Multiple keywords pointing to your domian

[turbohips]

I've read tons of theory's on this subject and wanted to share what I've noticed using different techniques. For my main business site/money site I've built a ton of links at the beginning with only my company name. This was a great way to start for my company branding. I was able to pretty much fill up the first and second pages on Google, Yahoo and Bing for my company name search.

Next was to build up keywords that would show my domain. I started out too broad at the beginning by having 5 different keywords linked to my index page. I did slowly increase on my rankings but not nearly as fast as if I concentrated on one at a time. Over all, I've built a couple of thousand links with up to 5 keywords and now on pages 1-40 for roughly 50 keywords now. I guess that a bunch of long tailed keywords were getting picked up by the search engines from my efforts.

On my second and third months I started experimenting with link wheels, linking inner pages and using automated software. I can honestly say that I'm glad I got my money back from all the software providers as they really didn't do much for what I needed. By the time I learned what the link wheels and linking inner pages was about I found that they weren't as effective as the hype. I should have stuck with the original plan which was plain and boring standard linking. I would have been much more productive and would have accomplished much more.

Of course throughout the process my site was dancing as if it were at a concert. It was really hard for me to gauge what was really working for me. What I'm trying to say is that I was also experimenting with RSS feeds, social bookmarks, Twitter, profile links, blogging, article marketing along with the other stuff I've mentioned. I basically dove head first into everything and hoping that my efforts would pay off.

Now everyone has their own personal experience with various methods. I am not stepping on any ones toes here. From my checking, I only see links pointing back to my domain coming from profile links I've created in forums and in blogs.

Directories are dead. There are a ton of directories that I've also submitted my site to but very few of them show up. I'm talking about over 2000 directories I've submitted to and only around 5 show on my linking report. Of course everyone will say that you can't see all of your links but every time I pull a report I get the same results.

RSS didn't help. Again on my reports I've searched for any links that could have been generated from various RSS sources. Again some people swear by this method but I don't feel I received any benefits from this at all.

Social bookmarks meant nothing to me. I've created roughly 1500 accounts using automated software and posted links to over 75 social bookmarking sites. Again only had a very small percentage of them showing up on my back link report.

Article submission do work but take a long time to create. Even with software here, it was very time consuming but I was able to spin a ton of articles and submit them fairly quickly once the articles were made. Of these only a hand full of the articles worked out. I ended up getting a better percentage when I hand submitted these. Ezine was the only site that showed the most links on my report and those were the ones I hand submitted. The software that I used didn't produce the promised results at all. This again felt like a waste of time.

Blogging is awesome. From blogging I was able to get a ton of my backlinks indexed right away and add a ton of links that did show up on my reports. I really haven't giving this a fair enough evaluation but man is it really doing something to my SERP's results for many different keywords.

Forum profiles again work great and I don't need to get into this as everyone already know they work.

So in conclusion, the one thing that I learned was to stay with the true and proven methods of building links. That really only consists of blogging and forum profiles. I've wasted a ton of time and money trying out other methods but they simply don't cut the mustard. I hope this post helps some of you just starting out. If it does hit the thanks button below.

[energyguy]

Is the site you working on building backlinks to the one you listed at the end of your post?

If that's the case, alls I see is a ton of backlinks from your WF posts.. which is one of the easiest ways to expose your portfolio.

Have you tried using blog commenting software?

[Hemal Patel]

Sounds about right, I find a bigger boost of traffic from help of blogging and forum profiling.

[turbohips]

LOL no the site in my sig is just another site I'm testing on. I wanted to track how a forum with many posts and one sig link would affect a site's ranking in the SERP. I test many different things for many different sites. It's easier to track different strategies to see what truly works and what doesn't. So far I found that it doesn't change much at all. I'm still testing various methods and will report my findings later when more time has past.

[searchnology]

Nice post!

This echos what I have experienced as well with backlink building. In the long run, I think good old fashioned "link bait", "viral content", or whatever buzzword you want to call it, will be the best bet for link building.

Directories -No
Link wheels - No
Social Bookmarks -No
Software Directories - No
Classified ads - No
Articles - Yes. Ezinearticles.com mostly and also goarticles.com to a lesser extent
Blogs - Yes, but more and more are using nofollow. Blackhat blasts are probably the best bet here in the short term.
Forums - Yes, but you need to use dirty tricks sometimes
Video site - Yes. Youtube is best if you have a backlink on your channel page and your channel itself has decent backlinks.

(Did I miss anything?)