10 Places Where Google Likes to Find Backlinks To Your Site

We all know that Google (and other search engines) like to find backlinks in various types of site. I thought I'd make a list of ten, hope you find it useful.

1. Article Directories
2. Social Networking Sites
3. .EDU/.GOV Sites
4. Directories
5. Sites with related content
6. High ranking page sites
7. Squidoo
8. Blogs
9. Forums
10. Wiki

Please add anything I've missed below.

Hope this is useful.

Steve

 

Most social networking sites are nofollow, - so is wikipedia and apart from dmoz, yahoo and a couple of specialist directories, google has stopped recommending directory submissions, forums are low quality links, and they've warned against blog spam.

 

What about statistics sites ?

 

thanks for the share

 

hmmmm .edu and .gov sites I didn't even consider that.

 

All web 2.0 properties are a great way to get your links found. Hope that helps!

 

High PR sites.

 

you can alter no follow in most blogs ..... This was meant to the catalyst for discussion.We can all argue about relative merits but who really understands Google?

 

I think it all must "dofollow", because if "nofollow" it will wasted your'e time ...
Thanks for sharing this information..

 

high PR and high quality blogs will also provide some nice backlink juices, you must spend time looking for them though and communicating with the site owners.

 

Press Releases from Professional services such as PRweb.com and NewsWire.com...

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post comments on popular blog,and i do not think directory is a good way to get backlinks

 

can you specify what type of wiki is that?is that wikipedia or wiki answers or any?

 

Thanks, agree blogs comments on .edu, .gov sites is beneficial. You forgot to write 11. Yahoo Answers

 

Thanks for the information.It really helps me.

 

google has some special preference for website like digg, delicious, folkd, twitter.. if you post your link here then it will cached in google with in few hrs or so....

 

Not so great a thread

 

I have read some places that NoFollow links can actually be quite useful for Google search results. As alluded to, it's always tricky to tell unless you have done the research yourself (or you trust someone else who has!).

The .edu and .gov are usually great links to pick up because they are usually from strong domains and have a lot of trust.

Social media links at present are sort of the outlier, but I think they will have to be incorporated into Google (and Yahoo and Bing)'s algorithims because it is nearly impossible to attract any "genuine" links anymore as a result of social media and "nofollow" links. I would be shocked if Google will make any sort of announcement about this but I suspect it will be an element sooner rather than later.

 

Thanks for this info. Getting links from forums? I dont think forum links could be that effective, after all a link is a link

 

or yahoo buzz