If you want high octane backlinks from authority sites without spending a dime, then you definitely want to check out this completely unknown link building strategy.
In fact, the technique I’m about to show you one is one of the most powerful weapons in my SEO arsenal…
…and it’s a technique that almost NO ONE in SEO is using.
Sound cool? It is.
Keep reading.
The Problem With Authority Links
You already know that authority links are where it’s at.
If you put a gun to my head and forced me to decide between 1,000 PR1 links and a single link from Stanford.edu, I wouldn’t even have time to blink before yelling: “Stanfoooordddd!
(Yes, I’d have to be all dramatic like that…there’s a gun pointing at my head!).
But as you know firsthand, authority links are really, REALLY hard to get your hands on.
And the one’s you DO get have a laundry list of frustrating issues:
- Usually a content-less profile link
- On an orphan page with PR n/a or PR0
- Likely to get deleted by an admin
- Hard to get indexed (even if you waste time and energy pinging the page)
In other words, they suck.
But there’s a better way to get authority links.
The technique I’m going to show you not only hooks you up with links on authority domains…
…but gets you backlinks on authority PAGES as well.
How to Steal Authority for Fun and Profit
I’ve been KILLING it in lately with these backlinks. I like to call them Funnel Links.
But first, it’s important to see how most crappy profile and web 2.0 properties work:
Basically you’re looking an orphan page on a high PR domain.
Not awful…but still suffers from the problems mentioned above.
The most glaring problem with this is that even if Google DOES find your link…it’s sitting on a blank page with a grand total of 0 links pointing to it.
Not much SEO value happening there.
In sharp contrast here’s what a Funnel Link looks like:
What we’re doing here is creating a content-rich page on an authority domain and funneling PR from within the domain to our Funnel page…
…which then flows smoothly to our money site.
Here’s a Real Life Example
Check out this Funnel page here:
This person has no idea that she’s created a Funnel Link…but she has.
And so can you.
If you take a look at her page you may notice that her Funnel Page is a PR4!
And it’s ALL from internal links…which you can get in about 15-30 minutes of “work”.
Why does this matter?
Because a good amount of that link juice is flowing to her site via the dofollow backlink sitting on her Funnel Page.
Here’s How You Do It
There are three dead-simple steps to setting up a Funnel Link:
1. Find Funnel Sites
This is the hard part.
Funnel Link sites don’t have much in common (in other words, no footprint)…making them a wee bit hard to find.
But once you know how to spot a site that you can drop a Funnel Link on, finding them becomes VERY simple.
Here’s what to look for:
- The link to your money site is dofollow
- You can create a content-rich page
- You can get internal links by liking, commenting and following other people (this is HUGE)
Here are some sites you can start stealing authority from right now:
Behance.net (PR7)
BigTent.com (PR6)
8Tracks.com (PR6)
IndieGoGo.com (PR6)
If you’re feeling frisky and want to build more, Knowem.com is an awesome resource….
Just head over to Knowem and type in anything into the search tool:
And you’ll get a list of results like this:
While not all of these sites will let you build Funnel Links, most will. It’s just a matter of signing up and testing them out.
2. Build Your Funnel Page
Once you’ve found a site that allows you to build a contextual page AND funnel PR to it, it’s time to make your very own page.
It may seem straightforward, but it’s worth a mention: do not spam these sites!
Remember: you’re joining a community of people.
People that get very upset when a spammer shows up…and they express their displeasure by booting you from the site.
Just like you did in high school, make an effort to fit in.
That means if you join a site full of musicians, tell them about your dope MC skills (even if you only rap in the shower).
Or if it’s a group of writers, make a page about the novel you’re looking to write.
This keeps you under the radar screen…so that your links stick for the long-term.
In other words, don’t post SEO-optimized content or drop anchor text links.
Just create a page that a moderator or member of the community would approve of if they landed there (which they eventually will).
In other words, be cool.
To illustrate, let’s do this on Behance.net.
First you sign up and click “create project”.
Instead of dropping your link and moving on, fill out all the details and add some content (in Behance’s case, their content comes in the form of “Projects”).
