How to find high quality backlinks aside from article marketing
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I asked the following questions to some very prominent members of the WF and wanted to share their responses. A special thanks goes out to Alexa Smith, Kay King, Nicole Beckett, and John McCabe. If you thank anyone, thank them.
Question:
"Since article syndication can take a while and article directories have little link power, what are some ways I can get quality backlinks relatively quickly aside from article syndication? Is there any software for finding potential quality backlinks so I can go out manually and implement them?"
Answers:
1.) There are a lot of backlink software - and I don't use it. I have occasionally outsourced linking (not cheap at Fiverr but directory links) but didn't see much in the way of results. I still trade links with other side owners. It may be a link where they mention my site in a blog post and I mentioned their link on a site page or we trade original articles or whatever.
The way I do SEO is not what you see on the WF. I build a site and let it grow gradually. It's not the popular way to do it as the "experts" (usually self-announted) try to push sites up the ranking ladder. I've found if you do it gently over time it works better because once your site is ranked well....it stays there.
To someone new to building sites or blogs I would advice using a rotation of "stuff". Build a site and for several weeks submit a few articles a week to directories. Volunteer in the niches to do guest posts and make those article unique and not published anywhere else. If you use hubpages or squidoo, etc, put only one link to your site and one to an inside page - important with hubpages as they frown on links and will disable if you are promotional.
I push a site with articles and a few links for a few weeks...then I let the site sit there for a few weeks and then push it again. There is nothing that is as important to the ranking of a site as giving it time to mature. Google knows many sites will be pushed hard and then abandoned and the search engine rewards longetivity. There's no way to get that "juice" quickly.
I'm not an SEO expert. But many of the people posting about it aren't experts either. You can push a site too hard, too fast so in my opinion its better to add a few articles and add content, add a few links which can be from blogs you start that point to your money site, let the site rest for a few weeks and then push it again and just keep doing that. That said, I don't build sites to promote latest/greatest products being launched - that means you have to push the site harder.
I've tired the "push it hard" method and I can quickly rank a site doing that. Problem is, I have to keep pushing the site to keep it ranked. Some people like to do that - I don't. I prefer building rank more slowly and stabilizing a site for the long term.
2.) Relevant forums (if you can post with a sig-file - but forget forum profiles: they're useless), and relevant blog-commenting is always good. Anything relevant is good. Forget page-ranks - they're almost meaningless now. Quote:
Originally Posted by Letsurf
Is there any software for finding potential quality backlinks so I can go out manually and implement them?
Don't know - sorry. I just look for blogs and forums, using Google and various keywords. The art is to try to choose niches in which there are some, but not all the sites belong to direct competitors (if they do, the only syndication you'll get is from ezines - though that can still bring floods of targeted traffic, just no SEO benefits!)
3.) I wouldn't say that the article directories have "little link power". Sure, the pages you're publishing on have a low PR, but they also have a chance to fetch you syndication all on their own - and that's alot of link power!
When I first started trying to get my own site to rank higher, I did some research on the top 3 competitors for my keywords. I saw where they were getting links from (I used Alexa to check it), and I got the same links whenever I could. So, for example, if my competitors had a link from ABC Directory, I went onto ABC Directory and got one, too. That way, you're bridging the gap between you and your competitors quickly.
4.) Leaving relevant comments on blogs in your niche is good, although it can be a bit slow. Google is your friend again when you look for places to comment. Use search queries like [niche] + "Powered by Wordpress" or "please leave a comment".
Signature links in relevant forums (where allowed) are good also. The best way is to craft an acceptable sig, then forget it's there and just participate in the forum community.
Some people get mileage out of Twitter or Facebook, but I'm not much of an authority on those.
I wish more people were interested in doing things the right way. There would be a lot less digital pollution if there were.
Question:
"Since article syndication can take a while and article directories have little link power, what are some ways I can get quality backlinks relatively quickly aside from article syndication? Is there any software for finding potential quality backlinks so I can go out manually and implement them?"
Answers:
1.) There are a lot of backlink software - and I don't use it. I have occasionally outsourced linking (not cheap at Fiverr but directory links) but didn't see much in the way of results. I still trade links with other side owners. It may be a link where they mention my site in a blog post and I mentioned their link on a site page or we trade original articles or whatever.
The way I do SEO is not what you see on the WF. I build a site and let it grow gradually. It's not the popular way to do it as the "experts" (usually self-announted) try to push sites up the ranking ladder. I've found if you do it gently over time it works better because once your site is ranked well....it stays there.
To someone new to building sites or blogs I would advice using a rotation of "stuff". Build a site and for several weeks submit a few articles a week to directories. Volunteer in the niches to do guest posts and make those article unique and not published anywhere else. If you use hubpages or squidoo, etc, put only one link to your site and one to an inside page - important with hubpages as they frown on links and will disable if you are promotional.
I push a site with articles and a few links for a few weeks...then I let the site sit there for a few weeks and then push it again. There is nothing that is as important to the ranking of a site as giving it time to mature. Google knows many sites will be pushed hard and then abandoned and the search engine rewards longetivity. There's no way to get that "juice" quickly.
I'm not an SEO expert. But many of the people posting about it aren't experts either. You can push a site too hard, too fast so in my opinion its better to add a few articles and add content, add a few links which can be from blogs you start that point to your money site, let the site rest for a few weeks and then push it again and just keep doing that. That said, I don't build sites to promote latest/greatest products being launched - that means you have to push the site harder.
I've tired the "push it hard" method and I can quickly rank a site doing that. Problem is, I have to keep pushing the site to keep it ranked. Some people like to do that - I don't. I prefer building rank more slowly and stabilizing a site for the long term.
2.) Relevant forums (if you can post with a sig-file - but forget forum profiles: they're useless), and relevant blog-commenting is always good. Anything relevant is good. Forget page-ranks - they're almost meaningless now. Quote:
Originally Posted by Letsurf
Is there any software for finding potential quality backlinks so I can go out manually and implement them?
Don't know - sorry. I just look for blogs and forums, using Google and various keywords. The art is to try to choose niches in which there are some, but not all the sites belong to direct competitors (if they do, the only syndication you'll get is from ezines - though that can still bring floods of targeted traffic, just no SEO benefits!)
3.) I wouldn't say that the article directories have "little link power". Sure, the pages you're publishing on have a low PR, but they also have a chance to fetch you syndication all on their own - and that's alot of link power!
When I first started trying to get my own site to rank higher, I did some research on the top 3 competitors for my keywords. I saw where they were getting links from (I used Alexa to check it), and I got the same links whenever I could. So, for example, if my competitors had a link from ABC Directory, I went onto ABC Directory and got one, too. That way, you're bridging the gap between you and your competitors quickly.
4.) Leaving relevant comments on blogs in your niche is good, although it can be a bit slow. Google is your friend again when you look for places to comment. Use search queries like [niche] + "Powered by Wordpress" or "please leave a comment".
Signature links in relevant forums (where allowed) are good also. The best way is to craft an acceptable sig, then forget it's there and just participate in the forum community.
Some people get mileage out of Twitter or Facebook, but I'm not much of an authority on those.
I wish more people were interested in doing things the right way. There would be a lot less digital pollution if there were.