57 Web 2.0 Sites To Help With SEO

[LeanneMacco]

I'm feeling generous so here's list of Web 2.0 sites I use. This will, without question, help your rankings if used correctly. It's quite time consuming so if you only get chance to do a few, do the UK ones at the bottom. The list is about two weeks old so apologies if any sites are closed to submissions or not working.

How to use:

Register at each site and create a page about or relevant to your business/niche.
Make the content rich and unique so the page is useful in it's own right.
Link to your website, facebook page, twitter page or article.

amplify.com
angelfire.com
blinkweb.com
blogger.com
blogreaction.com
blogster.com
blogsplash.org
devhub.com
edublogs.org
fc2.com
freeblogit.com
flukiest.com
flixya.com
gather.com
getjealous.com
hazblog.com
hubpages.com
insanejournal.com
knol.google.com
livejournal.com
multiply.com
myblogsite.com
my.opera.com
mywapblog.com
mytripjournal.com
ohlog.com
officelive.com
onsugar.com
posterous.com
publr.com
quizilla.teennick.com
rediff.com
snappages.com
sosblogs.com
squidoo.com
tabulas.com
thoughts.com
travelblog.org
tripod.com
tumblr.com
typepad.com
ucoz.com
webs.com
webspawner.com
weebly.com
wetpaint.com
wikidot.com
wikispaces.com
wordpress.com
yola.com
yousaytoo.com
xanga.com
zoomshare.com

UK Based Web 2.0

350.com
freehostia.com
hipero.com
moonfruit.com

 

[SafetyOracle]

Many thanks Leanne - that's a useful list.

I'm interested to know though, just how valuable would it be to set something up on these sites? Could you get away with just one entry, or is it necessary to keep generating new content? I wouldn't fancy spending time feeding blogs and social networks every day for months on end unless it was really like to make a serious difference to my website's success.

As you can tell, I'm an SEO novice!

Thoughts anyone? Would particularly like to hear from anyone who has really grafted at this - was the return worth the effort?

 

[hmig89]

What are these?

Website builders?

 

[LeanneMacco]

Many thanks Leanne - that's a useful list.

I'm interested to know though, just how valuable would it be to set something up on these sites? Could you get away with just one entry, or is it necessary to keep generating new content? I wouldn't fancy spending time feeding blogs and social networks every day for months on end unless it was really like to make a serious difference to my website's success.

As you can tell, I'm an SEO novice!

Thoughts anyone? Would particularly like to hear from anyone who has really grafted at this - was the return worth the effort?

If you add unique content, you can usually get away with one entry/page.
I use these as part of a wider strategy so I can't give specific examples of ranking climbs. Having said that, it's part of my SEO strategy for a reason

 

[LeanneMacco]

What are these?

Website builders?

Website builders and blogs mostly.

 

[GreatSEO]

Leanne

Some good sites in there that we already use and some I have not looked at. I shall go and look now

Thanks

Dave

 

[makeusvisible]

With these kinds of site I have a 3 phased strategy;

1. Create, keyword rich, unique content, and post it to the site, with links back to your own site. Your links should obviously be an anchor text link. DONT post the same article to each site.

2. Once the article is live (and it can take a while for some to be aproved), social bookmark them using something like OnlyWire....also ensure that you use your keyword in the social bookmark links.

3. For the better sites (PR4+) I fire around 400 profile backlinks at each article, also using the keyword.

What this does is to make each article posted, a more powerful article/backlink back to your main site. It also ensures that the article is indexed quickly (although that isnt usually a problem anyway).

There is obviously a lot more to it, but the above will give you a good start. Using the above strategy, you may even find some of the articles start to rank for your keyword

Great list by the way, and thanks for posting!

 

[reggiemental]

Thanks Leanne, very a useful list.

 

[MASSEY]

The problem i have with these free resources is they very often take an age to be indexed if indexed at all.

They are also really weak for me. Some people say make them stronger by building links to them but that's also time consuming and you're likely to have it de indexed for bulk spamming.

I just reg domains and host my own blogs or buy blog post links now.

 

[JohnnyCash]

Pointing spammy links at your spammy links isn't a recipe for success. In fact I'd say its a waste of time.

 

[WebTrust]

Pointing spammy links at your spammy links isn't a recipe for success. In fact I'd say its a waste of time.

