Using Online Communities for link building..
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Hello. All
I have a question in regards to online communities. Is joining an online community( i.e. Industry related forums, commenting on industry related news sites, responding to blog post) a good way to do link building? I don't mean in the sense of spamming but actually being an active part of a online community and adding valuable to the conversation. I have tried posting blog post on a industry related online community: biggerpockets.com but this site does not show up as a link when I pull an open site explorer for my website.
Any suggestions ?
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Thank, Francisco
I am new to this and I am trying to learn as much as I can.
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If you're going to participate in a community, do it to be part of the community, not for links. I don't really post my website here on SEOMOZ, but people do contact me to give me work. Besides, most forums that I have seen have nofollow links because they don't want to get spammed.
One other thing, look at GWT for those links. You can use OSE, but it's not as good as GWT.
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