## Wattpad

Wattpad 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.

- URL: https://www.wattpad.com
- Guide: https://backlinkbadger.com/provider/wattpad/
- Link type: nofollow
- Free option: yes
- Domain authority: 12/100
- Spam score: 2/100
- Difficulty: 25/100
- Estimated time: 15 minutes
- Requirements: Wattpad account, Public profile, Website URL, Relevant author or story presence

Wattpad is useful when your backlink belongs on an author, reader, publisher, or story-related profile. The fastest defensible method is not to spam story comments; it is to add your website to a real public Wattpad profile and use the account normally enough that the profile has context.

### Method: Add your website to your public profile

1. Create or log in to a Wattpad account from [Wattpad login](https://www.wattpad.com/login).
2. Open your profile or account settings after logging in.
3. Add your author site, project page, book page, portfolio, or other relevant URL in the profile website field.
4. Save the profile and open the public profile URL while logged out or in a private browser window.
5. Confirm the website link is visible on the public profile before you count it as acquired.

A current public example is Margaret Atwood's Wattpad profile: [https://www.wattpad.com/user/MargaretAtwood](https://www.wattpad.com/user/MargaretAtwood). The profile renders a Website link to `http://margaretatwood.ca`.

[Image: Wattpad public profile showing a visible external website link]

### Link quality and caveats

The inspected public profile anchor was direct, but it was not dofollow:

```html
<a class="alt-link" href="http://margaretatwood.ca" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">
  margaretatwood.ca
</a>
```

That means Wattpad should be treated as a profile citation and referral opportunity, especially for authors, creators, publishers, fan communities, or story-adjacent projects. Do not sell it internally as a clean authority backlink.

If you publish stories or comments that include links, keep them genuinely relevant to the story or reader context. Wattpad is a community platform, not a business directory, and link-first behavior is more likely to look spammy than helpful.