Keyword: Community
Microsoft Q&A
Microsoft Q&A is Microsoft's public technical question-and-answer community on Microsoft Learn. Users can ask questions and post answers for Microsoft products, and relevant answers can cite outside resources with visible external links.
Beacons.ai
Beacons is an all-in-one platform for creators, offering tools to manage and grow their online presence. It allows creators to build customisable link-in-bio pages or websites to promote links, products, and social media. The platform also helps creators own their audience by building subscriber lists, sending emails, and automating direct messages.
Behance (Adobe)
Behance is an online platform where creative professionals can showcase their projects, which may include images, videos, and other media. Each project is assigned a unique URL, facilitating easy sharing and public viewing.
Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Me a Coffee lets creators publish a public support page for one-time donations, memberships, shop items, and profile links. The backlink path is the website or social link on a creator page, but verified examples are nofollow and may be noindex, so treat it as a referral and brand-citation link rather than an authority play.
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed Community lets signed-in users submit quizzes and posts that can be published on BuzzFeed after editorial review. It can host direct external source links, but it is a poor fit for self-promotional link building because the rules explicitly ban brand, client, and spam plugs.
SitePoint Forums
SitePoint Forums is a Discourse community for web developers and designers. A backlink can fit when it appears inside a useful forum question or answer, not as a standalone promotion.
Dailymotion
Dailymotion is a video hosting and social video platform with public creator profiles and public video pages. A backlink can be added through a profile website field or as a contextual URL in a legitimate video description, but the inspected public links were nofollow.
DeviantArt
DeviantArt is an online social community that enables artists and art enthusiasts to connect through the creation and sharing of various art forms, including digital art, photography, and traditional media. The platform fosters interaction among users by allowing comments, critiques, and the formation of groups based on shared artistic interests.
Disqus
Disqus is a hosted commenting and community platform used by publishers to add discussion threads to their sites. A free Disqus account also creates a public profile, and the profile About tab can display a website URL as an external link.
Dribbble
Dribbble is a portfolio and discovery platform for designers, studios, and creative teams. A public profile can include a direct website/contact link, making it useful when your brand genuinely fits the design audience.
FileSharing Talk
FileSharing Talk is an old vBulletin forum for file-sharing, Usenet, BitTorrent, software, and general technology discussions. The useful backlink path is the member profile homepage link; forum-post and signature links should be treated more cautiously because sampled archived threads used nofollow and dereferer wrapping.
Parallels Forums
Parallels Forums is the public support community for Parallels Desktop, Parallels Remote Application Server, and related virtualization products. A backlink can appear when a relevant support question or answer needs to cite an external resource, but the forum marks those outbound links as nofollow.
Adobe Community
Adobe Community is Adobe's public support and product discussion forum. Users can create an Adobe account, ask or answer product questions, and include helpful external resources when they genuinely support the discussion.
Goodreads
Goodreads is a book discovery and reader community owned by Amazon. Verified authors can claim an author profile and add an official website link that appears on a public Goodreads author page.
IBM Community
IBM Community is IBM's public Higher Logic community for product users, partners, IBM Champions, and technical contributors. The useful backlink path is not a simple profile edit; it is an approved community blog contribution with a relevant contextual external link.
Imgur
Imgur is an image and album hosting community where public posts can include linkified URLs in their descriptions. The link path is useful for referral traffic and visibility around visual content, but the rendered outbound links are nofollow.
Instructables
Instructables is a public tutorial and maker-project community where members publish profiles, how-to projects, and collections. It can host a backlink in a member profile website field or inside a genuinely useful tutorial when the link helps the reader.
Joomla Forum
Joomla Forum is the official phpBB-powered support forum for the Joomla CMS community. A real forum account can expose a public author-card website link, while links inside posts are moderated and should be treated as nofollow community links.
Medium
Medium is a publishing platform where writers can create public profile pages and publish stories under a Medium URL or Medium subdomain. A legitimate story or profile bio can include an external link, but inspected story links are user-generated nofollow links rather than dofollow authority links.
Myspace
Myspace is a social entertainment and music-profile platform where public user and artist profiles can include short profile text, posts, media, and connections. The practical backlink path is a public profile About link, which Myspace may rewrite through its own `mysp.ac` shortener.
MySQL Forums
MySQL Forums is Oracle's public discussion forum for MySQL users, administrators, developers, and connector/tooling questions. A backlink can appear inside a public technical thread or reply when the linked resource genuinely helps solve a MySQL problem.
Hatena Profile
Hatena Profile is the public profile service for Hatena IDs. A profile can show an owned website link and identity links on a `profile.hatena.ne.jp` page, but the inspected owned-site link was nofollow.
Quora
Quora is a question-and-answer platform where users ask questions and receive answers from the community, often from subject-matter experts. Quora for Business reports 400M+ monthly unique visitors, and Quora content ranks heavily in Google search results, making it a valuable channel for brand visibility and referral traffic.
Reddit is a social news and discussion platform organised into topic-based communities called subreddits. Users submit links, images, and text posts that are voted on by the community, making it one of the most visited websites globally and a powerful source of referral traffic and SEO visibility.
Simple Machines Community Forum
Simple Machines Community Forum is the official support forum for Simple Machines Forum (SMF), the open-source PHP forum software. It can host backlinks through relevant support posts and public member details, but the opportunity only makes sense for people who genuinely work with SMF sites, themes, mods, hosting, or forum administration.
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an audio hosting and discovery platform for musicians, labels, podcasters, and other creators. A public creator profile can include website and social-profile links, but SoundCloud routes external URLs through its gate.sc redirector and marks profile links as nofollow/UGC.
TED
TED is the conference and media organization behind TED Talks and the independently organized TEDx program. The practical backlink path is not a normal TED account profile; it is the public TEDx event page that can list an approved event's official website and social links.
Twitch
Twitch is a livestreaming platform where creators publish channel pages with bios, social links, and custom About panels. The practical backlink route is a creator profile link, not an editorial placement.
X (Twitter)
X, formerly Twitter, is a social network where public profiles and posts can include external links. The most defensible backlink path is the public profile website field, not spammy replies or low-effort promotional posts.
Vimeo
Vimeo is a video hosting and publishing platform for creators, companies, educators, and production teams. A legitimate public video page can include a contextual hyperlink in the video description, while paid profile pages can show profile links; both should be treated as conservative nofollow or referral-oriented links rather than guaranteed SEO equity.
wikiHow
wikiHow is a moderated how-to wiki where signed-in contributors can improve articles and cite outside sources. The backlink path is limited to neutral references or rare instruction-critical links, not self-promotional placement.