A List of Link Building Lists

by PETER ATTIA on JANUARY 31, 2012

http://www.cucumbernebula.com/blog/a-list-of-link-building-lists/#urrs

These are lists I’ve bookmarked and saved over the past several years for SEO related efforts. I have a little bit of everything, but it’s all mainly for link building purposes. Your welcome!

Sections

User Rating Review Sites:

Reseller Ratings Bizrate Review Centre Viewpoints Epinions Yahoo Shopping Mr. Rebates Rate It all Review Stream (Source: Clear Saleing)

Local Listing Sites

Google Local Business Center Yahoo Local Windows Live Local AOL Local TrueLocal Local.com Citysearch Yelp Judy’s Book MojoPages Tupalo Insider Pages YellowBot Citysquares.com LittleEngine.com Yokld Lopico SuperPages BigBook InfoSpace YP 411.com Switchboard.com Yahoo Yellow Pages YellowPages.com AnyWho Yellowbook.com MagicYellow Dex YP.com MapQuest Dogpile YP WebCrawler MetaCrawler WebFetch Metrobot Tyloon ZoomInfo InfoUSA MacRAE’s Blue Book Localeze Experian DeepData Wcities iBegin UniversalBusinessListing.org (Source: eCommerce Optimization)

Web App Directories

Go 2 Web 2.0 Feed My App CSS Mania Museum of The Modern Beta Killer Startups Listio 2.0 Websites Ziipa You Noodle Mashable Crunch Base Startup Meme 101 Best Websites Launch Feed Web Dev 2.0 On The App Net Web App DIY Startup News Stumble Upon Digg Reddit Hacker News Delicious App Useful Start Up Booster Paggu Robin Speziale Submit Startup Generation Y Startup Netted AppSumo Minisprout Startup Lift (Source: Getting More Awesome)

Infographic Submission Sites

Visual.ly Info Graphic Site Cool Info Graphics Daily Infographic Submit Infographics Infographics Flickr Pool Best Infographics Visual Loop Fast Company Infographr Ingographics Generator Video Infographic Reddit Infographics Infographicas Infographics Showcase Infographics Archive Cloud Infographics News I Like Infographic Post The Infographics I Heart Infographics Infographics Bin Fuck Yeah Infographics Style and Flow Infographipedia OMG Infographics Infographic.co.za Best Infographics iinfographic Infographic Gallery (Sources: B2B Bloggers and Link Buildr. Also, a huge thanks to Matt Gratt!)

