OK guys apparently the world changed and some of you didn’t notice. Ironic really, I’ve heard plenty of people whinging about not being able to get good backlinks. Or asking for alternatives to Build My Rank because the BMR blogs didn’t look “real” and weren’t niche specific.
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You want links from relevant sites.
You want links from sites with PR, authority and even traffic.
Then you get an opportunity to join just such a network - and you spam it with crappy spun-content from your favourite fiverr outsourcer!
Come on guys! Obviously I need to review backlinks 101 for you guys – maybe some of you never knew, some of you forgot, some of you just don’t want to hear it.
Some links are worth more than others!
I started a new site – 3 weeks later it was a PR3 – three months later its still PR3 and on page 1 for its desired keyword? What did I do? I gave it one single link from a PR3 site which I controlled which was relevant to the niche and didn’t have too many outbound links.
It not rocket science, it hasn’t changed any time recently. Some links are more useful than others. When you have access to strong links you will find it easier to rank your websites.
People just don’t get it. So I’ll try to use short sentences: see if that helps. Here, in order of good, better, best are the jewels of backlinks – backlinks in unique content. Of course you can get other types of backlinks – you can get backlinks from Twitter and Facebook, you can do blogroll exchanges and bookmarking runs. But these are the best of the best; in increasing order of quality:
Developing a Unique Snippet for an in Content Link
- Identify your keyword, and some variations, include “useless” links including “click here and “mysite.com”.
- Outsource snippet writing to either a cheap country or spin it (well) so that it will pass a human editor.
- Post to a network like BuildMyRank where all sites are pretty similar in style, and generic in terms of niche.
- This will give you an OK backlink - the site you post to will probably retain its post rank, but probably doesn’t have much authority.
Developing a Guest Post
- Identify the site you want to post to – look at what type of content they have, what categories and tags they are using. Ideally you will post an article promoting your travel site to another travel site.
- If you find a relevant website- write on a topic that is different from what they have just published – if the site just published an article about about Blue Widgets for Xmas – don’t write another article about Blue Widgets for Xmas!
- You may in fact get some eyeballs on your post – but even if you don’t, you have helped the site retain and grow its authority, as the post ages, the value of this backlink will only increase.
- Postrunner is part of the Keyword Academy - and although the service is not perfect – there are some good sites in there if you look, that will provide this type of link.
Developing a GREAT Guest Post
- Find a really a site that has authority, PR and even traffic.
- Write three posts for it: link the three together but only link out to your site in one of them.
- Build links to the post above by using whatever cheap and nasty system you have to hand.
- You will see that its not about the number of backlinks – its about quality of backlinks.
- I’m personally having a great time finding relevant blogs on SEO Cobra - but if you missed out, you will have to wait until they open the doors again.
So where do you find those places to post? Well you can develop your own, or you can subscribe to a service. Developing our own “source of links” is probably the safest solution, but its slow, tedious work to develop. It can get expensive too when you remember you don’t actually want to interlink your money sites.
For many people, using a paid-for service is cost effective move.
But for goodness sakes – don’t trash the good backlink services! Plenty have been and gone, at least in terms of effectiveness: Linkvana, Backlink Solutions – spring to mind.
If you only ever like to eat out while throwing food around and getting drunk – then head for the local diner or pub. If you prefer soft-lights and sophisticated cuisine – go to your local 5-star restaurant. I will eat at both depending on my mood: but I’d don’t behave the same way in each!
Way to go and wade into those damn link spammers! When will people realize that things have changed and Google doesn’t pay much attention to crappy links any more?
But its good for us – less competition that really knows what its doing.
In fact, hell, please continue folks. Just as you were. Xbummer and Scrapeshit rule!
I’m sort of glad that hardly anyone ever really listens to me and what I’ve been saying for years about building your own sites to provide those super strength links that no one else can have! Please keep ignoring me, cause what do I know LMFAO!
OK I won’t tell anyone you were right Terry – you probably shouldn’t either though!
SY’s right, the bulk of IMers won’t work our way because it really is a lot of hard work, long hours writing… so much writing… so, so much writing… sob!
Who wants to do all that? Maybe they’ve been listening to me all along, but its not what they want to hear.
Definitely an interesting take. I can’t help thinking that blog networks would remain effective if the people submitting to them actually thought like bloggers and not like link spammers.
If they posted good quality content, they would probably benefit from visitors and link juice.
Darren you are a genius – its not that flipping hard guys!
I also find it is often easier to rank at ezinearticles.com, or similar sites like hubpages.com, because they already have a lot of authority. If you are promoting a offline business that is useful to know. If you want to promote a online business, make sure your web site has a lot of original content that interlinks with each other, has good keyword research, and has plenty of backlinks and you will be fine. You can promote your site using forums, blog comments, and similar methods if you are not too spammy and add value.
