How Do You Build Tiered Links?

[Jack Chase]

When building links I usually write a few unique articles on established directories which link directly to my money site (tier 1 links), and then use large numbers of lower value links (such as web 2.0 and forum profiles, blog comments, etc.) to link to these articles (tier 2 links).

I also do some other links (like profiles and bookmarks, random links on high PR pages) to add a wider range of links to my money site.

In my experience this seems to work well - although I'm open to any advice from more experienced Warriors.

The articles that link to my money site all have my target key phrase as anchor text. My question is: does it matter what the anchor text of of the tier 2 links (the ones that link to the articles) is? Should it be the same as the key phrase I'm targeting or can it be anything - e.g. just "click here"? Is there any benefit/disadvantage either way?

I would be very grateful for some advice with this! Thanks.

[Jack Chase]

Does anyone have any advice on this please?

[nicktyler]

I would say it doesn't matter that much due to the dilution of PR passed through the teirs but if you can, keep the anchor relavent to the content that it is pointing at. Or target keywords that you want the articles to rank for. If they are the same as the money site target then you are effectively competing against yourself so maybe use variations of the money site target.

[auradev]

You need multiple sites that you build a lot of crappy links to your lower sites, and then the lower sites point up to the money site. Like a pyramid.

[InitialEffort]

I use the same anchor text or variations of the anchor text that I am targeting even in Tier 2 links. So if I am trying to rank for "blue boats" I will backlink with blue boats to my web 2.0 properties, which have a backlink to my money site with blue boats.

[Jack Chase]

Originally Posted by InitialEffort

I use the same anchor text or variations of the anchor text that I am targeting even in Tier 2 links. So if I am trying to rank for "blue boats" I will backlink with blue boats to my web 2.0 properties, which have a backlink to my money site with blue boats.

Thanks for the response - what you said makes sense to me. Have you tried without using the same or related anchor text? Do you think it would make much difference?

[InitialEffort]

I'm honestly not sure if it makes any difference. I just do it because it seems logical and it's not like any web 2.0 property is going to outrank my main site when it is sending a link there for the same keyword and will have far fewer links.

[cinkz]

I do linkbuilding same as you. I use spun article for article submission sites (tier-1), for tier-2 I do social bookmarking with targeted keywords as anchor text.

Originally Posted by InitialEffort

I'm honestly not sure if it makes any difference. I just do it because it seems logical and it's not like any web 2.0 property is going to outrank my main site when it is sending a link there for the same keyword and will have far fewer links.

Thanks a lot for your explanations

[Jack Chase]

Originally Posted by drewcur02

WebMerge builds a maximum of two-tiers at a time, it is necessary to work on tier-one first. Once tier-one is completed, the last two tiers get built

What's WebMerge? I have never heard of it - sounds good though...