Link Building with Ning

November 5, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

Ning is a website that allows anyone to create their own social network for whatever they feel like, whether that be a social network about dancing all the way to a social network about link building strategies.

There is tons of link building potential with Ning.com, and so I figured I would give everyone a quick guide to some of the fastest ways to build useful links with the site.

Link Building Strategy #1
Sign up for a free social network related to your niche. For example, I own the linkbuildingstrategies.ning.com social network and it features my RSS feed with dofollow links

Link Building Strategy #2
Find someone elses (more aged/authoritative) social network that allows for anyone to join it and post “blog posts” on it. Post a blog post (which is actually just a comment it seems like) and put a dofollow anchor text link in it. You can see a live example here

Link Building Strategy #3
This pretty much goes hand-in-hand with the #2 technique, but you can easily spam tons of related keywords so that not only do you get the dofollow link from the blog post (or comment as I would call it), but you get a bunch of links for every “tag” that you add to the post. You can see an example here.

Link Building Strategy #4 (not recommended for most)
You can create dozens of free social network subdomains and use blackhat/spam techniques to quickly promote them so they rank really well in a short amount of time and provide you with a few dozen very strong links (but this method isn’t long term, so I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who doesn’t do blackhat SEO for a living).

There is most likely many more link building strategies that you could find from Ning.com, so I leave the deeper search up to you.

Comments

14 Comments on Link Building with Ning

  1. Watch Tv Shows on Thu, 6th Nov 2008 10:39 am

    2. May I Know how did you add your blog feed to your social network??

  2. Busby SEO Test on Thu, 6th Nov 2008 12:35 pm

    3. I use ning.com too. And the good things for me is this service have a cheap premium service if we want to use our own domain.

  3. serviced offices on Fri, 7th Nov 2008 9:48 am

    4. I just learnt about ning from this blog and guess what, I’ve just created an account here http://smallbusinesses.ning.com. Will be working around the layout over the weekend. Thanks very much for this post.

  4. Joel Drapper on Fri, 7th Nov 2008 6:17 pm

    5. Sounds great! Thanks for sharing. Their site is down for a while at the moment, but I will have a look later.

  5. This Week In Link Building November 11th 2008 on Tue, 11th Nov 2008 11:25 am

    6. [...] anniversary as well mention two great posts he’s written last week. First up was his post on Link Building With Ning which is an SEO friendly social networking platform which allows anyone to create a social network [...]

  6. Blog for Beginners on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 4:23 am

    7. I’ve joined ning a year ago but didn’t really put much efforts in exploring its opportunity, I guess it’s due time that I revisit it. Thanks for sharing it with us.

    Yan

  7. Link Building Blogger on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 11:23 am

    8. Very good link building strategy Collin. Unfortunately, we can’t be everywhere at once and building a network requires efforts so I kind of neglected Ning in the past but your post shows some real potential to explore.

  8. Gachinpo Feed on Sun, 16th Nov 2008 7:54 am

    9. Thanks for this list of very good tips on link building with Ning.

  9. renantech on Wed, 19th Nov 2008 3:55 am

    10. This is very effective strategy thnks for sharing your idea to us..

  10. Terri healthymoms on Fri, 5th Dec 2008 6:39 am

    11. THANKS, I have a ning community here: http://trivitateambuild.ning.com/
    and I had no idea about that strategy. I also belong to about half dozen other ning community’s, thanks again!!

  11. Jay on Fri, 12th Dec 2008 10:31 am

    12. I think I have the ultimate solution for you and stop you from tossing and turning at night.

  12. Niche Titans on Sat, 20th Dec 2008 12:30 am

    13. I like Ning… I should use it more often… I like how you can add your RSS… that’s some nice internal linkage….

  13. Sacramento Weddings on Fri, 9th Jan 2009 12:23 pm

    14. I just joined a Wedding Network on Ning yesterday, then I remembered “That was covered by Collin in his blog.”
    Thanks again for the great advice! (only took me three months to implement…)

  14. sekhar on Sat, 28th Feb 2009 9:10 am

    15. Great strategy for Link Building, Thanks

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