You can add anything you want. I just add goofy pictures of me and my friends from Facebook and pass them off as artistic photography work (lol).
All that content helps the page get indexed by Google (spider food) and satisfies the site’s moderators…
…so it’s worth the 5 minutes it takes to make a full profile.
3. Funnel PR to Your Page
Here’s the linchpin of this technique.
And while it may seem complicated, it’s actually very, very easy to pull off.
In general, you want to look for ways that you can create internal links back to your Funnel Page without looking spammy.
This is best accomplished by doing things that automatically build links back to your Funnel Page whenever you do them, such as:
- Commenting on a piece of content
- Liking content
- Liking a profile
- Following someone
- Uploading content to the site
For our Behance example, start following as many other members that you can…
Every time time you follow someone it builds a link to your Funnel Page from their profile page, via the link near “followers”:
You can also comment on other people’s projects, which links back to your Behance Funnel Page:
Easy right?
How to Make This Work Even Better
I just made a quick video that will show you how to funnel PR more effectively with the help of ScrapeBox:
Now You Try It
Now it’s your turn to give Funnel Links a whirl.
But your job doesn’t stop there…
Please leave a comment about your experience (either positive and negative) below.
And if you find a new Funnel Link site, please share the love with the rest of us.
Andrii December 20, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Great article bro. Your blog is new, but so far you deliver more quality info than most bloggers do!
Brian Dean December 20, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Thanks for your support Andrii!
Hit me up if you have any SEO questions.
Lewis December 22, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Hey is there any chance you could explain this a little more to me it sounds very interesting. I’ve joined behance, created a profile and followed people but I fail to see where the backlinking takes place. I haven’t even seen anywhere to add my link yet…
Any help is highly appreciated, thank you!
Brian Dean December 24, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Sure thing Lewis.
The backlinking takes place when you comment on someone’s profile or follow them. This builds an internal link to your Funnel Page (you can check out the screenshots above to give you a better idea of what I mean).
And you can drop a link in your in the website field of your Behance page.or in the “web references” area.
Lewis December 22, 2012 at 11:23 pm
And the profile pages have no page rank at all. I’m so confused
please get back to me.
Brian Dean December 24, 2012 at 3:11 pm
You gotta be patient my friend. It takes time for G to find all those links. And besides, PageRank is only updated once every 3 months or so.
Lewis Parrott December 28, 2012 at 6:19 am
My bad, only started learning about SEO recently and you kinda expect everything to happen straight away. Realizing now that it’s a long process
Terry Kyle December 29, 2012 at 4:16 am
Good share Brian, thank you, and keep up the good work.
Brian Dean December 29, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Thanks Terry! It means a lot.
Gael December 29, 2012 at 7:50 am
You used to be able to do this with Youtube back in the day but they nofollowed the link
Brian Dean December 30, 2012 at 11:05 am
I remember those days Gael. Good times. Those YouTube channel pages can easily get to PR4+.
Alas, we have lots of other sites where this still works and the link is dofollow.
Toyota Vigo Dealer December 30, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Another gem, Brian. I’m glad I found your site. This is my second article on this blog and it is even better than the first one. Thanks for taking time to educate us.
Brian Dean December 30, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Thanks for your support. Please hit me up if you have any questions.
Toyota Hilux Dealer December 31, 2012 at 5:25 am
I will definitely return to read more articles. Right now busy creating my first Funnel PR page. Not sure if I’m doing it right. Would it be possible for you to share some pages that you could cite as a good example of what you describe. You have given the example of an unwitting page but what I’m interested in seeing an example of a funnel PR page written for SEO in mind. Thanks again for your generosity in sharing your wisdom.
Brian Dean December 31, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Actually, the page that I cited in the post was as SEO optimized as you want it to be. It’s actually best not to try to optimize your Funnel Page too much. You want those babies to stick.
And in the example I gave she just dropped her link in her homepage field…which is what I’d recommend that you do to stay under the radar screen.
osas December 31, 2012 at 4:09 am
This looks like a deep or complex link wheel, if am wrong let me know.
