The truth about backlinks?

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Is there actually a good, effect way to build back links?

I've always struggled to find a decent method of building backlinks. It seems to me, the more I look for the answers online, through forums, ebooks, guides, whatever, the techniques all appear to be out of date, dismissed, defunct, or slagged off as useless.

one person will say "you gotta find .edu .gov blogs" and there will be someone else saying "that's BS, .edu's aren't any different to any other TLD". Another will say "submit articles", only for someone else to mention "the recent Panda update". Everyone is saying directories are usless, and the rest say commenting on blogs is at best pointless, and at worst spamming.

Am i missing something here? I always fall at the backlink part of my SEO. I need to sort it once and for all. Are there any definitive methods, that both work, and are fairly quick to apply?
#search engine optimization #backlinks #truth
  • The bottom line- Just plant good content on the web that leads to your website. Simple as that.

    Article marketing- This works. I think it's MOST effective on Ezine Articles (STILL, even after the Google Farmer update).

    Think about it...they see your article on a topic, because they were searching for that topic, they read your article and click to your website. This visitor is primed for buying...AND it counts as a back link.

    Videos- If it's a good video, people appreciate it and visit your website if you give them a link, or put the website text on the video itself.

    Blog commenting- This seems to work pretty well. It's easy, takes a few minutes every few days or so. No need to worry about it too much.

    Writing content on your own site- Might as well make your site the place people go to find information about a certain topic, instead of an article directory that links to your site, etc...

    It just helps in the beginning to link from the article directories to get your site off the ground. Then you should phase over to mostly content on your own site.
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    • This is very true - getting relevent articles published on a range of good directories with your target keyword as the anchor text (preferably within the content) is a very effective way of getting backlinks that will improve your ranking. It can also bring real human visitors to your site who read the articles.

      It may be an idea to think about 'guest posting' on relevant blogs too.
    • I agree with you and want to add some :
      Social bookmarking: it still works
      Forum profiles: it works, but do not make 300 profiles per day and get sandbox .
      Web 2.0: some website works, some website as hubpages will be not good for put the backlinks, but the rest will have value.
      Combine all of them, or two of them and see how they works. It will not work when you do nothing .
  • Ok thanks. I'll check them out.
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    • The best ways to build links is by article syndication and link baiting.

      Do some research on these topics, APPLY the techniques, and you will succeed in your SEO endeavours.
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  • Hi,

    For have fast back links try to work on forum postings & article submission this are the best way to have quality back links.
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    • The truth is simple.

      Build backlinks like there is no tomorrow. Maintain a nice link velocity and mix in all sorts of backlinks.

      • Article Links
      • Blog Comments
      • Profile Links
      • Bookmarking
      • Properties
      • Linkwheels consisting of the above
      This way even if one of those backlinks gets devalued you still have a network of other types going for you.
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  • Random in time and relative to content is the new backilinking strategy!
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    Blog comments,social bookmarking,forums signatures can give more traffics
  • All good suggestions, and i will continue to look into these avenues, but I'm starting to think that maybe I'm just not cut out to do the off-page part of SEO, I'm no good at it.

    I honestly think building back-links is a talent, a talent that i don't have. I can spend literally hours and hours searching for good blogs to post a comments on, and in the end only have 1 or 2 nofollow back-links to show for it. It's time I would rather spend creating quality content for my sites.

    I think I will outsource the job from now on, I'm a bit cautious about who i outsource this job to though. How can I be sure that my link wont be spammed on blogs and forums etc, and get punished by Google? What things should i look out for?
  • Everyone has their own version of the truth. And they are probably all valid, to some extent. Backlinks are a major part of SEO and as such, you should try to get the best variety of them as you can. I don't see back links going out of style any time soon.
  • its worth the stretch, put in the work....
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  • you need to have mixed portfolio to look natural for Google
  • It's a link pointing to your website from an external source. This could be a forum, community site, social networking portal or even a blog.
  • According to me these 3 points are good to generate backlinks.
    1. Link exchange with relevant sites
    2. Niche related forums
    3. Dofollow blog commenting

    I had followed that three steps and my all website keywords are now good ranked.
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    The truth about backlinks?

    Is there actually a good, effect way to build back links? I've always struggled to find a decent method of building backlinks. It seems to me, the more I look for the answers online, through forums, ebooks, guides, whatever, the techniques all appear to be out of date, dismissed, defunct, or slagged off as useless.