What's the best link building strategy?

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Hi all,

I wonder what is the best link building strategy for sites which have low competition..

Does blog commenting still work? What about forum profiles? Social bookmarking? Article marketing?

Can you recommend a paid link building service or a great link building tool?

I've tried all these 4 strategies, but I'm curious which of those are most efficient and which are a waste of time..

If I were to outsource link building, should I hire article writers, people to create forum profiles..? I just feel lost in the jungle of options..

Thanks,
Traian
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  • Profile picture of the author PLR Basket
    Writing quality content that adds value to the marketplace...
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    • Profile picture of the author Alex Barboza
      Originally Posted by Chris Moore View Post

      Writing quality content that adds value to the marketplace...
      If only it were that simple....

      Content is NOT king, marketing is.
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      • Profile picture of the author danmorton
        Originally Posted by AlexBarboza View Post

        If only it were that simple....

        Content is NOT king, marketing is.
        Hey Alex - Isn't great marketing essentially great content at the core?

        Successful marketing campaigns usually begin with fresh and unique content (ads, sales pages, etc.) to attract customers - and sell product.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alex Barboza
          Originally Posted by danmorton View Post

          Hey Alex - Isn't great marketing essentially great content at the core?

          Successful marketing campaigns usually begin with fresh and unique content (ads, sales pages, etc.) to attract customers - and sell product.
          Sure! But you can't expect that visitors will come in naturally just because you write great content. You have to build links, distribute articles or do social media marketing or paid advertising. In other words, you have to sell your great content, otherwise nobody will find it.
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  • Profile picture of the author shuvo
    Linkwheel,High pr profile do follow link building,article marketing and guest posting these are the best link building strategies to me so far.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dadelius
    It's consistency.

    Whether you choose
    - guest posting
    - blog commenting
    - profile links
    - forum links
    - article marketing
    - reciprocal
    - link bait

    etc, etc.

    The idea is to make sure you keep doing a little bit each day.
    Works for me anyway.
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    • Profile picture of the author cswjohnni
      sorry, what is a link bait? and how does it work?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dadelius
    Writing something deliberately with the anticipation that it will get linked to by as many people/sites as possible.

    Can be just about anything really.
    free software
    informative article
    pictures
    video's etc...

    Anything you can create that people will want to link to.
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  • Profile picture of the author BudgetSEO
    I am not a fan of blog commenting because 100's of people "spam" (yes thats the word) comments on an article to get a backlink, imagine an article getting 300+ comments and the OBL includes adult, baby, parenting niches...
    End result - You're sharing link juice with a p0rn website.
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  • Profile picture of the author tobyR
    I think the points that Dadelius makes are spot on thats what I do -quality content spread aruond however - aticles blog comments etc is what works but it does take a little time to see results - got to do it consistantly though
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  • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
    blog commenting & forum profiles & Do follow Social Bookmark links - Gives big SERP boost fast. But all links will not be permanent over time, so you have to continue doing monthly or etc. Weight of the backlinks decrease over time (due to deletion of profiles, blog comments removal, page get spammed,etc)

    Article marketing - Long term backlinks, weight of the backlink increases over time (Articles referred by other sites, propagation, etc).

    So, build all types of links. Each type has it's own pros and cons!
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      • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
        Originally Posted by FreshDomains View Post

        DOFOLLOW Social Bookmarks? Could you give me an example
        Some social bookmarking sites are do follow and some are no follow.

        example : stumbleupon is no follow, diigo is do follow

        In the social book marking tool http://www.socialmarker.com you can distinguish some dofollow sb sites and no follow sb sites
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    • Profile picture of the author masterofinternate
      Originally Posted by faceblogger View Post

      blog commenting & forum profiles & Do follow Social Bookmark links - Gives big SERP boost fast. But all links will not be permanent over time, so you have to continue doing monthly or etc. Weight of the backlinks decrease over time (due to deletion of profiles, blog comments removal, page get spammed,etc)

      Article marketing - Long term backlinks, weight of the backlink increases over time (Articles referred by other sites, propagation, etc).

