Is This A Viable/Effective Link Building Strategy?
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Hi Warriors
Recently one of my niche health blogs has had a bit of a rise in Google and hit the first page for a couple of keywords with 5,000+ exact searches per month.
I believe I was on position 2 for a couple of days and got a fair amount of traffic, but now most of the keywords have dropped to positions 5+ - and some have dropped to page 2 so while traffic is still good, it could be better.
I know that I need to build more backlinks and I thought this might be an effective strategy but knowing little about SEO, I thought I'd run it past the experts first.
Here's the gist of the plan...
Let's say I have a blog post that targets the keyphrase "essential oils for hair growth". Therefore I want to get backlinks with that anchor text.
If I were to find other blog posts on other peoples blogs that contains that keyphrase within the post, contact the owner and ask if they could hyperlink that keyphrase to my blog post - do you think they would do it...
1) Simply because my blog post has great content that will benefit their readers?
2) For a fee, such as $5?
3) For a backlink from one of my other existing blog posts?
I think asking someone to go to their Wordpress admin panel and edit their post out of the goodness of their heart is asking too much.
Perhaps for $5 they might do it. But is one backlink worth $5? I know it depends what site it's from, what their search engine ranking is, what their traffic is, what my visitor value is, and all sorts of other important elements. Plus, aren't Google against buying links? But how would they know?
And regarding the backlink, I think this strategy could work. What's Google's policy on reciprocal linking? Is it as effective as a one way link? Does it matter that the other persons blog links to a post on mine and then I link back from a different page?
I think this is a strategy that could get me a lot of backlinks from reputable blogs, build relationships and get me more exposure in the blogosphere.
What do you guys think?
Shall I go ahead with this plan? Any amendments I should make?
Thanks,
James
Recently one of my niche health blogs has had a bit of a rise in Google and hit the first page for a couple of keywords with 5,000+ exact searches per month.
I believe I was on position 2 for a couple of days and got a fair amount of traffic, but now most of the keywords have dropped to positions 5+ - and some have dropped to page 2 so while traffic is still good, it could be better.
I know that I need to build more backlinks and I thought this might be an effective strategy but knowing little about SEO, I thought I'd run it past the experts first.
Here's the gist of the plan...
Let's say I have a blog post that targets the keyphrase "essential oils for hair growth". Therefore I want to get backlinks with that anchor text.
If I were to find other blog posts on other peoples blogs that contains that keyphrase within the post, contact the owner and ask if they could hyperlink that keyphrase to my blog post - do you think they would do it...
1) Simply because my blog post has great content that will benefit their readers?
2) For a fee, such as $5?
3) For a backlink from one of my other existing blog posts?
I think asking someone to go to their Wordpress admin panel and edit their post out of the goodness of their heart is asking too much.
Perhaps for $5 they might do it. But is one backlink worth $5? I know it depends what site it's from, what their search engine ranking is, what their traffic is, what my visitor value is, and all sorts of other important elements. Plus, aren't Google against buying links? But how would they know?
And regarding the backlink, I think this strategy could work. What's Google's policy on reciprocal linking? Is it as effective as a one way link? Does it matter that the other persons blog links to a post on mine and then I link back from a different page?
I think this is a strategy that could get me a lot of backlinks from reputable blogs, build relationships and get me more exposure in the blogosphere.
What do you guys think?
Shall I go ahead with this plan? Any amendments I should make?
Thanks,
James
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