Publishing platforms
Free places to publish posts, slides and documents, often called Web 2.0 sites. Used to reach readers your own site can't reach yet, they work. Used as a link farm, they get you penalised.
17 places16 checked on a live pageLast checked
Sorted by link type, how easy it is to get listed, check date and site popularity.
- FollowedInstantText links on your published pageChecked 1 Nov 2026
Google's free site builder. Text links on public pages were plain links with no rel.
Tranco rank 1. Steps and full check
- FollowedInstantLinks inside your postsChecked 1 Nov 2026
Hosted WordPress with a free plan on a wordpress.com subdomain. You choose nofollow per link; by default there's none.
Good to know: Links in comments are nofollow. The free plan shows WordPress.com ads.
Tranco rank 99. Steps and full check
- FollowedInstantLinks inside your postsChecked 1 Nov 2026
A blogging and social platform built on reblogs. Strong for visual work, fandoms and creators.
Good to know: We checked a post on www.tumblr.com. Blogs on their own theme subdomains blocked our checker, and some themes send links through a Tumblr redirect.
Tranco rank 158. Steps and full check
- FollowedInstantLinks in your pages and blog postsChecked 1 Nov 2026
A site builder owned by Square, with a free plan on a weebly.com subdomain.
Tranco rank 354. Steps and full check
- FollowedInstantLinks inside your postsChecked 1 Nov 2026
The newsletter platform with a web archive for every post. Links in post bodies had no rel at all when we checked.
Tranco rank 427. Steps and full check
- FollowedInstantLinks inside your postsChecked 1 Nov 2026
Google's free blogging platform, on a blogspot.com address or your own domain.
Tranco rank 514. Steps and full check
- FollowedInstantLinks inside blog posts on your free siteChecked 1 Nov 2026
Wix's free plan gives you a site on a wixsite.com address with a blog. Links are plain unless you tick the option to tell Google to ignore them.
Good to know: The page we checked is a site made to sell guest posts. It proves how Wix renders links; don't copy it.
Tranco rank 615. Steps and full check
- FollowedInstantLinks inside your postsChecked 1 Nov 2026
Posts on DEV reach a large developer audience, and links in the article body were followed when we checked. You can set a canonical URL back to the original on your site.
Good to know: Comment links on DEV are nofollow.
Tranco rank 3,741. Steps and full check
- FollowedInstantLinks inside blog postsChecked 1 Nov 2026
A one-page site builder with a free plan on a mystrikingly.com subdomain.
Tranco rank 11,824. Steps and full check
- FollowedReviewedThe website button on your author profile pageChecked 1 Nov 2026
An open tech publishing platform. Anyone with an account can write a story, and HackerNoon editors review it before it goes live. Each writer gets a public profile with links.
Good to know: We read the profile of HackerNoon's CEO, so this shows the profile website link only. Links inside stories are set by editors and were not checked. Search results show HackerNoon also runs a separate program for brands.
Outside the Tranco top million. Steps and full check
- MixedInstantThe author link under the title; links in the text are nofollowChecked 1 Nov 2026
Telegram's minimal publishing tool. No account needed: write, add your name and publish.
Good to know: Links in the text were nofollow; the author link was not.
Tranco rank 2,170. Steps and full check
- NofollowInstantLinks inside your articleChecked 1 Nov 2026
Long-form articles on your LinkedIn profile or company page. The links are nofollow; the readers are the point.
Good to know: You can only publish articles from a computer, not the mobile app.
Tranco rank 17. Steps and full check
- NofollowInstantLinks inside your stories, your bio and your About pageChecked 1 Nov 2026
The biggest open publishing platform. Republishing a post here reaches readers who'd never visit your blog.
Good to know: Links inside stories carry ugc and nofollow. If you republish a post from your site, Medium's import tool keeps a canonical link to the original.
Tranco rank 202, read by hand in a browser. Steps and full check
- NofollowInstantThe website link on your publisher profileChecked 1 Nov 2026
A host for magazines, catalogues and reports as flip-through PDFs.
Good to know: Links inside your PDF only work in Issuu's viewer; search engines don't see them as links.
Tranco rank 378. Steps and full check
- NofollowInstantLinks in the description under your slidesChecked 1 Nov 2026
A clean host for slide decks. Put a talk online with a link to the post or product it's about.
Good to know: SlideShare stopped accepting uploads on 31 August 2026 and hadn't restarted by early October, per Scribd's known issues page. Speaker Deck is the alternative.
Tranco rank 8,122. Steps and full check
- UGCInstantLinks inside your articlesChecked 1 Nov 2026
A free blogging platform for developers, on a hashnode.dev subdomain.
Good to know: Even Hashnode's own blog marks links ugc.
Tranco rank 21,999. Steps and full check
- Not checkableInstantAny link you add inside a published Notion pageTried 1 Nov 2026Couldn't check: the reason is under More
Notion lets you publish a page to the web on a notion.site address. Pages can hold text, images and links to your own sites.
Why not checked: Published Notion pages load their content with JavaScript, so the automated check saw an empty page with no links. We don't guess.
Good to know: Notion's plans page shows publishing to the web and one notion.site domain on the free plan, with search engine indexing under upgraded plans. We could not read a live link.
Outside the Tranco top million. Steps and full check
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What these links do for you
- Republishing a post reaches a platform's readers, with a link to the original on your site.
- Branded accounts on known platforms rank for your name.
- Links inside posts are the ones that carry context, unlike profile links.