Earn Money Online with Brandon Hopkins

How To Get 29 Free Links

Posted on April 13 - Category: Link Building

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1. Adrian said

   April 13 2007 @ 2:11 pm

   Hey, may i have a free link here ? hahaha.

2. Brandon said

   April 13 2007 @ 2:22 pm

   You just got it!

3. Michael said

   April 14 2007 @ 4:17 am

   Thanks for the useful information. I am working on implementing the suggestions on this site.

4. Darren McLaughlin said

   April 14 2007 @ 7:18 am

   One problem, the pages you’ll be linking from don’t have any of there own link popularity. Now if you link them all together, you might be on to something

5. Buuuutton said

   April 14 2007 @ 9:48 am

   Thank you for this summary, of course it maybe a nice idea as starting point for some webmaster with no other possibilities.

   But… on the other side: Imagine, everybody would do that (creating a new blog, just to write one or two articles, only for linking to annother site)… as a “user” you would get something mad when your searching at google for something…

   IMHO, still the best way is: Make a good website with good content (content thats unique, based on your own work), then mail to relevant sites and ask them to write a review or for setting a link.

6. Brandon said

   April 14 2007 @ 11:06 am

   Darren, That is why I mentioned linking some of the sites together. You don’t want them to seem like a network of spam sites, but you do want them to get found.

   Buuuutton, “users” won’t ever find those sites. They aren’t linked from any sites with traffic. The only “users” that will find them is Googlebot, exactly what you want.

7. Sapphire said

   April 16 2007 @ 1:28 pm

   This is brilliant. I gave you a little writeup.

   This isn’t how to get to #1 on the SERPs, it’s how to get your site found quickly by the bots. After that, your good content and attempts to forge linking relationships with other webmasters will have a lot more gravity.

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   April 16 2007 @ 2:30 pm

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10. John said

    April 17 2007 @ 3:11 pm

    This is a good list, and might be a useful resource for beginners. But it’s also encouraging the creation of spam blogs, no? I mean, creating 25 blogs to announce a new site is maybe a little over the top?

11. Brandon said

    April 17 2007 @ 3:14 pm

    Spam is generally used for email, and something that is unsolicited. Creating junk (junk is a better word) blogs isn’t really bad IMO because no human will find them. It will however give Googlebot something to do for a little while.

12. Sara said

    April 30 2007 @ 3:19 pm

    Brandon,

    Great list, thanks! I have a question…how did you get the beautiful add to section on the upper right of this page? Did you design it yourself or is it a wordpress plugin or something?

    Thanks,
    Sara

13. Brandon said

    April 30 2007 @ 3:29 pm

    Sara, that is a feature of this theme (Not So) Fresh.

14. Sara said

    May 1 2007 @ 10:01 am

    Thanks Brandon,

    As you probably know it’s blogtipping day and I just wanted to let you know that I posted about you.

    Sara

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16. Lord Matt said

    June 3 2007 @ 11:30 pm

    There are better ways to do it. Simply contribute quality comments to do follow blogs (unlike this no follow one) and the link carries more gravity. This leads real bloggers to find your content and if they like it they will write about it.

    However, if ones content sucks then no ammount of crafty tricks will help.

    Good linkbate if a tad too spammy for my tastes.

17. Brandon said

    June 4 2007 @ 11:57 am

    Lord Matt, when dealing with links, the text of the comment isn’t relevant. And commenting on one blog will give you one link on that domain. If you’re like me then you believe that 1 link per domain is perfect. That is why you can go to all the above listed sites and get one link from each of them. Listing locations to get free links isn’t spam, it’s an obviously good way to get free and easy links.

18. Emily said

    June 27 2007 @ 12:49 am

    I will have to implement your list for sure and then see how much it helps.
    Thanks a lot for the the great list.

    -Emily

19. Incomeportal said

    July 9 2007 @ 4:08 pm

    So how can we boost adsense revenue,Without using black hat cheating tactics ?

20. FixMeUp said

    July 11 2007 @ 8:42 am

    Interesting article, I especially like the way you “round robin” your links from one blog to the other!

21. superipodder said

    July 13 2007 @ 11:01 am

    great post thumbs up now for some link juice.

22. oora said

    July 20 2007 @ 7:50 am

    Good posting, i will try this.
    According to my search status plugin in firefox, the website column in this comment also has nofollow attribute.

23. Vish..! said

    July 25 2007 @ 1:23 am

    Its posted in April.. but not loosing the relevence.. so lemme also get a free link here..

    Hei Brandon.., Thanks for the links..

    Some stuffs worth mentioning are
    1. atwiki site where we can create pages of our own
    2. Google pages where you can create a personal page..
    3. Geocities (less worth)

24. Suzanne said

    August 3 2007 @ 11:55 pm

    Great advice for us newbies to blogging and websites.
    Thanks very much for the info.
    Cheers.

