Post panda, where are you doing your initial back linking?

[rob1123]

After panda hit nearly all the article sites took a huge hit (ezine lost around 90% of its traffic). It now seem pointless to submit articles to them for link juice, so the question is...

Which way are you turning now? social book marking?

[InitialEffort]

Personally, I would keep doing article backlinks, blog comments and profile links. You need to build a diverse link portfolio to weather the ups and downs of Google.

The key is you need to keep building high quality backlinks in bulk, but if you are targeting a competitive keyword you need to monitor your link velocity.

[RichardF]

Social bookmarking is something I haven't had good results with for ages. I'm focusing on fewer, more high-quality links. Comments on non-spammed pages (I'd rather use a page with low PR than a high-PR page with tons of spam comments), private blog networks and the like is what I'm using mostly.

[chasnsx]

Ezine is still fine for first layer links, provided that you write a good article that people would actually want to read. It really doesn't matter how much traffic Ezine gets, as long as the article you write gets the traffic. You do need to backlink the article to get traffic to it, though.

[InitialEffort]

Yes, but with ezine, you only have one IP, which isn't diversity. You should use some other Web 2.0 networks as well in your first tier.

[App Developers]

I never had any luck with article back links anyway! diversity Ip is the key! I have also not had luck with social bookmarking!

[ginak59]

I'm still working with Ezine, Squidoo, Infobarrel and Hubpages a bit. Ezine has taken a hit but I believe after cleaning out all the garbage, in the long run we'll see page rank go up again.

[Jon Potts]

Originally Posted by InitialEffort

You need to build a diverse link portfolio to weather the ups and downs of Google.

I agree with what was said here.

Also, Panda hasn't hurt my rankings all that much... although I only focus on relevant data and linking.

[Wakunahum]

I do all the usual things as you would have done a year ago.

I have sites with article links that didn't lose any rankings at all. In fact I gained quite a bit of traffic since February.

[InitialEffort]

@wakunahum I also gained traffic except on one website. Sadly it is the website I consider to be the most authoritative and have the best well written content.

[dadamson]

Originally Posted by App Developers

I never had any luck with article back links anyway! diversity Ip is the key! I have also not had luck with social bookmarking!

Social Bookmarking is not that good for direct backlinks. - By the time your profile is crawled the backlinks roll off to page two most of the time. They are good for a second layer of backlinks and help the indexing process too.

They also help in creating a natural backlink portfolio. If 10,000 people are writing articles about your website and not one person is sharing your site on the popular social bookmarks it screams article spamming