Manual or Automated Link Building? Which One Would You Spend Your Money On?

[Lisa Paule]

Hi Warriors,

We all know that link building has to be done whether we like it or not, in order to push our websites higher in the rankings.

I am interested to know, would you go for paid link building or manual link building? And why?

What kind of a link building service would you decide to spend your money on?

[Danny Cutts]

Both....

backlinking is not always just about the links you link directly to your site.... we build backlinks to pages that our links are on :-)

You need to be diverse and not have just one type....

Most sites however can gain easy rankings from simple manual linking....

[Your Brand Ebooks]

Danny, for someone with zero backlinking experience, would you suggest using a linkwheel? I'm kinda thinking that's the easiest, and the best bang for the buck way to go.

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[Danny Cutts]

no

I would just start with manual blog commenting first and see what results you get.

Also you need to make sure that you have done all the basic on page SEO as well as this is just as important as off page seo

[Lisa Paule]

I have only done manual backlinking, s I have never had the budget to buy any software or go with a backlinking service

It will be interesting what the experts like you Danny think about it, from a newbie point of view

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by Lisa Paule

We all know that link building has to be done whether we like it or not, in order to push our websites higher in the rankings.

This isn't right at all, Lisa.

It has to be done only by people who want their business to be dependent on search engine traffic.

Some of this forum's highest and most secure earners have a bunch of websites that rank somewhere between the moon and Mars in Google's SERP's, and have never even been seen from this planet's surface.

Search engines are only one traffic source. There are many others, too.

As so many Warriors found out earlier this year, to their very great cost, if your business is entirely dependent on Google for its traffic, then you're only ever one algorithm-change away from a complete disaster: it's really not a great way to maintain control over the reliability and security of your future income.

[Danny Cutts]

But if you keep the fundamentals of SEO in your mind its not going to effect you....

I was not effected by Panda update and I run a lot of autoblogs

But then I suppose I have a huge portfolio of sites in 100's of different niches and so even if 50% of my sites traffic disappeared I would not start panicking....

As long as your site has good unique content I would not worry about getting ditched....

[Mike Anthony]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

As so many Warriors found out earlier this year, to their very great cost, if your business is entirely dependent on Google for its traffic, then you're only ever one algorithm-change away from a complete disaster: it's really not a great way to maintain control over the reliability and security of your future income.

Sorry Alexa that is simply not true - dead wrong. It only applies if you are depending on SEO to rank sites with no good content or concept. SEO works great for continued traffic giving reliabily and security for the future provided you are providing something people are willing to come back to.

The common flawed concept that keeps that myth alive especially among Imers is that no one takes into account the concept of return traffic that was initialized by SEo. Many people looking for warrior forums may in fact type in the term (or internet marketing forum) to find it on Google. Having found it they will not stop visiting here simply because of an algo change.

That traffic is enduring and exceed by many factors the new people looking for the terms.

[Mike Anthony]

OP it depends on your budget. If you are going to be spending hundreds of dollars to build automated links etc then the best links are high Pr links. not the ones where tools can drop them. Too many people don't add up the cost of all the runs and keywords they go after and before long they have spent more for weak links that they would good strong high authority links that rank sites well and survive algo changes

[nahids]

Thanks, I think high pr backlink has great value for ranking a website.

white hat SEO expert

[Mike Grant]

The method of how they're done doesn't matter, it's the type of links that matter.

[AndyBlackSEO]

I've said this before... it's not just about manual link building v's automated link building... it's how you implement your strategy. Link building is a process. A plan. Get a plan in order, then you can either outsource, get it done manually.. or use software to do the job. It's not always a case of what you use.. it's sometimes 'how' you use it.

Just my opinion.

Andy

[LinkVariety]

My approach is this:

For links that can be gained using automation... use automation

For links that cannot be gained automatically, hire someone to do it manually

For the really good stuff you do not trust your outsourcer to do properly, or do not want to share the link sources, do it yourself.

[Lisa Paule]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

This isn't right at all, Lisa.

It has to be done only by people who want their business to be dependent on search engine traffic.

Some of this forum's highest and most secure earners have a bunch of websites that rank somewhere between the moon and Mars in Google's SERP's, and have never even been seen from this planet's surface.

Search engines are only one traffic source. There are many others, too.

As so many Warriors found out earlier this year, to their very great cost, if your business is entirely dependent on Google for its traffic, then you're only ever one algorithm-change away from a complete disaster: it's really not a great way to maintain control over the reliability and security of your future income.

Hi Alexa,

Thanks so much for the correction and you are absolutely right.

Those of us with no list, no products, no JV partners and without huge budgets picture ourselves dominating Google


I have found though that traffic from search engines converts better

[mosthost]

I don't think you should ever automate a process you haven't tried yet. If you build links manually you'll get a much better feel for how much linking you actually need to do.

Many people here seem to be 'overshooting' the target if they're building thousands and thousands of repeat anchor text links.

[BenJackson]

Originally Posted by Lisa Paule

Hi Warriors,

We all know that link building has to be done whether we like it or not, in order to push our websites higher in the rankings.

I am interested to know, would you go for paid link building or manual link building? And why?

What kind of a link building service would you decide to spend your money on?

Another vote for both.

If you want quality backlinks you're probably going to need some kind of content. Learning how to create great content is a fantastic skill so I would recommend doing this yourself. You'll have more control over the content you use for article marketing, guest blogging, etc. this way.

For automated, there's nothing wrong with this, we all like help with our link building

Just don't spam! When I think automated, I mean some sort of submission (don't overdo it) or a service/outsourcing. Joining a high PR blog network service is probably your best bet for that.

[BenJackson]

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

This isn't right at all, Lisa.

It has to be done only by people who want their business to be dependent on search engine traffic.

Some of this forum's highest and most secure earners have a bunch of websites that rank somewhere between the moon and Mars in Google's SERP's, and have never even been seen from this planet's surface.

Search engines are only one traffic source. There are many others, too.

As so many Warriors found out earlier this year, to their very great cost, if your business is entirely dependent on Google for its traffic, then you're only ever one algorithm-change away from a complete disaster: it's really not a great way to maintain control over the reliability and security of your future income.

Contrarily...

SEOs who know what they're doing don't lose their rankings after updates, they rank higher.

SEOs who know what they're doing don't depend on Google for traffic because they build high quality links that send traffic.

Newbies and spammers depend on and lose rankings...

Around 90% of all online traffic originates from Google, but Google should never attribute for 90% of your own traffic.

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