What mix of link building methods gets best rankings...

[Todd R]

I use articles, blog posts and comments, bookmarking, RSS and forum comments at the center of my free traffic campaign. It's old hat stuff but it works slowly and surely. I'm entertaining some other ideas and would like to hear what combinations of methods you are using and why you think those methods get you best rankings. Thanks.

[Matt Morgan]

Originally Posted by Todd R

I use articles, blog posts and comments, bookmarking, RSS and forum comments at the center of my free traffic campaign. It's old hat stuff but it works slowly and surely. I'm entertaining some other ideas and would like to hear what combinations of methods you are using and why you think those methods get you best rankings. Thanks.

Add these to the process
- Press release links
- article marketing, from top 20 article directories (sig link to your site)
- Purchased links
- links from similar niche sites (contacting the site owner for a link)

[Chris Munch]

Real editorial citations from authority sources works great for me.

Nothing like a link from TheSun.co.uk, BBC.co.uk or USAToday.com to put you in the spotlight with Google.

Not easy to come by but possible with a bit of imagination, great content and hard work you'll get them. I've not got an established site (more than one year old and a few hundred pages of content) that hasn't had a mainstream media link yet. I consider them essential link building if you really want to compete in Google for any decent term.

[~kev~]

What mix of link building methods gets best rankings...

My personal opinion - the best mix comes from having a wide variety. This includes everything you can get your hands on - social bookmarking, blog comments, forums, blog rolls,,,,.

But the best links come from high ranking popular sites that pass page rank.

I would rather have 1 link from the BBC, CNN, Foxnews, Yale or Harvard,,,, then 1,000 links from junk sites.

But hey, I'll take any link I can get.

[tpw]

All of the above... The mix is important...

However, I make the most inroads when I write articles that other people want to link... The link popularity going to my article, ensures that my articles have link pop to share with my sites...

But people won't link to just any junk articles that are put out there... Your article has to be strong to attract links from third-party's, so as they say, Content Is King...

[Todd R]

Matt, Chris, Kev and Bill Thanks for your suggestions. I'm expanding my game one step at a time and these suggestions will help.

Todd

[~kev~]

Originally Posted by Todd R

Matt, Chris, Kev and Bill Thanks for your suggestions. I'm expanding my game one step at a time and these suggestions will help.

Todd

Your welcome - and let me tell you what I'am working on right now.

Currently I'am focused on 3 social bookmarking sites - mixx, ysome and packg. I'll submit a few articles from sites like cnn, time, abcnews.go.com,,,, along with links to good articles on my blog.

On those sites I'll also go through and post comments on other peoples articles. When you post a comment, your username is linked back to your profile. So when you post a comment, its like leaving a breadcrumb trail back to your profile.

Sometimes I see people that submit to dozens of social bookmarking sites daily. Personally, I like to keep my projects to a manageable size. Its easier for me to keep track of 3 social bookmarking sites, then it is to keep track of 2 dozen.

After I work those social bookmarking sites for a few months, I'll add another one to the mixx, and drop the one that is not showing up in my google webmaster tools.

I dont think its enough just to submit a link to a social bookmarking site, you need to keep an eye on your yahoo site explorer and your google webmaster tools. If the search engines are not finding the links, your wasting your time.

My personal opinion, the search engines like certain social bookmarking sites better then others. Keep an eye on your google webmaser tools, see which social sites the search engines pick up the links the best, and focus on those sites. If a site is not being registered in your google webmaster tools or yahoo site explorer, stop working it and move to the next one.

[jaclay20]

for me, I do the following:

-article writing
-press release
-blog commenting
-link building

...well, they are pretty good to use though...

[Todd R]

Thanks jaclay, that's how I started out too.

Kev,

Thanks again... Do you find the links you've built on those 3 bookmarking sites with the "crumbs" are helpful? Do they show up on your webmaster tools? It seems like a lot of work for low grade links... I'm guessing. Am I missing something? I see you're book marking high profile sites and news stories, but how does that relate to your site?
Todd

[~kev~]

Originally Posted by Todd R

Kev,

Thanks again... Do you find the links you've built on those 3 bookmarking sites with the "crumbs" are helpful? Do they show up on your webmaster tools?

I can submit a link to stumble or digg, and it might never show up in my google webmaster tools.

On the other hand, sites like mister-wongs, and mixx show up pretty good.

Originally Posted by Todd R

It seems like a lot of work for low grade links... I'm guessing. Am I missing something?

Instead of building link circles, I'am building link lines. And yes, it gets a "little" complicated, but I will try to explain. It goes something like this.

Social bookmarking site --> blog post --> forum post and tags

Lets say I make a blog post about ABC. Instead of allowing comments on my blog, I'll post another copy of the article in my forum. At the end of the blog post, I will say something like "please post your comments in this forum thread about ABC."

I'll then go through some of the social bookmarking sites and bookmark the ABC article.

Any pagerank and search engines will pass through the social bookmarking site, through my blog, and into the forum thread.

Every forum thread I post also has tags, so the PR and search engines also flow into my tag system, where they find more forum pages to index.

Originally Posted by Todd R

I see you're book marking high profile sites and news stories, but how does that relate to your site?
Todd

That way the search engines see my site next to authority sites.

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On a side note, I'am mainly bookmarking my blog. My forum is page rank 5 - through natural links that other people have posted. Yahoo site explorer says that my forums home page has over 180,000 links.

So what I'am working on now is getting line links built to my inner pages that I want to get ranked well for.

[Todd R]

Kev, it sounds like your strategy is pretty cleaver and also specifically designed for your forum and the inner pages. I guess it could be adapted to a blog so that each post gets higher page rankings and that boosts the overall ranking of the blog?

emaildeliverypro,
thanks for the suggestion. How do you place your links on sites that don't accept comments?

Todd

[~kev~]

Originally Posted by Todd R

Kev, it sounds like your strategy is pretty cleaver and also specifically designed for your forum and the inner pages. I guess it could be adapted to a blog so that each post gets higher page rankings and that boosts the overall ranking of the blog?

You may want to look at signing up on v7n.com, netbuilders.org and bloggeries.com/forum/

All of those forums have an RSS feature - where a link to your most recent blog post is displayed next to your user name, and in every post you make.

Its a good way to get deep backlinks to your articles, and use your article titles as anchor text.

On v7n I have over 1,200 post. When I make a new blog post, that article gets an automatic 1,200+ backlinks from just 1 site.

Then add to that social bookmarking.

[Todd R]

Thanks Kev

[Torontoairport]

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