What other channels should I use for backlinking to my "lawyers" niche website?
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Hello Warriors,
I have a website with about 20 high-quality, informative articles (dripfeed) in a particular highly targeted segment in the "lawyers" niche. I'm going to be using AdSense to monetise the website. The [search] volume is there. I have an EMD to add to it. The site looks pretty neat, loads pretty quick, and the 3 AdSense ad units placed are not intrusive. In fact, there's only one ad unit above the fold (on the sidebar). I'm using WordPress as the platform for the site. I'll be adding more articles to the website, on a regular basis.
So now that we have taken care of that... I'm looking for ideas on what I could do to build backlinks.
A few things running at the top of my mind are:
1. Internal Linking
2. Submission to RSS Feed aggregators (no clue how many people will even subscribe, but hey I'm not spamming and these are still backlinks that at least get crawled by the search engines)
3. Press Release(s)
4. Commenting under news articles in the same niche segment as mine
5. Create a video and upload to YouTube (or use TubeMogul)
Things (I think as of now) I can't do:
> Blog/Forum commenting: There are hardly any blogs and forums in the particular niche segment. Most blogs are run by law firms (obvious, huh?) and have no "comments" sections.
> Guest posts: Same reason as above.
> Yahoo! Answers: This could (maybe) bring in some direct traffic, but no backlink value. I'm not sure this is even worth spending time on this niche. Most questions I see seem very very basic (gives me an idea that they're posted by my competitors
)
So, I have the above listed 5 ideas for backlinking. What else can I do to build more backlinks to the site? I know about anchor text variation, niche relevance, etc. Niche relevance is why I'm stuck. Otherwise, I could comment on tech blogs all day long and link my lawyers site. Sounds dumb to me, unless anyone has a different experience.
Help a warrior out guys. Thanks a BIG ton, in advance.
I have a website with about 20 high-quality, informative articles (dripfeed) in a particular highly targeted segment in the "lawyers" niche. I'm going to be using AdSense to monetise the website. The [search] volume is there. I have an EMD to add to it. The site looks pretty neat, loads pretty quick, and the 3 AdSense ad units placed are not intrusive. In fact, there's only one ad unit above the fold (on the sidebar). I'm using WordPress as the platform for the site. I'll be adding more articles to the website, on a regular basis.
So now that we have taken care of that... I'm looking for ideas on what I could do to build backlinks.
A few things running at the top of my mind are:
1. Internal Linking
2. Submission to RSS Feed aggregators (no clue how many people will even subscribe, but hey I'm not spamming and these are still backlinks that at least get crawled by the search engines)
3. Press Release(s)
4. Commenting under news articles in the same niche segment as mine
5. Create a video and upload to YouTube (or use TubeMogul)
Things (I think as of now) I can't do:
> Blog/Forum commenting: There are hardly any blogs and forums in the particular niche segment. Most blogs are run by law firms (obvious, huh?) and have no "comments" sections.
> Guest posts: Same reason as above.
> Yahoo! Answers: This could (maybe) bring in some direct traffic, but no backlink value. I'm not sure this is even worth spending time on this niche. Most questions I see seem very very basic (gives me an idea that they're posted by my competitors
)So, I have the above listed 5 ideas for backlinking. What else can I do to build more backlinks to the site? I know about anchor text variation, niche relevance, etc. Niche relevance is why I'm stuck. Otherwise, I could comment on tech blogs all day long and link my lawyers site. Sounds dumb to me, unless anyone has a different experience.
Help a warrior out guys. Thanks a BIG ton, in advance.
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