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Building Dofollow Backlinks using article directories

by Neil K
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Hello all!

I have a question that I hope anyone experienced would help me with. I've recently been working with a web start-up that's in the health niche, already ranking no.1 on google for a number of search terms.

Now what we're doing is trying to increase the traffic to the site by populating the site's forums with long tail keywords. (not in a spammy way, though), it's controlled and kept as natural as possible.

Now I'm working on building backlinks to these individual forum posts and so far, commenting on dofollow blogs (even high quality comments that make sense or add value) take tremendous time and demand a lot of patience.

I was wondering if we could just write one article for each keyword, submit them in 5 or more article directories for do follow backlinks. So technically, if there are 500 long tail keyword pages on the site, we'd write 500 articles that discuss the content regarding each keyword and submit the article to 5 article directories with link backs (dofollow and relevant to the keyword), so 2,500 do follow backlinks that generate traffic from directories as well.

Would that help in adding PR or in boosting the forum pages' search engine ranking in any way? Is that a viable substitute for building backlinks by comments and things like that?

Thanks,
Neil
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  • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
    That is what is called Article Marketing and it works great. You basically create high value backlinks and at the same time drive traffic to your forum posts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Callen
    Good work. Sounds like you are putting forth a good effort to make a quality site and are following good strategies for building up link equity to inner page, a clear concise keyword targeted approach, and now expanding on you back link profile.

    One thing I would recommend doing if you haven't is to go through competitor links and write guest blog posts on high authority/ranking sites in your niche. Be sure to clearly state who you are and where your from to build up your authority on the subject as a site owner too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Neil K
      Originally Posted by Brad Callen View Post

      Good work. Sounds like you are putting forth a good effort to make a quality site and are following good strategies for building up link equity to inner page, a clear concise keyword targeted approach, and now expanding on you back link profile.

      One thing I would recommend doing if you haven't is to go through competitor links and write guest blog posts on high authority/ranking sites in your niche. Be sure to clearly state who you are and where your from to build up your authority on the subject as a site owner too.
      Guest blogging: yes i believe in the concept, but then again, this involves a lot of patience in terms of connecting with the author of the blog etc. Perhaps I could connect with some website owners on Warrior forum in the health niche and offer to blog for them as a guest. Soliciting random bloggers to be a guest blogger seems to out of "control" for me.

      Article Directories: So we don't have any worries getting an approval on any directory 'cause my team has excellent writing skills. But do you think I can publish the same article in multiple article directories? What are the directories that allow this? The submissions will be made manually, I'm against using software to do things like that. I do know that directories like Ezine emphasize that the author name should be the same so that they know it's not being plagiarized from anywhere. Would appreciate if someone gave me 5-10 top article directories I could submit to.

      Also do you think it makes more sense to target a niche article directory as opposed to a general one? For example my niche is health for this website, so would health related article directories make more sense? Or are the biggies like ezinearticles with health subsections equally powerful.

      Many Thanks,
      Neil
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