BACKLINK SOURCES

CHEAT SHEET
BACKLINKS
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction 1

Social Profiles

Business Listings or Citations

Web 2.0

Guest Posting

Charity Links 11

EDU Educational Links 1

Give Testimonials 1

Find Unlinked Mentions 1

HARO 20

Infographics 22

Conclusion 2
 Introduction

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Welcome to our backlink sources cheat sheet! Here, we’ve compiled a bunch
of resources where you can get backlinks to your site, as well as resources
where you can find more information!

Links are still the #1 factor that influences

rankings, so taking link building seriously can
greatly improve your SEO success.
With that said, links are not all created equal. Google is now in favor of
having more high quality links than the quantity of link. The more you can
focus your efforts on getting high DA (Domain Authority) links, the better your
website will rank.

Here is our list

of backlink
sources:
 Social Profiles

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 When starting a website, it’s always a good
idea to start with getting your social profiles
set up. This will get you great links from high
Social Profiles quality sources, as well as send social and
brand signals to your site. Here’s a list of the
social profiles you can claim:

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Instagram About Me Reddit

Bebo Care2 Ello Lafango Snapchat Youtube Vine Kik

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 Business Listings or Citations

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 Getting business listings or citations is a
great way to get relevant links back to your
site. On top of that, many times directories
Business Listings rank for target keywords, so it’s a good idea
or Citations to have your business listed in them!
The best place to start is by getting links
from the top sources in your industry or
your city.

You can find the lists below:

TOP CITATION SOURCES TOP CITATION SOURCES

BY INDUSTRY BY CITY

THE MOZ LIST THE OMNISCORE LIST

THE BRIGHTLOCAL THE LOCAL VISIBILITY

LIST MEGA LIST

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 Web 2.0

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 Web 2.0 properties are another way to get
good, contextual backlinks to your site and
Web 2.0 increase the diversity of your backlinks.

There are many high authority properties that you can use to create an
account, write an article and create a backlink, including:

Ucoz Travelblog

OverBlog

Wordpress

Tumbler Hubpages Weebly

Angelfire

Medium Tripod.lycos

Dreamwidth

Blogger Bizsugar
Typepad
Wikidot

Webs Webnode

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 Guest Posting

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 Guest Posting The process looks like this:

1) Find sites that accept guest posts by searching google for niche + “write for
us” or niche + “guest post

2) Make sure the site is real and has traffic, as well as good domain authority
(so you know it will be valuable to get a link)

3) Contact the site and arrange the details for a guest post. This usually
involves pitching your idea and learning about their requirements.

4) Write the post and include links back to your site.

5) Send the post to the website and get it published.

You can find a more detailed version of the process here. Click Here

Here are a few sites that accept guest posts to get you started:

http://dogtipper.com/submit/contribute-a-dog-tip-of-the-day
https://smallbiztrends.com/about/article-submission-guidelines
http://inkwelleditorial.com/guest-posts-wanted-submission-guidelines
http://frugalentrepreneur.com/contribute/
http://entrepreneurshipsecret.com/submit-guest-post
http://onlineincometeacher.com/write-for-us/

A comprehensive list, covering multiple industries can be found here:

https://effectivebusinessideas.com/blogs-that-accept-guest-posts/
 Charity Links

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 These are charity websites that will give
you a link when you make a small donation.
Many times, these sites are very high quality,
Charity Links so it’s a great natural link to get. You can
use the following search strings to find
charity websites that may accept donations
for links.

“Donate to us”
“Donate to this site”
“Contributors page”
“Sponsors page”

Here are a few examples of sites that accept charity links to help get you started:

https://indiegogo.com/#/picks_for_you
https://kickstarter.com/
https://dragonflybsd.org/donations/
http://booktalk.org/contributors.html
http://bricknmotor.us/donate/

Note that it takes a bit of time searching on the crowdfunding sites like
Indiegogoand Kickstarter, because not every project will include a list of donor
names and links as a perk, but many do!
 EDU Educational Links

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 .Edu links are great to get because they are
usually very high authority. One of the best
EDU ways to get .edu links is to create a
Educational Links scholarship opportunity, then reach out to
schools that have scholarship/financial aid
pages and let them know about your
scholarship.

This can often land you great do-follow links on

high authority .edu sites!

