Instructables.com – Good for Traffic and Links!
February 15th, 2008 by hbond{{adam}}I came across this site today and was impressed by the concept. As usual, I investigated further and wanted to see if instructables.com held some SEO value and traffic value. Low and behold, it does!
The site and concept is really cool – somewhat of a hybrid between Yahoo Answers, YouTube, Flicker and others. It is a social site for learning and teaching others “how to” do things like replace LED lights in your keychain, make knitted octopus pets, or even make burlesque tassels – if your into that sort of thing!
It looks like you can register and account and post instructional videos, slide shows and written explanations about whatever it is you want to share with the community. Within the post, you can also post what looks to be a followed link back to a website. The individual page rank on a particular instruction site isn’t very high but if you do have a valuable video that gets promoted to the first page, you will probably get some great traffic out of it!
So there you go… happy late Valentines Day… no go make some burlesque tassels!
Hrm…never thought about creating an instructable.
Looks like I know what my weekend project is!
I’ve been on that site before, its a great site. I never thought of using it for traffic though : )
Sounds very interesting, I’m going to check it out. I don’t have LED lights in my key chain, but there might be other cool stuff that is useful on there. Thanks…
Great tip on Instructables. Seems kind of like a more media intensive and focused Squidoo. Definitely worth giving a shot…
Great pointer, thanks! I guess it is becoming hard for entrpeneurs to come up with original ideas for networking sites. But this seems to be a great one.
I have not heard of this site before but instructables.com sounds like a highly innovative networking site that has found a unique niche that differentiates it from other networking sites. I will definitely need to check it out. Thanks for the tips!
We get maybe 15 clicks a week from people looking for instructions on replacing mouse batteries. Next week we’re going to post instructions on that site and will let you know how it turns out in a few weeks.
Cool find.
Thanks for the heads up on this site. I’m always looking for something that’s interesting and for potential stories.
Agreen the post is very good.
The links help me.
cool, I have never heard about that, will definitely check it out, while I develop strategies to get traffic com youtube as well,
thanks!
Wow, that looks like a great site, not only for promotion, but also for personal use!
I have to say that I really like the ideas behind this site and it is certainly another interesting mash up of elements from other style sites. I can see it being useful not only as a means to a ‘real’ link but also as a possible place for help.
I am sure that we will see more and more of these mixed functionality sites – a bit like the person who stuck a smoke detector on top of a toaster to send when the toast was starting to brown to then cut the power supply and create the perfect piece of toast!
Great tip on Instructables.The links help me.
Greatn this web site is cool but i haven’t heard about it before, but it can be a great idea to use it for promotion!
Hi there!!
Nice topic and the website you mentioned, i actually never heard of it before. Thanks for sharing information. Great Article.
ya. I have seen the site. there are really lot of links but I didn’t find which I was looking for.
Great tip, I’ll be sure to check that site out for promoting a variety of services. It allows you to show off your abilities with a certain task before the client has even approached you!
I never think this way before. Sounds like a great site to check out. I hope it really can generate a very good traffic. Thanks for the tips!
hmm… nice find. I think this could help me generate some new traffic. thanks for the tip!
“Yahoo Answers, YouTube, Flicker and others. It is a social site for learning and teaching others “how to” do things like replace LED lights in your keychain, make knitted octopus pets. . . .”
So can they help me come up with a better recipe for banana bread, too?
@ InjuryProne
Maybe they could. If some user of Flickr or Youtube is a good cook. He could maybe share a cook video. If I was cook I would, so you can get on local level customers to your restaurant.
Thanks for the heads up on that site. I’ve never heard of it before and any site that helps with SEO is nice to know about.
after reading this article, I checked for the mentioned website, and I found it very useful..thanks for sharing..will spread the news to others..
Good site. Should be even better as more instructional video’s get added over time. Spread the word!