In the previous post Link Building tips for newbies, Part 1, we discussed what backlinks are, how they get traffic to your sites, so now we’ll discuss where to get backlinks.
Here’s a list of sources and methods from which to get backlinks:
Blog commenting and article commenting-
- Leave comments that add value to the discussion on related niche site blogs, then leave backlinks to your site in comments or URL field.
- Yes, you can leave comments on ezinearticles.com’ articles, many of which don’t have any comments, and many “EZAs” attain Page Rank at some point (hardly anyone does this though due to the NoFollow nature of these articles and the fact that the comments field is so hard to find that there’d never be any direct traffic expected from comments!)
- Yes, you can leave comments on news stories sites, too but they’re strict about commenting (hardly anyone does commenting on these authority sites either!)
Forums - signature files, site reviews, and “personal forum blogs”
- Some forums allow for signature files to be put into your forum profile and signature, and as you take part in forum thread discussions, your link gets noticed, and serves as an active backlink until you change it, limited value here.
- Ask for site reviews in certain forums (“Please review my site, how do optimize my title?” or “Please review my sales page…”). Some people are devious about this and ask for reviews for backlinks purposes only, others do it to get real site reviews and feedback.
- Personal blogs are allowed on some forums and this is much like having a Squidoo lens or Hubpage to post to, except for the fact that…like writing “EZAs”, writing just one article will get you ranked, whereas with hubs and lenses you gotta build a whole site basically.
Squidoo Lenses and HubPages
These are two of the most popular web 2.0 style properties that allow you to create mini-sites or even one-page sites on their “real estate” and your content can link back to your sites. You can even link to other lenses or hubs you made, plus add in and link to the RSS feeds from your other sites, too.
These get slapped around by Google every so often and they go thorugh their changes and what-not but they do have the ability to provide higher quality links to your sites, but it take smore work to make the backlinks obtained from Squidoo and HubPages into quality backlinks.
Social bookmarking and social networking sites-
More Web 2.0 style sites at which you can create accounts and profiles and bookmark your favorite urls. A lot of popular social bookmarking sites have been so inundated with backlinks and submissions that almost all of them are NoFollow now, and many more of them are turning into “invite-only” places.
- Digg
- StumbleUpon
- NewsVine
- Technorati
- Mixx
- are just a few of the social bookmarking places you can submit news stories to and get backlinks from
Article marketing - write and publish articles to article directories for direct traffic and backlinks
For extra credit consider syndicating your articles using services like Unique Article Wizard or My Article Network
Press Releases - There are plenty of press release site to submit your “newsie” articles to and 3 sites you should consider are PRLOG.org, WebWire, and PRWEB. One well-written press release can result in hundreds of backlinks due to the back-end syndication these Press Release sites have tied into.
Sore more link building tips:
1- You should strive to attain a variety of backlink types and sources pointing towards your site to appear as having a natural linking pattern.
Having the same keyword used in the anchor text links back to your site won’t seem natural, so you should mix up some of the keywords and phrases used in your articles, news stories, press releases etc…
2- You also don’t want to rely too heavily on one type of link building mechanism (like article syndication through blog networks for instance) because that makes it appear as if you’re only getting one type of backlink, and perhaps seen as only getting backlinks from a certain network although I seriously doubt that an entire blog network will get foot-printed by the search engines.
3- Use 3d party link building services or link building tools to lessen the laborious nature of building backlinks to your site.
4- Automate your backlinking by developing automated linking mechanisms such as a Twitter Link Wheel or a Squidoo or Hub Page link wheel.
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Be careful with that press release tip. If you get too many links too fast Google will sandbox your site and it can take months to get back up in the rankings. That ezine comment is a big one that not many take advantage of.
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Joe, good point there about too much too fast…
However, it’s the consistency that really matters… if “overlinking” is being done, but is kept at that link velocity and new site content is also being added, and traffic is coming to the sites as well, then there’s no harm in this.
But yer right, in that most people will do the Press Releases all at once, then go get different kinds of links, get those all at once etc…. and cause an uneven-ness of sorts that gets seen by the SEs.
Sandboxed sites always make it back into the SEPRs will continued backlinks and sometimes modified the pages for on-page SEO and additional content helps, too.
When I get some urls sandbozed or if they just disappear for a while, I sometimes take that time to revisit my on-page factors and see if there’s more that could be added content-wise, or just better kws utilization and tagging etc…
Thanks for stopping by Joe,
Dan
Its too many links too fast that u don’t continue to do
Right what David said….
Overlinking only means sporadic inconsistent burst linking, not to be confused with aggressive link velocity
press releases are devalued anyway it’s like total noob visits this blog
David, while the PRs might be de-valued, they still rank well in the search engines and the syndication of your content with backlinks = increased link popularity, and there’s never EVER….anything wrong with that.
Great article Daniel. Thank you for posting. An effective social media campaign will definitely drive a huge amount of traffic to a website.
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