What I have been finding out after Penguin 2.0, is that "authority sites" are now ranking even more quickly than they did before. Therefore, if you use these authority sites as "ParaSites", they can drive traffic to your "Money Site" for your targeted keywords in a fairly short period of time. I actually started to study this pre-Penguin 2.0, and have continued to do so post-Penguin 2.0. I have seen the best results with the following ParaSites: 1. YouTube 2. Amazon (ebooks) 3. Askville.Amazon.com (Similar to Yahoo Answers) 4. Facebook Pages 5. Squidoo (Works well but have cracked down and have started banning accounts) 6. Meetup.com ($12/month) The group page ranks very easily 7. LinkedIn (The Company Profile Page) 8. Twitter Profile 9. Tumblr (May be able to pull in RSS feeds) 10. Myspace Account 11. Blogspot 12. BBB.org (This is an authority for Google+ Local Business Pages) 13. Dailymotion.com (Video site that is less strict than YouTube) 14. Metacafe.com (Video site that is less strict than YouTube) 15. Pinterest Profile (Rank Really Well) 16. Yahoo Answers (You can ask the question yourself, and then write the answer yourself) 17. Itunes Stores 18. Google+ Accounts 19. EvenBrite.com (Similar to Meetup.com) 20. Craigslist.org (Can rank well for local listings. Downside is that they can be flagged and they expire. Good for short-term rankings) 21. Ireport.cnn.com (Can create an account as a reporter. Really easy to rank these pages) 22. Press Releases (These are possibly the best ParaSites, besides YouTube.) 23. Blog.co.uk (High authority site for the UK market) 24. Yelp.com (THE BEST For Local Businesses) 25. sites.google.com (Another Google Property) 26. slideshare.net 27. Photobucket 28. Panaramio 29. Flickr 30. WordPress 31. Wikihow 32. Quora Has anyone else noticed this trend? Are there any website that have been working extremely well for you? I have been getting my Facebook pages ranked in about 10 days, the rest take 14-21 days on average.
Yeah! I have noticed the exact same thing... But, I'm still not having any problems ranking sites... I just incorporated a few NEW techniques that weren't in my arsenal from the beginning. Holla!
Awesome! It's great to see that you are noticing the same thing. Hopefully others take advantage of this as well. Agreed! I have had no problems ranking sites either. Just tweaked my strategy and everything is right on track. Thanks for your post! Brian
Yeah man! No Doubt! Incorporating Social Media into My SEO packages has really paid off and helped out alot.. I mean, I'm bring websites/pages from N/A to page 1 within1-2 months time.. Not too shabby if you ask me...