Community
43 providers tagged

Alpha Coders
Value6Alpha Coders is a visual-content community for wallpapers, phone wallpapers, GIFs, avatars, and related media. A creator can submit original or permissioned content and include a relevant external link in the public item’s additional information, but inspected links are nofollow.
Microsoft Q&A
Value16Microsoft 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
Value3Beacons 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)
Value8Behance 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
Value2Buy 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
Value13BuzzFeed 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
Value13SitePoint 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
Value6Dailymotion 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
Value5DeviantArt 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.

Discogs
Value4Discogs is a community-built music database and marketplace for physical releases, used by collectors, sellers, DJs, labels, and artists. A public user profile can display an external website link, which makes it a simple profile-citation opportunity for music-related brands.

Disqus
Value4Disqus 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
Value6Dribbble 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
Value4FileSharing 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.

Flickr
Value6Flickr is a photo-sharing community where people publish public photo profiles, albums, and About pages. The useful backlink path is the dedicated profile website field, not links dropped into photo or profile descriptions.

Motley Fool Community
Value10Motley Fool Community is the public discussion forum attached to The Motley Fool. Members can publish investing discussions and replies, and relevant external source links appear inside public Discourse topics.

Parallels Forums
Value7Parallels 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
Value15Adobe 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
Value11Goodreads 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
Value13IBM 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
Value6Imgur 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
Value9Instructables 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
Value8Joomla 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.

Know Your Meme
Value6Know Your Meme is a moderated internet-culture encyclopedia where signed-in users can submit meme entries and supporting references. The backlink path is a neutral source or additional-reference link that genuinely documents a meme, not a promotional profile or directory listing.

LiveJournal
Value5LiveJournal is an older blogging and community platform where public journals and profile pages can include external website links. The most predictable backlink path is the profile Website field, which renders as a direct public link on the user's LiveJournal profile.
Medium
Value10Medium 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
Value4Myspace 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
Value10MySQL 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.

Neocities
Value2Neocities is a free static-site host in the spirit of GeoCities, serving over a million hand-built personal sites at username.neocities.org subdomains. You upload or edit raw HTML directly, so any outbound link on your site is ordinary crawlable markup that you control completely.

OpenSea
Value6OpenSea is an NFT and onchain marketplace where creators can publish collection pages. A collection owner can add an external website link on the public collection overview, but inspected collection links are nofollow.
Hatena Profile
Value5Hatena 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.

Habr Q&A
Value5Habr Q&A is a Russian-language question-and-answer community for IT specialists. The practical backlink path is a public profile website link, not promotional questions or answers.

Quora
Value14Quora 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.

SB Nation
Value1SB Nation is a sports media network with public fan discussion feeds and team communities. A signed-in user can create Feed posts that include external links, but inspected links are nofollow and the observed Feed pages are noindex.
Simple Machines Community Forum
Value8Simple 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
Value4SoundCloud 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
Value10TED 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
Value4Twitch 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)
Value4X, 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.
Sony Electronics Community
Value4Sony Electronics Community is Sony's public support community for consumer electronics questions, answers, and member profiles. The backlink opportunity is a conservative profile/About Me URL, not a place to drop promotional support posts.
Vimeo
Value4Vimeo 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.
Wattpad
Value5Wattpad is a reading and writing community where authors and readers publish stories and maintain public profiles. The practical backlink path is the profile website field, which can point to an author site, book landing page, portfolio, or related project.

wikiHow
Value15wikiHow 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.