Comments on: How to Build Links with HOW-TO Content

By: Randal Oulton

Randal Oulton — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:16:45 +0000

I’d encourage anyone referencing ehow pages as a source, to ensure that the links to them include the nofollow tag. What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. They are trying to appear legitimate by encouraging anyone to do precis’s of other people’s original research, and appearing to source the work, while tacking no follow tags onto the reference to ensure that no benefit actually accrues to the site that did the original research. Slimy. Actually, on second thought, maybe better to just not reference them as a source at all — even the precising they do isn’t that great.

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:08:21 +0000

Great suggestion Malte! That’s exactly what most of my delicious links are to… tutorials. I never thought of putting the delicious button next to a video tutorial. I’m just about to start doing video tutorials though, so I’ll definitely give your technique a go.

By: Michael Ciucci

Michael Ciucci — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:57:24 +0000

Thanks for the tips, Ann. I’ve only been doing SEO for a short period of time, and it’s always a work in progress. Thanks for the extra tips!

By: loanmodleads

loanmodleads — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:06:22 +0000

writer@gig : bukisa is no more a dofollow site ,now they nofollow within article links as well as profile links.
just wanted to put this update here

By: Kingsley Tagbo - IT Career Boot Camp

Kingsley Tagbo - IT Career Boot Camp — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:59:24 +0000

Your article provided some new places that I didn’t know of before. I will look into using the additional resources you mentioned.

By: Malte Landwehr

Malte Landwehr — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:50:10 +0000

When you have a really good HowTo video, try to post it at videojug.com, I often use that site as a resource myself.
When you place HowTo content on your own website (or embed a slideshow/video) place a del.icio.us button next to it. Delicious users love HowTos; its the easiest way to there front page and many power users will blog their bookmarks of the day (or week) automatically on their blog, so you will get a lot of nice backlinks.

By: ALRADY

ALRADY — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:32:27 +0000

Thank you … It seems I have to constantly do workaround for the ehow stuff. RSS tools are gone. EHOW is best thing going IMHO but the other sites are bringing on great tools for marketing articles.

I will try this . right now I do a stable list on twitwall. I had a headline animator but could not make it work with article list. Let’s hope this works.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:03:04 +0000

Great article Ann! I knew of many of these sites but you’ve done the hard work of figuring out if they use the nofollow tag or not. Even though I knew of many of these sites I haven’t had time to really use them and check them out – but I’m starting a series of HOW-TO articles/videos to do with Wordpress and Blogging and I’m looking for ways to promote them, so this article will come in handy!

I’ve know about Scribd for a long time but never really got my head around what you could do with it, from what you’ve said though you can do a lot more than I realized. Comparing them to YouTube made it instantly understandable.

Thanks also for the sites I didn’t know about, both in your article and in some of the comments.

By: wani

wani — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:18:07 +0000

Hmmmmmm

By: ABnCParties

ABnCParties — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:09:34 +0000

Why have I been spending all this time on Ehow?