don’t bother if you don’t want to put in the time to an original article that people actually want to read. Good article.
Snv from Seo expert uk
For my articles i always prefer Ezine as it gave my article the best promotion of my articles to get the link juice to my site….and also social sites are beneficial too…
Jane from Low Carbs
I use go articles and ezine when submitting articles, however I am never sure if I should submit to lots of articles directories, a few or just one – not sure which is best for SEO. Haven’t tried squidoo or Hub-pages – will have a look when I get chance.
Dave from Gas Gift Cards
There seems to be a real buzz about HubPages at the moment, with Courtney Tuttle and a few of the other big IMers pushing them. Like Aaron said above, Squidoo is getting more and more abused right now – let’s hope HubPages doesn’t go the same way!
dave from uk web hosting
I’ve played around with Squidoo a little bit, and it seemed pretty complex and involved. I haven’t tried Hub-pages, but I’m definitely going to give it a try.
I’ve published a couple of articles on E-zine, so I guess I’ll check out Go-articles next!
Thanks for the tips!
Tommy from Lawn Care
I’m with Jane on this too, I’ve only recently learnt about article publishing as a means of site promotion, and just had all 10 of my first articles published on 3 different sites. But I would also like to know if Google sees this as duplicated content and lowers the value of the link juice being produced.
I too was encouraged to have a look at Squidoo and signed up for an account, but I let it go after a short while, too much work and not my preference, I’d rather share knowledge in other places even if they produce less link love. My main reason for having a presence on the web is to share what I love talking about, so it’s good to keep a human aspect on things too, and find the right methods we all enjoy using.
Brian from Secret Cash Blueprint Review
I have been using hubpages and goarticles more recently as ezines changed some of their terms and I was having a hard time getting my articles accepted. Plus, you have to wait almost a week for it to get reviewed. On the sites that I put up, sometimes a week is too late for the promotions that I want. Also, squidoo has cracked down on some of the content they will allow now too. I think it may be a matter of time before some others start reducing what they accept too which is a bummer.
Michelle from Adwido Advertising
If we build links on social networking site profile, create blog etc, this surely help in a much better way to get rank your website. But the effort is to much, i agree.
Commenting is a good way to build link, but moderator is a problem, you are in the queue of uncertainty.
Terry from Laboratory Coat
Tommy, I think Google discounts the link from duplicate contents. Therefore, I suggest that if you want to submit to a lot of article directories, you should at least make a few changes on your articles. The way I see it, there are three ways to do this. One is to do it yourself manually which is great if you want quality articles. The second is to outsource it. You can get good quality rewritten articles but you have to pay. The third is to use tools to rewrite your articles. Some are free and some are not. But they are great if you want a hundred or so rewritten articles.
Hope that helps you Tommy.
On to my comment about the post… I think you could add eHow in there. I’m not really a fan of Squidoo and Hubpages but I try to create lenses and hubs just in case they really work. LOL
jack from Uk web hosting
I think the article sites are best. You can write mutiple articles and link back to site and inner pages. Hubpages and squido do help but the more articles you write the better you will do.
Michael from Chesapeake Movers
Hubpages and Squidoo are good, but how do you embed follow links on Squidoo? All the links I have seen there are nofollow.
smith
Ezine articles and dofollowblogs are sites that are also veery useful in link building.
Nimmy from Seo uk
All the soocial site sthat you mentined in your post are very good and also amongst all that Ezine i find very good for the articles.
Thanks
Belinda from Web Design Tips
I personally like GoArticles better than Ezine, because the articles are published right away, and Google picks up on the articles pretty quickly.
rick from lcd tv 32
I like some social sites and article sites. I also use some directories and submit rss feed for any site with one.
Archie from how to make money online
I would also add info barrel it is very new but is kinda like hub pages but I think is a little less strict.
Matty from PTC Make Money Online
Thanks for the advice. I’ve never really tried article submission before as a means of generating traffic but I hear that it can be very effective.
RSS feed submission is another way to find traffic but needs some general knowledge to get set up.
Nice post,
Matty
baxy109101
I have been using ezine for more then a year and found it very good resource for quality links. Articlebase is another good article directory to consider if you are serious about writing articles.
Mark from Camouflage Fashion
I have not yet tried squidoo yet. But after reading your post and also reading some of the responses also reccomending lenses. I think I will give it a try. Thank you for this post.
Randy C from Samal Island
I’ve been considering doing a few articles on my very small niche blog for backlinks. After reading the comments it sounds like E-zine and Go-articles would be the best fit for me. Since there were a couple of comments about E-zine being very strict and somewhat slow, would there be any reason not to start with Go-articles? Does E-zine offer anything it doesn’t?
George from link building service
Hello,
I really like submitting articles and posting on forums. I haven’t gotten around to making a squidoo but i would really like to!
George from link building expert
Hello,
I personally prefer goarticles. They are a lot more lenient on the restrictions of their articles. Thanks!
Mike from Motorbike Games
Writing about “Everything Wordpress” and beautiful to boot. Bookmarked! Nice work. Thanks.
Eden from Motorbike Games Dude
Fine blog. I got a lot of good info. I’ve been keeping an eye on this technology for awhile. It’s interesting how it keeps changing, yet some of the core elements stay the same. Have you seen much change since Google made their most recent acquisition in the area?
Michael Delpierre
I have been using Hubpages and Squidoo for about 1 month now so I am at the early stages of link building with them but what I found is that once I get in the rhythm with them I can post good articles in a short amount of time. The Ezine article directories are my favorite because I seem to get more hits from those. I even got asked to become a contributor on a industry website after someone saw my posts on a Ezine directory.