DoFollow Links Series #001 - Starting the engines!
DoFollow Links Series #001 - Starting the engines!
The beginning of a beautiful friendship!
What is packed in this episode of the Dofollow Links Series?
About the newsletter, what should you expect from it, and how it’s making marketing accessible to founders
Juicy “Dofollow Links” explained, details about how I release them and how you can use them
5 Juicy Dofollows revealed for everyone (first few weeks there will be no paywall as we build more common/foundational backlinks
Let's go!
About the Newsletter
(you can skip to the third part if you want the dofollow links but I highly recommend reading everything to know what to expect)
This series will focus on the juicy dofollow links and sharing Alpha related to SEO and Marketing as I noticed many startup founders and business owners suffer in this field.
On the one hand, they lack the knowledge as agencies gatekeep it so they can earn hundreds or even thousands of dollars per month from each business they manage.
On the other hand, many founders don't even have that money to spend on marketing.
They desperately need a solution or they are destined to fail. Too many times I see great products that don't have hype around them, with websites that lack basic SEO
I am on a mission to change this. I will reveal the exact methods used by agencies.
You will learn how to get quality backlinks that will improve your rankings for a fraction of the cost or even for free.
How will you achieve this? How will you become an SEO Chad?
With the alpha I'll be sharing in this newsletter. All the subscribers receive a FREE Online Growth Blueprint (frequently updated) when they join.
This Blueprint will eventually contain all the necessary steps to grow your business online, focusing on content creation (text and video), keyword research, building backlinks, storytelling, and other tips to get you ahead of your competitors.
If you do even 70% of those steps you will be in the top 1% of businesses. How do I know this? Because I see 99% of business owners not doing what they should.
One of the main pillars of growing online is backlink building which can be done easily with the:
Juicy Dofollow Links Collection
In my years as a marketer and building Amazon affiliate websites I have gathered a beautiful collection of websites from which you can get backlinks for free.
These are websites with great metrics, like high domain authority and low spam scores, that will improve your rankings and visibility.
This collection has over 700!!! websites ranging from DA 10 to DA 99, with the majority over DA 40. I'm adding new ones and removing some but the list is overall growing.
Things I want to clarify from the beginning:
1. Dofollow vs Nofollow
Dofollow is the desired type as it passes the juice (the value) to the linked website. Consider it a vote of trust, while nofollow is just a mention.
2. Not all the links are dofollow!
But more than 80% are, so we can say this is a dofollow link collection, hence the name.
But nofollow links have their role.
A) You need a balance between dofollow and nofollow so you don't trigger the algos. 80%/20% will look natural
B) Nofollow links can help syndication and indexing even if they don't pass juice (authority).
C) They can generate visits from a platform with high traffic.
3. Not all the links are free!
Many are free, around 80%. Some that are free also offer paid listings with improved visibility. You can call them freemium if you like that term. Some are only paid.
Paid listings shouldn’t scare you. You get better value from many paid listings, as the sites have fewer listings/competition, so your visibility is much better.
I don't recommend expensive listings but if the price is $29 per year or $67 as a lifetime deal, I consider these acceptable prices for a valuable backlink from a good domain. I will tell you when a listing or business profile is paid and you will decide if you want to use it.
4. Dofollow Links Release Schedule.
I will release the links once per week, providing 5 dofollow backlinks for your link building.
Free subscribers will get 1-2 links per week and some of the alpha
Exclusive VIP subscribers will get all 5 links per week, access to downloadable CSV files with all the previous weeks, and all the alpha with case studies (the strategies I use with my websites).
5. Why 5 per week?
3 - 20 is a safe range for link building every week. You don't want to build 50-100 links/week as this could trigger Google.
I'm sure you do some other link-building, and share your website on your socials, or at least you should.
5 per week is the sweet spot! Not too many to take you a lot of time (you can do them with less than 1 hour of work per week) not too few to have low impact.
In 10 weeks you will have 50 backlinks and in a year you will get over 250.
These dofollow links bring other backlinks, from the same site (listing on different pages) or other sites.
It's safe to say you will have enough inks in a few months to get ahead of your competitors and see improvements in your rankings and traffic.
The schedule also gives you a rhythm. You receive the email, you build the links, and you improve. Do it and you'll thank me later.
6. Different conditions for obtaining the backlink
Some of the websites I will provide have different conditions and requirements. While some platforms accept links from any business (like social media platforms, links in bio, etc) others are intended for some niches or categories (like AI tools, photographers, graphic designers, businesses in a certain region, etc).