Template Submission Sites

Divine CSS Better Websites Moluv PageCrush CSS Awards 1 Page Design CSS Mania CSS Winner HTML 5 Arena CSS Players CSS Drive Cool Homepages CSS Mayo The Best Designs CSS Remix Unmatched Style Awwwards CSS Beauty Style Boost Style Boost Best Web Gallery CSS Creme Creattica Web Creme Design Shack CSS Catwalk WAD Gallery CSS Design Awards CSS Nature CSS Showcase Screenfluent Divine CSS CSS Design Yorkshire The Design Inspiration CSS Websites Cart Frenzy Minimal Exhibit Folio Focus Type Inspire CSS Leak The Web Based CSS World PVM Garage CSS Heaven Design Flavr Lookom Screenalicious Mobile Awesomeness CSS Count CSS Elite CSS Impress Design Snack CSS Glance Minimal Sites HTML5 Beauty CSS Hunt CSS Perk HTML5 Elite 1 Page Web Design Gallery CSS Winner CSS Bag Site Inspire CSS Planet Top Site Tally CSS Fights Submit CSS CSS Depot StyleProne Dot Design Gallery RGB Garden Design Bombs Blog Design Heroes Dzine Mart CSS Mania CSS Fresh Blend CSS Downunder CSS Burst CSS Moon Designer Source Design Snips Kreative Showcase Creamy CSS CSS Cutie Swell CSS Best CSS Gallery Design Awards Gallery 101 Best Websites CSS Luxury Design Fridge CSS Garden CSS Line CSS Ray CSS DSGN CSS Deluxe CSS Dose Style The Web CSS Fury Web Fonts Gallery Easy Design Ars CSS Gallery Ars CSS3 Gallery Cool Site Collection Hot Webber CSS Design One Page Love Web Design Ire CSS Blaze CSS Loggia CSS Smooth Operator CSS Envy Wookies Selected Web Design Q Index CSS Brigit JQuery Style WP Float First Hand Web CSS Dance Host Pattern Colorgorize CSS Clip Mabucplus CSS Star CSS Showcases CSS Gallery CSS Pick Illustration Toolbox Wanted CSS CSS Mix CSS Mozaic Magento Gallery HTML5 Based HTML5 Arena Best CSS Online Origin Site CSS Classic CSS Heroes French Design Index CSS Mit CSS Collector Theme Hero Website Launchpad Design Delight CSS Orgy CSS Based CSS Cake Blog Design Lab CSS Collections Ad Design Link Unique CSS CSS Evo Beautiful 2.0 Folty Website Gallery For All to See Themes CSS Gallery Buzz CSS Menu Samples Pro CSS Hot CSS Design Website Bakery Origin Ideas Footerama Very Inspirational Best CSS Design CSS New CSS Snack Creative Hot Links WP View WP Globe Web Design Award Desey The Pixery 980px Awesome Web Designs CSS Lounge Ars Minimal Gallery Ars HTML5 Gallery Ars Magento Gallery Ars Twitter Gallery Creative Pakistan Cart Craze Global CSS Gallery CSS Daddy Your Site is Valid Folio Stars WP Luxe Pixel Perfect Portfolios Site Gallery CSS Lovely 24/7 CSS CSS Patio CSS Thumb Epreo Inspiraaz QNT Gallery CSS Galery 2.0 Best Webbies Top Design Gallery 10 Best Sites My3W CSS Players CSS Tea Nice Stylesheet NuvoDev CSS Showcase CSS Post CSS Rockstar CSSHTML (Source: The CSS Gallery List)

Social Profile Sites

Xanga Vimeo Technorati Teachers Without Borders SuperGlued Stumble Upon Youtube Yelp Shelfari Polyvore Mixx My Space Mashable LovdByLess Live Journal Linkedin Library Thing Identica Humble Voice Good Reads Genlighten Gamer DNA Foursquare Footnote Flickr Etsy Diggo digg DeviantART Delicious Dailymotion Community Engine Colour Lovers Closet Couture Clipmarks CiteULike Beautiful Society Cause Cast Bakespace Acts As Community (Source: Nobody Listens Anyway)

Blog Directories

Best of The Web Blogs Bloggeries EatonWeb Blog Directories OnToplist.com Blogged.com Blog Search Engine Blog Catalog Globe of Blogs Brit Blog Blog Universe Bigger Blogger Bloggernity Bloggapedia Spillbean Blogging Fusion Blogflux Bloglisting Blogio Blog Digger Blog Pulse Technorati’s Blog Directory Blogarama Blog Hints (Source: Search Engine Journal)

Video Submission Sites

Google Video BrightCove PhotoBucket YouTube DailyMotion iFilm Break Blip.tv GrindTV Metacafe Myspace Vimeo LiveLeak Stupidvideos Flixya GoFish Kwego Lulu Pandora Viddler MyHeavy PutFile StupidVideos Vmix ZippyVideos CastPost Dotv Famster Gawkk Tubetorial MeraVideo Porkolt VideoWebTown Vidmax ClipMoon MotorsportMad ThatsHow ClipChef (Source: Friday Traffic Report)

