Help with Link Building Plan

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Okay so i've been reading as much as I can on seo and link building and have been putting it to work on my own website and have seen an increase in PA, DA, and MR and MT as well as some increases in rankings for my keywords.

I wanted you guys to critique my link building plan and see if there is anything I'm missing, not getting right or anything I should add

Link Building Plan
  • Guest Posting on relevant blogs
  • Quality Content for own Blog (Should I be link building for each blog post as well?)
  • Directory Submissions
  • Local Directory Submissions
  • Social Bookmarking
  • Social Media
  • Web 2.0 Profiles:
  • Wikispaces, Xanga, Weebly, Blogspot, etc
  • Blog Posting Squidoo, Hub Pages, etc
  • Create 1-2 infographics and distribute to infographic directories, as well as outreach for placement on relevant blogs
  • Blog Commenting (Dofollow mainly on relevant blogs)

Also for content I haven't been using any manually or software to spin the content, I've been creating unique content for each profile which is turning out to be a lot of article writing. Do you recommend hand spinning the articles first then using software such as bestspinner to spin the content? Or should I avoid spinning in genernal and just focus on producing as much quality content as possible?

Add 1-2 Articles on each web 2.0 profiles for content, should I be adding more content to each web 2.0 profile?

now this is where I haven't put too much emphasis in, which is link building for my web 2.0 profiles, tier 2 link building and I wanted a little clarification on this

Okay so from what I have been reading it's important to build links to your web 2.0 profiles constantly to increase authority of the page and thus links

Web 2.0 Link Building
-Blog Commenting
-Social Bookmarking
-Directory submissions

How many links should I ideally build for each web 2.0 profile for high competition keywords?

Also is there a general rule of thumb or guideline for anchor text? I've been trying to ensure that I have a diverse anchor text profile and using keyword variations as well

Also I know that .edu and .gov links will greatly help my link profile, what is the best method of obtaining .edu and .gov links? I've been reading this article
How to Get Free Full .EDU Articles and Backlinks from MediaWiki Sites

would this be an acceptable method for .edu and .gov link building?

Also I have been seeing some people saying that it's useful to have document sharing/pdf links as well, can someone please explain how you obtain links from this method or a good how to
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  • I do not mean to get on you in particular but its a huge problem in the SEO industry. Its so common I fully well expected from just reading the thread title that you offered SEO services and found I was right.

    Its only right that before you start offering a service you know how to do that service. the biggest thing I think you are missing is that point. Have your knowledge and your plan in place before you offer a service to the public.

    Your plan is pretty bad considering you are including all kinds of spammy links that either do not work or will be slapped to the pit of the serps again this year.
  • Definitely noted, I haven't begun offering any SEO services to anyone yet until I master SEO with my current site, What would you recommend as far as good link building methods? I revised my link building method, please take a look and see if it's any better

    Again I am just trying to get clarifications because there is some misleading information on the forums these days, I am trying to make sure that I create a solid link building campaign

    From what I've read blog commenting isn't bad for seo but doesn't add much value, but you should ensure your real name

    Forum Profiles and Signatures are considered spammy link building methods and also don't pass much value, but wouldn't they be beneficial for targeted traffic? Would it still hurt you if you don't use anchor texts?

    I understand that article directories aren't the best link building method, and I haven't put a real big focus on article directory submissions, I've been focusing more towards guest blogging and gaining links that way
  • Blog Commenting (Dofollow mainly on relevant blogs) .. Have nofollow blog comment links too. Most of the blog comment links are nofollow. So, if you have only dofollow links, it does not look natural.

    Build second tire links to you web 2.0 properties. Don't build too much of the profile links.

    Consider having few links from high PR pages, but not in a spammy way.
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    • Correct I've been also building some nofollow links from some sites with good domain authority and page authority, especially nowadays it's a lot harder to find blogs that have dofollow comments enabled

      How many second tier links would you recommend building for the web 2.0 properties?
  • Here is some sound advice for you - DON'T BOTHER!

    Instead hire a GOOD writer to write 4 pages at 2500 words each, with images, and links going OUT to high authority sites, and a few links to your own pages.

