What ELSE works besides PBN's

Web 2.0 PBN`s (:
Less expensive, also very effective and quite safe, I think they are even safer than PBN`s.
Build a blog on wordpress.com, publish 10-15 unique high quality articles and see how fast will comes organic traffic, it`s incredible, of course you need to keep publish it frequently to increase them and do some backlinks but the beauty of this method is you can build a lot of such parasite websites and gain referal traffic from them, high quality and safe.

Tiered link building is another technique that works amazingly well. It's a method that leverages the considerable amount of link juice that can be gotten from tons of spammy links while keeping your money site safe from the negative effects of building tons of spam links to your site.

It entails publishing free blogs on web 2.0 sites, linking to your site from them, and building fairly spammy links to the web 2.0 sites. The last step involves building lots of extremely spammy links to the fairly spammy links.

SAPE but mainly for churn and burn projects

Outreach still works fairly well, but in my opinion is very niche dependent.

Citations.

A little bit of a spin off the PBN idea is a private network of citation sources. It's fun building citations for clients that you know the competitors can never duplicate.

1. Reverse engineering your competitors links.
2. Credible business directories (yellow pages, true local etc)
3. High end paid directories (yahoo business, business.com etc)

Mike is there any definitive proof that citations actually make a positive difference in terms of rankings?

You referring to low end stuff like local plumbers, computer technicians etc?

Thanks for the help guys, very much appreciated… This is actually for a rather large mortgage company, so I think the out reach that should work… As well as of course quality kick ass on page Seo

Of course, onpage should have been mentioned. I often see sites perform very well simply with good onpage.

Outreach takes a considerable amount of time I've found, but can be worth it.

Here's a few search query operators that you might find useful.

"<keyword>" + "add a site"
"<keyword>" + "submit a site"
"<keyword>" + "add your website"
"<keyword>" + "add your business"
"<keyword>" + "list in our directory"


[niche keyword phrase] + "write for us"
[niche keyword phrase] + "powered by Wordpress"
[niche keyword phrase] + "submit"
[niche keyword phrase] + "author guidelines"
[niche keyword phrase] + "writer guidelines"
[niche keyword phrase] + "guest post"
[niche keyword phrase] + "article submission"
[niche keyword phrase] + "Guest contributor"
[niche keyword phrase] + "Guest posting guidelines"
[niche keyword phrase] + "submit content"
[niche keyword phrase] + "submit an article"
[niche keyword phrase] + "author submission"
[niche keyword phrase] + "Submit a guest post"
[niche keyword phrase] + "article submission guidelines"
[niche keyword phrase] + "online magazine"
[niche keyword phrase] + "online newsletter"

Of course, I know on page like a ninja and can optimize with the best of them, as for back linking though… Blog networks have been my go to strategy lately along with blog and website out of reach, but I was curious what else was out there this working… This is very helpful, thanks for the response everybody :-)

Edit: thank you As well for the search queries

Yep, the previous posters hit it in the head. Either go with web 2.0s and tiered link building or outreach. Directories can work really well too for low comp local stuff.

Press releases are also valuable.
Citations too.

If this is for a mortgage company it should be fairly easy to do outreach to real estate agents and offer guest posts for their sites. Most agents have blogs that they do very little with. Most will jump at the chance to get content for their blogs.

Build more sites promoting your main site and SEO them. Double work but you reap the benefits at the end.

Anything else is working for large corporate sites lately? Thank you again, this is great information… i'm definitely thinking link reach out, does anybody have any amazing tricks for that besides Brian is skyscraper technique message?