Blog SEO Tips: Boost Your Backlinks With Mixx
It’s a known fact that the number and quality of backlinks a page/site gets will affect its search rankings. SEO copywriters have always struggled to write not only search engine friendly content, but also creative content that would make people want to link back. Others chose the easier, but more expensive, way of the “link marketplaces”, such as TLA.
In what follows I’m going to explain one easy enough method to boost your number of backlinks and also improve your blog’s Technorati rank. All with the help of Mixx.
Initial considerations
Those of you familiar with social media, social networking and bookmarking services have surely heard of Mixx and are most probably registered users. For those that are not familiar with this service, I strongly suggest you try it.
Not necessarily because of the traffic that it could provide – which is currently way below services like Digg, Reddit or Stumble Upon – but mainly because is one of the few services that are still not “infected” with trolls, down-voters and spammers. On Mixx you can still find content worth reading and bookmarking and also, Mixx is of great help when it comes to what I’m about to share with you.
How can Mixx boost your backlinks and Technorati rank?
The answer is simple. All bookmarks added to Mixx are “do follow” links. Sure, they are marked with rel=”bookmark”, but that does not negatively affect the link.
So, what could you do to get and make better use of those links?
1. Create a profile
And not just a profile, but rather start building a solid profile. Submit quality content, content that will attract votes. Considering that Mixx has been recently launched, compared to other such services, you can still build a power user profile.
2. You profile page
This page contains links to all stories you’ve submitted. On Mixx you are allowed to submit your own stories, but encouraged to use moderation and common sense. Again, all links are followed by search engines, the profile page is indexed and gets Page Rank. My profile page for example is currently a PR 3.
3. Power users/ Super Mixxers
It’s easier to get in touch and collaborate with power users on Mixx and just as your profile is indexed so is theirs, but only with more relevance and even higher Page Rank. After friendly helping them out, I’m sure that most of them wouldn’t mind submitting some stories for you.
4. Popular stories
And since Mixx is so “new”, you have quite a good chance of making the “popular stories” list. Success is guaranteed with a few supermixxers on your side. The “Popular” page is also indexed, links are followed and it currently has a PR 6. Get your story on the Mixx home page and you’ll get yourself a PR 7 link.
Popular and home page stories will instantly affect your Technorati rank too.
Final considerations
This article is only meant to help you better optimize your online presence and it’s not meant as an encouragement to spam Mixx. I can assure you that the Mixx masters are watching.
So, the best you can do to get in this win-win situation is:
- Join Mixx
- Submit quality and relevant content
- Make Friends
- Help out
- Get help back
- Boost your rankings
- DO NOT spam!
And while you’re on Mixx, you can also follow me.
For more information you can also read my other post on SEO link building.
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Great post. Social bookmarking sites don’t typically give any real link love and it is great to know that Mixx is bucking the trend. Thanks for sharing!
I love the MIXX and have some choice spots on there if you want to submit to I’m not going to stop you.The people that work there are awesome also definately a site a blogger can easily appreciate
here’s my profile with my communities below
open for bloggers to submit
http://www.mixx.com/users/jsinkeywest
good material
I can only confirm this useful article:
I just googled my own blog and just after my own site the Mixx acrticle an my Mixx profile was shown.
Thanks, I am getting those
Good tip Alex. Followed you..
Qualitative resource
Thanks for the Mixx till I read your post I had never heard of it. I just signed up so thanks again.
This is really nice point and I am doing work with same strategy and get many back links. One another factor is also important in Mixx. When will you submit in Mixx you have to concentrate on you tag line. Because, when will you click on sufficient keyword so, it will generate static URL for that keyword. You got my point? Many popular tag just like health, business, tech are crawled frequently by Google.
At last and Again….
Really nice post. I think there are many social bookmark sites and you can create separate blog for each sites. So, It will help us.
Thank you for the tips. Have been using Digg for a while now, it gives nice traffic if you don’t care about the bounce rates. Today I’ve signed up with Mixx. We’ll see how it goes.
Hi there,
thanks for that advice – I already signed up, but am having some troubled with Mixx, since their site seems to be down quiet often (for example, right now…)
But one thing is really getting me… it seems like this whole social media thing is kind of about schmoozing your way along with the influentials, until you got enough goodwill to call in a favor. The time and effort you invest in that is time and effort you could have invested in improving the content on your site, which, ultimately, I think would benefit the visitors more.
The Hypnosis Man
I’ve been using propellel, digg, stubmle, twitter, delcicious, furl, slashdot, and of course twitter. One more can’t hurt…
Great tips for mixx,i can also confirm that submitting to mixx is good for SEO.
I have just put my blog on Technorati, so this article is just what I need to promote my photoblog Leeds Photo Daily.
Appreciate the info you have given, relative newbies like me need all the help I can get.
waooo! I didn’t know about do-follow on Mixx! Thanx a lot!
Mixx is on my to do list but since you put out such a good article I moved it up. Thanks for the info
i’ve just hit the popular page on MIXX but my article is NOFOLLOW. What defines DOFOLLOW articles from NOFOLLOW ? User posts implication ?
These are great tips. But Mixx is no longer Dofollow. They have changed to Nofollow. It is still good to use to get traffic and social media.
I can only confirm this useful article:
I just googled my own blog and just after my own site the Mixx acrticle an my Mixx profile was shown
It’s the first time I hear about MIXX as a great source of quality backlinks. Since this post came out a year ago, I am wondering if MIXX is still not “infected” with trolls, down-voters and spammers, and whether I still have a good chance of making the “popular stories” list.
I use Mixx a lot, as you say the important thing is to only put your site into relevant groups. Keep it clean and watch the links grow – Google loves them, they always seem to be the first to appear in my Webmaster Tools.
After checking out other social sites, Mixx seems to be easy to use and provides interesting material. Do a search for your interests. I think you’ll like it.
http://www.mixx.com/users/k9coach
Wag more!
Created a mixx account and hope to get some backlinks! http://www.mixx.com/users/frent
Gonna do it first thing…
Hope to get results as suggested by you
Following you isn’t working right.. Is there a problem with the site?
Brad, as their sign says. Mixx was acquired by UberMedia and it’s awaiting “changes”. So, for now all we can do is wait.
These are great tips.It is still good to use to get traffic and social media.