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A List of Link Building Lists. 15 Sites That Help You Use Your Twitter Profile for Link Building. I know the minute some people read the title of this post, they will think that this is a far-fetched idea.

15 Sites That Help You Use Your Twitter Profile for Link Building

But bear with me for the duration of this post. I will show you fifteen sites (all the way up to a Google PageRank of 7 and Domain Authority of 94) that will either automatically link back to you using information in your Twitter profile or will allow you to sign in with Twitter and add links because of it. Is Your Twitter Profile Optimized to Build Links? Before we look at those awesome sites that will link back to you based on your Twitter information, let’s start by making sure your Twitter profile is ready to help build links. It’s really simple. This will result in your Twitter profile looking like this. It can be the same link in both if you are only working with one website, or two different ones if you prefer. Examples of such areas include when you are in a Twitter list… Or when you are mentioned in a tweet.

Account Security Klout Twitter Grader Twellow TwitterCounter Twitaholic. Using Twitter and Backlinks to Build Links. In SEO, we look at many pools of data to find how we can get our client to rank better and increase revenue from search.

Using Twitter and Backlinks to Build Links

But we usually look at them individually — exploring competitor backlinks, Twitter users, ect. What if we mashed those pools of data together to find linking opportunities? That was a question Wil posed to me several months ago and asked that I develop a tool in Excel. The fundamental goal of the tool is to mash Twitter and backlink data together to find out who is following your client but does not link to them. This can be very powerful because it leverages existing relationships to get links that scale. Let’s begin with how to find people that follow your client but do not link back to them. Pull the Twitter Data Export your client’s Twitter followers using Export.ly. Creating a New Excel Spreadsheet We are going to do this with Wil’s Twitter data as example. Pulling OSE Backlinks Export your client’s external backlinks from Open Site Explorer or Majestic SEO. Drag. Google Alerts Link Building, A Guide. Google Alerts is an amazing tool for building links, and one I feel that is relatively unharvested in the SEO world.

Google Alerts Link Building, A Guide

Yes, there are certain slivers of the tool that most people use, but, used comprehensively, there is massive opportunity to find links – links that are indexed by Google (alerts picked them up!) – and fresh enough that you know the webmaster has recently monitored it, and therefore, more likely to respond – or at very least entertain – whatever link request you might make. I might even go as far as to say that using Google Alerts for a social e-commerce company is basically printing links. Remember, though — before printing those links, think of the environment.