How to Getting Links from the Top 50 Domains

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The good folks over at SEOMoz have provided us with a list of the Top 500 Linked Domains according to the Linkscape index. I thought it would be interesting to start churning through the list and finding out how search marketers, spammers, etc. are finding ways to get their links on each of these incredible domains. Some of them are incredibly sneaky and blackhat (check out the Flickr and AOL links, for example).

Here is a list of the top 50 or so. (Sometimes we have to resort to subdomains)…

1. Google.com: get in the directory
2. Adobe.com: followed forum links
3. Blogspot.com: If you cant figure out how to get a link on blogspot, give up now.
4. Yahoo.com: join the directory
5. Youtube.com: Create your own channel
6. Wikipedia.org: Add it, it will be nofollowed, but still worth it.
7. W3.org : Newsletter Auto-Linking
8. Facebook.com: Facebook Apps (check out the retailer icons)
9. WordPress.org: Write a Good Plugin (Author Homepage)
10. Myspace.com: If you can’t figure out how to get a link on myspace, you need to give up on SEO.
    Check out the link to gamespot on this page.
11. Microsoft.com: Amapedia FTW
12. Macromedia.com: Get Mentioned, hard link to get
13. WordPress.com: Create a Blog, If you can’t figure out how to get a link on wordpress.com, you need to give up on SEO.
14. Flickr.com: Add and Edit a Comment
    Create a comment with a link in it like this… <a rel=”follow” href=”http://www.yoursite.com”>text</a>. Flickr will add a nofollow after the HREF, but the rel=”follow” will already have been parsed. Sneaky, eh?
15. StatCounter.com: Member profile Contact Info
16. Miibeian.gov.cn : Good luck
17. Msn.com: Movies Search Results
18. Apple.com: Get Written About. Yeah, this one is tough.
19. AOL.com: Propeller cross-domain. Now that is clever!
20. MapQuest.com : Map Listings
21. Sourceforge.net: Forum Profile Pages
22. NYtimes.com: It never ceases to amaze me what spammers can find.
23. Feedburner.com: Feed Links Count.
24. CNN.com: Create a Fan Nation Blog
25. Free.fr: Create a Site
26. Tripod.com: If you don’t know how to get a link from tripod, you need to give up on SEO.
27. Live.com: Create a blog on Windows Live Spaces
28. Go.com: Create a Sports Nation Fan Blog
29. Addthis.com: Only nofollows from forum links.
30. Typepad.com: Create a Blog
31. PHPbb.com: Signature Links
32. Digg.com: Go Popular. Write fantastic content and get on the homepage of Digg to get PR flowing links.
33. technorati.com: Site Reactions Pages and others
34. del.icio.us (now delicious.com): Get mentioned on the blog
35. php.net: Become a Mirror
36. imdb.com: make a movie or documentary
37. about.com: followed links in the forums
38. ebay.com: user pages have followed links
39. rambler.ru: forum links followed
40. blogger.com: Get into the “Blogs I follow”
41. fc2.com: Blog
42. joomla.org: followed links in the forum
43. google.de: Directory
44. creativecommons.org: Try installing ccHost and mentioning your installation
45. Mysql.com: Forge Comments

How to Find Link Targets

I thought it may make sense to mention how to find some of these link targets. While there are some more sophisticated tools available to those willing to delve in blackhat strategies, the easiest thing to do is find out what others are doing. Let’s say your target is myspace.com

1. Check the linkfromdomain command in Bing to find out .
2. Then choose a domain from the list and check for links to it in site explorer from myspace. This will help you find the actual pages on myspace that link out.
3. Then go to a few of those pages and look in the source code for examples of how that link was placed. Make sure to check for nofollow
4. The other option is just search google for site:yourtarget.com “cheap viagra”. Chances are, if there is a hole, it has been exploited by someone promoting generic pills.