Micro Niche Link Building Help

[onepace]

Everything I've read puts a major emphasis on link building for your micro niche.

So, let's assume my micro niche is bestcalculatorbatters[dot]com (note I have no clue if this site exists, it's just an example).

After I've created my site using CTR or Heatmap or whatever actually works (because again I don't have a clue), posted my 3-10 articles, submit my sitemaps, the link building begins...

Here's what I don't get. Why would ezinearticles or goarticles or squidoo or blogger or tubmlr or any social bookmarking site want an article about calculator batteries? Not only that, but I've read you're supposed to spin numerous articles for submission. I just don't get how that actually works. If I was reddit or mylinkvault or ezine or hubpages and someone created that, I'd immediately reject it just because of how retarded that is.

So, my question is, is that the proper way of link building for a "weird" micro niche?

And is the idea to essentially do this manually (assuming I can't afford BMR or UAW or some other paid links) for months until I rank my niche?

I'm on the outside looking in at all you successful micro nichers and I'm jealous ya'll do so well and befuddled at the fact that this actually works. My own confusion as to how/why this works is actually discouraging me from pursuing it.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

[JoshuaG]

I had the same thoughts when I started.

Here is the thing, those sites care very little about your content. As long as you've provided something that is readable and has some form of helpfulness you have done your job.

It depends on the person, but I could never tolerate link building and have outsourced all of it. Give it a shot so you know whats going on and how well it works. But after your first site or two either buy some software or start outsourcing. No one gets anywhere in this business manually building links to their sites. It takes too much time that needs to be spent doing more important tasks.

[Miguel Oliveira]

Ezine know that there will be some people looking for information on that niche - if there won't be it isn't a good niche to start with. Building a link network for a weird microniche is no different than building one from a more common one, although finding related blog posts to comment may be difficult.

I've marketed in some weird micro niches and usually this was enough: around 20 articles on Ezine articles and 20 in other directories, a Squidoo lens, Hubpage, Wordpress.com and Blogger.com, and then 10-50 links from blog comment, forums, or other means. For some keywords developing an SEO optimized page was enough.

[Talat10]

Let me take it this way, Search Engines like Google wants the user to have a best experience when a user uses Google to search something. And the user will have best experience only when a user finds whatever he is searching for quickly and easily. Let's say the search term is "best calculator batteries" as Google is in search business, it is their duty to show the most relevant content to the user so that users keep coming back to search with Google.


Lets us suppose 1000 pages have relevant content about calculator batteries, so now algorithm have to put these pages in search results from search result 1,2,3,4, and soon. Among hundreds of other criteria’s when deciding which page should be the first in the search result, the popularity is one of the biggest criteria for the algorithm to decide and which makes sense ( and this sense is given by humans to the algorithms) and this popularity is checked by the quality of relevant incoming links to the page. So now in order to win this popularity contest you need to have quality and relevant incoming links to your content. I don’t want to go into how many and how fast to build the links. I only want to say it should look natural because search algorithms are getting smarter every day and Google keeps tweaking algorithms to tackle all spammy methods.

Another thing I want to touch is that whenever you are creating a site or blog your are providing information to the searcher about your niche and I tell you there must be already millions of pages out there which have information about best calculator batteries and hundreds of information articles can be written on this topic, like different types of calculator batteries, the benefits of using this type and the other types. Different types of materials used for batteries, and so on and so forth and Ezine and article city should already have hundreds articles about calculator batteries. I hope I have answered your question.

[onepace]

Thanks for the responses guys. All this stuff really blows my mind. I feel like I have the keyword research down pat, but the backlinking I just don't grasp.

I guess I can't figure out how people start out doing this all manually.

If I wanted to outsource the link building, does anyone have a starting point for me? I wouldn't know where to begin.

[Miguel Oliveira]

You can outsource writing of articles for Ezine Articles and Squidoo. In Fiverr you can have people build you lenses, pages, articles, linkwheels and links. Also check the Warrior for Hire section of this website.

If you are just starting you may want to do it yourself: write your articles and social media, link them to your page and to each other, and then search for blogs and add valuable comments that link back to your site in your name. Forums may take too much time if this is a really small niche and not something you want to invest long term.

[owenlee]

If there is a demand and enough search for your niche, i dont think so they will reject your articles as long as you follow the rules.

[onepace]

Originally Posted by Miguel Oliveira

I've marketed in some weird micro niches and usually this was enough: around 20 articles on Ezine articles and 20 in other directories, a Squidoo lens, Hubpage, Wordpress.com and Blogger.com, and then 10-50 links from blog comment, forums, or other means. For some keywords developing an SEO optimized page was enough.

3 Questions...

I was planning only writing 3-7 niche site articles? I'm assuming your niche sites are much larger and that's where you're getting 20 articles?

When you are submitting 20 articles to ezine are these spun version of articles on your niche site?

Are the 20 submissions to other directories spun versions of the ezine article?

Thanks again for the input, this has been really helpful.

[Miguel Oliveira]

I was planning only writing 3-7 niche site articles? I'm assuming your niche sites are much larger and that's where you're getting 20 articles?

They aren't very large - I prefer 20 because that way I set the website and don't have to worry about it again (I've had sites ranking in the first place for over three years now, without having to touch them again). You have to know your niche and test - if it is very small start smaller and if it doesn't work add a few more articles.

When you are submitting 20 articles to ezine are these spun version of articles on your niche site?

No, my micro niche websites only have a few pages. The main page(s) are usually a guide with the affiliate links and focused on my main keyword. Then I have a few other pages around related keywords, but never more than 5-10 pages, that send the users to the main pages. The articles on my website are focused on providing valuable information and establishing trust. The articles I send to Ezine are focused on keywords and getting traffic.

Are the 20 submissions to other directories spun versions of the ezine article?

Yes. It will vary from site to site, but I may do 5 completely original articles and then write spun versions focusing on different keywords. In micro niches it is very easy to write an article or a spun version in 5 to 10 minutes once you did the research for your market. My articles are only around 200-300 words.

[NicheNoob]

Originally Posted by onepace

I feel like I have the keyword research down

Just curious if you have any tips and tricks for keyword research. I feel like I have the link building side of things down to be honest, but keyword research seems to take way too much time.

Very good info in this thread so far!