Thoughts On Backlinking Community Sites & Google
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There is a tons of talk about what is happening on KickApps community sites and Angela and Paul's lists becoming less effective due to over use, and what Google does and does not value via their algorithm...
All of which comes back to our own questions about where to get good backlinks!
Maybe we are asking the wrong question...
What we should be asking isn't where to get what we want, but how to give the Web 2.0 Community sites what they want, and give Google what it wants. If we do this, we will have an abundance of places to post our backlinks and they will stick. Google will find our stuff and value it. Our rankings will soar and everybody is happy!!
But to do that we have to be what all of these want us to be which is to say:
Providers of Quality Content
If we supply the community sites with articles, blog posts and input into their forums and discussion groups then we aren't spamming their sites with out backlinks, we are posting info about ourselves: A functioning member of the community!
If we are writing articles to publish then we have given value and our backlinks are accepted!
If we participate in forums, then our sig files (with out backlinks) are a perk of being one of the crowd...
Yep, it takes more time and effort!
Yep, you can rarely automate it!
Yep, your backlinks will get more attention and therefore traffic!
Yep, there are pros and cons...
Within Angela and Paul's packets each month are a core of sites that allow you to make blog posts. Shoot these few sites alone are worth the price of the packets. I key in on those and stop to post quite a few articles on them. These sites NEVER take down the backlinks in my profile. And I almost always see traffic coming to my sites from them as well. Even the ones that are "Off Topic" and therefore "Not Relevant".
As always this is just MHO...
All of which comes back to our own questions about where to get good backlinks!
Maybe we are asking the wrong question...
What we should be asking isn't where to get what we want, but how to give the Web 2.0 Community sites what they want, and give Google what it wants. If we do this, we will have an abundance of places to post our backlinks and they will stick. Google will find our stuff and value it. Our rankings will soar and everybody is happy!!
But to do that we have to be what all of these want us to be which is to say:
Providers of Quality Content
If we supply the community sites with articles, blog posts and input into their forums and discussion groups then we aren't spamming their sites with out backlinks, we are posting info about ourselves: A functioning member of the community!
If we are writing articles to publish then we have given value and our backlinks are accepted!
If we participate in forums, then our sig files (with out backlinks) are a perk of being one of the crowd...
Yep, it takes more time and effort!
Yep, you can rarely automate it!
Yep, your backlinks will get more attention and therefore traffic!
Yep, there are pros and cons...
Within Angela and Paul's packets each month are a core of sites that allow you to make blog posts. Shoot these few sites alone are worth the price of the packets. I key in on those and stop to post quite a few articles on them. These sites NEVER take down the backlinks in my profile. And I almost always see traffic coming to my sites from them as well. Even the ones that are "Off Topic" and therefore "Not Relevant".
As always this is just MHO...
Tim Pears