Brian Dean December 31, 2012 at 12:05 pm
It’s different than a link wheel in that you’re not interlinking hundreds of pages.
A Funnel Link is more straightforward and simply sends PR to your Funnel Page…which then flows to your site through your money site link.
Toyota 4WD Dealer December 31, 2012 at 11:21 am
I’ve been perusing BIg Tent, 8Tracks and Indiegogo but cannot figure out a way to create a funnel link. Any successful pages will be appreciated.
Brian Dean December 31, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Every site is a bit different so there’s no way to show you how to funnel juice from all of them.
For example, here’s how you’d do it for 8tracks:
1. Create an account and fill in your bio area
2. Add your URL to the “website” field
3. Poke around the site…and like and comment on other people’s playlists (preferably pages with PR)
This will build dofollow links to your Funnel Page.
Hope that helps!
Toyota Dealer January 16, 2013 at 5:18 am
Thanks Brian. I will give it a try. Thanks for reading all your comments and giving thoughtful responses to each.
Jason May 28, 2013 at 2:52 pm
I’m curous to know how you would use 8tracks.com for a site not related to music? Do you still use this as a backlink, but it’s won’t be contexual? Bit confused on this as I don’t want to blantely spam
Brian Dean May 28, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Good question, Jason. Relevancy is super-important. However, it’s natural to have a few oddball links in your profile. And if you’re going to have an irrelevant link you might as well make it authoritative. You can also use Funnel Links to funnel PR to your first tier links (blog networks, guest posts etc.).
Jason May 28, 2013 at 3:34 pm
Which would be better?
Create profile build links to it THEN link out to site.
Create profile link to site THEN build links?
Also with either way are you creating your profile and sitting on it a few days to pass manual reviews?
Brian Dean May 28, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Either way works. If you want to be on the safe side with the mods you can build the profile without a link for a while and add it later.
Hector Mota December 31, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Just want to thank you for sharing this with the rest of us. I have went ahead and created my page. This is an awesome idea and I like the way you take time to respond to each comment. Thanks again.
Brian Dean December 31, 2012 at 1:34 pm
My pleasure Hector : ).
osas January 1, 2013 at 2:28 am
now instead of directing the link to an authority site then why not send the high PR link to your site directly thus passing the link to your site instead of sending it through an intermediary hence before it get to your money site the link juice would have lost its value.
Brian Dean January 1, 2013 at 4:47 pm
I’m not sure you understand how a Funnel Link works…
You’re actually not linking to an authority site.
You’ll getting a link from an authority site.
But instead of letting just sit there on a PR N/A page you’re funneling PR to it within the site.
Jeremy January 2, 2013 at 9:54 pm
This is a great way to get quality links. To funnel even more PR, you can look up the website in a Backlink tool like Open Site Explorer or Majestic to find which pages already have the most PR/authority, and try to get funnel links from them.
Brian Dean January 3, 2013 at 11:28 am
That’s an awesome tip. You can also use Scrapebox to sort the pages by PR and funnel PR from those pages (more bang for your buck).
Geoff April 23, 2013 at 12:57 pm
Ahh another great use for Scrapebox!
Brian Dean April 23, 2013 at 1:06 pm
You read my mind, Geoff. I’m actually doing a video on how to find high PR pages on Funnel Sites using Scrapebox this week. You’re 100% right on: Scrapebox is perfect for this kind of thing.
John Carrol January 3, 2013 at 5:15 pm
Another great entry. Your blog is new, but the content quality already made me subscribe.
I have a few questions if you have the time:
1 So if i understand correctly a funnel page is simply a profile page on a social site that has Dofollow links. I would assume all the big sites like Pinterest, Linkedin, MySpace, Vimeo etc have nofollow links and that makes them unsuitable for a Funnel page?
2 Why do we need to register to know if a social site is suitable for a funnel page? Can’t we simply check a popular profile and if their webpage link is dofollow?
