Other than Squidoo and EzineArticles, what are the other authority sites that you recommend getting links from?
"Quote Originally Posted by nicolasthun Wikipedia? Barre Tire Makes no sense... " Yes it does make sense, if you can keep your link alive and well, that is the challenge, SY
external links from wikipedia are nofollow. And squidoo, hubpages etc are NOT authority sites - links from them are generally on low page rank pages, and as so obviously placed there by the webmaster himself, of little value.
Yes, Wikipedia is nofollow, but do you really think Google doesn't know who Wikipedia is? And which authority even a nofollow link of them carries? As for squidoo, hubpages etc not being authority sites, just publish some content on them and see how fast it gets indexed and ranked - you might be surprised! Knowledge is great, experience is better! SY
Well, if you manage to get any list of these authorities sites then it would already be spammed, yes, Wikipedia and Ezine articles are authority sites as they have millions of pages indexed. But you should build links naturally means these links should contain almost all type of links even nofollow as well, then it would be considered good in eyes of Google, otherwise they would think that you are buying links and buying links are not allowed by Google.
I've got 7 years experience working as a professional SEO for a big agency working on high street names. Those are not authority sites, they get crawled frequently because they have regular fresh content and internal linking means new pages are easy for bots to find, but the backlinks are of little value, And google does not follow nofollow links. That is why they are called 'nofollow'
Go find top ranked site on technoratti, I think they'll be useful for your link building even if they're not dofollow link because no follow link also generate backlinks.
That is nice that you have '7 years experience working as a professional SEO for a big agency working on high street names', just choose a niche, build a hubpage and see how it climb the SERPentines. Hubpages index fast and rank quickly, give it a try ;-) SY
Laughing Out Loud @ "And google does not follow nofollow links. That is why they are called 'nofollow'" Don't believe that for a second. Google wants a natural, diverse link profile. If you have all "do follow" links it looks unnatural. Even if you believe that Google doesn't follow "nofollow" links, other SEs do and Google follows them. The key is to build a healthy link profile from a WIDE range of all kinds of links.
A vote is a vote whether its a do follow or a no follow. It just that the linking power is not the same. That is base on my experience and might be different to others. I also believe that links coming from Hubpages, squidoo and the likes are powerful enough to push you on up on the SERPS. Just continue to build links and not to spam and you will move up whether the source is a no follow or a do follow.
There are lots of ways to determine if it's an Authority site or not. One way is that you can look up its Domain Age, the longer it is the more Google treat it as an Authority Page. Am I right about this, please clarify as well if you think I've posted a wrong info.
Important is also if it is an authority site in the same niche, either site wide or on an per article base. SY