Linkbuilding to site with no content?

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Hey all,

Long time lurker, first time poster here. I'm hoping you can give me some advice.
I'm planning to launch a clicks'n'bricks on line business selling camera accessories and hope to be up and running in about 5 months time.

I've registered my domain name already but am wondering if there's any value in doing a gentle linkbuilding exercise for my keywords in the meantime. I dont expect to soar up the ranks doing this, or expect anyone to visit my site, I just wonder if it will help me rank better when I DO take my site live with all it's lovely content etc given that I will already have a bunch of backlinks in place.

I wont be shooting for quality links at this stage, just blog comments and forum profiles etc.

Any thoughts?

gz
#search engine optimization #content #linkbuilding #site
  • I would hide an empty website of google.

    But what you could do is, add 5 textes on the site and then link to it. Doing that it would be helpful for your rankings in 5 months. Especially as you have to wait between 3 to 6 months to get some trust from google for the rankings. So you have a huge timesaver, but not without content.

    I also would add some backlinks from good article directories, not only spam links.


  • I would caution against doing this, because a lot of the links will just be deleted by many bloggers, or worse, marked as spam.

    I get many comments from outsourced commentators linking to domains that don't resolve, and I can almost spot them a mile away; the entire domain is an exact match domain and 9/10 times, it doesn't resolve to a site. I delete them all the time....

    Build your site, and only then, your links. Not the other way around.
  • From what I have heard you want your links to be quality not quantity. I am no expert but a little of a good thing is better than a lot of nothing.
  • Right, you must have a site up on the domain before you start link building.

    What's the site say now when you put the URL in your browser?
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    • Thanks for your comments so far.

      To clarify, when I said no content I probably meant just having 1 H1 title with my 2 keywords in it. Not a domain name that doesn't resolve.

      Right now it doesn't resolve but I can change that in 5 mins if I decide to go ahead with building links.

      To the poster who said about not spending time with low quality links, you're right, it's better to have high quality links BUT, I've managed a #6 position with just spam links alone! They do work...even if frowned upon.

      Any more thoughts? Perhaps it'd be a good way to sit out the sandbox period?
  • put up a holding page with some keywords on it and yes start doing link building. as domain age plays a part in ranking you will have a good head start when you start to do some serious seo.
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    • I think thats exactly what I'm gonna do. I was even tempted to run an auto blog on it for my related keywords. Maybe thats pushing my luck!?
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  • You should always link to a blog post. Not sure why, but this is what experts recommend
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    • I think this is to do with not just linking to your main index page...or at least you should index to deeper pages, which definitely helps!
  • Have some content before links IMO
  • If I were doing this.

    I'd put up 200 word intro(Keyword Rich content though) to the site that is coming as a static page. Also put up a blog on the backend as a featured article section. Then you can build all the links you want and by month 6 when your site goes live you should good to go.
  • If you knew what kind of structure your website would have (your folder structure and page names - probably depends on your shopping solution), I'd create the structure manually for your main keywords, put an article on the page and start building links. I have several local search domains that I did this for and almost all are ranking on page 1 with just a couple pages on the site.
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    • Yeah, right now it'd be too hard to predict exactly what the structure will look like.

      Really appreciate everyone's comments here. For now I've put in a small auto blog that is slowly filling the site with related scraped content. Will start linkbuilding shortly and will also let you know how this worked out by the time I get round to putting my real stuff up there.
  • Plan First and established your site well then do quality link building process to other sites that have relevancy with your page.
  • More related content to your site, much better, although the related content one are not easy to find but try your best, at least I did!
  • Link building to "nothing" doesn't look natural. I'd wait.
  • The better and mostly recommended approach is to have some content on the page before you start link building. As one other person also said there are chances of links been removed. So its better you add some content on you site first using the keywords you've selected...This way you can get the real benefits of link building.........
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