Link Building with Work.com

September 23, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

Work.com is a pagerank 6 authority site that features a lot of how-to guides on many subjects. The site looks professional, so I took the time to have a client of mine write two high quality how-to guides to publish on the site including a link back to our site.

Well, for whatever reason, the staff at Work.com suspended both of my articles and didn’t state a reason… After looking around for a reason for why my two articles were suspended, I noticed a few pages that had a pagerank of 3-4 and had a ton of comments with spammy backlinks that were followed by the search engines.

I left a comment and noticed that there was no moderation que for members, and that the links were anchor text dofollow. With this in mind, you can easily surf over to Work.com, find a few related how-to guides in your niche, and leave anchor text comments on them.

You can quickly build comment-spam backlinks that are powerful and related, which will help your sites rank higher.

If you want more link building strategies, check out my link building cookbook (this is part 40 of it).

Comments

26 Comments on Link Building with Work.com

  1. Bryn Youngblut on Tue, 23rd Sep 2008 3:12 pm

    2. Thanks for the tip. I wonder how long it takes before they find out.

  2. Joel Drapper on Tue, 23rd Sep 2008 5:58 pm

    3. You come up with the most brilliant ideas!

  3. Mark A on Tue, 23rd Sep 2008 7:35 pm

    4. Great find Collin! I discovered a related guide with a pagerank of 5. Left a comment with a link, of course.

  4. Ms Diet Pill on Tue, 23rd Sep 2008 9:44 pm

    5. Im going to have a try. thanks^^

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  5. Ms Diet Pill on Wed, 24th Sep 2008 3:38 am

    6. i did it,but the url i leave inside the comment doesnt work. any problem of this?

    Regards
    Ms Diet Pill

  6. Joel Drapper on Wed, 24th Sep 2008 5:00 am

    7. Just use a normal html link like this:

    Your Keywords

    It works fine for me!

  7. Free directory on Wed, 24th Sep 2008 5:45 am

    8. Really u do an impressive work …

    Just commented on a post there but it was not followed ??

    its just redirecting from work.com

  8. Collin on Wed, 24th Sep 2008 6:48 am

    9. Woohoo, part 40….keep them coming dude!

  9. Linkbuildr on Wed, 24th Sep 2008 1:36 pm

    10. Great find Collin! Keep up the great work and I hope College isn’t bogging you down too much at the moment.

  10. Copywriters Needed/ No Experience Required- Make $200/hr on Thu, 25th Sep 2008 12:40 pm

    11. Thank you for the find Collin. It is so hard to get backlinks as this is even more important than page rank. Google said they were going to come down hard on people who pay for backlinks. My thing is, what does it matter? If everyone played nice, Google wouldn’t even be in business!

  11. Dennis Edell on Thu, 25th Sep 2008 2:19 pm

    12. How come names here don’t link to the URL?

  12. Dennis Edell on Thu, 25th Sep 2008 2:20 pm

    13. Woah, ok nm.

    Excellent tip. I’m curious as to how many spies you have to come up with all the awesome tips. :-)

  13. Sacramento Weddings on Sat, 27th Sep 2008 9:50 am

    14. Another great find from the Linkmeister…..thanks, Colin!!!

  14. Melvin on Sat, 27th Sep 2008 11:08 pm

    15. you really have a lot of resourceful link building tips.. thanks

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    16. [...] Collin shows us another great link building tip he’s found this week – Link Building with Work.com [...]

  16. Terminator on Sun, 28th Sep 2008 7:25 am

    17. Really good collection of tips you got. Keep up the good work dude!!

  17. Julie on Wed, 1st Oct 2008 10:47 am

    18. I like this tips list. I adore your work

  18. Gath on Wed, 1st Oct 2008 5:52 pm

    19. Good tip. A quick way to find good pages to comment on in your niche is:

    * Install seoquake.
    * go to google and enter:
    site:work.com +your +keywords

    gives you as list of pages in your niche, showing PR, links etc.

  19. free directory on Sat, 4th Oct 2008 6:22 am

    20. hey collin can u tell me is it really working …My comment is approved but is it do follow??

    -Sri

  20. Discount Cars on Sat, 4th Oct 2008 10:10 am

    21. This is … very smart. But if doing like that… what is the consequence? I’m very scared if Work.com will put my site into black list.

    Does anyone have success with it?

  21. Akshay on Sat, 4th Oct 2008 10:17 pm

    22. I tried to comment but if you see, the comments are all javascript code.So when u see the cached version of Google for any page, the comments DO NOT show up at all!

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  23. GO Zone on Sun, 12th Oct 2008 1:02 pm

    24. This has to be one of my favs so far Collin. By using site:www.work.com “enter keyword here” I found many great pages to comment on. You the man!

  24. Article Submission on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 10:50 am

    25. Collin, this doesn’t seem to be working anymore. It appears the comments are now being displayed via javascript. If you do a search for the url you are using in the source code it won’t show up. GO Zone also verified this.

    Thanks for your all of your help.

  25. GO Zone on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 11:04 am

    26. Yeah, Article Submission is right, everybody, you need to view the source code on the page to see if your links are really do follow. They must have changed it.

  26. allxclub review on Sun, 5th Jul 2009 3:53 am

    27. hahaha… this is really too simple :)

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