Still worth it to get listed on "resources" pages

[imcolej]

Hello,
I'm a new moz user who handles the online marketing for www.griefrecoverymethod.com. We provide grief support groups and 1-1 work as well as professional training for caregivers.

We are on some websites as a grief resource, but not as many as I think we can be on. We have never attempted to reach out on a large scale to get added to sites.

Is this type of link building worth a large campaign for us? Or has the ship sailed on link building with resource pages.

I'm fairly new to all of this so any guidance at all would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[imcolej]

Thanks for checking out our site. Good point on the sharing buttons. We have some minimal options on each blog but that is about it. I have a hover type social share on my to do list for sure. I will looking into "share this".

[imcolej]

Thanks for this info. Seems like a great plan. I will look into building a strategy to hit all of these points.

[Zoolander]

I like your site (and agree about the DSM-5).  Pardon me for not directly answering your question or if you've thought about this already; I notice you have your own Face Book and Twitter pages linked top right, but I can't see any social sharing buttons for people to share your content on places like their own Facebook profile to friends, Google+, Pinterest and the like.

Search engines rank social factors, they are now one of the main pillars of SEO, ergo, when someone shares your content that's like a link.  I use "ShareThis" for my social share buttons, they have a range of styles.  They have a hover button on the left side of their page here http://sharethis.com/   that one might look good on your site without affecting the presentation or useability.

[MoosaHemani]

I agree with Chris on this! You should get links from resources pages but good link profile comes from the diversification of links so if the links are only coming from 1 kind of link building tactic thin might hurt you in the future... I believe, with this you should use 404 link building, infographics, guest blogging, links within the content, manual outreaching and more...In order to have an organic and diversified link profile that ideally search engines are looking for!

[imcolej]

Thanks for the advice. We are blogging regularly as well and I'm trying to develop some other link building strategies.

I would mainly be approaching sites with good domain authority like universities, hospitals, counseling sites etc. We have a good reputation in the community so I'm hopeful that will help us get on some quality resource pages.

[Chris.Menke]

You should be trying to get your site listed as a resource on those pages.  But: it can't be your only strategy, as a link profile predominantly of one kind of link is not considered ideal and, be sure verify  that the links on those resource pages you're looking for are well curated--there are tons of "resources" pages out there that are worthless heaps of crap links.  A small percentage of reciprocal links are OK.