SEO advice from experts needed.

Hey Dex,

Different people have different strategies of course, but what works for me and everyone that I consult with is a mix of the following:

1) High PR/PA/DA relevant backlinks (contextual, homepage): This is where your main ranking power is going to come from.
2) Web 2.0 (juiced up with backlinks, high PA 30+): These are for your Brand, URL, misc anchors to give you a nice rounded anchor text distribution
3) Social bookmarks: Not going to help you rank but acts as a social signal and helps to even out the anchor text as well
4) Social shares: For keeping rank stability and justifying the backlinks

I don't touch article directories, forum signatures, blog comments, etc. Sure they can work... In some cases they can help, and in some cases they can harm. But I avoid it simply because its not worth the time invested.

Hope this helps,
Diggity

The way to create quality links in 2014 and beyond is creating a private blog network.

Many SEO companies are building private blog networks now.

The reason why this works is there is no common pattern Google can detect.

Quality links comprises of:

Quality content
High PR Domain
Relevance

Apparently, you are still doing things the wrong way.

I suggest you pause your SEO campaign and learn the ins and outs first of all..

As an SEO consultant and head of my own firm, I can advise you the following without giving away the farm

1) Web 2.0
Benefits:
- A combination of social media, blogspot, wordpress.com can help you get indexed very very fast.
- Can provide results for very low competition long-tail keywords
- If done properly, can increase avg time on page and decrease bounce rate (which indirectly boosts SEO)
Disadvantages:
- Minimal direct SEO impact

Unique articles on article directories
Benefits:
- Assuming you don't spam the same anchor text backlinks and vary the webpages you link to (e.g. home & inner pages), it can help you can ranked decently for low competition long-tail keywords
Disadvantages:
- Used to be very effective a long time ago before Google's Penguins, Pandas, e.t.c. animals came in.
- Minimal results now

Blog on your domain
Benefits:
- Get traffic (and if content is useful/relevant, increases avg time on page & reduce bounce rate - indirectly improving SEO)
- Helps you get ranked for relatively low competition, long-tail keywords
Disadvantages:
- None if you provide great and relevant content on your website's blog

The most effective way remains this:
+ Combination of varying anchor text & image backlinks
+ From relevant, authoritative websites (differing IP addresses as well)
+ linking to various webpages within your website (e.g. not only your home page.)

That's about it. Hope I answered you You can PM me if you want to find out more.

Good luck!