3 It was already mentioned that Youtube has nofollow links, thus making it unsuitable to funnel PR juice to our moneysite. However, for the purposes of direct traffic and ranking our youtube video on google, do funnel techniques work? What I mean by that is, can we still increase the google search/youtube search ranking of our video or channel page by liking, commenting and subscribing to popular channels and videos? Or is this completely negated by the fact that youtube uses nofollow links?
Thanks in advance!
Brian Dean January 3, 2013 at 6:14 pm
1 So if i understand correctly a funnel page is simply a profile page on a social site that has Dofollow links. I would assume all the big sites like Pinterest, Linkedin, MySpace, Vimeo etc have nofollow links and that makes them unsuitable for a Funnel page?
Yes. Most big sites make their user created content links nofollow.
While I do think Google gives nofollow links some love they’re not ideal for Funnel Links.
2 Why do we need to register to know if a social site is suitable for a funnel page? Can’t we simply check a popular profile and if their webpage link is dofollow?
Yes you can do that. The thing is, not all sites have users that own their own sites (like 8tracks.com). So it can take forever to find a profile with a link. Sometimes it’s faster to just make a page.
3 It was already mentioned that Youtube has nofollow links, thus making it unsuitable to funnel PR juice to our moneysite. However, for the purposes of direct traffic and ranking our youtube video on google, do funnel techniques work? What I mean by that is, can we still increase the google search/youtube search ranking of our video or channel page by liking, commenting and subscribing to popular channels and videos? Or is this completely negated by the fact that youtube uses nofollow links?
It depends on the service.
In the case of YouTube likes on your video obviously help it rank in Google and YouTube. But liking and subscribing to other people’s videos isn’t going to do anything for you (unless they reciprocate and subscribe back).
John Carrol January 3, 2013 at 7:01 pm
“But liking and subscribing to other people’s videos isn’t going to do anything for you (unless they reciprocate and subscribe back).”
Highly appreciate your answers.
Are you sure about the quoted part? When we comment on a high PR video, our user name seems to provide a dofollow internal backlink to our youtube Channel page. I would guess that this increases the PR of our channel page? High PR channel page should give us some authority in searches?
Brian Dean January 3, 2013 at 7:19 pm
I see what you mean now. I thought you meant that the internal link juice would help your channel page rank in YouTube. Yes, that should give you better search visibility…although I’m sure I’ve never seen a YouTube channel page rank in Google before.
But the channel page does link to your videos, which would pass PR to them. So that’s actually a good idea for ranking YouTube videos in Google.
John Carrol January 3, 2013 at 5:18 pm
4 How careful do we need to be with our footprint when creating funnel pages? If we create multiple funnel pages to different money sites, do we need to register and operate the accounts from unique IPs?
Brian Dean January 3, 2013 at 6:16 pm
I don’t think you need to go crazy with hiding your footprint. All of these funnel sites are owned by different organizations, and Google has no way of seeing the IP that you used to create your Funnel Page.
Nick January 11, 2013 at 5:03 am
The problem with Behance is that comments are loaded with JS and Google bot doesn’t see them. So it’s worthless to comment on projects. However if you create your own project, you will definitely get some link juice.
Brian Dean January 11, 2013 at 11:14 am
That’s a good point Nick.
However, Googlebot can already read JS: http://searchengineland.com/google-can-now-execute-ajax-javascript-for-indexing-99518
And I’ve seen from personal experience that PR does pass through most JS links.
That being said, I’d usually take an HTML link over a JS just to be on the safe side.
Nick January 15, 2013 at 9:33 pm
No luck with Behance. Google doesn’t show any comments in cached version of a page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fwTgGZTiv3IJ:www.behance.net/gallery/You-Are-Beautiful-U/4738615+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
Brian Dean January 17, 2013 at 8:41 am
Hmmm. Not sure that their cache necessarily tells you whether or not they can read the JS on a page.
Either way, following people creates HTML links so that definitely works. And the actual link to your money site is HTML.
But it’s worth checking on other funnel sites to see whether they’re JS or HTML to make sure you’re getting juice.