Here are some examples of .edu pages that link to scholarships:

http://marquette.edu/mucentral/financialaid/resources_pvt_scholar_misc.shtml
http://fgcu.edu/FinancialAid/Undergraduate/scholarships.html
http://rmcad.edu/admissions/scholarships
http://soka.edu/admission_aid/Financial_Aid/outside-scholarship.asp
http://uvu.edu/financialaid/scholarships/available/outsideresources.html
http://glendale.edu/index.aspx?page=4593

When you think about it, this is the gift that keeps on giving. There’s nothing
better than being able to give back to the community that helps build your success,
and starting your own scholarship is a very simple, cost effective way of giving
back.

It’s win-win, too, because it pays you big dividends. Consider: If you make a single,
modest scholarship (even a very small one in the $1000-$2500 per year range),
you can market your scholarship to just about every center for higher learning in
the entire country, and every college or university that puts your link on that page
helps build your brand. You’re getting enormous dividends from that small, once
per year investment in someone else’s future.
 Give Testimonials

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 Another fantastic link building strategy that too often gets overlooked is
offering testimonials. Let’s face it, if you’re in business in a given niche, you
probably know a lot about it – it is your business, after all! And because you
know a lot about it, you probably use the products developed by other people
operating in and around the niche you’re operating in. You’re familiar with
them.

If you find a website that sells a product or service you like (sometimes even
if it’s not even directly related to your niche), you can often get a high quality
link simply by buying, using, and providing a testimonial about the product.
This is as simple as providing a link back to your site at the end of your testi-
monial.

Treat this as though you were writing a “mini review” blog post. Be specific,
informative and helpful, so that your review provides real value to the site
owners, and at the end, sign your name and include a link back to your site.

That’s it. That’s literally all there is to it. It’s well worth your while to buy
products and try them out, specifically to get another opportunity to leave a
testimonial. Just check the company’s website out in advance to be sure
they’re publishing them, and you’re all set!

Here's an example:

Hey (website owner name)

Just wanted to write in after using your product (product name) extensively. LOVE
IT!

(This section will vary depending on the exact product you've used - you'll want to
go into detail here, outlining exactly what you liked about it, features you found to
be most useful, and end with an example of the value you got out of the product
in question - there's really no way to get into specifics here, because it's going to
depend on the product and what YOU liked about it, so just make it genuine)

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 Thank you so much for releasing it (or making it available, or offering it - this will
change depending on whether you're talking about a physical or digital product,
and exactly what the product is...but you definitely want to thank the seller with-
out going overboard)

(Your name) (your website/link)

That's it. If you produce a

well written testimonial,
few webmasters will
begrudge you a link.

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 Find Unlinked Mentions

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 Find Unlinked Mentions

If you sign up for an account with tools like u su o or ention, you will
get a notification anytime someone talks about your company, your website,
or your brand. Armed with that notification, it’s a simple matter of going to
the site that mentioned you, and checking to see if they included a link back
to you in the mention.

If they did, give yourself a pat on the back! You got a new link, and you didn’t
have to do anything. If they didn’t, you can probably convince them to do so.
Simply write to the site owner, saying something like this:

Hey (site owner’s name),

I saw that you mentioned me on your blog post (insert the name and blog post
URL), and just wanted to say thank you for giving me a mention! That means a lot
and I really appreciate it!

The reason I’m getting in touch is I wanted to ask if you could add a link to that
post that points back to my site. That way, your readers have an easy, convenient
way of finding us while reading the piece you wrote.

Either way, thank you again, and keep up the great work!

Many thanks,

(your name)

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 Haro

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 Haro
HARO stands for “Help A Reporter Out,” and believe me, they need all the help
they can get. The internet has not been kind to journalists. There have been
tens of thousands of layoffs (see here to get a sense of how bad it has been),
but the smaller number of journalists are expected to produce a LOT more
content. The problem, of course, is that there are only 24 hours in a day, and
even if you can type more than a hundred words a minute, there’s only so
much you can do.

That’s where you come in. All you have to do to start Helping A Reporter Out
is sign up here. Once you do, you’ll start getting emails literally every day
about reporters who are looking for sources.

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 Infographics

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 Infographics
Pretty much everyone knows that Infographics are powerful, but only a tiny
percentage of marketers actually use them to their full potential. Here’s ex-
actly how you can be in the group that uses them to full effect.

You can get a mind-blowingly attractive infographic made for less than
$250 on sites like isual l and ork, so take full advantage of the
bargains you'll find there.

Once you’ve got your killer Infographic, make sure it gets seen on ail nfo
gra hic and A a ing nfogra hics. After that, your next stop is to contact
high profile bloggers who operate in your niche and who allow guest posts
(refer back to the section in this guide on guest posting if you need to). Offer
to give them your new Infographic as a guest post, and further, offer to write
up a short, unique description for them to accompany the graphic.

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