2013 Working Backlink Structure

Reserved Spot.....

To succeed with SEO in 2013, you'll have to make a step further than that. Only two types of links will make your link profile much less natural.

Didn't understand your strategy. But I guess instead of going for 2.0 stuff, indulge yourself in Guest Blogging. This will increase your traffic.

@darren: gat a question for u..hasn't it been working for other people
..And also what if d blast is not AA comments..
@lordlauchit: do me a PM of mor details
@Jacobs: u mean adding guess blogging,social signals and bookmarks.... Will that make it fine?

Generally, does this kind of strategy still work?

stop with these structures!

when you say 2nd and 3rd tier do you mean these.

Example:
Money site ----1st tier
Web 2.0 ------ 2nd tier
Bookmark ----- 3rd tier

or
Money site -
Web 2.0 ------ 1st tier
Bookmark ----- 2nd tier

Which of these is the correct arrangement to be called 1st tier or 2nd tier

Don't overcomplicate it. You only need 2 structures:

1) Quality Sites that Link to your Website
2) Bulk Links that link to your quality sites (to push them further)

I use to do really extravagant link wheels but realized this method is the best. I typically build web2.0s, articles, videos, and then blast them with forum profiles, wiki backlinks, blog comments, etc. Great winning strategy.

Of course you can do just step 1, but I see the difference when backlinking them in a mass, bulk, affordable way.

I agree with him, but in SEO, anything is falsifiable or open to debate.

That doesn't mean you should go around denying things however, just because you have a vested interest in white hat SEO. Which realistically, doesn't even exist. Thats called "naive falsifiability". Something like, "link wheels don't work, because I hate them and that must mean google hates them too!!!)

You're not actually proving anything wrong with observations as scientific as those (speaking to the whole board in general).

Now, I do believe, that link wheels could possibly be a waste of time. I don't know enough about SEO to say either way. But I'm not using a traditional link wheel on my current site, and so far its ranking wonderfully.

What I'm doing, is making less than a dozen high quality blogs/web2.0 then linking to my website. Along with this, I'm building up 2 .coms and linking to my site. But I am persistently updating my site, and all these blogs/sites essentially everyday. Occassionally, when I burn out, I will use some higher quality spun content. There are random periods of 3-4 days where I just can't look at content, and when I reach those points I use my own high quality spintaxs.

People may argue with spinning, saying its not a good "tool". But spinning is not a tool, its a skill. So anything that I spin, I spin really well. 3 paragraph variations, 3 sentence variations, then as many word/phrase variations that make sense. Most importantly, I get all the right keywords in those articles. So far, all my content has been getting indexed, both original and spun.

After 3 months, my site is doing very well (the first 2 months it wasn't doing anything). But I'm not blasting it with links either. I'm using a much more focused approach. I think less is more in both marketing and SEO. I think relevancy is huge, which is why I try to make all my links relevant. And so far it seems to be helping me a lot. Keep in mind, I'm still an SEO newb, so I can only speak for whats working for me right now. I also do blog commenting too from time to time, but only on high pr pages that are relevant. And all those comments are done manually.

My goal here is applying the right strategy for ranking high in "G" for low competition

its a cool ideal i go with the first step

For 2013 imo pyramids and wheels are not favored anymore.
Those days are over, now days you need mix of backlinks, if you choose profiles make sure its from authority sites, do some limited bookmarking, also important now are social signals, so facebook/twitter/g+.
dont overdo things it has to look natural, also when blogcommenting have a mix of 80%dofollow with 20% nofollow, everything on relevant niches!!

Grt

Providing crappy 1st tier will not do any good because once your 1st tier links are penalized by Google your subsequent Tier2 or 3 will be gone along with the 1st one.

I agree with posting quality content as the 1st Tier and diversifying it on different platform - Web2.0, Article sites, Press Release, Guest Posting, Personal Blogs and Videos.

For 2nd tier I mix it with bookmarking and blog commenting on relevant blog (not over-stuffing) and I also believe that social signals do plays a very important part in your SEO endeavor, which is also stressed by Matt Cutts.

Hope it helps...

Here's a spanner to throw into the mix, you can use skeleton web 2.0 site as your first tier, throw a bunch of thin tier 2 backlinks and still be able to rank your site. To the be perfectly blunt, buy a a few PR2-3 domains, ad nothing but an H1 tag, image with the keyword as the alt, out bound link and a link to your site and you'll be able to rank low to medium competitive keywords with just that set up. With highly competitive keywords you could do the same thing but backlinking with a few PR5 sites. Original content, duplicate content, spun content, it's all the same. Right now, the weight of your backlinks is based on the weight of the site your links are coming from more than the content on that site. If it were based solely on content, then backlinks from services flogging off their PR services using spammy content wouldn't work, but they do, and do you think it's because of their highly informative articles?

A bunch of people will say it's b/s, but go out, register a domain and try, in fact don't even register a domain, just go make a web 2.0 site .webs, create a simple 4 spoke link wheel pointing back your .webs site using blogger, tumblr or any other 2.0 properties, back link your first tier with some spammy links and watch your .webs site climb up the rankings.

Now this isn't great advice if your looking at long term ranking, but if your looking for quick rankings or see what works right at this point and time, it makes for a fun experiment as well.