In a nutshell, a seo footprint is a piece of code or a sentence that website scripts have. Let me show you an example, assume a person creates a website about “learning guitar” and wish to start a forum for its members to discuss about tips about playing guitar.
In order to do so, they need choose some kind of forum script to use, such as phpbb, vBulletin or others. The most common seo footprint that you’ll see is the “Powered by…” footprint. In case the person uses the phpbb forum script, there is a footprint in all installations of phpbb, which is “Powered by phpbb” at the bottom of the forum.
Therefore, if you search for “powered by phpbb” with Google, you’ll find a TON of forums running on the phpbb script. Good thing for webmasters like us…
For every blogging script, commenting script, guestbook script, forum script, etc etc… you can always find a common footprint to look for. But you need not do any of the hardwork. Because I already compiled a pretty good list to get you started.
When we combine these seo footprints with advanced search operators our keywords and some crafty thinking, they could be very powerful. Almost all of these footprints can be used with your niche keyword(s) to return relevant results.
As we all know, Google gives more importance to niche relevant backlinks and it’s just a great way to dig deeper in Google by using keywords. I am not going to just give you a list of seo footprints and leave you to wonder how they really work.
But I am going to show you how to do it yourself, so that you can create your own search strings and find unlimited backlinks on demand whenever you want and whenever you need and how many you wish. But before starting out you need to know a few common footprints.
MISC Footprints: Register.php, captcha, nofollow, dofollow, ifollow.gif, related URLs, related sites, directory, advertiser testimonials, add url, add site, add website, add your site, submit url, submit website, submit your site, submit a url, submit a website, submit a site, suggest url, suggest website, suggest your site, suggest a url, suggest a site, recommended links, recommended sites, recommended resources, favorite links, favorite sites, bookmarks resources, “list *keyword* sites”.
List of More Specific Footprints
This list of footprints will help you to find sites running blog, forum, guestbook and other platforms that can often be used to gain a quality backlink.
Forums: Forum, discussion boards, members, join, tag, group, message board, bulletin board, /phpbb2.
Blogs: Wp-login, wp-admin, blogroll, blog , you must be logged in, comments are closed (you will see how to tell Google to not return sites with this footprint), posting closed, Add comment, post comment, leave a comment, no comments, notify me of follow-up comments, make a comment , add-blog.php, add_blog.php, addblog.html, addyourblog.asp, blog-submission.html, blog_submission.html, submit-blog.html, submit_blog.html.
Guestbooks: Guestbook , Matt's Script Archive, Inc. :: Free Perl CGI Scripts, “found at Matt’s Script Archive” , guestbook.aspx
Wiki’s:Wiki, Media Wiki_talk
Social Network Sites: Bravenet.com, “powered by buddypress”, ning.com, “Powered by Ning” , /main/authorization/SignIn, /main/authorization/SignUp
Big List of Additional Seo Footprints: This list is currently unsorted and contains a mix of blog, forum and guestbook seo footprints For best results, these should all be used with quotations and can be used with your keywords as well to find sites specific to your niche.
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CreateUser.aspx?ReturnUrl=
RSS Feed Footprints:
Submitrssfeed.aspx
AddFeed.aspx
AddRSS.asp
Ping/
RSS_submission_form.asp
RSSform.asp?cat
Suggest-A-Feed
addFeed.do
add_feed.php
addfeed.html
addfeed.php
addfeed/
cgi_rss_submission
FeedAdd.cfm
newfeed.php
ping.asp
ping.php
rss-add.html
rssform.asp
sub_rss.asp
submit-feeds.html
submitFeed.jsp
submit_feed.jsp
submitfeed
submitfeed.shtml
submitnews.php
submitrss.php
suggest/feed
suggest_feeds.asp
submit.php
submitFeed.aspx
AddRSSFeed.jsp
Finding Web Directories: Here is a simple formula for finding web directories. Start with one of the words: Add, Suggest, Recommend, Submit, etc…
Followed by a keyword or a * (you will learn what the * does in the next chapter) Finished with one of the words: Link, Site,URL, Website, Feed, Blog, etc…
I guess this is the largest seo footprints list on the web and i am pretty sure you are delighted about it! I promise you that in the future i will publish much more on these “footprints”. Cheers!
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