Backlinking Strategy For 2011 - Confused & Lost!

Interested to hear responses on this one, I too am a bit lost, still learning about seo though. A guy I met on here told me the best way to boost in the serps is to do a link push, where by you do kinda what u described for each keyword, but making sure u leave no footprint.

So I've made a hub page, created zimbio and quizilla accounts and used them to link to the hub page, then used articles on the zimbio/quizilla articles. Nothing happened yet but hoping it works!!

The best link building campaigns are consistent and have a variety of different types of links so it looks natural to search engines. There isn't much reason to be too confused. Start with a small link building campaign and measure the results then move from there.

The best back linking strategy is achieving natural links with no manipulation from your end. Clean, voluntarily built links, linking to your pages.

Obviously, that isn't so easily done, especially if you are a physical product reviewer. Unless you manage to publish a lot of guest posts several times for each page, you aren't going to see much improvement, forcing those people to manipulate the rankings through manual link building.

Don't fret, I do it too for my products review, simply because people aren't interested in linking to those reviews unless you are one of the few bigger review sites (and even those guys don't get many links to their many reviews..).

I do have info sites that are more likely to get linked too, simply because its something people are willing to share and discuss.

What type of sites are you building, or likely to build?

Manual link building isn't bad, it isn't BlueFart, nor grey hat. I don't see it as anything bad at all, but Google likes to overstate the fact that if you do it, it just wont work.

That's only to control people through fear. Keep up the building, but do it slowly and gradually, and best of all, make it look natural.

I preach both those methods, but what I do not preach is blasting hundreds of profile links, spamming forum sigs, writing useless content for backlinks and anything that constitutes spam and is something that isn't going to help anyone in any way. As long as you leave your links along-side meaningful great unique or original content, I see no problems.

In essence, you could say you are utilising the traffic of other sites to promote and market your work so that you may get natural links to your pages; After-all, that is what Matt Cutts tells us to do in order to get some natural link love

I wouldn't stress about which 2.0 property is Google's current flavor of the month. Just build backlinks and then keep building them.

There have been a lot of changes in the SERP's the first part of this year. My guess is the problem wasn't that you had too many, but that you didn't have enough and the sources that you did have were devalued.

The only site of mine that dropped this year was a site that only had one type of backlink and that I wasn't focusing on.

Every site that I was aggressively building backlinks on at least held their ground and in most cases went up.

It seems like Google is not giving less weight for article backlinks. Looked at a lot of charts and blogs from people who, since the Panda update, have lost 50% of their traffic which weighed a lot on traffic from articles. Some have also said that Google is actually going back in time where the amount of backlinks is no longer relevant and domain age has a higher effect. Google wants 110% unique content and is trying to destroy duplicate/similar content, so articles created with tools like TBS, Google can tell it's been spun.

Google employs some of the greatest minds on earth and people who try to "force" high rankings will be penalized. Thank god because I'm getting fed up with garbage comments on my FFA blogs XD

I'm not an SEO but I'm sure you'll see a lot of WSO's about it...