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Building backlinks through self made free blogs...good idea?

by Gunsblazen
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Say I have a site about math worksheets or something. So I make my site, put up like 50 math sheets and want to sell them.

So then I go and make little free blogs like blogspot.mathworksheets.com or something and put a small 1 page of content or something and then link to worksheets. Would these be some decent backlinks just to get started?

I have a niche where like 8 of the top 10 don't have any backlinks, would ANY old backlinks be a good idea to rank quickly?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author lovboa
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    Yes, that is a really common way to build backlinks.
    But building a little bit bigger free blog and then backlinking to that free blog will do even better.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gunsblazen
    OK, wait, so are we three levels deep...like

    Free blog ======> Links to ANOTHER free blog ===========> Links to my main site I'm trying to rank?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheProgrammer
    Yes it is very good idea, Your idea is called "Small Private Blog Network". :p
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  • Profile picture of the author Gunsblazen
    OK, so do the little blogs need unique content? Should I just spin articles and post them with links to my site?
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    • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
      Originally Posted by Gunsblazen View Post

      OK, so do the little blogs need unique content? Should I just spin articles and post them with links to my site?
      Yes you need unique content. Otherwise, they may get indexed and then removed at some point. If you spin them, I suggest you do it manually at the word and sentence level. The whole process of writing and spinning an article this way takes about an hour once you get used to the process.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by Pyramid Linkers View Post

        Yes you need unique content. Otherwise, they may get indexed and then removed at some point.
        You don't need unique content. Nobody "needs" unique content.

        Why on earth does wikipedia rank so high? Amazon? NYT?

        What books are you people reading?

        I dunno people.

        I have free blogs, blogspot mainly, attached to my dot coms.

        They are golden for adsense, backlinks, and traffic funneling.

        Originally Posted by Backlinko View Post

        This. You can't just toss up content and expect to do anything for you. Big G caught onto web 2.0s/free blog sites years ago.
        Yup. They blew it with that blogger. They are just waiting for a fall from
        the top websites on the planet. Silly google. They sucker people into
        creating a free blogspot blog, then WHAM! They bring the hammer down
        on you.

        Seriously. Where on earth do you people get this info from? Wait.
        Don't tell me. I have no need to know.

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        • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post



          Yup. They blew it with that blogger. They are just waiting for a fall from
          the top websites on the planet. Silly google. They sucker people into
          creating a free blogspot blog, then WHAM! They bring the hammer down
          on you.
          I think you misunderstood me, Paul.

          I'm saying that getting backlinks from free web 2.0s with no links pointing at them is a waste of time.

          But ranking blogspots...that's another story.

          But if you're saying you can rank for tough keywords with web 2.0 property links...then you must be in a niche I've never seen before.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gunsblazen
    Anybody got a good resource for creating these networks? Does it look natural to google? How much content do you need in these? How long should the articles be? How many pages?
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  • Profile picture of the author cisin
    Its totally opposite of what you are asking but you should think of guest blogging too. Its good!


    Originally Posted by Gunsblazen View Post

    Say I have a site about math worksheets or something. So I make my site, put up like 50 math sheets and want to sell them.

    So then I go and make little free blogs like blogspot.mathworksheets.com or something and put a small 1 page of content or something and then link to worksheets. Would these be some decent backlinks just to get started?

    I have a niche where like 8 of the top 10 don't have any backlinks, would ANY old backlinks be a good idea to rank quickly?

    Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author kulwant2singh
    yes that will help you but number of unique domains count much rather than links
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    Yes but you need to build backlinks to your free blog. It is easy to create a blog on sites like tumblr, and easy to add high quality content, but it isn't easy making it an authority. You should build backlinks to your private (free) blog network to gain authority, which will in turn give pass authority onto your main site.

    It is a great way to build backlinks, but it's not as easy as just creating a free blog and adding one crappy spun or duplicate article, it takes good articles and backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      Yes but you need to build backlinks to your free blog. It is easy to create a blog on sites like tumblr, and easy to add high quality content, but it isn't easy making it an authority. You should build backlinks to your private (free) blog network to gain authority, which will in turn give pass authority onto your main site.

      It is a great way to build backlinks, but it's not as easy as just creating a free blog and adding one crappy spun or duplicate article, it takes good articles and backlinks.
      This. You can't just toss up content and expect to do anything for you. Big G caught onto web 2.0s/free blog sites years ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author Slin
    Yeah, generally those are known as tier one sites. People will build those and then point links at those blogs. They do that to pass link juice to their websites, it's a common way to do SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author smodha
    Hell yeah! I've been using tumblr for backlinks and traffic for some time now.
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