Every Tuesday we pick a vertical market based on the number of votes a market receives at our Vertical Market Poll. This week it is the Sports market. Based on the voting, this is not sporting goods stores, but sites about sports. We invite all of you out there to post (in the comments) a specific link building recommendation for the sports market (a good directory, authority website, blog, link search, etc.). If it adds value, we will approve it, give you the credit and a “dofollow” link to your site. However, we will just delete stupid, irrelevant, spammy comments – only truly useful information will be allowed.
It’s been a rather busy few days here and I have to admit, I am rushing to get this post finished. But, in a way, those of you looking for sports links may benefit from my hurried approach. You see rather than thoroughly investigating each resource, and taking the time to coach you on how to go about getting links, I am just going to list some sites that already offer links to sports related websites. As always, you need good content and a reason for them to link to you. But if you have it, there are a few gems below — including a PR7 and PR6 site. So go forth and get your sports sites listed!
http://www.sportslinkscentral.com/
http://www.hotsportslinks.com/
http://www.refdesk.com/sports.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ent80.00.00/
Oh and remember one of the best things you can do is ask your friends for links. Well we have a good friend working on a few sports sites. So we’re going to share a little link love with him: Sports Scholarships and Start Young Play Strong. There you go Chuck!
Now lets hear from the rest of you. Place your advice for link building for the sports market in the comments below. Those that are accepted will get a nice "dofollow" link from us.
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[tags]sports market, sports websites, sports betting, sports links, link building, contextual links [/tags]
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July 15th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
If you are selling sports collectibles you need a way for your site to stand out from all the others selling the same thing. A catalog of all your items and prices won’t help with search engine ranking and linking.
There are two ways to help with this.
1) Add detailed text describing the item instead of a one line sentence. This will help from search engines determining that all of your item pages are duplicates.
2) Give background about your items. Lets say you are selling a few items from a certain athlete or event. Add a page describing the athlete or event. This will grow the number of pages in your site without being spammy (which search engines love) plus those pages usually have a better chance of ranking in search engines. It will also provide stickiness to your site. These pages are great for getting backlinks, search ranking and can be a great portal to introduce people to the sports memorabilia that you are selling.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:12 am
If you are selling sports collectibles you need a way for your site to stand out from all the others selling the same thing. A catalog of all your items and prices won’t help with search engine ranking and linking.
There are two ways to help with this.
1) Add detailed text describing the item instead of a one line sentence. This will help from search engines determining that all of your item pages are duplicates.
2) Give background about your items. Lets say you are selling a few items from a certain athlete or event. Add a page describing the athlete or event. This will grow the number of pages in your site without being spammy (which search engines love) plus those pages usually have a better chance of ranking in search engines. It will also provide stickiness to your site. These pages are great for getting backlinks, search ranking and can be a great portal to introduce people to the sports memorabilia that you are selling.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
For sports blogs, sites like Yardbarker.com, BallHype.com, and BleacherReport.com are all great sources for getting your content some exposure. YB and BH accept RSS feeds, and you can republish blog posts on BR with very small edits. YB and BR have connections to FoxSports.com, also, and publish some of their best content on that site. All are great tools for established link building.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:53 am
For sports blogs, sites like Yardbarker.com, BallHype.com, and BleacherReport.com are all great sources for getting your content some exposure. YB and BH accept RSS feeds, and you can republish blog posts on BR with very small edits. YB and BR have connections to FoxSports.com, also, and publish some of their best content on that site. All are great tools for established link building.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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July 25th, 2008 at 11:40 am
If it’s a site that covers football, the guys at http://www.DaSuperfans.com will probably give it a look — especially if it’s funny.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:40 am
If it’s a site that covers football, the guys at http://www.DaSuperfans.com will probably give it a look — especially if it’s funny.
July 30th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Other sites, that give good links are dropjack.com, mixx.com and propeller.com. Mixx has nice niche communities as well
July 29th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Other sites, that give good links are dropjack.com, mixx.com and propeller.com. Mixx has nice niche communities as well
July 30th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Social sites like mixx, dropjack and propeller are all great for links and traffic. Mixx has cool niche communities as well
July 29th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Social sites like mixx, dropjack and propeller are all great for links and traffic. Mixx has cool niche communities as well
August 6th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Ballhype.com is a great site. I heard they sold for 10 million plus. Don’t you wish you would of thought of something like that.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Ballhype.com is a great site. I heard they sold for 10 million plus. Don’t you wish you would of thought of something like that.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Hey ballhype.com is a good recommendation – a Digg for sports!