Regular Directories

DMOZ Yahoo! Directory Business.com Uncover The Net HotVsNot AbiLogic WhatUSeek Family Friendly Sites MultiMeta Joeant SoMuch.com Web World Bhanvad oneMission Arakne Links BusyBits Web Dir. Chiff.com Aviva GoGuides.org DirectoryWorld R-TT Directory Gimpsy World Site Index Alive Directory WebSite Promotion Directory CannyLink InCrawler 123world Linksgiving Azoos SunSteam Search Ask Directory Master Site V7N Directory Best of the Web SearchSight The SEO King InfoListings Directory Thales Directory Directory Gold 01Web Directory MavicaNet Massivelinks GMDir NetInsert Skaffe.com Search-O-Rama Sootle Web Directory WoW Directory Clickey Xtlinks Qango AbiFind Internet-Web Yeandi Cluboo Galaxy Human Ranked Dir. Ozami Web Beacon Sezza SevenSeek Directory LinkoPedia.com SeekZap Anthony Parsons Ajdee Directory ThisIsOurYear F3 Free Directory Octopedia AzListed Add URL-Free Most Popular Sites Global Weblinks Websavvy Level10s GoonGee.com SmartLinks.org Portal IT RubberStamped Tygo SearchWIZ Search Turtle SEOMA BigAll Web 10 Sporge Webxperience Abboo Umdum Pharos Search Directory Apahcinc Arielis One Big Directory SightQuest.com Link-Pimp Directory-World Seekon Web Directory Smarty Links EarthLook TopSites ExactSeek LdmStudio All the Websites LinksValley GreenStalk Itzalist Starting Point Excellent Guide Dir. UUIQ CasCandra HomepageSeek Site Sift Kazan City Web Hot Link A1DirectorySearch ABizDirectory Infowebworld Free Advertising Directory CyborgInfo Really First Blue URL Clear Lead Inc. Kwik Goblin All The Bizz Speedy Directory Big Web Links SiteSnoop.com Hoppa Primo Directory Wamchu 1 Link Business Directory All The Webmasters Directory Top eWilla Web Directory Link Now Directory Lookforth AroundTheWeb A Great Directory Ableseek Net Zoning Epic Directory Categorized Web Bid Links Directory Find One Way Link Go Search Business Objects Directory Portal Boost Allestra Permanent Listings Links Directory Kawt DK-Seek Directory Shark Directory Hound Indexplex Managed Names Just Another Link One Best Link Add Your Site Free Click4Choice Web Directory Blue Daffodil Go To Web Guide Go To Web Guide Web’s Best Directory KingBloom KnowBe Perfext.com OneDir.Biz RankLand-LinkBid A Look Web Directory Directory Station iBrain SEO Friendly Directory Splendes.com Smittyz Aeoma Better Business Dir. Directory Reviews GotThatOnline Engine Grip CoJo TextLinksRus Rivco MySiteGuide King Directory GoLooking KJ Networks Internet Reach Link Exchanged OneBigIndex The Internet Directory InnerSeek BDC Concepts Access Directory WebiDirectory A Link Directory Directory Pixels Webcat Directory Free Inclusion Best Web Directory Tenth Year General-Directory IllumiRate King of the Web Free Website Directory FourFind Biz-King-Directory GoKoDo Dare Directory AXEQ Nintra Fast PC Networks Tom Directory The Hyperlinks Frequently Asked Link With Us ODD – One Dollar Dir (Source: Strongest Links)

