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I have a fairly large Poetry website with about 2000 pages and about 5,000 visitors a day. Mostly user generated content.
I have some experience with SEO and have been fairly successful in the past in bringing in lots of traffic. However, that was back a few years ago and it seems to be more of challenge these days.
My site visitors are 85% female teenagers, with well over 50% having a profile page on Facebook and/or Myspace.
My question is are links from these sites worth pursuing?
Are there no follow tags? What about if the profile is private? What percentage of these pages are private?
Just wondering if any webmasters out there have researched the issue and would like to share their experiences?
Any ideas or advice would be appreciated. Thanks
But I have found exceptions to that however, for high traffic myspace pages.
Its seems that Myspace re-codes all its links to a msplinks.com address.
The links still work though, so putting SEO aside I see no harm in at least getting your links out there, if only for people in your target market to click through.
Online PR is booming at the moment - if you want to promote your site online its always important to dig and find the influencers in your niche. Myspace can be great for whipping up interest - ditto Facebook.
Much in the same way as traditional PR you would find out the most popular teenager publications - so too it is important to find what they are looking at online, and if only to contribute in active discussion with a signature link - it all helps :)
Hope that helps
...Mostly user generated content.My site visitors are 85% female teenagers, with well over 50% having a profile page on Facebook and/or Myspace.
This is a great environment for attracting backlinks. I suggest you make it as easy as possible for your contributing members to link to their content.
eg. when they submit a new poem...
"Submission successful. If you'd like to show people your recent work, here is the link code: {link code}. Just copy and paste it into your favorite {whatever} page."
Even though (as LV said) myspace recodes their links, the idea is to encourage your members to promote your site, which would ultimately lead to more visitors, more contributors and more natural backlinks.
I figure it's a way for visitors to interact with the person who posted the poem, and will benefit my site.
I just wonder how much benefit it will bring considering that most people seem to set their profile pages to private?
What do you think?
