Home Improvement Links - DoFollow Tuesdays
Filed Under: Directories, Do Follow Tuesdays, Local
Every Tuesday we pick a vertical market based on the number of votes a market receives at our Vertical Market Poll. This week it is the Home Improvement market. By this we mean home improvement as it relates to remodeling services, roofing, etc. Not retail outlets. We invite all of you out there to post (in the comments) a specific link building recommendation for the home improvement market (a good directory, authority website, blog, link search, etc.). If it adds value, we will approve it, give you the credit and a “dofollow” link to your site. However, we will just delete stupid, irrelevant, spammy comments – only truly useful information will be allowed.
This week’s suggestion from our staff is all about local. Since this industry is just about 100% local, we think it is critical for you to appear in local search results.
For example, when conducting a Google search for ‘phoenix home remodeling’, you get this result. Notice the local search results dominate the top of the page. If we were consulting with Republic West, we would recommend they work on their Google local listing as they are completely missing from there, and since they rank 7th in the natural results, they are now pushed below the fold on the screen. One trick to getting listed higher in the Google local results is to get several positive customer reviews.
Other places to be listed for local search results include Yahoo, MSN/Live, DirectoryM and MerchantCircle. Many local listings are free, so there is no excuse not to create them for all of your physical locations. Once you do, get some customers to add reviews and maybe even point some links to your local page. It all helps!
These tend to be fee based, but you should also check into being listed in the more traditional sites like the Yellow Pages: YellowBook.com, YellowPages.com, DexKnows, and Superpages.
Now let’s hear from the rest of you. Place your advice for link building for the home improvement market in the comments below. Those that are accepted will get a nice "dofollow" link from us.
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calling cards | Aug 5, 2008 | Reply
Here are some general sites. publish articles at work.com. don’t forget knol.google with its latest hot ranking juice.
Then try to seek out targeted home improvment sites. If you do furnace or hvac work. Hit up http://www.FurnanceCompare.com that gives you a free listing for your small business. Which is nice little link to get for the site could already be ranking for your geo targeted keyword phrase on this high ranking site for this one niche.
Social Marketing | Aug 5, 2008 | Reply
This has little to do with SEO but let me recommend using Craigslist to market local services.
It is easy and free to set up. My friend lost his plumbers job and now uses Craigslist to pull his own plumbing jobs and makes more than he made working for someone else. Not to mention more time off.
You do not even need an online presence to do this, the leads call you and then you have a one to one relationship.
Forget YellowPages on paper book printed listings, they just go in the trash when they are delivered. Another thing by the wayside in the age of the PC.
nike affliction | Aug 5, 2008 | Reply
I use a great utility that finds dofollow blogs based on keywords you enter. I just started it and entered ’sinks’ and about 8 dofollow blogs came up. try it, its called ‘fastblogfinder’ search it on google.
Linda | Aug 6, 2008 | Reply
Cusomer reviews help immensely. You should add Angies List to your recommondations.
Ideapile | Aug 6, 2008 | Reply
Some often overlooked linking sources for home improvements are local real estate brokers, local hardware stores and of course local banks. Creating some content for these types of sites in exchange for a link should be a fairly straight forward endeavor.
Tony Poolguy | Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
I’ve had some success in getting a few free links in exchange for testing a page and then providing feedback on the errors found along with some suggested fixes. Made a few new friends that way as well -
Webstractions | Aug 18, 2008 | Reply
Kind of reluctant to throw this one out there, but here goes.
Get into the DoItYourself.com Showcases and Links directory. Fairly easy to do. Directory is a PR5 with PR3 sub-directories beneath it.
I actually use this directory for a client and it actually delivers traffic from it — albeit not huge traffic. But traffic none-the-less.
The other thing they got going is the DoItYourself.com Community Forums which boasts over 166,000 members. Become an expert in your field on this forum, or at least, become an active poster and enjoy your signature links that come with it.
There are a several other DIY home improvement sites similar to this out there, but this site really delivers true high quality linkbacks.
A Tucson SEO | Aug 20, 2008 | Reply
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that we have a huge comprehensive Do Follow Blog and Forums lists that are broken down by categories for easy use.
http://www.tucsonseosolutions.com/dofollowlistoflists
Thanks
Dori | Sep 6, 2008 | Reply
Awesome link “A Tucson SEO”. I saved the page for future reference. Thanks a lot for such useful link. Keep smiling
Home Construction Improvement | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
This site is a great home improvement blog. We offer reciprocal links to similar sites.
http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com
Home Improvement Blog | Oct 17, 2008 | Reply
I would advise sending polite emails to other blog users in the home improvement/DIy niche. I find it is generally a more effective way of getting a decent thematic link.
Glass Doors | Oct 24, 2008 | Reply
I would recommend always analyzing the competition’s backlinks in Yahoo to see where they are getting links from, which will help in your link building efforts. Also, you can contact bloggers in the home improvement niche and ask for a link or to syndicate content there depending on what type of content they need. Also, submitting articles on your area of expertise to Ezinearticles.com and other article directories is very effective.
Cleveland Roofing Services | Nov 11, 2008 | Reply
Yeah local listings are very important to internet marketing. Even if you aren’t ranking that high for a particular term you can still pull revenue from localized searches like yelp and places where you can get a lot of reviews for your business. people see those and they are much more likely to visit your business than your competitors.
Roofing Contractors | Nov 18, 2008 | Reply
I’ve built a directory for roofing companies in the UK to add their website/contact info to the relevant area for free:
http://www.ukroofingcontractors.co.uk