Social Bookmarking Sites

Backflip Barksbookmarks BibSonomy Blinklist Blipoo BlogBookMark Blue Dot blurpalicious Bmaccess Bookkit BookMarkAll Bookmark-manager bookmarktracker Bookmax Buddymarks Bukmark Chipmark Citeulike Claimid Clipclip Cloudytags Complore Connectedy Connotea Contentpop coRank Crowdfound de.lirio.us del.icio.us Diigo Digg Dropjack Easybm Enroll Enroll ez4u Favoor Folkd Freelink Freezilla Fungow Furl Gather Getboo Google Hanzoweb Hyperlinkomatic i89.us Icio Ikeepbookmarks Iloggo Jigg Kaboodle Kinja Lifelogger Lilsto Linkagogo Linkarena Linksnarf Listerlister Ma.gnolia.com Markaboo Marktd Memfrag Memotoo Mister Wong Mixx Mobleo Multiply Murl MyBookmarks Myhq MyLinkVault mySiteVote MyWebDesktop Newsvine Newsweight Oyax Philoi PlugIM Propeller QuickieClick Rambhai RawSugar Reddit Searchles Segnalo Simpy Sitebar Sitejot Sk*rt Slashdot SocialDanger Socialogs Sphinn Spotback Spurl Squidoo Startaid StumbleUpon Stylehive Syncone Tagfacts Taggly Tagne Tagtooga Tagza Technorati Tedigo Thinkpocket Thoof Totalpad Urlex Uvouch Vmark Voteboat Votelists Vuju WeTogether Whitelinks Wink Wirefan Xilinus Xlmark Yahoo! Bookmarks Yattle Zlitt Zurpy (Source: Search Engine Journal)

Article by Peter Attia

Peter Attia is the Director of Content and SEO at Modernize and the founder of Dicey Goblin. He’s passionate about search marketing and is always looking to expand his knowledge in the industry. You can find him on twitter: @PeterAttia.

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Tom Armenante January 31, 2012 at 5:20 pm

Thank you very much, being a link builder myself this will be a very very useful list! Will use few of the tips on my own blog as well. Many thanks Tom

Peter Attia January 31, 2012 at 5:22 pm

Sure thing Tom! Glad you found it helpful!

Amit Yarashi January 29, 2013 at 8:19 am: This blog really deserves more social shares than it has got. I was really able to know lot more ways of link building and especially free submissions is what makes me kick my ass and get started. My suggestion for you would be to move the social sharing icons on your blog to the top or else have it on the left as a floating bar.
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Tina February 27, 2012 at 6:18 am

Thanks for the list, Peter. Do you know of a software that you can use to help with directory submission? Or is going to each site the best way to do this? Thanks again.

Peter Attia February 27, 2012 at 3:52 pm: Tina, Although the best way is to submit to each directory manually, directories pass so little juice, that the time involved isn’t worth it. I suggest using directory submission services like https://www.wlmarketing.com/ – It’s automated, so the quality is down, but you can get several thousand directory submissions quickly and cheap. Also, you should provide several different descriptions/anchors so that you still retain some variance. Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any more questions. -Peter
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Sameer Khan March 1, 2012 at 4:23 pm

Hi Peter, Thank u so much for the huge quality link building list….

Gökay April 20, 2012 at 12:07 am

Hi Peter, thanks for a big list. I use about 15 social bookmarking sites. If I submit my links to sites in your list, do I obtain benefit strongly ?

Peter Attia April 20, 2012 at 2:39 pm: Hey Gökay, I would submit to the top 15-20 social bookmarks manually as you’re doing. There is some benefit to submitting to more, but I would only do it manually if you have extra time or an intern to dump the work on 🙂 Otherwise, I would just go through a directory submission service. It saves you a ton of time and they’re pretty cheap. -Peter
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Heath Showman April 22, 2012 at 7:33 pm

Hi Peter, Amazing in-depth list of sites. How does using the bulk submission services you’ve suggested conflict with Googles’ dislike of a site building links too quickly. We have about 300 links to the home page and would prefer to concentrate on the in sub-domain pages, would it be a good idea to use the bulk process for this? Thanks again for your lists.

Peter Attia April 23, 2012 at 12:10 am: Hey Heath, I’ve never seen any issues with getting vast amounts of directories in a couple days. One thing you have to think about before submitting a subdomain to directories, is that most directories are homepage only and won’t allow deep pages. Also, keep in mind that directories really don’t do much in the first place. They should really only be used for targeting easy to rank for terms. -Peter
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Ted April 24, 2012 at 11:21 pm

This is awesome list! man you help me save a lot of time to search for such good list, thank you very much!