Lloyd February 22, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Try installing a web developer plugin for Firefox/Chrome and turn off the JS, and CSS to display the page the way search engine bots see it and then see if the link still shows then it’s good. Also Brian dude, you are killing it while some of the strategies have been around for a while your unique spin on it is what gets results.
Brian Dean February 23, 2013 at 5:59 am
Awesome idea, Lloyd! Didn’t think of that. And thanks for the support!
Landon March 20, 2013 at 10:26 pm
Dude!!! I don’t want anyone else to see this blog lol… Awesome posts man I think I’ve learned more in 20 minutes than I have buy buying people’s SEO courses. This is true, solid back linking and its easy and this is incredible! thanks
Brian Dean March 22, 2013 at 9:19 am
Thanks Landon!
Landon March 22, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Hey also, how long does it normally take to get a decent PR? Should one just comment and add new people on a consistent basis for a month? Or just do it few a day or two and wait? Myspace DOES allow dofollow links back to the profile page when you leave a comment on someones page. For examaple, a nice PR5 musicians page…
Brian Dean March 23, 2013 at 9:52 am
The PR flows right away. But Google only rolls out a toolbar PR update every 3-months or so. So it can be a while before you see the PR that you’ve built up show up in the toolbar (but the effect will be there right away). As you alluded to it’s better to find those PR3+ page gems and comment on those than to post hundreds of comments on random pages.
Landon March 23, 2013 at 12:17 pm
that makes sense, thanks – Also, I’ve modified this method to work with FREE stock image websites – for example you can have a profile and upload your personal photos and get the PR on your profile page by uploading pictures. Simple. Check out http://www.sxc.hu (pr7) and check out the example here : http://www.sxc.hu/profile/lusi (pr5) and she doesnt even know she has a pr5 goldmine….makes me want to strangle!!!!
Brian Dean March 23, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Thanks for the share, Landon! There are hundreds of high PR sites to funnel PR from. You just gotta put the work in and find them!
RichardD April 5, 2013 at 1:56 pm
This is a great blog Brian. You’re doing great job here. Everything is very clear and delivered in a down to earth way.
Anyway, just wanted to add my experience with funnel links. It has worked well with Behance, Quora and others. I have various PR4 profile pages to use.
Howver, in a few cases it didn’t work and Google simply wouldn’t give any PR to my profile pages, even after several months of waiting. I had done everything the same as before, the same process you mention above, apart from one thing: I hadn’t added any projects (in Behance) or asked / answered any questions in Quora. So, moral of the tale: participate 100% to get your PR. Adding a profile page and a few “likes” and comments won’t cut it.
Brian Dean April 5, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Thanks for support, Richard. Much appreciated.
Several PR4 pages you say?! That’s awesome!
I’ve found the same thing: the more you participate in the site the more PR you get. That’s especially true for uploading content. Depending on the site, one piece of content can build dozens of internal links.
SEO service group April 25, 2013 at 6:05 am
Old method that never dies indeed.
To get most out of it you can also create a ton of such profiles, push the juice by following people and (ab)use your own profile to create even more profiles with PR. In turn you can funnel that juice to a whole army of other web2.0′s and create a ton of authority links that way.
The only but is that when more people follow that profile that your link drops so it’s not a perm PR solution but well what is these days, even with high PR domains you can lose links and thus lose PR.
Brian Dean April 25, 2013 at 7:25 am
Hmmm, I never thought of scaling it up with multiple profiles for some reason. That’s a good idea. And I also never thought of funneling the juice to tier 1 links. Another good idea. Thanks for dropping these knowledge bombs, SEO service group.
Casey May 9, 2013 at 10:11 am
Already read this post (Awesome, btw!) but was sent here from Terry’s mailing list. I’ve been using this method for a couple months now. I’m starting to discover a ton of authority websites that allow you to set up a profile (with a dofollow link) and funnel juice back to your page.
Brian Dean May 9, 2013 at 11:00 am
Thanks for stopping by, Casey. Yup, this method is fantastic. It takes a while to find Funnel Sites because there’s no footprint. But once you have a secret stash you’re golden
.
Jerry T May 9, 2013 at 11:41 am
Really interesting concept Brian and glad I was sent over here via Terry Kyle.
