Natural SEO....is there such thing?

The concept of natural link building is, that other people build links for you. Like sharing your content on Facebook or tweeting, or placing a link on a forum. That's natural.

When you say about blog commenting, your saying you can't be bothered, if you have something interesting to say you will make the process of building links more fun.

Writing content and submitting it just to get backlinks is not natural, you should be writing informative articles, so that people share your article across the Internet.

You hit the nail on the head. Content websites are very unnatural. Sure, newspapers update all the time on NEWS. But all these 'niche' websites constantly writing the same articles based only on keywords are very unnatural.

Then you have to 'build links' to try and prove your content website is different than everyone's else because it's so 'popular.' In many ways, this is becoming a losing battle. How many people will naturally link to a piece of content based on keywords about a niche? Not too many I would imagine. That's why all content-based website owners end up having to keep linking and 'doing social.'

In reality, a better approach is to build a website that actually 'does something.' A unique tool. A service you sell. Build something that justifies the long hours of work you're putting in. Content only websites are becoming the Dinosaurs of a dead and decaying Google-oriented internet.

Build a website that accomplishes some sort of purpose, and the rest will be a lot easier.

Yes, natural links are beneficial for the websites and building links should be search engine friendly and build according to search engine guidelines.

Like signature links from an IM forum to homecoming dresses? :p

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Thing is though I have a website that is based around my own particular service I provide, adsense (hopefully) and Amazong aff. Im not basing it around content.

When you have a new website obviously you need to get to the top in order to gain traffic to your website in order for people to share your webiste or content around the web.

So its a catch 22 situation?

Agree with PeformanceMan. Links don't grow on trees. "Build it and they will come" is a fiction better left to loony movies and Googlites. In reality you must build links.

If you are afraid of building links, you can do something like this:

Keep your money site clean, while building links to another (a buffer) domain that you 301 to your money site. This way the buffer domain ranks for the keywords but the visitors end up on your "real" site.

If something bad (read Google slap) happens to the buffer site, you can remove the 301 (thus effectively removing all links to your money site) and either repeat the same process with another domain or go on creating high quality links to your money site.

I used to do web 2.0s, followed a whole diagram. I used to do private blog networks such as BuildMyRank and ABC backlinks and Article Ranks. I hated it didn't like it.

All I do now is go for low competition keywords, write the best content that I can write, ping it, and do a couple social bookmarking (FB/Twitter/etc.). I don't know if this helps but I have a lot of friends on Facebook (90 percent of them I know personally), and they support me by liking my page, so I'm not hiring a bot or whatever to like my page. Assuming that social media and what not helps out.

But that's it. No searching for high PR backlinking on my end, or creating backlinks , web 2.0, blog networks, etc. But I have nothing against it. Just my preference.

And where are my sites? Well the main site that I've been working on is all over page 1-3 with 90 pages of pure content written by me. I used to hire people from iwriter.com but they are a bunch of crap. I realized man, I can do better than these fools. Why spend $5 when I can just take the time to polish up my writing skills (haven't written a damn essay since 2010, which is when I graduated), learn how to write accordingly, etc.

As a matter of fact, I'll probably go on gamespot.com or cnet.com or even ign.com and take notes on their writing skills and I implement that.

But as Mike Anthony says, don't listen to me!

It tells the search engines that the site is permanently moved.... Therefore all the links pointing to the old URL are passed on to the new URL. So you saying build a load of links to the old URL will not affect the new URL is wrong. All the links will get passed on.

A 301 is a permanent redirect. A 302 is a temp redirect.

All the links will pass on until you remove the 301... So, if I 301 page A to page B, then build a lot of links to page A; you are saying that page B will keep all the link juice when I remove the redirect?

Nope.

This forum is so confusing!

Finding blogs surrounding my subject that have high PR is rare.....trying to get people to let me guest post on their blog again rare....they dont understand why I would wanna do that or what they will gain from it!

Forums relating to my subject dont allow links on their website or in your sig.

So really I have NO idea where im meant to or how im meant to manually backlink anymore?

We have options to use web 2.0 sites, top article directories for creating backlinks of our sites..

Any links obtained by providing fresh and quality content is quality backlink.

it is difficult to get good natural back links until your are famous like God.

I think it's naive to think every single for-profit website on the Internet is unnaturally SEO'd. There are many legitimate websites that did SEO the old-fashioned way, meaning other people built links for them because they enjoyed their content, shared their content, etc. In fact, MOST websites are 'naturally' SEO'd.

From my experience I've found building a "real" website actually helps a lot with SEO. People tend to naturally come visit, leave comments, share your content, and more.