Peter Attia April 24, 2012 at 11:27 pm: You’re very welcome Ted!
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Robert April 25, 2012 at 10:39 am

Thanks Peter what an incredibly useful resource a great reference point for so many of us. Thanks 🙂

Ed Huang April 30, 2012 at 9:13 am

Thank you for your effort for collecting all these useful directories!

Ed Huang April 30, 2012 at 9:15 am

Peter, which directory would you suggest that is the most cost-effective?

Peter Attia April 30, 2012 at 6:02 pm: Ed, It’s pretty easy to find free directories. Are you referring to the most cost effective directory submission service? -Peter
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Carmen Brodeur May 5, 2012 at 5:49 pm

Wow great list. Really appreciate you putting it all together in one place. I have bits and pieces of similar lists but this is the most comprehensive list I have found.

Marisa May 30, 2012 at 1:48 pm

Are these mostly nofollowed links?

Peter Attia May 30, 2012 at 3:31 pm: Most of them are followed, however their value is still low in comparison to a guest post link.
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Santosh Prasad June 2, 2012 at 5:24 am

Wow Peter excellent collection i must say.. well i don’t trust social bookmarking sites much..but rest of the stuff is Excellent .. very helpful for beginners ever for pro’s 🙂 Thanks again

Shawn Morgan June 8, 2012 at 1:45 am

Thanks for this incredible info. You da man!

Earl June 8, 2012 at 1:45 am

Wow…that is a pretty exhausting list. Must have taken you ages to compile. Thanks for sharing!

Dana Tan June 14, 2012 at 10:50 pm

Here is an updated list that gives a little more information about the Video submission sites. Some of them I wasn’t able to access but this may have been because I was at work. Those are the ones with ??? marks. Google Video – Submit via XML file [free] BrightCove $5/month per video PhotoBucket – Free, strictly non-commercial videos YouTube – Free DailyMotion – Free iFilm – Only movie-related content Break – Free Blip.tv – Free GrindTV – Action sports targeted Metacafe – Free Myspace – targeted towards performing musicians for self-promotion Vimeo – $59.95 per years for Pro level business membership with no ads LiveLeak – Free (This one is my favorite on the list) Stupidvideos – Fun, but not right for some brands Flixya – Free GoFish – Game site, not really any videos there Kwego – Redirects to Kitd.com, a Digital Content Services company Lulu – an e- book publishing tool, no video submissions Pandora.tv – No, it’s not the radio station! This is a Chinese web tv site with some adult content. Viddler – Paid membership $50-100/month MyHeavy ??? PutFile ??? Vmix – Now a Video placement service, no uploads accepted ZippyVideos ??? CastPost ??? Dotv – completely inappropriate for my needs (all Live Web cams) Famster – Family friendly site $9.95/month, supports video uploads Gawkk – Free Tubetorial – Free, Internet marketing focused content MeraVideo ??? Porkolt – not a functional site VideoWebTown – One month free (limited) $35/year unlimited Vidmax – This site is broken and is not being maintained ClipMoon – 5 Euros one time or 80 Euros a year MotorsportMad – Car, motorcycle and racing targeted ThatsHow – Free ClipChef – Food targeted Veoh – Free WonderHowTo.com – I’m still waiting for an email invite En.sevenload.com – Free Blinx.com – A pure video search engine – no submissions accepted

Peter Attia June 15, 2012 at 3:18 pm: Awesome! Thank you for the added info Dana!
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Rodolfo August 13, 2012 at 5:42 am

Peter, thanks for sharing this precious information. I still think, however, that only 10-15 directories are worth the effort in terms of SEO. I wouldn’t recommend auto-submitting!

Peter Attia August 13, 2012 at 10:21 am: Rodolfo, Directories are hardly worth anything as is. If you want to keep it squeaky clean, then yeah, I would just do the top 10-20 directories. However, I’ve never seen any negative effects to auto submitting directories. -Peter
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chris August 13, 2012 at 1:49 pm

This is a great list – going to be quite handy in building my links on-line.

johnramirez August 13, 2012 at 11:31 pm

Really I appreciate the effort you made to share the knowledge.

