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This is part 27 of my series called the link building cookbook that aims to be the ultimate link building resource on the web.

Gather is a place where you can share the things that are important to you with tons of different people. Boring right?

If I were to write my OWN description of what Gather is, here is how I would describe it:

Gather is an extremely popular site with over 700,000 pages indexed in Google. It has an incredible amount of pagerank, authority, and trust. Google crawls the site daily because it is filled with so much content. Gather allows internet marketers and link builders like ourselves to write up quick articles and plug a few backlinks in them.

Gather is much like Squidoo, except it seems that the internet marketing world has not yet caught on. Unlike Squidoo, Gather has NOT received a penalty and deals with a lot less spam than Squidoo does. At the end of the day, you can publish tons of articles on Gather and receive hundreds of QUALITY backlinks to your websites to increase your search engine traffic over a long period of time.

For those of you who like seeing a finished example, here is a quick article that I submitted about why is online dating getting popular.

What are you still reading for? Go crank out some backlinks!

Update: This post inspired Link Building Bible to write a post featuring another way to
build links with gather

While I do realize that a lot of you may have already heard of Squidoo, I still wanted to make a post about it to let the users who haven’t heard about it get a chance at using it, as well as being able to use this post as a reference in future link building posts.

Squidoo is a huge community powered site that allows users to write about topics they are “experts” in. In return for writing these articles (they call them lens’), Squidoo shares half of the advertising revenue with you and also gives you anchor text backlinks inside your articles.

Squidoo has previously been hit with a Google penalty for being so heavily spammed with pharmaceutical and casino related articles, but it is still worth the time to write a lens about something and include links to your site/blog in it, as nobody can compete with free backlinks! Even after the penalty has hit them, hundreds of their pages still rank in the first few pages of Google and send monstrous amounts of traffic to the pages.

This is part 25 of my series called the link building cookbook that aims to be the ultimate link building resource on the web.