Backlinking your backlinks...

[Tong]

How much effort should you put into backlinking your backlinks?

The only thing I've really done in the past is RSS and social bookmark my articles and we all know these backlinks don't last.

Should more effort than RSS and socialbookmarking be put into backlinking backlinks (for the end purpose of ranking your primary site)?

At what point is it more beneficial to just backlink your primary site?

What about backlink your ezinearticles too much that they outrank your main page, is that a valid concern?

(random side note: socialbot is running right now and keeps submitting my post with random snippets of text)

[tpw]

RSS links by their very nature are doomed to last only a short time. Those links only appear in a feed of the Most Recent Content on a list, and as new content is created, the old links will fall away.

Social bookmarking is plagued by the same process. New posts quickly disappear into the archives.

If those are the only kinds of links you will ever build, then you should bypass backlinking your backlinks.

On the other hand, if you are getting links from pages that will have a lifetime of visibility, then by all means, you should backlink the backlinks if you want to make a dent in the seo.

What it boils down to is that for pages to pass value to your site, your pages must have value to share.

If no one links to the page where your link exists, then your link will never have value.

I have built my own search rankings by backlinking the backlinks. I have thousands of page one listings in Google, and I receive 40% of my 22k visitors per month from Google.

Now and again, I will find one of my links from article marketing - my article on someone's website, linking to my site - that actually has some real PageRank. Last night I found an article that I had distributed 2 years ago sitting on a page with a PR3.

People had to link to that page in order for that page to have a PR3 to share with me.

Of course it helps when your articles are of good quality, sharing with people a message that they would want to share with others. The better quality your article content, the more people who will be inclined to link to it, where ever it may reside online. As people begin to link to those pages, those pages start earning link credibility, aka link popularity, that Google will recognize and credit the page with having.

If no one else is linking to the pages where your links reside, you should be the one doing that. And maybe someday, some one else will see enough value in your page to also give you some link popularity, aka Google PageRank that will help you in getting better listings and better traffic from Google.

[fitzwar]

It sounds like your trying to create a linkwheel, which is a very good idea. Do a search on Google on how Linkwheeling can help improve your serps

[Intrepreneur]

Essentialy you only need to backlink your backlinks if you put your backlinks on an island page. An island oage being a page that won't get much/any exposure to the bots thus it wont get crawled.

I tend to avoid having to get backlinks from places that need to be backlinked in order to give me anything worthy. Hence why I gave up on Angela's and Pauls packets.

[robofx]

This is a very interesting topic, actually. I've been meaning to experiment with this kind of recursion. Make a website. Post an article pointing to the site. Bookmark the article. Take the article's RSS feed & submit to aggregators. Then make an RSS feed out of the bookmark & send that to the aggregators. Then bookmark the RSS feed. Then make another RSS feed from *that* bookmark... etc. LOL There'd eventually be smoke billowing out of Google datacenters worldwide.