## IMDb

IMDb is an entertainment database with public External Sites sections on eligible title and name pages. The backlink path is a reviewed citation submission for an official or clearly relevant page, not a place to drop generic SEO links.

- URL: https://www.imdb.com/
- Guide: https://backlinkbadger.com/provider/imdb/
- Link type: nofollow
- Free option: yes
- Domain authority: 25/100
- Spam score: 2/100
- Difficulty: 58/100
- Estimated time: 30 minutes
- Requirements: IMDb account, Eligible title or name page, Subject-specific URL, Concise site description, Relevance evidence

IMDb can be useful when your site is genuinely tied to a film, TV project, game, podcast, performer, filmmaker, production company, or another entertainment entity that already belongs in IMDb. The defensible route is to submit a subject-specific URL to the **External Sites** section of the matching IMDb title or name page.

### Best method: submit a relevant External Sites link

1. Find the exact IMDb page for the title or person your link supports. Do not start from a generic IMDb search result or a loosely related page.
2. Open that page's **External Sites** section. Public examples include [The Shawshank Redemption external sites](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/externalsites/) and [Morgan Freeman external sites](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/externalsites/).
3. Use **Edit page** or start from [IMDb Contribution](https://contribute.imdb.com/updates). For a title page, IMDb routes the edit into the title website/external-sites contribution form.
4. Choose the most accurate category, such as **Official Sites**, **Video Clips and Trailers**, **Photographs**, or **Miscellaneous Sites**. IMDb's help says official-site descriptions must use approved formats such as `Official Site`, `Official Facebook`, `Official X`, or a company name with a country code.
5. Add a URL that is specific to the title or person. A production company's generic homepage, an unrelated directory page, or a broad brand homepage is unlikely to survive review.
6. Write a short factual description. IMDb explicitly rejects vague labels like "Web site" or "Home page," overlong descriptions, opinion/hype, bad casing, and duplicate submissions across individual TV episodes.
7. Submit and track the contribution from your IMDb contribution history.

IMDb's own title External Sites guidance is the important gate here: the URL must be specific, clearly described, and categorized correctly.

[Image: IMDb Help article showing External Sites submission rules for title pages]

### What kind of link is this?

This is a moderated external citation on IMDb, not a self-serve profile link. In reader-accessible public examples, IMDb External Sites pages list outbound URLs such as official film pages, social profiles, trailers, image archives, and entertainment databases. Direct browser and curl access to IMDb's public example pages returned AWS WAF/403 responses during this run, so the raw anchor `rel` attributes could not be verified from this environment.

Because of that uncertainty, treat IMDb as **nofollow/referral-oriented** in your planning. The value is credibility, discovery, and a relevant entertainment citation on a high-trust site, not guaranteed PageRank transfer.

### When IMDb is worth the effort

Use IMDb only when the destination would make sense to an IMDb editor or contributor:

- an official site for a film, show, game, podcast, performer, or production company;
- a trailer, interview, image gallery, or press article about the specific title/person;
- a company or distributor page tied directly to the title;
- a person-specific official website or verified social profile.

Skip it for ordinary SaaS homepages, local business sites, affiliate landing pages, unrelated blog posts, or thin AI-generated biographies. Those submissions are likely to be rejected and can weaken your contributor account.