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Using Blogs for high quality backlinks?

by dave.
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Unfortunately I'm in a pretty competitive niche, so building profile links, blog comments, etc don't really push my site for top positions. I'm on the bottom of the first page for many of my keywords, but I'm afraid that I need to start creating some high quality backlinks, rather then go for the quantity.

So here is my plan:
1. I'm going create around 5-6 websites/blogs that are relevant to my niche.
2. I get backlinks fro them, so they are going to achieve PR3 in a few months.
3. Use them as a source of quality backlinks for my original website.

The only question is: If I host all of them of the same hosting account, will they have the same effect like if they were hosted by random people? I guess the answer is no, so in this case, what would you do? Would you create the blogs with free blog services and let them host (like blogspot or wordpress) my blogs?

Do you have perhaps a better strategy for high quality backlinks (except paid links)?

Thanks for the answers!

Dave
#backlinks #blogs #high #quality
  • Profile picture of the author Branlan17
    I've heard that just using the web 2.0 domains like .weebly or w.e can be great because those sites already are in good standing with search engines, but I'm still developing an effective SEO strategy so don't just take my word for it ><
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    • Profile picture of the author dave.
      Yes, they can be effective, however there is always a little risk that your blog/site can get deleted any time. If you host a blog, there is no way wordpress could delete it for example.
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  • Profile picture of the author webbyworld
    I think for you it would be better to create blogs under wordpress and blogger if you really like to create 5-6 blogs. Then after hosting you can work accordingly.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanSupplee
    Thing about this is you need to start watching the FTC rules which are in full force now. Creating bummer blogs linking to an affiliate is bad news if you ask me
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Harken
    Diversify. If you're using web 2.0 they will obviously be all different IP's, so you're going to be safe. Another point: a competive niche isn't unfortunate, it's the right way to go. I know everyone says go for the easy pickings, but the fact of the matter is that the easy pickings are in the competitive niches; that's why they are competitive.

    The strategy that I prefer (thanks to lemonarian/linus) is linkwheels. You have a page on your main site optimized for one specific keyword. You then turn around and utilize 12 or 15 or so web 2.0 sites, one linked to the next, each linked to that particular page with the keyword as the anchor text. This is called a linkwheel. You then bookmark each individual site to make sure they all get indexed as fast as possible, then you can turn around and build linkwheels for each individual spoke of the original linkwheel.

    I think this may be moot though, because if you have the capability of being able to put up pr 3-4 sites at will, in a matter of a few months, there's nothing anyone can teach you.
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    • Profile picture of the author dave.
      Originally Posted by Daniel Harken View Post

      Diversify. If you're using web 2.0 they will obviously be all different IP's, so you're going to be safe. Another point: a competive niche isn't unfortunate, it's the right way to go. I know everyone says go for the easy pickings, but the fact of the matter is that the easy pickings are in the competitive niches; that's why they are competitive.

      The strategy that I prefer (thanks to lemonarian/linus) is linkwheels. You have a page on your main site optimized for one specific keyword. You then turn around and utilize 12 or 15 or so web 2.0 sites, one linked to the next, each linked to that particular page with the keyword as the anchor text. This is called a linkwheel. You then bookmark each individual site to make sure they all get indexed as fast as possible, then you can turn around and build linkwheels for each individual spoke of the original linkwheel.

      I think this may be moot though, because if you have the capability of being able to put up pr 3-4 sites at will, in a matter of a few months, there's nothing anyone can teach you.
      Thanks for the answers so far!

      According to linkwheels, my original plan was something similar. It's obvious that all the web2.0 sites should point to my website and all of them have to be strong (which means, they should get backlinks individually, too), but I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to link them together.

      My point of view is that a link's strenght depends on the sites PR and the number of outgoing links. Thus, if a web2.0 site has a power of let's say 100 than I can have one link pointing to my site (which give my site a 100 "unit" strong backlink), or I can link to my site AND to one of the other web2.0 sites (which means an 50 "unit" strong backlink for both sites).

      I now, it's a bit polarized theory, but according to this, it doesn't matter whether I link the sites together or just have a backlink from each of them individually.

      The second thing is, that I want to create a long-term business, so the web2.0 sites should stay effective for as long as possible. I've heard many times that link wheels are effective yet, however Google is trying to catch them in the future. What do you think about it?
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  • Profile picture of the author hhayman
    Build your own network of self hosted blogs. You obviously know how to increase their PR, which is the only real benefit of 2.0 sites - their "authority".

    If you host them on the same hosting account the IP addresses will be the same (usually), so rather host them at a SEO hosting company like seohosting.com

    I currently have 20 PR3-4 blogs hosted on 10 different IP addresses that only serve as linkjuice for my money sites and the beauty is you can use them for other pages/sites as well!
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    • Profile picture of the author dave.
      Originally Posted by hhayman View Post

      Build your own network of self hosted blogs. You obviously know how to increase their PR, which is the only real benefit of 2.0 sites - their "authority".

      If you host them on the same hosting account the IP addresses will be the same (usually), so rather host them at a SEO hosting company like seohosting.com

      I currently have 20 PR3-4 blogs hosted on 10 different IP addresses that only serve as linkjuice for my money sites and the beauty is you can use them for other pages/sites as well!
      Thank you for the tip!

      What do you recommend, how many sites should I host on one hosting account (if I want to link all of the sites to one specific money site)?
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