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Top 5 most important pieces to Link building

by fskcramer
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Okay I have been working on several sites now for about a month. I have about 10 sites I'm working on and about 51 that I have running through a program. I'm seeing very little results within the 10 I'm working with. I'm not sure exactly how to manually build my links.

Some of my other sites going through the program are doing great because it sets up the site with backlinks through a network. I have several on the top 5 spots in yahoo, not so much in google yet though.

I'm wondering what you guys would rank in order of importance in the backlink building process.

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I've been doing social bookmarking, a couple article submissions, and I'm pry going to get pauls backlink service. But I just wanna know how much work you guys are spending on your micro niche sites, because I feel like I'm working hard for little to no results and it's pretty painful lol.

Also for those of you who outsource, where to and how much do you normally spend? What do you have them do?

Thanks in advance.

Matt
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  • Profile picture of the author NoGuru
    It's hard to rank the order of importance. Generally, I bookmark first -- depends on how "micro" on whether I just bookmark the homepage or if I bookmark individual articles.

    Other than that articles, Squidoo/Hubpages/Blogspot/etc., blog commenting, and something like Paul/Angela backlinks can all help. The site really has to be earning before I pay to have Paul/Angela backlinks done.

    I usually pay less than $1.50 to bookmark each URL manually on around 40 sites -- I'm real clear in my job postings that I won't pay more. Blog commenting I pay less than 10 cents a comment that sticks. I'm cheap, and sometimes I get what I pay for, but usually I can find decent workers for these rates. Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author fskcramer
    What do you do to get it to earn something? Like I mean what are the basics you do before you see it start to get found in the search engines?
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    • Profile picture of the author NoGuru
      Originally Posted by fskcramer View Post

      What do you do to get it to earn something? Like I mean what are the basics you do before you see it start to get found in the search engines?
      To get started, I will:

      1. Ping it (and the RSS feed)
      2. I usually Stumble and Digg it myself. I feel this helps indexing.
      3. Add it to my Google webmasters tools (and the sitemap)
      4. Set up a Google alert to search for my main URL without the "http://www."
      5. I sometimes submit it to Yahoo and Bing, but not to Google.
      6. I often give the new site a link from one or more of my other sites (whether relevant subject matter or not).

      Then I'd send off the first few pages to a bookmarker.

      P.S. Looking at the sites in your signature, I personally would (1) use "www" [generally seems like G likes that better, IMHO], and (2) put a Square or Small Square of Adsense in the upper left of the articles. I then like a skyscraper on the side and a big block under the article -- box 'em in with ads! :-)
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      • Profile picture of the author fskcramer
        Okay, I haven't done a ton with adds yet, mainly because I am not ranking yet and I don't want google to think I'm making sites just for adsense.

        on A regular micro niche site how man links does it normally take to see pr?
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        • Profile picture of the author NoGuru
          Originally Posted by fskcramer View Post

          Okay, I haven't done a ton with adds yet, mainly because I am not ranking yet and I don't want google to think I'm making sites just for adsense.

          on A regular micro niche site how man links does it normally take to see pr?
          I'm not shy about putting the max allowed ads on a site from the start, and don't believe it has ever hurt me -- might be inclined to think it gets Google's attention a bit when some of the Stumbleupon traffic etc. starts causing ad impressions.

          It's hard to say how many links to get PR, or if PR really matters. I've had PR0 sites earn a lot, and PR4 sites that did not. Often, hitting on the long-tail searches pays better than the main keyword. That said, you might also look at using your Categories better -- with secondary keywords as Categories.
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  • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
    I'm wondering what you guys would rank in order of importance in the backlink building process.

    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    1. can I use my keywords as the anchor text
    2. likelyhood they will stay - not be moderated/killed
    3. Not rel= NoFollow
    4. How fast and how many can I build quickly and easily
    5. Page PR
    6. if #5 is n/a or 0 - Does the domain have any authority
    7. Is the page i want a link from likely to be crawled by googles bot and cached in their index.

    8. Can it be automated
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    Different techniques work better for different sites. Have you done any PR or article syndication? Also q&a sites can be effective for niche sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author fskcramer
    Not a ton of either of those. I use 3waylinks.net but I've only been using that about 1-2 weeks now.

    I'm really just trying to understand how to get sites to get into the top page of google for small niches. Haha it sounds easy in theory but it's taking some time for sure. Almost makes you wanna give up.

    What's about the average time it takes you to get your site to the top of the search engines?
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