25. Martin said

    August 13 2007 @ 3:18 am

    Agreeing with Suzanne (and many others), this is a really generous service you provide for us here Brandon!

    One thing though… Doesn’t your own links here loose significant value Brandon? I’m not talking about the value for us, your visitors, but the value of your own internal links for any SE crawling your site?

    I’m new to SEO, and my only interest is making my site rank, but as far as this process has taken me, I’ve gotten the understanding that you should be very careful with your outgoing links… Is that wrong?

    Martin

26. lady influence said

    September 4 2007 @ 6:47 am

    Very very nice. i will try to join some of the sites you’ve mentioned and create links to my blogs.

27. mike said

    September 6 2007 @ 6:29 pm

    You just don’t get it. I feel like attacking you a little bit because your article is just so infuriating. You teach idiots how to piss in the bathwater. And then, these idiots stand upright with a glossy look in their eye, so proud of themselves for dribbling yellow that they might just think it’s made of gold. Yay, let’s sign up for free blogs. Let’s link them all together. Yay, now people trying to find something just found my fake websites that link to nowhere and back. Yay, and after a thousand of them do it, I get a dollar. Yay, I found someone who pays me a nickel each time I flick boogers on a wheelchair.

    Each niche you speak of is just another place you found not covered in enough piss just yet. I hope that you linger on this comment just long enough before you delete that it eats away in the back of your mind for the next entire day, how annoyed this mockery of a website is.

28. Dave said

    September 7 2007 @ 3:56 am

    Since I’m SEOing our mobile phone shop these links should come in very handy! The first looks particularly useful for our current methods, thanks Brandon!

29. Jason said

    September 7 2007 @ 4:32 am

    Thanks for the links, there is nothing like a nice free link

30. Brandon said

    September 7 2007 @ 2:24 pm

    Mike, normally I don’t respond to idiotic comments, but your comment was special. As for teaching idiots how to pee in their own bath, you are apparently the expert so we’ll leave the personal analogies to you.

    As for teaching people how to find and profit from niches, you’re definitely not the expert or else you wouldn’t be complaining. For a niche to become profitable long term you site has to provide value. If it doesn’t provide value, your site will be short term profitable.

    By linking blogs together, you are promoting your niche website. If done right, smart people like you never find them. They are tucked deep in the search engine index and don’t rank for any particular terms.

    You said, “how annoyed this mockery of a website is”, my website isn’t annoyed, annoying perhaps to the uninformed.

31. ProBlogReviews said

    September 7 2007 @ 4:52 pm

    I give free reviews and links to sites that visit my site and request a review

32. Yumfy said

    September 27 2007 @ 9:21 am

    On Behalf of 3Steps.com, thanks for the mention. We appreciate it.

33. Spam Free Email said

    October 2 2007 @ 1:33 pm

    Lots of great info on your site. I see that you have researched this area of Internet Marketing quite well. I will be going through the whole site and sharing it with others.

34. cheryl said

    October 8 2007 @ 3:06 pm

    I think your smart and very helpful, especially to beginners like me.
    Please take a look at my santa letters site and let me know what I might be doing wrong. Okay ?
    Thanks , Cheryl
    http://www.specialsantaletters.homestead.com

35. Mario said

    October 15 2007 @ 4:28 pm

    Very good information for indexing and getting some traffic.

36. Remco said

    October 18 2007 @ 6:40 am

    I tryed to make some comments on .edu blogs you describe from 25 to 29 but they all don’t place your comment.

37. Brandon said

    October 22 2007 @ 10:13 am

    Remco, many .edu blogs have comments go to moderation immediately.

38. Lin said

    November 15 2007 @ 7:43 pm

    Hi Brandon,

    Thank you so much for this list. Many of these sites are ones I’ve never heard of, so I appreciate the uniqueness of this list. Because of this list, I now have a Facebook account, and I’m addicted!

    You may have noticed, if you follow your links, that I had linked to this list on my MySpace blog. I have since been able to implement several of these you’ve noted, and it’s been very helpful bringing in links to my blog.

39. Al said

    November 17 2007 @ 3:17 am

    hi Brandon,

    Those are really great tips as i already use some of those sites.

    Dugg from me mate!

    regards,
    Al

40. Lisa's Ex said

    November 22 2007 @ 10:15 pm

    Wow thanks for this list. I just spent 3 hours posting links in the order in which you have them and interlinking. Now I wait…

41. be?ikta? said

    November 25 2007 @ 5:03 am

    I will have to implement your list for sure and then see how much it helps.
    Thanks a lot for the the great list.

42. Ash said

    December 21 2007 @ 4:19 am

    This is an absolutey amazing blog and set of links for geting links. Brandon your a link superstar! Keep up the excellent work.

