Be smart about where you backlink

[Seekness]

"If a tree falls in the forest, and no one's there to hear it..."

This saying holds meaning with respect to making sure your backlinks count. You're investing your time and want to make sure you get the most possible mileage out of time spent.

Make sure the pages you're putting backlinks on are likely to get indexed.

A little trick I use is to do a site-specific search on google and then narrow it down to the last 24 hours to see how many new pages on that site were indexed. You'd be surprised to see how few of the pages some of the "recommended" sites actually have indexed 24 hours or even a week later.

Search the site on Google ---- site:site.com (do it without the www in case the site indexes its pages with any other prefix. This will search it globally)... then click "Show options" underneath the search box and narrow the search down to 24 hours, or even a week if you'd like to give it the benefit of the doubt. Then look at the types of pages being indexed. Do they include profile pages? Member blogs? Only site-produced news items and editorials?

Well that should tell all. If you find that a total of just 24 site pages have been indexed over the course of the last week, the chances of this link being found are clearly pretty low. Avoid these sites. The 20 seconds it takes to find this data is much less than the few minutes it takes to set up an account, and/or post backlinks. Better yet, finding the right sites via this method to maximize your effectiveness is just as beneficial, if not more.

Use your time wisely - it's the most valuable thing you have

[jan roos]

Very useful info. Thanks a bunch for sharing

[Joe118]

This is a passive approach. You can *make sure* that Google finds your profile page or whatever page you spammed with your backlink, in many ways. That takes even less time than the 20 seconds you'd invest in figuring out that Google didnt see your page yet

[Seekness]

Originally Posted by Joe118

This is a passive approach. You can *make sure* that Google finds your profile page or whatever page you spammed with your backlink, in many ways. That takes even less time than the 20 seconds you'd invest in figuring out that Google didnt see your page yet

I would say yes, and no. I haven't found the pinging services like Pingomatic to be as reliable as one would like, especially when it comes to G. If you're talking about submitting the profile link (etc.) where you backlinked to social bookmarking sites, this is also double work that takes more time, and still doesn't always guarantee it.

Of course, I'm open to any more reliable methods you may have to make sure that multiple pages can get indexed without too much time invested. Feel free to share if you'd like

[Joe118]

Originally Posted by dandee0014

I would say yes, and no. I haven't found the pinging services like Pingomatic to be as reliable as one would like, especially when it comes to G. If you're talking about submitting the profile link (etc.) where you backlinked to social bookmarking sites, this is also double work that takes more time, and still doesn't always guarantee it.

Of course, I'm open to any more reliable methods you may have to make sure that multiple pages can get indexed without too much time invested. Feel free to share if you'd like

I use pinging plus a bunch of other methods:

* I drop links to the profiles on a blogger blog
* There's a WSO (I think by Stephen Root, not sure) about a neat method involving forums
* I make an RSS feed of all my profiles and pages where I dropped links, and submit that to a gazillion RSS directories
* ...

[Jimerson Farveez]

Ya that is very cool idea, thxs for sharing it

[4morereferrals]

Joe118 - hey we agree on something!

Im using iMacros automation - push button click ... that fires off a script that:

1. Pings the profile page
2. pings the rss feeds
3. Bookmarks at deliscious
4. Bookmarks at technorati
5. bookmarks at jumptags
6. submits the rss feed to feedagg.com
7. submits thefeed to feedage.com
8. Site Submit to Yahoo [ profile page URL ]

Saves all the urls submitted and aggregated for a rinse and repeat process.

Id place the links and do the above before deciding to not place the link because it "might" not get indexed. Imagine if 50% of the people using hte packets BM'd and Aggregated the sites too?

[Fondybadger]

u do the work of course it is important to know how the work is going and does it affect its expected effect
thanx for the info

[Fondybadger]

BTW I have also used yahoo's site explorer as well as the google webmaster tool

[metafever]

good basic info!

[ggspice]

also you can keep in mind that different datacenters give you different information so if a popular site your thinking of droping a link in seems to not have any new pages indexed its prolly just not updated.

[Jenie0109]

Originally Posted by Joe118

I use pinging

If you have a Wordpress blog it automatically pings some listings so you don't need to ping it again. Is that true?

[benz]

I never quite thought of it that way. Good tip. I'll use it in my next link building campaign. Thanks for sharing.

[Joe118]

Originally Posted by Jenie0109

If you have a Wordpress blog it automatically pings some listings so you don't need to ping it again. Is that true?

Yes, it's true that WP blogs you don't need to ping. But we're talking about creating profiles and such on sites that support them, like forums.

Besides, SEs don't all listen to these pings, and giving them a plethora of other ways to discover these links is good also Your goal is to rub G's nose on your links

[shoaibonline]

no doubt that's really a very good information.
thanks for sharing with us.