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Backlinks available from Bing:

Create a profile. You can visit my.msn.com to add your website RSS feed to your main page. This is similar to adding RSS to the Yahoo personal page to force Bing to find your site.

At Bing.com/community, under Profile then Edit Profile you can list your website url. This is a Do Follow link. – Update – no longer a link. Just text of what website is – but the search engines may still read the link.

Links in the profile box are no follow.

Within the Bing community forum posts can be made. Links are Do Follow. Update – links are not moderated, but now no follow.

Some threads seem to be really by one person with spam links at the bottom of posts. For example, this one: http://www.bing.com/community/travel/f/12271/t/660630.aspx

When you create a Yahoo account there are several places on Yahoo where you can get a backlink. Yahoo services are currently in flux and some may be discontinued, so this will be brief.

On My.Yahoo.com which is your personal Yahoo page add an RSS feed for your site. This is the original “blog and ping” technique for getting your site into Yahoo quickly.

Yahoo message boards are another place for links, though they are No Follow. Update: cannot do an html url, but can still include the url and expect a search engine will pick it up as a url.

Yahoo groups are another place to put links and they are Do Follow.

Other Yahoo options:

MyBlogLog.Yahoo – Create your own blog – this is now dead.

Pulse Blog – Has Do Follow links and this blog also has an rss feed – update – not see any rss feed anymore. Not see where the posts are shared and are public.

Yahoo Answers.

Yahoo Bookmarks – This is discontinued and only available via the Yahoo toolbar. It is not recommended that the Yahoo toolbar be downloaded due to privacy issues, and lack of useful backlink via toolbar. This is just another example of Yahoo sucking – which is why it will not be an independent company long term.

If you want to rank higher on Google wouldn’t it make sense to get links to your website from Google?

I’m not talking about search engine results. Rather, links from other places on Google that should improve your search engine results.

First you need to create a Google Account.

Then you use that Google account to find places on Google to plant links back to your website:

Google Sites

At first you might think all links are No Follow. If you create a site, write content for a page, and include a link in the content, those links are No Follow links.

But, if you edit the Navigation Bar and include a link, those are Do Follow links!

So don’t worry about your page content. Include any wanted backlinks in the navigation bar.

Blogger

Links in your Blogger blogs are Do Follow.

But keep in mind blogs have been misused by spammers, so anything self-promotional, commercial, or spammy tends to get deleted. Even valuable blogs get deleted. If your blog and links stays, great. But don’t try to create something of long-lasting value on Blogger, or you will most likely be disappointed someday as all your hard work is erased with a click.

Knol

Backlinks in Knol are Do Follow.

Keep in mind these are expected to have ‘neutral’, factual information and be more in depth than a blog.

Well, those are the general rules and a lot of abuse can occur. On the other hand, play it straight, do not be too commercial but include references to your report, and this can be a respected backlink.

Consider creating a special Google Account just for a Knol that uses a name if your regular Google Account name is something ‘interesting’.

Google Groups

Google Groups are currently undergoing some changes, but for the better when it comes to backlinking.

Currently, links in Group pages are No Follow. In early 2011 no more Group pages will be allowed.

However, with the new interface, at least in its early stages Group postings – which are really just a discussion forum – are Do Follow.

Another place in Google Groups you can find a Do Follow backlink is when you click ‘More” next to a topic. Then click ‘About’. Then click on the name of the person making a discussion post to the group.

The person’s profile will have their website linked, and the link is Do Follow.

This link may be a redirect from Google, so I don’t know the SEO value of it. But it is something you could post to social bookmark sites to make sure this obscure Do Follow link is found and counted.

Google Profile

These are No Follow links.

It will not hurt to include a link in your profile, and you will want to include one anyway for the Do Follow links available from Google Groups posts as previously noted. And someone may visit your profile and click your link – which can thus still bring you traffic.

If you are asked to include more content in your profile to get listed in the search engines, add a paragraph of text for a bio AND fill out the 3 boxes of information on the right side of the page.

Or, maybe this isn’t such a good idea. After creating Google backlinks and then using pingler on the Google profile page, the ultimate site is mostly out of Google. Gone.