Cultivating Natural Links

dvduval · 01-13-2011, 03:51 PM

I hear so much talk of the importance of natural link building but I'm never sure what is it or how you do it. I certainly have my ideas about it. But what are you doing to get these precious links?

Chris The Traffic Blogger · 01-13-2011, 03:52 PM

Blogging carnivals are an awesome way to build natural links, give those a shot!

Sheryl Polomka · 01-13-2011, 04:11 PM

I think natural link building is when it looks natural with building a few links each day - rather than purchasing a link building service that would build thousands of links within a couple of days - that doesn't look natural.

Also, natural link building occurs when people use your articles and link back to your site. These might be articles from Ezine Articles that include your resource box with a link to your site. This happens naturally without any effort on your part (apart from writing good articles that people want to use).

JohnMcCabe · 01-13-2011, 04:22 PM

The two things that signify 'natural' links to me are:

> Getting them is an ongoing process, with the links being built over time.

> There is variety to the links, in source, type, numbers, anchor text, etc.

Pulling an example out of thin air, how natural would it look to have 10,000 member profiles, created on the same day, all located on PR7 .edu sites, all linking to the same one-page, unrelated splog using the same anchor text?

dvduval · 01-13-2011, 04:54 PM

I'm not so much talking about the "appearance" of natural links. I'm talking about truly naturally created links where people put them there without any prompting by you in some campaign. Does this even exist anymore? How can this situation be created?

JohnMcCabe · 01-13-2011, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dvduval

I'm not so much talking about the "appearance" of natural links. I'm talking about truly naturally created links where people put them there without any prompting by you in some campaign. Does this even exist anymore? How can this situation be created?

You know what? I've gotten so accustomed to getting to natural linking by way of the appearance route, it's become reflex.

It does exist. You create the situation by creating content with value people want to spread, just because it's valuable content.

Bill Platt has a thread on one facet of this here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ll-follow.html

[Did anyone notice that this is exactly the kind of natural link under discussion here?

]

charu.seo · 01-14-2011, 01:08 AM

Natural linking is introduced by intentions like 'Get more of [page topic]', 'See also this [page topic related] relevant stuff', or in the best case 'Do not miss out on this [page topic] site'. Natural links appear in road maps (navigation) and recommendations (within the body text). Natural linking extends a topic to a broader theme and vice versa. Natural links are visible and prominent.

01-13-2011, 03:51 PM	#1
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Sheryl Polomka Domestic Engineer War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Australia. Posts: 3,734 Blog Entries: 9 Thanks: 1,301 Thanked 638 Times in 450 Posts Social Networking	Re: Cultivating Natural Links I think natural link building is when it looks natural with building a few links each day - rather than purchasing a link building service that would build thousands of links within a couple of days - that doesn't look natural. Also, natural link building occurs when people use your articles and link back to your site. These might be articles from Ezine Articles that include your resource box with a link to your site. This happens naturally without any effort on your part (apart from writing good articles that people want to use).
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JohnMcCabe Happy Hooker War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North of the Peace River, Southwest Florida, USA. Posts: 8,038 Thanks: 2,931 Thanked 4,902 Times in 2,616 Posts Social Networking	Re: Cultivating Natural Links The two things that signify 'natural' links to me are: > Getting them is an ongoing process, with the links being built over time. > There is variety to the links, in source, type, numbers, anchor text, etc. Pulling an example out of thin air, how natural would it look to have 10,000 member profiles, created on the same day, all located on PR7 .edu sites, all linking to the same one-page, unrelated splog using the same anchor text?
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dvduval phpLD master War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 3,119 Blog Entries: 3 Thanks: 49 Thanked 334 Times in 273 Posts Social Networking	Re: Cultivating Natural Links I'm not so much talking about the "appearance" of natural links. I'm talking about truly naturally created links where people put them there without any prompting by you in some campaign. Does this even exist anymore? How can this situation be created?
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01-14-2011, 01:08 AM	#7
charu.seo HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Delhi Posts: 135 Thanks: 2 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Cultivating Natural Links Natural linking is introduced by intentions like 'Get more of [page topic]', 'See also this [page topic related] relevant stuff', or in the best case 'Do not miss out on this [page topic] site'. Natural links appear in road maps (navigation) and recommendations (within the body text). Natural linking extends a topic to a broader theme and vice versa. Natural links are visible and prominent.
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