10 Must Know Off-page SEO Techniques for 2017

Hi Friends. Welcome to Off-Page SEO Tech !! Useful Off-Page SEO techniques to improve your search engine optimisation including; social media, blogging, blog marketing, forum marketing, directories. SEO is one of the techniques used to improve traffic to a website by obtaining a high-rank placement in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and others. SEO has two techniques to improve website position in SERP called ON-Page SEO and OFF-Page SEO:

Off-Page SEO Techniques:

Off-page SEO will help make your website popular on the internet, so you can get more visibility. With the on-page techniques we can get visibility in search engines. But only off-page SEO techniques for 2017 will help improve your website position in SERP. Take a look at the list of top 10 best off-page SEO techniques now in trend.

1. Social Media Engagement

A major Off-page SEO technique is social media engagement. If you want to make your business, website or blog popular, engage with people on multiple social media platforms. Social media presence will help grow your business and also help you get more back links.

Top social networking sites 2017

S.No	Social Networking Sites	DA	PA	PR
1	http://www.twitter.com/	100	97	10
2	http://www.facebook.com/	100	97	9
3	http://www.linkedin.com/	100	97	9
4	http://www.pinterest.com/	100	96	9
5	http://plus.google.com/	100	96	9

2. Social Bookmarking Sites

Social bookmarking sites are one of the best platforms to promote your website. When you bookmark your webpage or blog post on popular social bookmarking websites, you gain high traffic to your webpage or blog.

Popular and high PR Bookmarking Websites 2017

S.No	Social bookmarking sites	DA	PA	PR
1	https://delicious.com	98	96	8
2	http://stumbleupon.com	98	90	8
3	http://digg.com	99	96	7
4	http://slashdot.org	94	95	7
5	http://diigo.com	92	65	7
6	http://technorati.com/	99	95	7

3. Forum Submission

Participate in search forums which are related to your website and business and make a connection with that community. Reply to threads, answer people’s questions and give your suggestions and advice. Make use of “Do-Follow” forums.

List of high PR forums 2017

S.No	Forum Submission Sites	DA	PA	PR
1	https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/	98	61	9
2	http://www.addthis.com/forum	100	57	8
3	https://bbpress.org/forums/	79	64	7
4	http://www.careerbuilder.com	88	90	7
5	http://www.chronicle.com/forums	88	44	4

4. Blog Directory Submission

Directory Submission is constantly working to build quality back links. Choose an effective directory and select a proper category. It takes quite some time to deliver good results, but these results stand out over a longer time period.

List of Free directory submission list 2017

S.No	Blog Directory Submission Sites	DA	PA	PR
1	http://www.boingboing.net	91	89	8
2	http://technorati.com	99	95	7
3	http://www.networkedblogs.com	91	92	7
4	http://www.elecdir.com	36	42	6
5	http://www.a1webdirectory.org/	49	57	5

 5. Article Submission

Submit your articles in a high PR article submission directory. You can also give links to your website. Make sure your content is unique and of high quality. Low quality content and content that has more keyword stuffing might get rejected. Choose the correct category and give a good title to your content.

List of Free Article Submission sites 2017

S.No	Article Submission Sites	DA	PA	PR
1	http://www.thefreelibrary.com/	78	82	7
2	http://www.magportal.com	54	61	6
3	http://ezinearticles.com	89	92	6
4	http://hubpages.com/	87	89	6
5	http://www.brighthub.com/	68	73	5

6. Question and Answer

One of the best ways you can get high traffic is from question and answer websites. Join high PR question and answer sites and search for questions related to your business, blog or website and give clear answers to these questions. Give a link to your website which will help in bringing you more visibility. 

List of Question and Answer Websites 2017

S.No	Question and Answer Sites	DA	PA	PR
1	https://answers.yahoo.com/	100	91	8
2	http://askville.amazon.com/	97	69	8
3	https://www.quora.com/	87	90	7
4	http://www.blurtit.com/	49	57	4
5	http://www.ehow.com/	90	91	6

7. Video Submission

If you want to make your videos popular, head to popular video submission sites. Give a proper title, description, tags and reference links. It is one of the more popular ways to get quality back links because all video submission websites have high PR.

List of Video sharing sites 2017

S.No	Video Submission Sites	DA	PA	PR
1	https://www.youtube.com/	100	97	9
2	https://vimeo.com/	98	97	9
3	http://www.ustream.tv/	94	95	8
4	https://vine.co/	79	82	7
5	http://www.hulu.com/	88	90	7
6	http://www.break.com/	82	86	6
7	http://www.metacafe.com	86	89	6
8	http://www.dailymotion.com/in	94	77	5

8. Image Submission

Share your photos on popular image submission websites. Before submitting your images please optimize them with the correct URL and title tag. Before submitting your images, check if they have a proper title, description and tags.

List of Image sharing sites 2017

S.No	Image Submission Sites	DA	PA	PR
1	https://www.flickr.com/	98	97	9
2	https://instagram.com/	97	96	9
3	https://picasa.google.com/	100	91	8
4	https://www.tumblr.com/	98	96	8
5	http://www.deviantart.com/	92	93	7
6	http://imgur.com/	95	93	6
7	https://www.mediafire.com/	89	91	6
8	https://www.shutterfly.com/	84	87	6
9	http://www.fotolog.com/	74	79	6

9. Infographics Submission

Make creative infographics. These days, infographics are getting popular on the internet. Submit your infographics on infographics submission websites and give reference links to your webpage or blog. The image sizes differ with different websites.

List of Infographics Submission Sites 2017

S.No	Infographics Submission Sites	DA	PA	PR
1	http://visual.ly/	84	87	7
2	http://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics	99	55	4
3	http://submitinfographics.com/	44	50	4
4	http://www.nerdgraph.com/	38	48	4
5	http://www.infographiclove.com/	26	38	2
6	http://www.infographicsarchive.com/	40	49	2

10. Document Sharing

Create attractive documents relating to your business or blog. The documents should have unique content and should be in either pdf or ppt formats. Submit these documents in the document sharing websites.

List of Document Sharing Sites 2017

S.No	Document Sharing Websites	DA	PA	PR
1	http://issuu.com/	94	95	9
2	http://www.slideshare.net/	95	95	8
3	https://www.scribd.com/	92	93	8
4	http://en.calameo.com/	92	81	7
5	http://free.yudu.com/	67	71	5

Conclusion

Proper On-page and Off-page optimization work will give a better position to your website in SERP. The above websites are listed based on the website’s PA (Page Authority), DA (Domain Authority) and PR (Page Rank). Please comment here if you know any other qualities that we can add to this list which we might have forgotten.