A Real Request About Building Backlinks

[Xebekn]

I'm reading all these posts about how to build backlinks etc and I'll be honest, I'm still really confused. So, I have a few questions.

1) Should I even bother with PR1 or PR2 websites? I always hear the rule of thumb, quality over quantity.

2) Where are people finding these high PR websites? Does it just take time & research if you are doing it manually?

3) Blog commenting, does it work? I mean, USA Today allows everyone to post anything they want it seems on their articles in discussion. Should I just start posting quality over there after I make sure they are dofollow?

4) How do I check if someone is dofollow?

5) Posting on the same sites over and again, am I operating in a diminishing returns model? Is a link from one site I post on frequently (at the same PR) the same as my first link built on a newly discovered website (at the same PR)?

I have more questions, I just can't think of them all right now. I would honestly just ask you to PM me your answers so I can dig your brain but I'm still not at my required 50 post limit yet, so I'll work on that. Any answers would, honestly, be greatly appreciated.

[akasheg]

First advice do not run after PR, because PR is not the only thing that decides a links quality. There are a lot of things to check before link building like the number of outgoing links, number of incoming links, the age of the site/page, the page got crawled recently or not.

Second advice, blog commenting for link building is okay but its not the best of the techniques try other things like link bait creation, directory submission, article and press release, forum posting, guest blogging, etc.

Third advice, yes definitely getting 100 links from 100 different sites is always better than getting 200 links from the same site. Unless you are getting these number of links from CNN.

[Xebekn]

Originally Posted by akasheg

First advice do not run after PR, because PR is not the only thing that decides a links quality. There are a lot of things to check before link building like the number of outgoing links, number of incoming links, the age of the site/page, the page got crawled recently or not.

Second advice, blog commenting for link building is okay but its not the best of the techniques try other things like link bait creation, directory submission, article and press release, forum posting, guest blogging, etc.

Third advice, yes definitely getting 100 links from 100 different sites is always better than getting 200 links from the same site. Unless you are getting these number of links from CNN.

Thanks for the reply. What is directory submission? I was under the impression that, for building links, Google's Panda update killed article marketing and press release marketing? Is this false? Also, if I'm going to get some major juice, is it possible to do this for free or am I going to need to pay out?

I appreciate your time.

[Xebekn]

Originally Posted by cadmo

Hey Xebekn:

Try forum posting. Its most effective and speedy way to get quality backlinks and improve your rankings.

Also try "dofollow" bookmarking. You can find such list by googling "dofollow social bookmarkling list 2011"

You can promote internal links and see immediate results.

Regards

How do I know if a forum is dofollow? Or does that matter?

Can you go a little more in depth on promoting internal linking?

[ichl13]

I'm reading all these posts about how to build backlinks etc and I'll be honest, I'm still really confused. So, I have a few questions.

1) Should I even bother with PR1 or PR2 websites? I always hear the rule of thumb, quality over quantity.

All backlinks help you so if its not too much effort, go for it.

2) Where are people finding these high PR websites? Does it just take time & research if you are doing it manually?

For me I use scrapebox and a few other methods to find High PR blogs

3) Blog commenting, does it work? I mean, USA Today allows everyone to post anything they want it seems on their articles in discussion. Should I just start posting quality over there after I make sure they are dofollow?

I base the majority of my backlinking efforts on blog commenting on high PR comments and it hasn't failed me yet.

4) How do I check if someone is dofollow?

Check the source, if it says rel="nofollow" then its nofollow

5) Posting on the same sites over and again, am I operating in a diminishing returns model? Is a link from one site I post on frequently (at the same PR) the same as my first link built on a newly discovered website (at the same PR)?

I think all links count, but I do believe it is a diminishing returns model and the more links you have from a particular site the less each link is worth