At first it appeared to me to be a profile style of link and by following others your supposed to be able build some link juice. I figured, “ya sure, you’d need to follow a few thousand”.
Ran your sample site through Majestic and SEOmoz and it was a ‘holy cow’ moment for me to see how few links she had going to that site, but the power that was flowing to her main site!!
Brian Dean May 9, 2013 at 11:46 am
Thanks Jerry! You’re right: it doesn’t take many links to send serious juice to your Funnel Page. If you haven’t already, I recommend checking out the video at the bottom of the post. It helps you get more bang for your buck from every like, follow and comment.
Robert May 9, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Very interesting article Brian. I have a simple Travel Blog and related FB, Twitter, G+ pages, etc. I’m a little confused in what link would be the best for me to use when creating a project. The main goal of course, is traffic to my Travel Blog.
Thanks
Brian Dean May 9, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Good question, Robert. The best way to apply this strategy to your travel blog would be to find travel sites that allow you to create a profile with a dofollow link. Then you’d funnel PR from authority pages on that site. One more thing: this strategy is just one of many you should use to drive search engine traffic to your site. Hope that helps!
Pat May 10, 2013 at 9:49 am
Great article, Brian. As other readers mentioned, this used to work great on youtube. I was able to create a channel that was a PR 8 (with 0 videos uploaded!) in only 2 months using only internal linking. My site that my channel was linking to gained a PR of 7. Ever since they made the channel link nofollow I’ve been searching for sites like this. Thanks!
Brian Dean May 10, 2013 at 9:55 am
PR8?! That’s insane! Most Funnel Sites don’t have the same juice that YouTube has so you probably won’t be able to rock a PR8 page. But you can still get a handful of PR4s and PR5s using this technique. Thanks for stopping by, Pat!
Jamie G May 13, 2013 at 11:02 am
Hi Brian,
I was referred to this blog by a friend and I’m eternally grateful to you and him
Whilst looking for these dofollow links, is there any software/browser add-on that you would recommend so i can use to see whether a link is no follow or dofollow?
I think the Firefox add-on website has dofollow links! (PR9)
Thanks so much!
Brian Dean May 13, 2013 at 1:41 pm
No problem, Jamie. I aim to please
. I use the SEOBook.com toolbar (http://tools.seobook.com/seo-toolbar/) to quickly check for nofollow links.
Jamie G May 14, 2013 at 8:34 am
Thanks, downloaded it and it works perfectly.
Just a quick question, what’s the highest PR profile you’ve been able to make for yourself? I see some PR7′s on Behance but those are the top top artists.
See loads of comments putting backlinks to their profile on high PR pages in the comments lol
Brian Dean May 14, 2013 at 9:03 am
Glad to hear that. I’ve boasted a few PR5s. I’m sure I could get it a bit higher but I don’t want to spend hours commenting and liking a million pages. I rather just hit the top 20-50 pages and move on. But there are a few people that have commented on the post that have landed PR6 and PR7 pages. If you find a high PR site with lots of funneling potential, the sky’s the limit.
Jamie G May 14, 2013 at 10:14 am
Sweet, i think ive just about followed 550 artists. Appreciated 100 and commented on around 50-100. Hoping that’s PR5 worthy?
How many PR5 profiles do you think you’d need to make for your money site to gain a PR4/5 too?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=users < Funnel website for anyone interested
Brian Dean May 14, 2013 at 10:18 am
If you were to strictly point Funnel Links to your money site, I’d say 2-6 dofollow PR5s would do the trick. But it depends somewhat on the OBLs of your Funnel page.
Cool Things to Buy May 15, 2013 at 9:42 pm
I will be trying this tonight! Thanks for the info man
Brian Dean May 16, 2013 at 8:25 am
Sure thing. Email me if you have any questions about the process.
OMG Machines May 22, 2013 at 11:10 pm
Now that is how a REAL SEO funnel is done! Brian, you nailed it!
Brian Dean May 23, 2013 at 8:53 am
Thanks man!
