Link Building with Drupal

February 8, 2008 by
Filed under: Link Building 

As most of you know, I love finding innovative places that my readers can build links, and today is no exception. Drupal is a massively popular open source framework for websites. The homepage for it is located at drupal.org, and that is the target for todays link building campaign. Drupal is a community focused system, so their site allows users to register and fill out a profile. Inside your profile you are allowed to link to your homepage (I would assume it is supposed to be for your site that is using Drupal). However, no verification is done so you may put your own blog inside. You will get your own user page and a link to your blog will be dofollow (good for search engines), but it does not stop there.

Inside your profile you can enter in as many interests as you want. Every single interest you type in has a separate “tag” page. For example, if I said I was interested in the keyword make money blogging, my profile (and a link to my site) would appear on the drupal tag page.

Now if you were to enter a large amount of keywords (I would say 20-30 is more than enough), you will have built 20-30 small links as well as a stronger link from your profile. All of these links will also increase the PR of your profile page, which ultimately brings more authority over to your domain. If you are one of the people who only looks at the short term goals, please know that a few older profiles have pagerank 6, and the drupal.org has a pagerank of 9. Drupal is an authority powerhouse, so enjoy leeching some of that search engine love.

Total start to finish time for building these 20-30 (or 200) links is around 10 minutes, so I recommend anyone that is interested in a bit of greyhat unethical link building to give it a shot.

This is part 22 of my series called the link building cookbook that aims to be the ultimate free guide on how to build massive amounts of links without paying one penny!

Comments

23 Comments on Link Building with Drupal

  1. Rakesh on Fri, 8th Feb 2008 8:33 pm

    2. Great tips..sadly they fall in greyhat..wish it had been whitehat..hehe:)

  2. Ethan Christ on Sat, 9th Feb 2008 6:56 am

    3. Greyhat, whitehat, blackhat, who cares…

    I’m so sick of hearing people bitch about “internet morals”… Screw Google and any other site out there that tells you what’s acceptable and what’s not. Links are links… The more of them that you can get, the better off you are. The wonderful thing about the internet, is that you can do pretty much anything you want. (Virtually) <—Using that as a literal term.

  3. Ethan Christ on Sat, 9th Feb 2008 7:01 am

    4. Another great idea that I’ve never heard of. Keep it up!

  4. Collin - De Ruyck on Sat, 9th Feb 2008 7:15 am

    5. @ Ethan – I totaly side with you, Google has forced us to take matters into our own hands. Collin great post.

  5. Rakesh on Sat, 9th Feb 2008 7:55 am

    6. @Ethan
    well..you seem to be changing my decision..hehe..i must accept that google has started behaving as the GOD of Internet.

  6. Futon-Matt on Sat, 9th Feb 2008 8:12 am

    7. Great post, nice link idea.

  7. Shyam on Sat, 9th Feb 2008 11:04 am

    8. Amazing stuff, once again. Thanks!

    Just a tip for people manually typing out a few keywords…

    go to freekeywords.wordtracker.com and type in a broad term to describe your site E.G: “acne” if your site is on “acne treatment cream”

    c&p the list you get and paste into excel or w/e spreadsheet app you use. c&p the list and paste into notepad (to get rid of hyperlink). copy that list and paste straight into “interests”.

    300 or so backlinks.

    Again, thanks colin!

  8. tommy on Sat, 9th Feb 2008 9:25 pm

    9. Thanks Colin. Never thought about it before.

  9. Affiliate Confession on Sun, 10th Feb 2008 12:06 am

    10. Thanks for all the tips in your link building cookbook. I’ve found the Flickr techniques great and found a way to find photos with PR, some even up to a PR5. I’ll have to check this one out as well.

  10. Ty Brown on Sun, 10th Feb 2008 7:30 pm

    11. I’ll try this out. I always hear stories, though, of google punishing sites for certain stuff. Can this have backlash?

  11. Torsten on Mon, 11th Feb 2008 5:36 am

    12. Just one question – How spam proof are emails given to drupal?

  12. Leandro on Mon, 11th Feb 2008 6:00 am

    13. great tip! thanks again, your link building cookbook is an essential guide for everyone.

  13. Collin LaHay on Mon, 11th Feb 2008 1:25 pm

    14. Make an anonymous gmail account for your link building campaigns. Check it once every few weeks and you should be good to go.

  14. Ziva - Remarkable Resources on Wed, 13th Feb 2008 8:27 pm

    15. Thanks Collin,

    That’s another great tip and it doesn’t seem “too” shady of an approach. I’ll definitely be checking out the rest of your “cookbook.”

    ~ Ziva

  15. Torsten on Sun, 17th Feb 2008 4:09 am

    16. Thanks Collin, for the moment I think yahoo.com is the most efficient way to go. I’ll search for other internet emails as well.

    @affiliate confession. How do you find PR5 pages at flickr.com?

  16. The Link Building Cookbook on Wed, 12th Mar 2008 5:19 pm

    17. [...] Part 22 – Link Building with Drupal [...]

  17. Comedy Blog on Fri, 21st Mar 2008 12:55 pm

    18. Who cares? Obviously the ones who decide to sort and offer the relevant data to users. You call it about “morals” but it’s actually an argument of “quality”.

    Just a shot in the dark but i’m guessing you don’t depend on a website for income.

  18. KG Lew on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 3:37 pm

    19. thanks for sharing this information.. I haven’t used drupal before, but I am now considering doing so for my new blog :)

  19. Will on Tue, 10th Jun 2008 6:23 pm

    20. Well the problem with this is that quality sites can’t get traffic anymore. Quality sites are having to compete for the serps.

    That is why I do not give a toss about google’s rules etc.

  20. eyu on Wed, 25th Jun 2008 9:31 am

    21. hmmm…very nice tips bro

  21. Jerry on Fri, 11th Jul 2008 1:19 pm

    22. This is pretty cool. I have around 60 sites built using drupal and hadn’t even thought of this. My existing drupal profile is even a PR 4 already and I’d hadn’t even added my URL.

    Thanks.

  22. Ms Diet Plum on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 3:23 am

    23. wow~! i done it for 20++ small link..erm..going to buildm more later,thanks,love ur blog^^

  23. Waterman on Wed, 17th Jun 2009 1:55 am

    24. Thanks for the post Collin!

    You blog is the best guide for link building.

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