Google loves backlinks, backlinks show the relevance of a webpage to the internet. The more backlinks a web page has, the more relevant Google thinks it to be and the higher it ranks. But there is more to this statement; Google will give more preference to a web page with high quality backlinks to one with millions of low quality backlinks. Some sites like Tumblr, Google+ and LinkedIn are respected by Google, and so getting a dofollow backlink from such sites will mean a lot for your webpage. But the problem is that most of these sites know this and have made all their external links nofollow.
I have found a way to obtain a dofollow backlinks from such sites and I want to share it with you here. Google will definitely take your site/blog more seriously if you can obtain a dofollow backlinks from Google+, LinkedIn and Tumblr. So lets get started and see how we can obtain a dofollow backlinks from such sites.
How to obtain quality backlinks from Google+, LinkedIn and Tumblr
First download and install a Firefox plugin called ‘Nofollow” here. What this plugin does is to highlight links in a page according to nofollow/dofollow status. Restart your Firefox, right click on your mouse to reveal dofollow and nofollow links, while grey-ash color is dofollow, pink-colored links are nofollow. Now I am going to discuss how you can get a dofollow backlinks from each social network separately.
How to obtain a dofollow backlink from Google +:
Visit Google Plus and sign in to your account, click on ‘Profile’ and choose ‘edit profile’, scroll down towards the end of the page until you see ‘Links’.
Use the “add custom link” to deep-link to your site/blog. Use a post page and use the post’s keyword as your anchor text. Just like I did with ‘LinkedIn Profile URL’ in the image above and save your profile. Now right click on your mouse to confirm this link is a dofollow.
How to obtain a dofollow link from LinkedIn:
Visit LinkedIn and sign in to your account, and click on ‘edit profile’, scroll to the section that says ‘Additional Information’ and click the tiny edit button by its side. Under the section ‘Websites’ there are three places to enter your website details, you can use one to link to your homepage, but I recommend you use the other to deep-link to your blog, so link to your blog’s inner page with a post URL and use your keyword as an anchor text as we did above. See image below for illustration.
Then save changes and right click on your mouse, choose the nofollow option to confirm this link is a dofollow just like the one above.
How to obtain a dofollow backlinks from Tumblr:
I am hoping you already have a tumblr account, else sign up for one immediately. Sign in to your tumblr account, you can check with your nofollow plugin to confirm that all external links are nofollow but we will get a dofollow backlink by the time we are done with this tutorial.
Click on settings on your dashboard, right below your tumblr blog URL you will notice a check box ‘Use a custom domain name’ simply check it and enter your site/blog address and test your domain to confirm. Then click on the save button to save.
Go to you dashboard and verify if the link is not a dofollow pointing to your blog. This way you have obtained a dofollow high quality backlink to your blog.
Now you have successfully been able to obtain high quality dofollow backlinks from Google+, LinkedIn and Tumblr. I hope you find this article interesting enough to share with your friends. Remember to subscribe to my RSS feeds by entering your email on the subscription box below and hitting the ‘subscribe’ button.
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Hey Nwosu! You gave these good tips but right click of mouse to confirm this link is a dofollow is not working here. Please solve this problem.
The sites must be in English language for this plugin to work….where exactly are you having difficulties so i can narrow your solution easily?
Thanks for the info Nwosu. Just updated our linkedin and google+ pages using your tips.
And now you’ve just gained two dofollow backlinks…you can verify it with the nofollow plugin for Firefox
wow!!! i just finished working on all these tips, waiting for great improvement
Definitely Google and other search engines will recognize your high quality dofollow link and will rank your site higher.
Really very Excited after read your post. It’s totally new thing for me. Let me do it for my blogs. Thanks for sharing waiting for more informative post by your side :)
Thanks am glad you like it…
Great Post mate :] Thanks for sharing with us .
i love the way you carved out this tutorial, it was very nice and i learned a great deal today. keep it up bro
Pls is it every post i shared on google plus or linkedin is going to have do follow links or only that one above only..
All you need is just one dofollow backlink. Even if all your posts have a dofollow backlink Google will count them all as one. So one is quite enough.
thank you so much for this! i just started doing this a week and has been working great! thanks much!!
I didn’t know that was possible to add a custom anchor for each link in Google+. This seems to be something new. Thanks for sharing!
Hey, I have a problem creating a backlink in tumblr. It says “This subdomain’s CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. It is currently set to “ghs.google.com”.
Now, if i change the cname will it not effect my blog at blogger since i m using blogger to host my domain
Did you follow the instructions on this tutorial very well? I dont see any reasons why it should point to your blog.
I have read many articles for SEO but this is article is really very helpful for me to get real do follow backlinks from top sites. Thanks a ton.
Jess
Thanks for visiting my blog, i am glad you found the article interesting.
This is very helpful. Getting a DoFollow backlink from these sites is of good value.
I have added my blog link in the contributor part of Google+, but ignored the links section. I will definitely add a link to that section now.
Glad you found the article interesting. Thanks for visiting…and always visit again.
Wowow!!
Great share, Nwosu!!
I am going to try that later in the evening today.
I am sure there are many others who would be knowing this, but are just too reluctant to share this information with other bloggers. :)
I appreciate your spirit. And just cant thank you enough. :P
P.S.: I already bookmarked this page. ;)
Thanks i am glad you found it interesting and Netmediablog is only dedicated to sharing quality content to improve our readers.
You should update the article. Sites are not the sames and the way to edit them is no longer the same
Thanks for pointing it out.
thanks for sharing such woderful article, it really help me to get high quality dofollow backlink
I am glad you found the article informative.
Dear Nwosu,
We have found this post useful. Thanks for sharing the tips with screen shots. All the best!
Thanks, glad you found it interesting.
thank you very much Its very nice and great
I highly thank you for sharing us the nest experience !!
Hi Nwosu, I am unable to get backlink from tumblr. When I leave my url in custom domain name box, It shows an error. Something like this:
Status of “yoursite.com”
This domain’s A-record is not pointing to Tumblr. It is currently set to “xxx.xx.xx.xx”. Please change the A-record to “66.6.xx.x”
What domain name where you trying to add?
I think now Likedin are not support to input website in setting.
thank you so much……….. it is really helpful to get do follow back links for our website Asistmi.
it is saying edit your cname or points it to…domains.tumblr.com
The Tumblr Tips is not Working,Can you tell the linkedin tip is for premium user or not…???
Its for everyone, i am not a premium user.
This is a great post. I have always wondered how the do follow links worked on these sites.