When did you last try this with hubpages Cassy – I’ve tested it and their automatic authority of HP is long gone
“…- and you spam it with crappy spun-content from your favourite fiverr outsourcer! ” I think it is a attitude problem, many people still chase the dream of “getting rich over night without any effort. People who do this simply don’t want to work / put any effort in anything they do. I bet the sites they linked to looked also very poorly! I noticed that back in the days when I had a site in Postrunner. Great articles linked typically to great sites and poor articles linked to poor sites, SY
but doing on that spinning and submitting actually takes more time than actually writing a couple of decent articles SY -that’s why I don’t bloody get!
That is where the attitude comes in and the outsourcer!
Hey Lis, this is right on! This is one of the best and clearest explanations I’ve seen for explaining the quality of links and how to go about getting the ones that really matter. Very nicely done!
Hey Lis,
I really admire and appreciate your firm and well fabricated drilling on how to get valuable backlinks.I always focus on “Developing a GREAT Guest Post” strategy because i do believe that quality matters a lot than quantity.”SEO Cobra” was an update for me,i should check it out.I do agree with Terry’s response also,if folks continue to make crappy links then it would definitely going to help genuine persons like us.
Thank you Lis for sharing such a great,valuable,informative and considerable content with us.
Good Luck and God Bless!!
With Regards!
Samuel Joshua
“Developing a GREAT Guest Post” and linking to your guest post(s) is probably the easiest and most effective way to build backlinks to your good sites. It helps you and it helps the site where you post it.
It’s amazing how little this is used in the right way.
I just got an even better variation on this one RT – I submitted a “guest post” new a new online mag – they was a backlog so i had to wait 6 weeks or so, but not only did they publish with my do follow link but they also paid ME $15 – how good is that!
Very good! Care to share this great new resource? Sam the dog is running up a vet bill, broke his toe rather badly, and extra funds would be welcome. Saying this and looking at your ‘wait six weeks’ remark, perhaps that wouldn’t help much …
Could work for you SY as they have a photos section as well: http://www.vagabundomagazine.com/want-to-contribute/
Thanks will look into it, I have a lot of travel photos just clocking up my hard drive
SY
“clocking” – I love it, not quite how I’d say it though maybe more “clogging” – unless they are ticking that is!
I will probably go back to keyword academy soon. I have some infobarrel articles that need links desperately. Looking forward to building at least 25 links per infobarrel article to see how that goes. What I found interesting was that while I was a member I built a lot of links to one of my sites and saw little movement. I stopped building links to take care of other things in life and after some months the links hit or something and the site started to get decent traffic. Lol, and I thought the link aging thing was just a myth. Wonder how my site would be doing if I kept building links…
yeah I am sure that google has a delay filter – to get rid of the easily put-off wanna-bes!
Hello Liz,
Backlinks 101 eh? It’s always worth a little reminder about what works well.
I’ve been using BMR for about 18 months now I think. I have the $ 59 unlimited submissions plan – great value for money. Of course, you need to use it and submit articles – but it works very well for me.
The main concern I have is that it will be outed by Google at some point. It has been almost too good for too long – but that may be due to the rather strict quality controls that they have in place.
It seems that everywhere I look these days, bloggers are singing the praises of BMR – even some fairly mainstream blogs.
Link diversity is good of course, so I think that I will be taking at look at SEO Cobra when it reopens its doors next year. I signed up for your newsletter – presumably you will drop a reminder into my inbox at the appropriate time.
Finally, I just need to take issue a little with your comment that HubPages has lost its mojo. I know that it got hit pretty hard by Google. I have seen a fall in traffic to my Hubs – but not anything catastrophic. They are also harder to rank than they were previously. However, I am finding that it’s still not too difficult to get them to PR2 or PR3 with a little (BMR) backlink love – so I think that HP still has some value for backlinking to your money sites.
Hamish – I’m a low down Z-List blogger of course I will let you know when you can spend money with me! RE hubs – I’m not seeing new hubs rank like they used to ie with no effort from me! I am also really unhappy about how they are stuffing up the ways to make money on their site – their latest is that Iwon’t be able to use Amazon direct there come Jan
Hi Lis,
I love your post, I think I’m one of your follower now. As I have said last comment I post in one of your blog (If you accept it) That I’m planning to create a simple blog site. After reading your two post I have come to a conclusion that earning money online and creating business online is not done overnight. It is not easy but it is not hard either. I just need to be strong and have perseverance in everything I do to gain success. If ever my future plans will come to pass can I bookmark this page and ask for help from an expert like you?
It’s simple, focus on creating great content and the rest will follow. In the case of back linking, you’ll need to work, but having great content will also help as others will distribute your content, therefore getting back links!
The idea of three guest posts and driving the link authority to one of those guest posts is golden idea. Never thought of it myself before.
And you can make it count even more if you throw a nice small linking campaign from your other sources to that one linking guest post to make it even more effective
Old Griz trick Sami – sure you knew and just forgot about it! Hows the big man and reindeers going in your part of the world?