Charley May 29, 2013 at 10:08 am
Wow! This is a technique I will definitely be trying. Thanks a ton.
Brian Dean May 29, 2013 at 10:20 am
Awesome, Charley! Send me an email if you have any questions along the way.
KJ Prince May 30, 2013 at 9:04 am
Great article. I should have had a behance profile anyway…and I didn’t….But I do now. Cool stuff with Scrape Box too. Good to know not everyone using that app is a spammer. I added your blog to my RSS feed. Thanks again.
Brian Dean May 30, 2013 at 10:00 am
Thanks, KJ. Yeah, ScrapeBox is amazing for white hat link building (actually I’d say it’s more useful for white hat SEO than black hat SEO).
Ryan May 31, 2013 at 7:42 am
Thanks for sharing this Brian. Squidoo and Hubpages used to have this ability to funnel from Authority Links. But then they have provided a NO follow to these links. And Youtube before.
But here’s another Funnel Link site, http://www.about.me/ still figuring out more ways to build links from it.
Brian Dean May 31, 2013 at 9:14 am
You’re right: there aren’t quite as many Funnel Sites as their used to be (but there’s still more than enough out there to take advantage of). Thanks for sharing About.me with everyone, Ryan!
Simon Trainer June 2, 2013 at 3:37 am
Hi Brian – just subscribed to your site – thanx for providing a strategy that I’d never heard of before ! Another potential funnel site I’m going to check out is http://www.aboutus.org. Once you’ve created a page about your website you can request to turn your link to dofollow. Not sure if it allows you to create back links, but just by creating a page it has value as a high PR link. Wondering about ranker.com as well – you can like others lists there and it is a do follow.
Thanks again, you’re creating an army of fans,
Brian Dean June 2, 2013 at 10:41 am
Thanks Simon! Aboutus.org looks like it has some serious funneling potential. Go for it
simon June 12, 2013 at 11:00 am
Hi Brian – I looked at PureVolume.com after your latest subscriber email and realised it is probably another great site to funnel links from. I searched the top pages in OSE to see what high PR pages to build back links to and noticed those pages have profiles built around shady niches. Now these pages have about 5 identical blog posts each links to the cheap drug sites.
What are your thoughts on what’s going on here, 1. how these pages have such high PR and 2. creating 5 internal PureVolume blog posts back to the money site. Wouln’t think the site admin would remove these pages?
Thanks Bro!
Brian Dean June 12, 2013 at 11:18 am
Good question, Simon. For me, anytime I see a site hit with spammy niche links like that I usually move on. As you suggested, when people like that start building links on a domain the mods start deleting accounts left and right. I’d try to find another site that’s a little more under the radar.
Ian June 14, 2013 at 8:47 pm
Hi Brian. Nice info on your blog. A couple for questions: Do you think that Google has devalued links from these types of Web 2.0 sites? Do you think that this strategy still holds up as being a high value for time spent approach to link building? Cheers, Ian
Brian Dean June 15, 2013 at 9:04 am
Thanks Ian! I do think that Google has devalued most Web 2.0 links (Wordpress, Blogger etc.). The great thing about this strategy is that Funnel Sites aren’t usually web 2.0 sites: they’re real sites that have their own thing going on. That means your Funnel Page isn’t tagged by Google as a Web 2.0 property. Yes, I think this is a valuable approach, although that depends on your niche and resources. I don’t spent a ton of time on this: I just build a Funnel page and spend a few minutes funneling PR to it using the Scrapebox strategy I discuss in the video.
Steve June 15, 2013 at 5:50 am
I got an email last week from a marketer (best not to name here) saying that several big sites that had nofollowed the links on user profile pages still gave dofollow links in the users personal RSS feed. Diigo was an example site IIRC.
Do you have any thoughts on this? Did they not change this because it doesn’t make a difference or is there a way we can use this? Thanks
Brian Dean June 15, 2013 at 9:05 am
Most RSS pages are buried pages without much content or authority, which means the link doesn’t have a lot of value (even if it’s dofollow). If a site nofollows a link I’d just move onto another, Steve.
book June 15, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Thanks Landon