Link Building Trends Vs Myths

[DASHBOY]

Hi Guys,

What are the new trends in link building which you guys are using other than blog comments, social bookmarks, article submissions, forums postings?

I heard, nowadays, Google does not give good value for the 'forums posting' links as well as for blog comments too. Is that true? Or Is it a SEO Myth?

As well as, I heard that, 'Posting on Blogs with content and getting backlinks too do harm' OR Google may sandbox such sites. Is that true Friends?

Thanks,

[WealthWithin]

The only thing I've learnt by asking these type of questions before myself is you will get more confused from the responses people give.

There is no other way to see if it works other then trying for yourself. The worst thing that could happen is losing $10 on domain name. (and few hours of work. )

[W2L]

If your source is someone like say... Matt Cutts then you may be onto something but if you read it or heard it from someone who is not much of an SEO authority I'd say, don't let the misinformation get to you.

If you pace yourself and build your backlinks naturally you are in the safe zone. On the other hand this is what will get you banned for sure:

-- Doing Huge AutoBlasts in sites that have no link moderation (Forum sigs, Scuttle-like sites, abandoned blogs)
-- Coming up with 10K links in less than 24 hours and then announcing your "bad deed" by massively pinging all of your backlinks
-- Using doorway pages or cloaking your stuff....cough cough
-- Distributing malware
-- Stuffing other people's "stuff" without being much of a Cookie monster fan ... ohh noess!!
-- Releasing a massive amount of "not so unique content" all at once
-- Participating in link farms

...+ other stuff I don't seem to recall right now

[bgmacaw]

Originally Posted by DASHBOY

I heard, nowadays, Google does not give good value for the 'forums posting' links as well as for blog comments too. Is that true? Or Is it a SEO Myth?

These links haven't been high value links for some time, meaning they don't count for much but they do count to some degree. Don't depend on them as your sole source of links but having them won't do you any harm

Originally Posted by DASHBOY

Google may sandbox such sites.

There is no sandbox, only a lack of quality links.

[Sandy Cormack]

Originally Posted by W2L

If your source is someone like say... Matt Cutts then you may be onto something but if you read it or heard it from someone who is not much of an SEO authority I'd say, don't let the misinformation get to you.

If you pace yourself and build your backlinks naturally you are in the safe zone. On the other hand this is what will get you banned for sure:

-- Doing Huge AutoBlasts in sites that have no link moderation (Forum sigs, Scuttle-like sites, abandoned blogs)
-- Coming up with 10K links in less than 24 hours and then announcing your "bad deed" by massively pinging all of your backlinks
-- Using doorway pages or cloaking your stuff....cough cough
-- Distributing malware
-- Stuffing other people's "stuff" without being much of a Cookie monster fan ... ohh noess!!
-- Releasing a massive amount of "not so unique content" all at once
-- Participating in link farms

...+ other stuff I don't seem to recall right now

It seems like to me that the main source of 'this technique no longer works' is people trying to sell a different technique .

[W2L]

Originally Posted by Sandy Cormack

It seems like to me that the main source of 'this technique no longer works' is people trying to sell a different technique .

You might be onto something lol. I'd say u never know what works and what doesn't till u take the plunge. There will always be new techniques and methods and people saying nothing works no matter what they try.... I guess it all comes down to the effort people put into it....

Here is a good example:

Lisa > YouTube - lisa3876's Channel

She's a chick who claims to be making "x,xxx" amount of money/month from adsense... all the tips she gives are stuff we have heard over and over again, so she hans't reinvented the wheel but she has stuck long enough with her original idea/sites and realized that what works is not the new technique you try today and drop tomorrow.... but going long and working everyday, in other words the effort you put into it.

So I'd say... paying attention to people who say they came up with a big red button to unlimited money is the fastest way to failure. Is forum posting better than link baiting or article marketing or software distribution or free give aways? I'd say don't try just one and give up, combine them all (with moderation) and see if the effort as a whole provides a ROI...

[redicelander]

I've learned from this forum and others that a lot of "experts" will disagree with each other and it's hard to sort the truth from the fiction. The best is to just test yourself and see what happens. I think you need a variety of links for one, and authority, relevant links are some of the best you can get.

Truly, relevancy plays a key. I looked at a competitor in the rankings for one of my sites and what they had going over all the competition (as they had position number one) was a large majority of the links I could find that they had were 100% relevant to the niche. These are golden. I think they must have had to pay for a lot of them as they just weren't the kinds of links you could just place yourself and easily get approved.