Why would someone do manual link building?

The only ones I would ever do manually are .edu or .gov links but yes, all the others are thankfully automated otherwise I probably would have gassed myself by now from seo boredom.

Google is crazy good at following trails and while some tools are obviously helpful things like automated blog commenting are an easy way to get a penalty quickly. Most of these automated software programs will only rotate comments... Google can easily spot websites you spammed with the exact same comment for sites around different themes. So while it is good for black hat SEO it is much more risky than having a comment that actually provides value to the blog post.

Not to mention that this software often mass submits to the same pages/sites time and time again and google can easily spot them. When they do, they devalue all the links and the site itself.

Software can't find PR 6 blog posts with only 4 auto approve dofollow OBL

I would say if you are going to automate everything at least have it auto drip instead of mass submit.

Maybe I am doing it wrong. I have been doing all this manually and the benefits of most of these techniques are minimal.

Yes, your missing out on authority links.

A single authority link can put that list of low quality backlinks to shame.

What links I build, I build them all by hand, I call it quality control.

Building links manually is the only option if you want to get good quality backlinks.

By building links manually, you can get good quality backlinks. I think that's the only reason why we build links manually. You also have the freedom to select which sites will help in improving your site.

If you're trying to rank in stiff competition, for longevity don't use automated tools to build links. Instead, use available tools to find high quality authority sites.. then manually build (or outsource) the link building process..

All those link building software packages are only good, IMO for sites that don't have much comp and you just want to get to the top quick.. but realize, that as your links start to fall (which they will) you site will move down.. AND a site with a fraction of high quality links will out rank you and sustain much better.

Moral of the story, for sustainability manual build the links, using software to find sites.

For quick jobs, buy links.. but that will only get you so far.

Quality is a big thing that people are forgetting about now a days.

most of my sites rank pretty well, I'm a little old school. However, in the past 6 months-year I have used link building services, but I also notice that my SERP ranking is not as solid..

These automated tools definately would increase your ranking over search engines but only for very short period of time then the google spiders would devalue your link and then it woud be very hard to find your link even in the top 20 pages

There's one thing that link automation can't do that manual link acquisition can, automated link building can't obtain the strongest form of link there is on the web - editorial links.

Because the Tools and software will not give you the quality results. So do always manually link building.

Manual link building is worthy and effective plus it prohibit your site from being penalized by SE.

Thank you for all of your replys but I think I'll still stick to automated link building, I found a way to automaticly build authority backlinks, it involves creating 20 unique blogs to one blog twenty times. This is a lot cheaper than my origonal plan of buying PR 6 home page links.

If you are talking about Article Marketing for TOP Article sites such as Ezine Articles, Ezine Mark, etc... and comments that does sends traffic and clicks, nothing beats the manual.

WHY???

Simply because these REAL DEAL sites hates spamming, and they maintain their reputation of having a higher Google PR.

The only thing that I do automatically is when I use Blog Blueprint and the Unique article wizard.

I strongly advise though that you use manual method if you are building your core solid backlinks. Use the automatic methods for secondary layer of your links.

This is my theory... Having a solid 20 backlinks from high authority sites, beats 50 backlinks from crappy sites. Worst, if those sites will be banned by Google for spamming.

Links that are manually done for me are very reliable compared to those built by software. Manual link building for me is still the best.

Yes, quality backlinks can be obtained only via manual liknbuilding. And especially in-case of blog comments you should go for manual commenting.

Manual blog commenting will not only gives you the good backlinks but also it has used to build network with your niche related peoples.

Google always gives preferences to natural and original contents and post or what ever the case may be. So mannual link building practice will always help you very much in this regard.

With software you can't approach high quality links. So, if you are looking for fast results, then perform quality link building i.e. manual process. I never prefer any automated method for link building.

I think its not a problem manual or auto as long as they look natural. For SEO most important is quality of back links, not the quantity as I know.

Link building is a huge part of the promotion you ought to do to promote your net site. Well as with any type of promotion there's various things to think about & ways that you can set about link building to your site.

Sometimes there are pages that you can't build to with software.

When I get spammy automated comments showing up on my blog I just delete them. As a blog owner you cannot let the spam posts stay if you want to maintain a quality blog.

Of course after awhile you start to see all the spam posts again. I do wonder why people waste their time trying to get links with low quality content.

Manual link building does have its pros, but it is just too time intensive for me. I wouldn't mind paying for someone to build them though.

I build out and sell 50 sites/month each month and have relied only on automated links and Web 2.0 pyramids and have been ranking my sites consistently. I usually have 100-200 sites in my fleet, selling 50 old ones and making 50 new ones each month. I am not saying that manual link building is bad or anything, it definitely has its benefits, but for most sites, you can get away with automated linking if you are smart about what you are doing.

most blog comments if done automatically dont approve and also other things - as blog comments are marked spam if dont automatically.

Manually submitted comments will usually make the moderator actually enable your comment.

I know everything can be automated, but machines and these programs even too, are simply stupid, it can get you in hell at any time, so in order to be in a safe band, you better stick with manual link building.. Be straight, Be confident...

Regards

uhm... I'm foreseeing that the effect of Web 2.0 (blog comment/profile links/forum links) link buildings are going to be reduced a lot, in Google. It seems that Google is focusing more on the Quality of your backlinks rather than Quantity, it's always been that way but Google has only started heavily implementing this recently.. I'm sure most of us are seeing the trend here.

If you go for mass web2.0 and profile links, these links are mostly NOT INDEXED, and moreover they are of PR0... I can go out and do a couple guest posting per month from 3-5 PR4 authority/genuine blog sites and easily get the same if not better effects than spamming all over the internet.. At least that's how I'm seeing it.

Also, if you have the money, buying links from higher PR sites DOES WORK.. The only times it doesn't work is when you get greedy, you buy a lot of links and start ranking for ultra competitive terms like "money", this will get you noticed by Google and rest assured they will most likely do a manual review on your site (POOF)..

Joe

Hey i have a question, If you are creating links through creating profiles on forums, but not commenting, just creating the profiles with links in them, how do you get these links indexed? Thanks