How To Get Indirect Back Links From Yahoo!

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

I’ve noticed over and over again that Yahoo! is a bit more liberal than Google in its link credit practices. But Google, unfortunately, doesn’t report every link it credits. I think that is because they want to protect their algorithm somewhat and not let out their secrets. There are some really smart search engine optimization experts out there who can figure out how Google gives link credit if the information if made available.

Yahoo!, however, works a little differently. Yahoo! will give you link credit for a single link in your blog’s sidebar for every post you make. So if you post every day for a year and you have one link back to your website from an offsite blog, Yahoo! will likely register you with a link popularity of 365 at the end of that year. Plus some.

Why plus some? Because you are going to get some links in other ways.

Social bookmarking. If you bookmark your web pages at all the social bookmarking sites you can find, a good number of them will gain you link credit from Yahoo! But even some of those bookmarking sites that don’t provide link credit will result in indirect link credit in other ways.

If you have a BlogCatalog account, for instance, your sidebar links will also register as link credit from BlogCatalog as long as your blog is registered at BlogCatalog. Also, people who vote on your bookmarks at some sites, if they have a BlogCatalog, account and they decide to blog about your web page, will help you gain some more link juice from BlogCatalog.

But that’s not all. I’ve seen link credit come from sites that I didn’t bookmark at because someone else bookmarked it there after voting on it from another site. For instance, StumbleUpon rarely gives link credit. But after asking a group of people to stumble an item, one of them went to FriendFeed and submitted the same item. We got link credit from FriendFeed.

Never underestimate the power of indirect links. Don’t just focus on dofollow sites. Benefits can come from unexpected places.