43. Global Net Trading said

    January 9 2008 @ 11:07 am

    Brandon, this was a useful list to help others get started. What do you recommend that we do with each RSS feed for these new blogs? Apart submitting each one to multiple RSS directories, what else would you recommend that we do with the 20+ new RSS feeds we will get using your recommendations?

    Thanks for a great list!

44. dizi izle said

    January 13 2008 @ 11:20 pm

    Thanks for the useful information. I am working on implementing the suggestions on this site.

45. I.Houben said

    January 18 2008 @ 6:02 pm

    Nice suggestions. Sometimes it is very difficult to get your niche site mentioned on other sites. For some reason my content is also not often linked to. I try and work on the content, but again, the niche makes it quite difficult to get good backlinks.

    I will try some of the sites….thank you!

46. Pensacola Real Estate News said

    January 26 2008 @ 6:36 pm

    Thank you. I’m really glad I found your site. Great stuff. SEO is definitely a marathon, not a sprint. It seems a neverending task, but list like you provide really help a lot.

47. Free-hdtvs said

    March 14 2008 @ 8:26 am

    Thank you for this it is really useful. I was having trouble recently trying to find free blogs, I guess my google skills just aren’t up to scratch, so it’s definately good that I’ve found your site.

    Will keep posting on your interesting blogs

48. PS3 said

    March 14 2008 @ 2:34 pm

    I’ve used Blogger, Blogger Party and Mindsay to set up a triangle of links in the manner you describe Brandon.

    I would certainly do a lot more posting but the limiting factor is time. For us part-timers, there are just not enough hours in the day. I take my hat off to you!

49. UPickReviews said

    April 9 2008 @ 6:24 am

    Sure has inspired me to get some links starting with this one right here in the comments.

    Great job on this article you make link building sound easier than it sounds.

    Here’s another place to get a free link…

    http://www.digg.com
    All you have to do is sign up for an account and post a link about your article on your blog and you’ll get a free link.

    Hope this helps as well.

50. Tom Chambers said

    April 13 2008 @ 8:16 pm

    Thanks Brandon for the nice tips on getting links.
    Also since I like to check your links to other ideas like the (not so) fresh thingy.. it would be great if you added the _new to the link to open us in a new window so I could close the window and return to the exact same place.. seems I lost my place everytime I clicked on one of your links..

    Thanks again..

51. David said

    May 16 2008 @ 11:01 am

    Nice. I will make an even more updated version of free blogs on my sete. Now I even put the correct link to it too

52. ShriNagesh said

    November 12 2008 @ 5:38 am

    Thats a great list for cross posting and cross blog networking. Thx for putting the list for everyone.

53. Linda P said

    November 16 2008 @ 9:34 am

    I’m already checking them out. Nice to have a bit of professional advice

54. rob said

    December 1 2008 @ 5:04 pm

    this is a great post saves hours of work searching for the right places
    well done

55. Nick said

    February 13 2009 @ 1:55 pm

    Blogs open the new dimension of easy linking and actually your technique is useful in order to get the bots into your new site, but not to increase PR.

    Thanks! Good job! Keep walking

56. Notion3 - Web Design Denver Colorado said

    April 1 2009 @ 8:45 pm

    Thanks for the tips, great site, great advice, great post! Can you do an encore with more coo places to link from?

57. Web_Design_Denver_Colorado said

    April 1 2009 @ 8:47 pm

    Also, do you know of any other .gov sites to get good legit links? I just launched my new site and am looking for some tasty links.

58. Jonathan@Friends&Money said

    April 29 2009 @ 10:20 am

    I’m aware of many of these but i’ve never heard of SoulCast.com will give it a go.

59. Ed said

    June 14 2009 @ 3:02 am

    wow, great tips! just started my own blog, now is time to increase traffic! .

60. Ed said

    June 14 2009 @ 3:14 am

    by the way, is there a faster way? as this would require a registration for every link.

61. Edna said

    August 16 2009 @ 7:14 pm

    Very nice website I will study it. Your suggestions were very helpful, Thanks!

62. Pete said

    October 18 2009 @ 9:22 am

    Hey this list is perfect for me, I struggle to get links, I will try all these methods and see what happens. Will bookmark your blog too, interesting reading.

    Brandon when linking to my site is it best to link within a paragraph of text or a plain old link? How long should these articles be? I have heard there is no point to bolding the link nowadays.

    cheers

    Pete

63. Free Film Posters said

    November 21 2009 @ 1:06 pm

    Really nice compilation of links and overall a working strategy to increase backlinks. However, it is important to place your links in sites & blogs relevant to your niche.

64. kelly watson said

    November 28 2009 @ 9:12 pm

    Thanks a lot i was wondering how to get free links easily

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