New websites - link-building strategies??

Hi Tim,

I'm assuming you have submitted the RSS feed for your sites to some of the online agreggators? If not, I highly recommend doing so.

Yes, blog commenting can bring some excellent link juice, especially if you are commenting on blogs in your own niche(which you of course should be). People will probably tell you to have your chosen targeted keyword in the 'name' field, but I usually just use my first name instead. You'll still get plenty of link juice, and your chances of having the comment deleted will be reduced significantly.

When I'm establishing a new site, I always like to write and submit a press release. Even if you just want to submit to free sites, there are hundreds of them out there. I always make sure to submit to at least PR LOG and I-Newswire. If you are doing paid submissions to bigger press release sites, then the benefits could be even bigger for you in terms of link juice and traffic.

Have you submitted your site to some online directories? This is something else I always do. Recently I've been outsourcing this on Fiverr. Admittedly, I have usually taken the 'quantity over quality' route with my smaller sites though, if you can get hold of a list of quality ones with high PR then that could well bode better than hundreds of lower quality ones.

You could also create some web 2.0 properties that will link to your sites - Squidoo, Hubpages, Weebly, Wetpaint etc.

For the long run, I'll suggest you continue with article marketing and blog commenting. But if you want some emergency rush of traffic to your sites, I'll suggest you go with Press Releases.
And you'll be doing this using Google News:

Go to news(dot)google(dot)com

Do a search on your target keyword and make a note of the top few results you see (these results are the sites which syndicate content to Google)

Submit your press releases to these sites only.

However, your press releases have to be very unique. By doing this, Google will be able to pick up your news contents fast.

Follow these simple steps and once your news content is published, Google will notice it and get it listed in Page one for your keywords as quickly as possible, and this means lots of traffic to your site.

The only downside here is that this rush of traffic only lasts for 1 - 2 days before some other news tops yours, so you have to constantly repeat this process.

But you can guarantee some constant quality backlinks to your site which will improve your SERPs.

Good Luck.

Unless you love link building I would outsource it

I'm more than happy to outsource the backlinking, my concern is 'blasting' hundreds and thousands of links to the new sites...

Does anyone offer and slower, more natural link-building before I can blast the hell out of them lol

From my experience, most people who provide backlink services in this forum are very experienced internet marketers too, and they understand the harmful effects a sudden 'blast' of backlinks to your site can cause, including the dreaded Google Slap. So they provide their services in such a way that the search engines find the backlinks 'naturally', and there are no problems for their clients.
So you don't have to worry about that.

Instead of using free blog commentre manual blog commenting related to your niche helps both in backlinks and in traffic

One of the reasons I was thinking of using the 'free blog commenter' is that it finds blogs in your chosen niche and allows you to manually comment on the blogs

If anyone wants to put together a link-package for a NEW site please PM me and i's be happy to chat further

Granted, im a newb, but my recomendation would be to do some manual Blog commenting. I know, its more work, but I take alot of pride in what I write (although Im sure if I ever get really going with it, Ill end up having to outsource)

Tim_A - have you thought of guest blogging or writing unique articles for authoritative sites within your niche? I'm not talking about article marketing in the "spray and pray" sense, but rather, submitting highly targeted articles to sites that you've worked out unique deals with. This has worked well for me in the past.

Yeah all good tips thanks...

out of interest how can you tell if you're wasting your time with a decent comment... or can't you, is it just 'comment and see'

I good way to build backlinks is using bookmarking sites, this will also bring in a little traffice as well.

You can do this a couple of ways.

I do this two ways using bookmarking wiz software and social monkee.

With social monkee, its free and you can build 25 links a day to one url or you can get a premium account (free if you refer 12 people) and creates 100 links a day to 3 urls.

Good luck

Hi Tim
Thanks for starting such a useful thread. Thank you Liam for your inputs which would really help me a lot.
Parg

so as a general rule, are some of these automated programs ok if done in moderation? I used a package some time ago that did a whole bunch of submissions at once (in the thousands) and i had a drop off on Google within a few days.. Kind of hesitant about repeating the same process!

Well for such a big amount of sites you definitely need automation tools.

I suggest you take a closer look at Article Marketing Robot - A tool which distributes article to 6k directories.

Furthermore you could buy some backlinking services from member herre. Don't buy those "one gazillion live backlink packages" They're way to dangerous for new sites. Instead you should buy backlink packages from high pr authority sites or even .edu or .gov backlinks!

I am a complete newbie just bypassing my information overload dilemma. Finally I just got to build my first site with all my on page SEO done though not 100% perfect. I am now checking out my off page SEO. Well, I was advised to do a very slow back linking at least for a month before going for more drastic backlinking building. Just my 2 cents.

I see you're a war room member.
You should take a quick look in there.....

Something just posted yesterday, could be exactly what you need.

Wink wink.

Thanks all for the posts, this is making an interesting thread which I hope a lot will benefit from.

Just to re-iterate... I'm using the Free Blog Commenter as an easy way to find blogs, that and the technique outlined by Liam above... the comments are 100% manual, and 100% uniquely written as a response to the article.

You can get a good momentum up posting comments i've found, it's just a little frustrating never knowing if they're going to be approved/indexed

Hey Tim. TheFreeBlogCommenter is a great tool for now. When I started out I was strapped for funds and used it, took some time but it worked. Also, I am sure you can do more than 5/day and be safe. Also, as the above posted mentioned, make sure you submit your RSS feeds, and add RSS aggregators to your Wordpress ping list if you are using wordpress.

Just a few of my "top" places to submit, that gets me instant traffic!....sshhh, don't tell anyone lol....

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blog commenting by softwares is a not good method, because with this method many people end up in akismet,

Thanks for some great advice, I didn't know about Social Monkee. It seems like a great site.