August 6th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hey ballhype.com is a good recommendation – a Digg for sports!
September 19th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
There’s a lot of debate about whether no-follow links give value…i think they do, somewhat.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
There’s a lot of debate about whether no-follow links give value…i think they do, somewhat.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
When it comes to link building for my football blog I just try and contribute to relevant discussion forums on English premier league and championship football. I find I can get relevant traffic that way and people join in discussions on my blog then too.
November 4th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
When it comes to link building for my football blog I just try and contribute to relevant discussion forums on English premier league and championship football. I find I can get relevant traffic that way and people join in discussions on my blog then too.
February 17th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Here’s one: covers.com.
@ Free NFL Picks – My 2 cents about nofollow links: they don’t pass on link popularity, so they don’t have much SEO value, if at all. There may be a case for the anchor text and link relevance, somehow, but it wouldn’t make much sense.
February 17th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Here’s one: covers.com.
@ Free NFL Picks – My 2 cents about nofollow links: they don’t pass on link popularity, so they don’t have much SEO value, if at all. There may be a case for the anchor text and link relevance, somehow, but it wouldn’t make much sense.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
“I find I can get relevant traffic that way and people join in discussions on my blog then too” – Well said linkbuilding doesn’t have to be spam ..all you need is 100 Quality links to get you on front page for any keyword whatever that may be..
May 14th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
“I find I can get relevant traffic that way and people join in discussions on my blog then too” – Well said linkbuilding doesn’t have to be spam ..all you need is 100 Quality links to get you on front page for any keyword whatever that may be..
May 27th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
i need a list with sports do-follow forums ? anyone can help ?
May 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
i need a list with sports do-follow forums ? anyone can help ?
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 am
The best way to get natural backlinks on these blogs is to write good content, develop relationships with bloggers, and pass links along. The power of good content overrides all else.
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
The best way to get natural backlinks on these blogs is to write good content, develop relationships with bloggers, and pass links along. The power of good content overrides all else.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Nice blog. I need a list of do follow sports forum. Thanks.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Nice blog. I need a list of do follow sports forum. Thanks.
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Thanks for some great links. It grows so tiresome when you search all over the internet for relevant quality sites to where you can pick up a back link only to find out they are no follow. You can literally spend all day trying to link build and only get a handful of links.
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Thanks for some great links. It grows so tiresome when you search all over the internet for relevant quality sites to where you can pick up a back link only to find out they are no follow. You can literally spend all day trying to link build and only get a handful of links.
March 4th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Well, spammy comments only serve to show that the person who owns/publicises a website is not bothered about the image of the site, but only interested in bringing in that extra pr juice from another blog/website.
A quality comment, on the other hand, builds a reputation, and perhaps even a potential fanbase, which is quite possibly one of the most important things for any successful site.
March 4th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Well, spammy comments only serve to show that the person who owns/publicises a website is not bothered about the image of the site, but only interested in bringing in that extra pr juice from another blog/website.
A quality comment, on the other hand, builds a reputation, and perhaps even a potential fanbase, which is quite possibly one of the most important things for any successful site.
June 18th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Nice lists for sports link building.
December 7th, 2010 at 3:05 am
Wow! Thank you for sharing the do follow sports links. I do need these.
December 22nd, 2010 at 1:00 am
I watched the game from here…
http://www.leaguetv.net
It worked very well. They have a lot of soccer games
December 23rd, 2010 at 5:08 am
thanks for the share. i was looking for a good list of do follow sports links. Finally I got it here.
December 23rd, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Nice lists thnk you.
December 28th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
That’s great, Nice links about sports.
June 8th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Great post, building links within your own niche is very important for building a strong website, because your best traffic will come from google search results. However, do not hang out in bad neighborhoods aka linking to sites with little pagerank.
June 15th, 2011 at 7:22 am
Thanks for the lists!