I think I read an Alex Becker article once that said it's only worth creating 3ish backlinks per web 2.0. After that it doesn't carry much power.

If that is true, then you are better of creating 1 post with a few backlinks and then moving on to a different web 2.0 property.

That is assuming you are just trying to create backlink juice back to your main site.

Creating backlinks from A to B to C (with C being your money site) is the best way to get flagged by Google for artificial backlinks. If you're actually using linkwheels and artificial backlinking still, post Penguin, you will have to be smart about it and mix up your backlinks. Using newly created 2.0 pages and thinking they will actually get you noticed by Google is not a good strategy. There are veteran 2.0, Tumblr/Google pages where you can create high quality comments that would serve your purpose better.

And since they are already indexed and established, the backlinks are not so suspicious or likely to get you or your site(s) flagged for spam.

I'm not talking about scraping 1000 sites from search and feeding them into your software to do this either. All this commenting work has to be done manually. And, you have to use quality comments or you'll get flagged as spam by the site owner and anything you're trying to accomplish will be in vain.

About web 2.0 link, googling Matthew Woodward. Pyramid model is recommended for it.

obviously you will get backlink from web.2.0 sites....but you will not get instant backlink from web 2.0 sites...to get backlink from such site you have to wait....

Web 2.0 sites are also a good source of getting high quality backlinks...... but it depends on the authority of your web 2.0 properties...

The higher ranking your web 2.0 site has in Google, the more benefit you get from the backlinks...

Means treat your web 2.0 site like your money site, create quality content, optimize from every angle to give higher ranking..... then get the benefit of quality backlinks...

It also depends how naturally you are linking your money site to a web 2.0 site...... getting multiple links from one web 2.0 sites is permitted, but they shouldn't be too many, and they should look natural enough...

First, let me say that I like web 2.0's

Second, let me ask - why go through all the effort of building a quality Web 2.0 when you can build your our own mini link network?

Just asking, don't kill me. Is it cost? Cause if your going to go through all the work, at least you own the link network...

I've never understood most link builders on this forum don't rank their backlink source pages for anything, it always looked like a complete waste to me.

Why bother ranking 1 page for a keyword when 2 or 3 ranked pages will bring in more traffic with very little extra work.

What I do is funnel all the traffic back to a single sales page on one of the domains targeting the keyword/s. That gets me multiple domains pumping traffic into a single sales page.

I do remember a few guys around here flaming me for sticking to a single niche (for the most part) over the past few years. What's funny is my ranked domain network pages are always rock solid in the SERPs. Once you have a single authority site setup, the network sites will usually trail in the SERPs for same/similar keywords with a few optimized self hosted links/pages.

It all depends on which tier are you creating tese web 2.0's . If it's tier 1, I would suggest to post 1-2 backlinks in a web 2.0 roperty which has more than 20 articles posted on it. On tier 1, your scope is to make quality. and a web 2.0 property with less than 10-20 articles cannot be considered quality.

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I hear ya. I'm not sure how you calculate cost but mine price out to be in that range normally. I typically won't manually write the content so it can be a bit pricer on some domains, but only because I vary domain size throughout the network.

And like you said, you control it - which was the big deal for me. I began to move more towards the model of "Owning your links" and these seemed a good way to go about it. I don't just use new domains of course, I'll also snatch up some $5-$11 closeouts if it is niche relevant and the backlink profile isn't spam. That's of course, not to say the backlink profile is good/strong either... just not spam.

I like using the closeouts because then I can just download the html from waybackmachine's last cache (or last where the site was present) and then pop a link into a relevant page here or there.

It ends up costing about the same as a new domain in the end. I spend a little more on the auction of course (and GD's privacy cost) but I save on content creation costs and it's literally a 5 minute process to put the domain up.

In rare cases I'll create a new page on those closeout domains, but it's really not common. Normally since I'm only looking at niche relevant domains in them I can put a link in just about anywhere and it will fit acceptably.

But in the end, I own the link.

*And like I said, these are completely supplemental to the primary network sites.

Mike, I didn't understand it from your post - do you use completely new domains or expired domains with good history?

I've been thinking about this method as well (new domains) for good long tail keywords I have, and I would like to know if it's possible. I can also get very good content at $4/article.

Thanks,
nadavs

If your articles are unique, has the best quality and properly optimized for SEO then you must get backlinks from them in few days. As far as i know Google update the backlinks in 15 days.

One more thing how many articles you posting is not the factor. The factor is the quality and SEO optimized article. I am saying this from my experience.

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Its nor recommend to place link with just 5 articles, better post at least 25 to 30 quality articles and then give only one or two links to your money site. (Don't try to give link for the targeted keyword...It should should look like natural) and also give links to the universal sites like Wikipedia or top rated sites which looks like natural linking.