Link Building with HELP

May 25, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

This is a link building goldmine that you all should spend at least 30 minutes using because it is an incredibly simple, long term link building site that will help build your pagerank and increase your search engine traffic for very little effort.

Today’s link building tip is a site called Help. The site is much like Yahoo Answers as well as my previously mentioned posts about Unasked and Yedda. The difference is that HELP.com is a lot bigger and has a ton of members that you can build links from. Unlike the other smaller question and answer sites, HELP.com is gigantic and is now owned by CNET. By being owned by a multi-billion dollar company, the first thought that crosses my mind is that there is no webmaster who will manage the sites on a day to day basis, so my links will stay there forever.

A few months ago when I was testing out the site (to see if it was worthy of a post on my blog), I did one example post. Just checking back on it now, the link is still there and the page even has a pagerank of 1. This link took about 15 seconds worth of my time, so that is why I am recommending you spend a few minutes building links with HELP.com today so that you can get the benefit of the pagerank boost for the minimum amount of work involved.

HELP.com is an authority website with a strong pagerank 6/10, and it looks like that number isn’t going down anytime soon. Go to HELP.com, make an account, find a few random questions, answer them, and find a way to include your link.

Comments

27 Comments on Link Building with HELP

  1. Dean on Sun, 25th May 2008 11:02 pm

    2. Hey Collin.

    Cool tip mate.

    I like how you always show an example of your link building. But i’m starting to think that it’s vital. Because before this post i don’t think that specific help page(http://help.com/post/164366-what-do-you-think-of-my-blog) was indexed by google, but once you posted a link to it on this blog google spidered it thus the link is now worth something.

    What are your thoughts on this? If we post on such sites such as help, unasked and yedda is it it important that we build a backlink or two until the page is indexed?

    Cheers

  2. Collin LaHay on Sun, 25th May 2008 11:04 pm

    3. In theory that would make sense, but actually that isn’t the link I was referring to.

    The link that was indexed, cached, and given a pagerank already was:
    http://help.com/post/106182-ci.....ore-we-get

    I had never even mentioned it in this blog post until this comment. The other one was just a tip to help the link building newbies get a quick start, although linking to it sure does get it spidered quickly, so it is a win win for me.

  3. Collin LaHay on Sun, 25th May 2008 11:06 pm

    4. Forgot to mention this in the last comment… but what I am trying to say is that you do not need backlinks to your posts for them to get pagerank, as my example comment above has a PR1 and has been indexed for over a month, and it has zero links to it.

  4. Alcohol Treatment on Mon, 26th May 2008 1:06 am

    5. I’m trying to leave links there but it isn’t taking html.

    I put a link like this: http://www.alcholtreatmentclinics.com

    and like this:

    Alcohol Treatment and both came out as just text.

    Am I doing it wrong? “That’s what she said”

  5. Real Estate Articles on Mon, 26th May 2008 7:35 am

    6. Hi Collin

    It seems that help.com is stripping the html code from posts.
    In the preview it looks fine but when submitting the reply it strips the “<” from the html tags.

    Here is an example http://help.com/post/164462-my.....ke-him-bio

    Am I doing something wrong or that they changed their policy?

    Thanks

  6. Collin LaHay on Mon, 26th May 2008 11:40 am

    7. Their comments don’t allow html anymore, but if you post a question you can insert HTML. See my example in the post.

  7. Ed on Mon, 26th May 2008 1:14 pm

    8. Hi I having trouble making any use out of these question websites.

    Could you give me a example of a page where you have managed to get a link indexed. I tired out the pervious site that you mentioned. But it seems like a hell of a lot of work for what don’t seem to be very high quality links.

    Thanks

  8. Jim on Mon, 26th May 2008 3:01 pm

    9. Thanks for the review of HELP. I hadn’t heard of this website before, and I agree with you that it could be a very rewarding experience. Great review :)

  9. marius on Tue, 27th May 2008 4:53 am

    10. Hey collin. You had given a nice post regarding the help.com. I didn’t listen like this website before. I don’t think that this type of website would exist until watching your blog. Thanks for giving us the information.

  10. Binh Nguyen on Tue, 27th May 2008 1:50 pm

    11. I tried. Sigh… it doesn’t seem to work anymore.

    I will go over an try another way of tagging.

  11. Binh Nguyen on Tue, 27th May 2008 1:53 pm

    12. Yeah! it does work: http://help.com/post/164366-wh.....ly-3785156

  12. Johnny Meiss on Tue, 27th May 2008 8:56 pm

    13. You da man,, keep these coming.. I love this blog !

  13. stewart on Wed, 28th May 2008 2:58 am

    14. hi thanks for your information
    i use stumble as well it’s good to boost traffics
    but the traffics not for long terms

    as i know when stumble a site
    the description is important

  14. Tool on Wed, 28th May 2008 5:38 pm

    15. but can you change the anchor text

  15. Sudarshan on Wed, 28th May 2008 7:33 pm

    16. Another Great Tip….thanks Collin

  16. Collin LaHay on Wed, 28th May 2008 8:06 pm

    17. Not on the comments, but yes if you are the one asking the question.

  17. DJ-MC on Wed, 28th May 2008 10:16 pm

    18. another great tip from the Link Building master! (Bows reverently)

  18. Komodo Dragon on Fri, 30th May 2008 7:41 am

    19. Yup I agree! I will have to try this link building method out.

  19. Max Miroff on Sat, 31st May 2008 11:20 am

    20. It seems that you can actually put links in comments. Just type in http://yourwebsite.com and it pops up as a link.

  20. Nishu on Mon, 2nd Jun 2008 1:30 am

    21. Max’s tip works .. dont use html .. just put url .. u will loose anchor text but u gain a link

  21. Roy Phay on Mon, 2nd Jun 2008 9:46 am

    22. Hi Collin,

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience! I’m always looking for ways to improve myself and I’m glad to have found your blog. Thank you for sharing with us.

  22. Asia'h Epperson on Wed, 4th Jun 2008 7:27 am

    23. Thanks Colin. Will check it out. Keep these nuggets coming…..

  23. One Year Millionaire on Sun, 8th Jun 2008 3:48 pm

    24. This is a really cool site… also great to find answers to actual problems LOL

  24. Purity Rings on Sun, 8th Jun 2008 4:53 pm

    25. Great tip..but I think they removed the ability to add links when asking a question. It didn’t work for me.

  25. Gabriel Intercambio on Tue, 17th Jun 2008 11:15 am

    26. Just to let you all know, I just added one post and the link IS working, DOFOLLOW, even just the link, with no html anchor text.

    Good enough!

    Gabriel

  26. Traffic2mypage.com on Mon, 30th Jun 2008 6:51 pm

    27. great tip!

    i always look for nofollow tags.. if i don’t see no follow tags and high PR page that is a definite site to post on!

  27. Adam | Rodent Control Specialist on Sat, 18th Apr 2009 3:27 pm

    28. Thanks for the 5 second inspiration. I clicked on it, viewed, chuckled to myself and immediately got back the mojo.

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