Link Devlopment with Media Sites
As I was reading Exposed SEO site I happened upon an article that he wrote on link development with Flickr. Since the premise of this article is based on his article you should probably read it first here:
Sneaky link development with Flickr – But before you jump in, Flickr is now Nofollow. This post is about adapting and expanding on the concept.
In short the concept is to gather dofollow backlinks from flickr by leaving comments and including an image (like a smile face) in the comment that links back to your site. Thus you don’t look like spam, because you are leaving a quality comment, and the link is from a harmless smily face. 
Its a great concept.
Since its no longer advantageous to do it with Flickr, the next question is how can it be applied. Without going into a long explanation of SEO and link juice (there are many others that can explain it better then me anyway) – we are looking for sites that get lots of links in. What made flickr so good is that flickr makes it easy to link to them by embedding the picture with the code they give you. It counts a link to the page that that particular picture is on.
So if you have 100 people link to an image, that page has a lot of “link juice” flowing into it. Then we put our link in the comment and we get to have a little juice from each one of those links. So we are looking for sites that make it easy for lots of people to link to them. After racking my bring for a few minutes the only type of sites I could think of were Media sites. Audio, Video, and Pictures. Anyone else thinks of any, please comment so we can take advantage of those too.
So I did a quick search for photo sharing, and I just went down the line checking each one to see if it was dofollow or nofollow. Either by signing up and leaving a comment or looking at someone elses. The point here is there are other options, we just have to do a little footwork and we can apply the same concept. The first one that found that passed link juice was webshots.com. However they don’t let you bring pictures in, but rather only put in your website in the http://www.xxx.com format. So we can’t just leave our website everywhere, or we will get deleted for spam. However we can leave relative comments and leave our site on a couple of them. So we keep moving down the list.
Always leave relative, quality comments. Use an image as a link when possible, and don’t spam.
Props to Exposed SEO for the concept.
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