What is a Good Backlink besides Blog Networks? How do we rank our websites without blog networks?

by SupplementTalk

Posted: 12 years ago 15 replies

Hello fellow warriors! I know this has probably been addressed across the forum and I have read several threads and so called SEO experts theories and opinions, but I would like to formally ask and address the Google slap on Blog Networks.

I have been in the internet marketing and SEO game for about 4 years now and have recently started to see my hard work and knowledge pay off. I am a user of the blog networks such as ALN, Free Blog Links and "was" a member of BMR. Since the demise of BMR (the best one of them all) and ALN--the largest but only half the size now, I have become very cautious of my link building now. I am no longer going to use blog networks since I am now a victim of the "Blog Network Slap" and one of my $200 per month sites is completely de-indexed.

Everyone has their own opinion's as to what a good backlink is but more times than not you will get a hundred people saying that blog comments are trash, profile links are trash, social bookmarks hold no weight or value, social media is no follow, article directories are so yesterday and no value and the list goes on and on.

The point is and be totally honest with me, what is a good backlink today? I want to stay white hat and not blast my sites with blog network backlinks anymore.

Please take note that I am not a rookie, I have several websites and top 5 rankings and am currently making money online.

Has anyone had great success with a young site in a medium to hard competition market and only used white hat techniques?please share them.

Thanks and I can't wait to hear all of your responses!

#backlink #blog #blog networks #good #good backlink #networks #rank #websites #white hat seo

cleanerupper 12 years ago

I think you need to find some private blog networks, as in smaller networks who are independently owned and contain 100 or less sites each. I've had quite good luck with those.
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Bond Girl

12 years ago

Thank you. SupplementTalk for starting this thread because I am wondering the same thing. I have only been in the IM game for just over a year and so I learned the hard way that using things like BMR is not such a good idea. I will be interested in any responses to this as well as I would like to be able to rank well and not have to worry about being penalized.

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cleanerupper

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Bond Girl

Yes, I do pay for these, but I plan on building my own network as the guy below me has described. Having your own network will more than pay for itself in the long run.

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Bond Girl 12 years ago

Cleanerupper: I'm guessing that you are paying to be on the private blog networks, correct? From what I've read those can be quite expensive but it seems that you are right that it would be safer than using a blogging service like BMR.
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GuerrillaIM 12 years ago

Creating your own private blog network is the most powerful thing right now.

It goes like this:

Spammy xrumer/profile links ---> Web 2.0 satellite pages & articles ---> private blog nodes (low comp keywords) ----> main sites (high comp keywords).

Hopefully you get the idea, cba to draw a proper diagram.

On your low comp sites you can add lead capture forms without leaving a footprint like you would leave if you had an affiliate link with your unique code across all the sites.

It's not cheap but you can scale it as you grow. You could pay anywhere from $50/mo-$1000/mo on raw hosting costs not including content and labour to manage it (but if you do it right then this won't be an issue as you will be making much more than this back).

You have to be really careful with the footprints. Took me ages to work out how to hide the tracks in the host records, DNS, IP, domain registration etc... and I am not going to give that information out as it was difficult and time consuming to figure out.

IMO thats the only "quick" way to generate lots of high quality links that rank although it is very hard and time consuming to set up, not to mention expensive.

Other than that all the typical slower methods like reverse engineering, guest blogging, pay per post are available.

Look in competetive niches and set google alerts to help you see how the big boys are getting links. This will help you if you want to go black hat as you will see where they are putting their parasites.
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sovereignn 12 years ago

WELL LETS SEE WHAT I DO For my local clients now that blog networks are gone!

Web 2.0s

High PR Comments With low OBL

Professionally done Press Releases

Social Media

Wiki Links

Social Bookmarks

Article Marketing...

Social Networks

All fed by spam type comments... Forum Profiles and RSS Feeds!

Also the backlinks are well interlinked

There are a ton of methods out there
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TheBackLinksAngel 12 years ago

Profile Links are in fact very powerful so I'm not sure where you got that from o.O
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- nik0 Banned 12 years ago
  
  Yep creating your own mini network would do it!
  
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- GuerrillaIM 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TheBackLinksAngel
  
  Profile Links are in fact very powerful so I'm not sure where you got that from o.O
  
  Stop spamming this thread with your nonsense. You already had your post selling profile linking service removed.
  
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- SupplementTalk 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TheBackLinksAngel
  
  Profile Links are in fact very powerful so I'm not sure where you got that from o.O
  
  Your are not sure where I got it from, well how about from experience and the whole warrior forum
  
  This was not my intention of the thread, to have people try and tell me that something works when it actually does not. In the IM world, it is pretty much common sense now, that profile links are complete garbage and were discovered by Google a long time ago. I was signed up to a "100 profile links per day" for a month and site actually lost rankings.
  
  I'm not mad, but please do yourself a favor and do what I am doing. Try to find out what is working for people and if you want to offer a service great, just don't offer crap or outdated methods.
  
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- scottmacair 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TheBackLinksAngel
  
  Profile Links are in fact very powerful so I'm not sure where you got that from o.O
  
  That's just bad advice. Stay well away from profile links.
  
  Blog networks still work - you just have to rethink things. Obviously any high profile network is going to draw attention and will probably be hit hard by Google search quality team. I know of several underground networks that passed under the radar and are more effective than ever.
  
  Creating your own network is also an option and need not be super expensive. I can rank most middling competition keywords onto page 1 with less than 50 good blog backlinks. The trick here is to make sure your ROI is correct. I can make $3000 a month ranking a site in the right niche so for me it's worth it.
  
  More than ever there is a risk with PBN links as Google may discover the network so a good tier 2 firewall is essential to protect your main site from the unnatural links detected penalty.
  
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  chakik 12 years ago
  
  >Yep creating your own mini network would do it!
  
  Hello,
  
  I would appreciate if someone can help us or redirect us and give advices on how to setup a mini private network to use for backlinks generation to money sites.
  
  It is not only about registering domain names, setting wordpress and publish spun content with links. As I can see from some comments: we have to hide footprints! how to do this? anyone can help in a step by step learning process?
  
  Thank you very much
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- samual james 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Toponsmar
  
  Make good use of social media. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr, Google plus, etc.
  
  you can get good amount of traffic by using social media sites but you cant get organic ranking by using those techniques.
  Organic traffic is the main source of traffic for any websites so we need to ensure that we are getting plenty amount of traffic by implementing white hat seo techniques like Web2.0 , Article marketing and guest blogging
  
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savedbyhim01 12 years ago

This is the million dollar question. Google is going to figure out any of the "sneaky" ways that website owners build up lots of links. I think the only long term method is having high quality content and hoping that other legitimate website owners will link to your pages and will do so on high pr pages.
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Cash37 12 years ago

Old fashion link swaps, guest posts, etc. Real marketing.
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