While you can find ways to get a link from some of them, others are more strict, so don’t expect all the backlink opportunities I’m sharing to work for your particular case.
7. This is SEO, rules can change, but it’s still worth it
The decision to index and rank your website belongs to algorithms behind Google and other search engines. There is no guarantee as the rules can change over time.
That being said, I'm sharing things that worked for me in the past and are currently working as you will see with my websites.
I will give examples in future emails, I'm using websites like businessdirectorysites.com as case studies to show you growth using the same methods shared here.
Your results depend on many factors, like your chosen keywords/keyphrases, domain name, how competitive your niche is, and how well you're doing other types of promotion (social media).
But building these links is likely to get you in a much better position than you are today, in just a few months! (SEO is not a fast play but a steady growth that lasts).
If you take a snapshot of where you are today (I strongly suggest that), and do the work, I trust your DA, rankings, indexed pages, and results will be much higher in the next months.
“Build the links, results will follow!”
is our mantra!
So let's start building them!
Five Juicy Dofollow Links
Note: The dofollow links provided in the first episodes will be mainstream, as we build our foundational backlinks. But these are very important as they also provide traffic and social proof. We will later get to the hidden gems.
Link 001 - Medium.com
Monster metrics:
Linktype: dofollow
DA 95
Cost: free (I have a paid account that costs $50/year but you can do the same with a free account)
Details: You create a profile and start publishing articles. The dofollow backlinks can be placed on the “About” page where you can add a short description about what you do (you can edit it on your desktop). Links can also be placed in each article but, unlike the About page, these are nofollow,
What's great about Medium is that you can promote different projects and create articles for each one from the same account, especially if they are related.
Another thing is that Medium is a great parasite SEO website, you can create an article, and index it. It will rank higher and it can generate traffic to your money pages, affiliate links, products, or services (more about parasite SEO in future episodes)
Link 002 - Substack.com
Metrics:
Linktype: dofollow
DA 92
Cost: free
Details: Create a newsletter. You can place dofollow links on your pages, and newsletter issues in the subdomain YOURNAME.substack.com. I know this is a subdomain, not a subpage so it arguably gives less juice. However, substack is still very useful, especially in an era where human-generated content becomes more important. PRO Tip: Let crawlers index your newsletter in the settings.
When you add a domain for your newsletter as I did with dofollowlinks.net, you don’t get the benefits of backlinks from substack but from that domain (in my case the domain has good metrics from its past, even if it is just purchased)
The newsletter should drive juice and traffic to your other domains when you have more than one.
There are also linking opportunities in your creator profile for social media and a website link.
Normally around here you would see a paywall between free and paid subscribers but for now, as I said earlier, all links are for everyone, Enjoy!
Link 3 - Linktr.ee
Massive Metrics:
Linktype: dofollow
DA 93
Cost: free
Details: Many link-in-bio platforms provide only nofollow links, but not this one! Get a dofollow link from a massive DA 93 website. Get a free account/log in with your Google account, create a Linktree bio, and add links/socials. All the links are dofollow.
Link 4 - Coub.com
Metrics:
Linktype: dofollow
DA 87
Cost: free
Details: Coub is the video platform/social network you never heard about (probably). You can get backlinks to your socials and one website (dofollow link) placed directly on the banner of your profile. Additionally, use Coub to post “coubs”😲 (videos) on your channel and gain an audience, views, traffic & users for your products or services, like on Youtube.
Link 5 - Tumblr.com
Metrics:
Linktype: dofollow
DA 78
Cost: free
Details: Yes Tumblr is still alive and kicking. You can get dofollow links in every post you create on Tumblr, sign in if you already have an account, or create a new one. Post something about your product/services, and share your website to get a dofollow link from Tumblr. Use the platform to gain traffic and customers for your products and services. It has a cheap advertising solution called Blaze (I haven’t tested it yet).
Conclusion
And that’s it for this week’s Dofollow Links Newsletter. I hope this email helped you.
To kickstart the newsletter, I have an early bird offer. If you subscribe now to the paid plan, you will get an additional CSV file with 100+ directories (those listed on my website BusinessDirectorySites). You can browse and use them easily in a CSV file format.
This can be done with a monthly subscription for $37/month or with the yearly plan that costs only $8/month. You’ll get instructions in the email you receive as a confirmation of your VIP membership.
See you in the next one!
Dorian, over and out🫡