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Blogger for backlinks?

by zcx
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In terms of backlinks, is a one-article mini-blog on Blogger linking back to your main site as valuable as an article on EZA?
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    Wow, not even close. EZA is (last time I checked) PR6 and is THE authority site in its niche. Google spiders crawl all over that site pretty much constantly. You get a big boost with new content by having it there, both in terms of fast indexing and in ranking.

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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    "Value" is created when links actually get used and a conversion is made. You can not generalize these things. You have to test them. And article on Ezine Articles that gets not traffic is not better than a blog post on blogger that does.

    Ultimately it's up to you to figure out how to make best use of whatever platform you choose. Smart people figure things out and make them work. I use both Ezine Articles and Blogger. Diversify.
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  • Profile picture of the author Solidsnake
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    Whatever the page is if has a PR, low OBL, and link is positioned properly inside the article, it is okay..
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  • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
    I don't do much comment on blog and forum, and I normally pay people $20 ~$50 to comment on related niche blogs...

    These kind of links doesn't really help much, but they help me vary my link source. I use Angela or Steve's backlink Goldmine to push my keyword focused articles, and they work well!
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    I don't do much comment on blog and forum, and I normally pay people $20 ~$50 to comment on related niche blogs...

    These kind of links doesn't really help much, but they help me vary my link source. I use Angela or Steve's backlink Goldmine to push my keyword focused articles, and they work well!
    read the question, that has nothing to do with what the OP asked.

    back to the question at hand...why not diversify.

    I do not use EZA but from what I have read and what was posted by Zeus, those articles appear to get a boost by being on EZA which a blogger blog wont get. So for the quick results you may be better off with EZA.

    But that doesn't mean you can't use both. Diversify your backlinks and take advantage of as many sources as you can. Blogger is free, no reason you can't post articles there as well. And if one source goes belly-up, you still have the other.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikemac1
    You can use both, but John (Zeus) is right, not only is EZA's pagerank 6 most of their category pages are PR 4 and above, so even though you'll have to wait a week for your article to get approved, the article will be indexed and spidered a lot quicker than if you start a Blogger blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author dotslash
      You'll get quicker results with EZA as you'll have to develop a blog. However you can get it indexed very quickly, remember Blogger is owned by Google (and is PR 8). A well set up site on blogger can get indexed in minutes but a one page site won't do anything for you.

      It's wrong to value these sites simply in PR though and the relevance to your particular niche will vary, EZA ranks well in some but is very simple to beat in others.

      If you're going to do one simple page - it's better to pick an article directory like EZA, but check first. Pick some keywords you're trying to target for, put them into google and search through the results - look at the sites that come up first - then make your choice. EZA is good in some niches but non-existent in others.

      Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    I personally put a few posts on a blogger account, and then paste each URl into any auto linkbuilding I am doing so that I then build links to the blogger posts, which are then in turn linking to your own site, creating a bit more "oomph" in the link.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fraggler
    The reason that EZA links work so well is because the article on EZA can be reached from many different locations within the site - heaps of inner backlinks. This funnels more of the links juice towards the article which then moves down to your outbound link to your site.

    A subdomain on Blogspot is just a fresh site. It doesn't have the inner backlinks from the get-go so misses out on that benefit.

    Forum profiles work in the same manner. A lot of forum packages link to usernames from various locations and if you are active in the community you will get even more juice to your profile. This is where the power of these come in.

    So, Blogspot will have the trust without the juice. EZA has both.
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  • Profile picture of the author sarah_may
    Originally Posted by zcx View Post

    In terms of backlinks, is a one-article mini-blog on Blogger linking back to your main site as valuable as an article on EZA?

    Linking back from a blogger ra any other blog is always good as blogs have higher crawl rate but linking back at EZA is also valuable so much. you should try for both.
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    • Profile picture of the author zcx
      Gosh thanks for all the answers!!! I have a couple hundred articles on EZA and I've found it's consistently the best source of backlinks for me. The reason I asked about Blogger is that I've seen a lot of stuff that basically advocates setting up a lot of web 2.0 mini sites pointing back to your main site - not necessarily in a linkwheel, just as backlinks. I've done that a bit, but it seems like a lot of work for minimal results compared to EZA and a few other good article directories.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by zcx View Post

        I've seen a lot of stuff that basically advocates setting up a lot of web 2.0 mini sites pointing back to your main site - not necessarily in a linkwheel, just as backlinks. I've done that a bit, but it seems like a lot of work for minimal results compared to EZA and a few other good article directories.

        Yeah. I have seen that as well but I don't see how a bunch of zero PR incredibly low authority sites of your own can trump a solid article site. T me you'd be better off with getting links on estalbished sites not setting up a whole lot of mini sites.
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