    Google sees your links mixed in with high authority site links and embedded in a high quality piece of content. Then wait awhile and watch your income climb!
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    • Interesting I know in 2013 that content is king, but are you suggesting that you only utilize content marketing for link building? I will definitely have to read a lil more about this, but I do like the idea of creating high quality content with links to high authority sites and linking my own pages within that content as well
    • I do something along the lines of this with easier to rank keywords. The harder keywords I do this, and do a smililar backlinking plan, much like OP posted.
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    • Can I hire you? Seriously. :rolleyes:
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    • For this type of content would you recommend using it on our own blog or should we use the created content for guest posting
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    • Sure this works if you target long tail key phrases (like 4/5 words), but if you have some competition your "income" will climb nowhere...

      I can't belief people buy these type of advice

      If you have some competition you will need backlinks, you can create high quality web 2.0 properties (yes i still belief in them ) mix that with some links from private blog networks or better yet create your own.

      Create some videos for youtube and other video sites, mix that with press releases and pad submissions (submitting self created software to software directories for backlinks) and you will have a real change to see your "income climb"

      Content alone will NOT rank you site, period.
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    • You do NOT NEED 2,500 words to rank. That is false, and people have proven it over and over and over and over.

      Think about this for a second.



      What is your website about? If it's about how you think the universe is older/younger than scientists think, then you may have to write a lot of "quality content".


      If it's about how to do jumping jacks, you are wasting your time. You can write huge posts all day long, and if you think you are going to rank then you are wasting your time.


      Period!
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    • Hey what are you talking about man? They MUST be at least 15 000 words long!

      And each page MUST have at least 3 YouTube videos embedded.

      Dude these are basics ... Jesus.
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  • One single high pr link would perform better than 85% of all those links togheter.
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    • ^^ THIS

      High PR links are still the absolute best and fastest way to rank. Instead of wasting time building spammy, useless links, spend time & money investing in high pr domains and building up your own personal network. Think a couple of steps ahead instead! Spam links aren't a long term play.
    • What he said!


      Don't waste time with this "quality content" crap that people on here preach all day.
  • I understand that content is more important these days, But if we create content on our own site, Will it be anywhere useful?

    I am confused, DO I need to Distubute my content on variety of good sites or just create the content on my own site?
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    • This is what I'm confused about too, if anyone can help clarify that would be great
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  • So post the content on my site then find anyone who wants to link to my content? How would you go about finding people to link to your content? Wouldn't it be easier to use the content for guest blogging on authority sites?
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    • Buy High PR Domains/Sites, Relevant if possible ---> Whois Guard----> Host on unique IP --->Create relevant title/meta/pages ---> Create Content ---> Link to your own money site content ----> Profit

      You're welcome
    • You can guest post as well, but you need to know that your article has to be unique. Furthermore, 80% of the blogs that allow guest posting are quite crappy. They are fulfilled with random topics + most likely you can't get a contextual backlink inside the article (only from resource box). No doubt guest posting is a great way to generate traffic and links and it's mainstream as well, but this is not the best link you can get

      What I meant is that you write an excellent article on some sort of topic (this post should give valuable information or/and help your visitors/readers). And then you find people who would be interested in linking to your article (use e-mails).

      Backlinko has put together a really good article about it, you can read it from here: Link Building Case Study: How I Increased My Search Traffic by 110% in 14 Days
  • Be *very* careful with Directory links or Social Bookmarking links. Google changed their definition of "link schemes" last fall and added a mention for "low-quality directories and social bookmarking sites".
    I would suggest steering away from them unless you know what you're doing.
    See:
    Link schemes - Webmaster Tools Help
  • I've done some more reading on some effective link building methods white hat, and from what I understand link baiting with useful content that other websites and bloggers will want to link out to would be a great idea to build natural relevant links from potential high domain authority websites, which isn't an easy process and usually takes some time

    your link building campaign can't just consist on one method you need to use a variety of different methods of link building such as guest posting, infographic marketing, infographic directories, web 2.0 submissions, directories, trading articles which other related sites, company submissions, and building social media links, etc, etc...

    I found this useful post from some searching:
    http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies
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    Help with Link Building Plan

    Okay so i've been reading as much as I can on seo and link building and have been putting it to work on my own website and have seen an increase in PA, DA, and MR and MT as well as some increases in rankings for my keywords. I wanted you guys to critique my link building plan and see if there is anything I'm missing, not getting right or anything I should add