One of the easiest places to get links to your site with a decent page rank is from your own profile pages on different sites. Maybe you signed up for MySpace to show your kids that you were hip, then never went back? Maybe you jumped on the recent MyBlogLog fad? Maybe as a professional you’re on LinkedIn? What about when you put those pictures up on Flickr? Maybe you’ve been a member of a forum or two that have profile pages? Maybe you signed up for an authentication service so you could post a comment on another persons blog? There are many different sites where you can have a profile page that allows you to have a link to your site / sites. Quite a few of these sites will generate a decent page rank, given the authority of the sites that they reside on. For instance, I had completely forgotten that I’d signed up for the TypeKey service, when I found my profile page it was at a PR of 4, not a bad little link to throw at myself. Of course, some of these sites either ‘no-follow‘ the profile pages or don’t allow links, making them just plain text, but in the case of the former you can still get traffic from a good site, and in the case of the latter, it can’t hurt.

So what should you do to take advantage of this? For those sites that you can remember signing up for, go out there and add the links to your site(s). For those that you can’t, do a search on your name or your nom de plume and see what you find, there may be some decent profile pages that you forgot all about that you can quickly and easily link to your site(s), and pass the ‘link love’ on to them.