Unfortunately is it a waste of time.

Anything to do with profile links, or blog comments has zero effect.

In fact usually less than a waste of time, enough of either and anything will loose rank.

A lot on this list are also nofollow

 

[makeusvisible]

In fact usually less than a waste of time, enough of either and anything will loose rank.

You wont loose rank by posting links....if you did some people would be doing it to their competitors.

 

[JohnnyCash]

You wont loose rank by posting links....if you did some people would be doing it to their competitors.

eek... I hope you're not spouting that nonsense at your training seminars

 

[G. Lasagne]

The problem i have with these free resources is they very often take an age to be indexed if indexed at all.

They are also really weak for me. Some people say make them stronger by building links to them but that's also time consuming and you're likely to have it de indexed for bulk spamming.

I just reg domains and host my own blogs or buy blog post links now.

Can I ask what resource you use for buying blog post links mate?

 

[makeusvisible]

eek... I hope you're not spouting that nonsense at your training seminars

I have never seen a site lose ranking based on "spammy links" being thrown at "spammy links"..... although to be honest, your childish comment doesn't really deserve a reply.

 

[JohnnyCash]

Whats childish about it... its an seo forum. You're wrong about a basic seo principle and I pointed out that you're wrong. I'm sorry that you don't like that but doesn't change facts...

 

[sigurog]

Whats childish about it... its an seo forum. You're wrong about a basic seo principle and I pointed out that you're wrong. I'm sorry that you don't like that but doesn't change facts...

Well you are coming across quite arrogant (not sure if that's the intention). As with everything in seo there are differing views on pretty much every strategy. I think there is some benefit to this type of link building but how much benefit is very debatable.

 

[makeusvisible]

Whats childish about it... its an seo forum. You're wrong about a basic seo principle and I pointed out that you're wrong. I'm sorry that you don't like that but doesn't change facts...

Which basic SEO principal states that firing spammy backlinks at spammy backlinks is going to get a site's ranking reduced? Not a principal you have tested extensively I suspect. Yes a waste of time....a negative effect...no , wrong.

 

[JohnnyCash]

You can get sites penalised and/or filtered purely due to backlinks. So you can obviously do this to either sites you own by accident, or someone elses sites on purpose.

You're wrong in saying that its an area I have not tested extensively... my own sites are regularly filtered for stuff like this, unfortunately

 

[makeusvisible]

You can get sites penalised and/or filtered purely due to backlinks. So you can obviously do this to either sites you own by accident, or someone elses sites on purpose.

You're wrong in saying that its an area I have not tested extensively... my own sites are regularly filtered for stuff like this, unfortunately

I have to say that whilst I ave seen sites de-indexed, I've never seen an example of a deindexed site as a result of level 2 backlinks.

Just take the scenario....I put a backlink on website A, pointing to your site. I then fire 1,000,000 backlinks at website A..... I just can't see a scenario where your site would suffer a drop (or worse case de-index), as both actions were totally out of the scope of your control.

 

[WebTrust]

You wont loose rank by posting links....if you did some people would be doing it to their competitors.

Really? give me your website and keywords and I will guarantee to lower your rank within 7 days.

In fact anyone doing this, you verify it's your website and I will lower it's rank to just show your SEO techniques for what they are.

 

[JohnnyCash]

That scenario almost certainly wouldn't cause any problems.. take the intermediary site out and it potentially could. Point all the links directly to the site and you could have serious issues.

I'll pm you an example of a site I own that was making £100k+ a month up till it was filtered due to backlinks yesterday if you like

You're not going to get Amazon hit like this... but a small business or a site that is already quite aggressive with their link building/anchor texts and its certainly both easy and cheap to tip them over the edge and crush their ability to earn any money.

 

[JohnnyCash]

Really? give me your website and keywords and I will guarantee to lower your rank within 7 days.

In fact anyone doing this, you verify it's your website and I will lower it's rank to just show your SEO techniques for what they are.

If they are already well established I think you might struggle. If you're talking about some local business that is ranking well off the handful of a couple of dozen links you could definitely torpedo them.

 

[WebTrust]

I would agree in the case of something like Google or Amazon, but It did happen to a 6 year old, 1 million + link website.

After about 500k Xrummer at it