      So, build all types of links. Each type has it's own pros and cons!
      I'm totally agree with facebloggers point of view. You should build all types of links. You should continuing link building with all these ways consistently. But make quality links and build your links with those sites that having a good PR in the search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
    These are some recommended Link building tools to build those links

    Xrumer - for profile backlinks
    ScrapeBox - for bulk blog commenting
    Bookmarking Daemon - for social bookmarking
    Article Marketing Robot - for article submission (But, submit to ezine manually)
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  • Profile picture of the author Mitro
    Concentrate on...
    -The variety of links (different kinds of links)
    -The quantity (lots of links, if possible)
    -The quality (links on high-PR pages and -sites)

    Blog commenting, forum profiles and social bookmarkings work, but they are extremely low-quality links, so you want to get a lot of those kinds links if you want them to affect your site.

    Article marketing is better, at least if you submit articles on high-quality directories, since the links are in-content.

    Blog network links are some of my favourite kinds of links, since they are fairly easy to get (if you are part of a good, paid network) and they're even better than article marketing links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chucky
    I build links in tiers.

    Tier 1

    First tier consists of 'relatively authority sites' - this includes web 2.0 (SENUKE/ RankBuilder), the better article directories (EzineArt, GoArt, Art.Dashboard etc.) a few paid blog networks, press releases, videos (I should do this more often; checkout Jonathan Teng's video software), high PR blog commenting (if the page itself has high PR, not the domain/homepage) and some profile links. I've done software submissions a couple of times (PADBot from BigMike) but should do that more often.

    Tier 2
    The second tier consists of not so authority sites - mass article distribution (AMR, UAW, NPP etc.), mass bookmarking (BM demon, SENUKE), Scrapebox, profile links, more web 2.0.

    Tier 3
    And then RSS submissions from all the components of the two tiers. And then BLE (Steve Aylor), BLB (Sean Donahoe) and SLS (Simple Leveraging Systems) that also act as a tier 3/4.

    BTW, I only do all these things once the domains are aged a few months and already ranking in the first 10 pages. Some domains don't dance however many backlinks I build in a short period; some domains dance even if I build a single link (esp if they are from authority sites). But if they are articles from authority sites that I'm trying to rank, I'll do a full blown campaign right from day 1.

    What you will find is that the main problem is NOT building links, but getting them indexed. That's what tier 3/4 is about!

    Another important thing! The stronger your on page SEO, the less stronger your off page SEO can be!

    Checkout my sig for a free diagram. No I'm NOT promoting my WSO, it's closed for good

    BTW, I'm soon going to switch to Magic Submitter and cancel my SENUKE and RankBuilder subscriptions. I read a lot of good things about it.

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  • Profile picture of the author traianturcu
    Hi Chucky,

    Thanks a lot for the diagram and for presenting your link wheel technique!

    It seems to be a great strategy and I will surely try it out

    Thanks,
    Traian
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  • Profile picture of the author grandfaraone1
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    It's consistency.

    Whether you choose
    - guest posting
    - blog commenting
    - profile links
    - forum links
    - article marketing
    - reciprocal

    but the secret to have success is to do that every day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter76
    Good blog commenting and submitting original quality articles to article directories such as Ezine.com.
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  • Profile picture of the author hitecballer
    Build good onsite SEO for the page you are going to build links to first. Then consistently build a diverse stream of links to that page. I think in the long run that is the best strategy just keep it simple and work a bit each day.
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  • Profile picture of the author MrPolarZero
    I think before doing those promotional methods, you must first start improving the look and quality of your web page. Perhaps give your site an edgy web design that will attract a lot of visitors. Also consider to write a compelling content for your pages. The content and the design must work together so your visitors won't waste their time surfing in a web page with useless information.
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  • Profile picture of the author julie9999
    Blog Commenting and Forum Posting is the best link building strategy. Article submission, PR submission, Classified Submission are also effective.
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