Best and worst sources of backlinks

I just put together a list in which I rate different sources of backlinks from best to worst, assuming that other factors such as pagerank and relevance are the same, and also assuming that all the links are DoFollow.

Here is the list, starting with best first:

1. Real websites
2. Mini-sites like Squidoo and Hubpages
3. Blogs
4. Question and Answer sites like Blurtit
5. Social Bookmarking sites
6. Web Directories
7. Article submission sites
8. Blog comments
9. Forum posts

Note: I didn't include press release sites, classifieds, Digg-like sites, and Stumble sites because most of these automatically put a NoFollow tag on your link.

Okay - So this list is my opinion. What would your list look like?

 

1. Any related website that has a strong standing in Google
2. Youtube, Yahoo Answers
3. StumbleUpon
10. Social bookmarking sites, blog comments, forum signatures, directories, etc

By the way, sites that have no-follow can still give a site a lot of visitors, even though search engines don't pay attention to those links. This happens for me with Stumbleupon and especially - youtube. Huge amounts of traffics from those sites! So, therefore I view these as great backlinks.

 

Pointless. A link from a well-known and respected blog can be far more positive than a "real website" (what's that by the way?). It doesn't depend on the "type" of site (which most likely can be appreciated only by you, but not a search engine), but the site itself.

 

You should read the original post before you reply. It says "assuming that other factors are the same". Also, search engines can recognize different types of sites by the scripts that they use.

 

I will keep social bookmarking link on top and on bottom ;-) A good link on SB sites can get a lot of natural links by viral effect. Otherwise it may not even show in backlinks.

 

I don't agree with the rankings. Social Bookmarking sites should be at the bottom of the list.

 

You have missed out twitter which is the best source to generate the backlinks.

 

Twitter, Facebook, MySpace.. but Twitter is skyrocketing when it comes to link building nowadays but not abandoning other ways to build links though

 

How does Mini-sites like Squidoo and Hubpages help?

Just curious. Is there any article talking about it?

 

hey thats really cool, thanks a lot

 

I'm curious too, since they seem like regular article sites. What makes them special?

 

right now blog links are hot
dir links almost died

 

The sites tend to have more authority then article directories because there not full of duplicate content and have more backlinks.