Panos Kontogiannis August 16, 2012 at 1:56 pm

Fantastic list, thanks for sharing bro

Neal Dougan August 24, 2012 at 7:57 am

I’m going to add these lists on to my list of things to do. For sure! Thanks Pete. I love you.

DesignToads August 28, 2012 at 11:52 am

Hey Pete, Thanks for this list, I’ve been making use of it for a few months now. I wanted to let you know the following sites are gone or have been taken down from this list: TrueLocal Wcities The Infographics Easy Design JQuery Style Clipmarks Acts As Community MyHeavy PutFile ZippyVideos CastPost MeraVideo MotorsportMad Add URL-Free UUIQ Just Another Link Blue Daffodil Engine Grip The Internet Directory Nintra Fast PC Networks Link With Us Blue Dot BookMarkAll Chipmark Complore Contentpop Fungow Hanzoweb i89.us Kinja Memfrag Philoi Propeller Searchles Simpy Sk*rt Spotback Syncone Tedigo Votelists Yattle Thanks again for sharing these!

Ryan Passarelli November 6, 2012 at 1:38 pm

Thanks for this list I have already submitted my website and blog to a lot of these directories but there are some I didn’t think of. Thanks again, Ryan

Govind Choudhary November 19, 2012 at 6:35 am

Hey Peter, Thanks a ton for sharing a huge list of Link Building sites.

herbert November 28, 2012 at 6:19 am

thank you for providing this huge list.you saved my valuable time.

Mikhail Tuknov January 10, 2013 at 5:20 pm

Great list of site! Excellent source!

Andrew Beatty January 17, 2013 at 9:39 pm

Absolutely fantastic list. I’m going to start my way through the list and hopefully reignite some life in to my Blog.

Brenton Colton January 23, 2013 at 12:55 pm

Thanks for the amazing list. The local directories are great for small businesses and you have saved me a lot of time. When was the last time this list was updated? Thanks again.

Peter Attia January 23, 2013 at 4:25 pm: Hey Brenton, The list hasn’t been updated since it was created. I’ve gotten a few messages saying that some of the items in the list are no longer active, but I’m not sure which ones specifically. -Peter
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J Keys February 5, 2013 at 1:16 pm

This has been super helpful in getting my website (www.corvisacloud.com) indexed and ranking! Have you thought about including a section on how using pingler or other services can help people index and rank faster?

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thank you so much

Ned Poulter March 7, 2013 at 5:01 pm

Wow! Such a ridiculously useful resource, must have taken ages to put together, so I couldn’t thank you enough. I regularly check back here 🙂

Peter Attia March 7, 2013 at 5:03 pm: No problem 🙂 Glad you found it useful!
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JTech Communications March 15, 2013 at 12:06 pm

This is a great resource for any SEO professional. Thanks for all the effort!

Meekywilliam March 21, 2013 at 12:09 pm

Great Resources, Thanks for sharing such a useful link building lists.

Vicky March 28, 2013 at 2:12 pm

Its a great list. Thanks for sharing

Philip April 2, 2013 at 10:04 pm

Thanks for the awesome list! There’s definitely a few that I didn’t have on my own resource list.

Bryan April 12, 2013 at 11:24 am

Great list here! Thanks for sharing my friend! Greatly appreciated!

Ned Poulter April 30, 2013 at 3:33 am

Absolutely awesome list this, so SO useful! I’d also recommend adding http://www.bestinfographics.co.uk/ to the infographics section 😉

Mark June 6, 2013 at 2:13 am

That is what I call a list and it is nice to see people on here putting updates as sites are lost. One site missing from the ‘Local” section is Angie’s List – which is a must have listing for many types of local US based businesses.

RakheeK June 19, 2013 at 12:51 am