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Unasked: An Online Profile for Getting a Backlink

Author: Breakaway


Recently I wrote about using your online profiles for link building. The basic premise is that everywhere that you have a profile online that allows you to put a website address on it, you should, since that will be one more backlinks to your site.

As I was reading one of the blogs I am subscribed to, I came across a post about an online profile you can create, which has your backlink on it. This site was Unasked, a Yahoo! Answers type website, where you can answer people’s questions. Although, if you answer a question with a link to your site, the link is “nofollow” (What is nofollow?) so it doesn’t quite count as a backlink for Google. But, every time you answer a question, it links to your profile, which contains the “dofollow” link to your website, with the anchor text of your choice. So, go and answer some questions, and increase your backlinks with this awesome one way link building method. Check out my link building on my Unmasked profile.

This site exemplifies a great link building concept I will be writing on in the near future. The basic premise is that if you build links to your site using promotional pages, then you should also be building links back to those promotional pages, in order to make the link to your original site even more effective. I’ll write about this in the next few weeks.

Thanks to Mixed Market Arts for this tip:
Link Building with Unmasked

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    5 Comments »

     
    Bubble Wrap
    2008-04-08 00:23:18

    Thanks for the tip. I came across a blog that mentioned a very similar method of getting links using profiles. I think the site was called http://www.meetup.com.

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    Gadgets
    2008-04-15 03:57:43

    Thanks Breakway

    Good trick. As i was working on yahoo answers i was getting too much of relevant traffic but now i think this will really work as backlink.

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    Charles
    2008-06-23 22:08:07

    I joined the site and answered about five questions. The questions seem pretty random and crazy, though that could be the norm for those Q&A sites as this is the first that I’ve used.

    Charless last blog post..Homelessness in America

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    Are you Writing Garbage - Keys to Writing Great Articles
    2008-06-29 17:22:22

    This is a great blog with tons of information, glad I found it. Thanks!

    Are you Writing Garbage - Keys to Writing Great Articless last blog post..Step-by-Step Niche and Keywords Research

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