Link Building with eHow

January 4, 2009 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

eHow.com is another website that you can build a dofollow link from your profile. eHow is a website that you can write “how to” guides for anything, but unfortunately for them, they nofollow all the links inside articles. Pretty weird, they allow dofollow links for their profiles where the real spam would happen anyway…

At any rate, go sign up for a free profile and in the “more about me” area on your profile, you can use HTML that will show up on your profile page.

Just like any other newly created profile link, I highly recommend that you bulk up the power of your link by submitting your profile page to socialmarker. I will be posting plenty more social websites with strong authority that you can utilize for your link building campaigns in the near future, so stay tuned.

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24 Comments on Link Building with eHow

  1. Sacramento Weddings on Sun, 4th Jan 2009 11:17 am

    2. Thanks again…you da man!

  2. Ryan @ Linkbuildr on Sun, 4th Jan 2009 5:12 pm

    3. Makin a few friends and taking part in the site a bit will help the profile stick as well. Great tip Collin…you’ve been busy this week :p

  3. Barry Wheeler on Sun, 4th Jan 2009 11:46 pm

    4. While social bookmarking & social media sites such as this does provide an opportunity for links, I do question the value of these links when it comes to longterm benefits obtained for any sustained traffic. Sure, you can gain a quick “juicing” of your page ranking in Google, but that’s like chasing your tail.

    Any viable link building campaign should involve finding strong links, one-way links at that, from relevant sites. This will not only improve rankings, but will increase the amount of traffic to a site that has a chance of converting! Many of these link building strategies will do nothing more than harm your SEO than help it.

    Granted, I have used some of these methods that you talk about at one point, but now have focused my methods on building quality, one-way links, with relevant anchor text from relevant sites, and have seen major increases in traffic, and conversion!

  4. Lance | Johnson on Mon, 5th Jan 2009 2:04 pm

    5. There’s nothing to lose here though I feel. It won’t take up too much time, you get to choose your anchor text, and you don’t have to worry about your link disappearing. And you’re right, pointing links at your profile page helps to bolster the link strength as well.

  5. Barry Wheeler on Mon, 5th Jan 2009 9:14 pm

    6. It’s still not relevant traffic. While it only takes a few minutes to do this, it will provide a link, but what’s the value?

    I spent 30 minutes today and obtained 10 links from relevant domains with an anchor text of my chosing. How did I accomplish this? Easy, I just emailed the sites and asked for it.

    Sent 15 emails, 1 at a time, and got 10 links and those links are generating traffic for me already, about 50 visitors, and I have about 10 conversions so far, including a pile of subscribers to my newsletter.

    I would take those links any day over these.

  6. Sacramento Weddings on Fri, 9th Jan 2009 6:32 pm

    7. @Barry and other skeptics (above):

    Today I was googling the term “Sacramento weddings”, and was scouring the back pages looking for potential link sites and found an article about Wedding Reception places in Sacramento, written by another e-how member.

    Now I thought— if I could write an “optimized” article, that used my key words (Sacramento Weddings) in the text, maybe that article (with link) would score higher in Google than the other member’s article (which has shorter text and lacks key word depth).

    I’ll report back again (in another comment) when I see the results of the google SERP for this page in a couple of weeks.

    [Another site that I found (and it indexes in Google very fast) is "Galaxy" -- its more of a classified ads site but you make a profile page, looks like another Cookbook item???]

  7. Sacramento Weddings on Fri, 9th Jan 2009 7:10 pm

    8. e-how article that I wrote TODAY:
    http://www.ehow.com/how_471265.....to-ca.html

  8. Michael Ramses on Thu, 22nd Jan 2009 5:02 pm

    9. It is highly speculated that in the future Google will devalue forum, blog, and social networking links. Google is always looking for ways to thwart those that try to exploit their algorithm.

  9. Taya on Thu, 22nd Jan 2009 5:18 pm

    10. Great trick :)

  10. pfincome on Thu, 12th Mar 2009 6:31 am

    11. I am new to link building but am curious how you can easy tell which links are dofollow and which ones are not. In your eHow example – how could I tell that my profile think is dofollow but the article links are not?

    Thanks in advance!

  11. Woogley on Sun, 22nd Mar 2009 6:22 pm

    12. i must say that this is the greatest link building promotions that can give more links and traffic for the site

  12. jocelyn on Wed, 25th Mar 2009 4:57 am

    13. I thought ehow is a no-follow.
    not to worry, you would go to
    http://www.dapper.net and create a free rss feed and then go to socialmarker.com

  13. Buy Cakes on Tue, 21st Apr 2009 5:29 am

    14. Hi Barry

    I guess it breaks down into two activities – marketing and branding. I would see linkbuilding as marketing, you may get some traffic but it’s more about raising your profile, and the activities you describe as having long-term strategic “brand” benefits.

    Cheers

    Orrdee

  14. SEO consultant on Wed, 10th Jun 2009 3:10 pm

    15. You can definately rank profile pages, but it may take some link building apart from bookmarking.

  15. danny on Sun, 21st Jun 2009 11:21 pm

    16. ya. very interesting method in link building.
    Thanks a lot for sharing.

  16. allxclub review on Sun, 28th Jun 2009 8:26 am

    17. some of you are trying to rank your profile? forget that! just use the profile to build backlinks for pages you want on page one of google… the reason you social bookmark your ehow profile is to pass on some link juice which ends on you “PRIMARY” page/s

  17. seo lions on Tue, 4th Aug 2009 8:19 am

    18. yes creating profile in ehow is very helpful, great you are working on newer things.

  18. policehow on Tue, 1st Sep 2009 3:27 pm

    19. that’s weird… i published my first ehow and 1 of the links i put in the resources was do-followed, while the other one was not. wonder if there’s some trick to getting a do follow link or if i just got lucky o_o

  19. Passive Income on Sun, 22nd Nov 2009 3:16 pm

    20. This is an amazing post! Thanks, I’ll have to rewrite and post to my blog also! I’ll send you a trackback!

  20. JadeDragon on Mon, 11th Jan 2010 5:10 am

    21. Very helpful article. I already added my blog to my ehow profile. I’m thinking of putting links into every article resource box too (more articles by this author). I’ve found that they drive some traffic my way, but likely not pagerank.

  21. Healthcare Jobs on Mon, 18th Jan 2010 4:05 am

    22. interesting, do they accept only “how to do this that” articles only?

  22. Mitch - free website design on Fri, 29th Jan 2010 3:39 am

    23. yes it only how to articles, i submitted couple of articles today, hopefully they get approved.

  23. Santa Cruz Wedding Photographer on Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 6:58 pm

    24. I have 109 videos on ehow – where I’m giving tutorials on all sorts of IT issues and photography tips, but alas, I’ve just noticed the no-follow attribute on all links…

    Very disappointing!

  24. Office Cleaning Services on Thu, 24th Jun 2010 6:29 pm

    25. Great article, just created my profile on ehow. Now I will have to come up with some articles related to cleaning services.

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