What do you think is the best backlink building plan?

[gregdavidson]

I'm pretty much tired of "randomly" building up backlinks because you lose track of things and get unmotivated. I was wondering if anybody here could come up with a "goal-oriented" daily plan for building backlinks. For example, maybe you could submit to 30 directories, find 5 link partners, and write 2 articles in 1 day. Just some random example of a plan I could use. Building backlinks is so boring that I just can't do it. Or maybe I'm just missing a few techniques that other people are using.

[cout12]

All I can say is my friend is super hard working and spend 10-15 hours week posting on forums and blogs, and we have almost 3000 backlinks after 1-2 months of having bought the domain.

[jzarante1231]

Yeah, you are right. If you do things randomly, you sometime get off the track and get demotivated to continue on working. What I did is to create a daily goal before doing something. You can set the numbers yourself. You can do forum posting, blog comments, article submission and bookmarking. Or you can add to that list as you go on. Set your specific number for it. Just vary it to make it more natural.

[AngelaE8654]

My program gives people 30 High Page Rank, Authority backlinks every month. This is designed so that people can put up one link every day. :)

[ourktm]

My backlink building plan is also not goal oriented. I submit to a random number of directories on random days, the same is with link exchanges.

I wish we could be more constant while building links.

[addlinkurl]

you should try social bookmarking. and also you can sponsor useful things.

[richromo]

Building back links is sort of like taking a hike in the wilderness. Plans, goals and strategies are a great idea but staying with them is the key. Usually when I begin working in the morning I have a goal of how many links I want to add and very roughly where I want to add them from, then comes a dose of reality.

I always find sites/ articles that I did not anticipate and then my plan starts to lose focus as I am exploring that avenue. Some days I am able to follow the plan, others not. Particularly at first it is easy to become unfocused and lose motivation. Develop a plan, try to follow it as best you can but be very flexible. Part of learning this stuff is being able to respond to differant opportunities, being open to new ideas. The learning curve is high and one of the reasons building quality links is a job for weeks and months, not hours and days.

[linkbuildr]

Richromo has got it right. Set those goals and achieve them!

[wsitehelp]

i try 5-10 each day, still very hard to be motivated. Seeing the backlink count increasing every week is only motivation i get. Use my site to buy stuff online if your shopping online in US.

[aslanbash]

I think the good one is banner advertisement on a high page rank site.

I want to give banner advertisement for my two sites. but I don't know how I choose sites what I ll give advertisements..

[AnonymousUser]

Ive stoped with directories, There useless for traffic and for PR imo, I know every link counts by theres not many directories that have a PR assigned for every catagory, So your backlink is coming from a PR 0 or N/A Url

[gregdavidson]

There are a few directories out there that will deliver you traffic. It's usually the ones that make you write a really long description. That's because most people are forced to write something unique since they can't submit the description that they're using on every other directory.

[yousellstuff]

i am having the same problem as you

[Indrajit]

Initially I have started using some tools which collects some links for me with their contact ID but sending mails through it waisted a lot of time.

After that I have started posting at some link building forums and blogs, registered in some link building program on the web but the mails I got are from professional link builders with some spamy link pages,

now I am collecting back link of my competitors and manually contacting them though it is taking time but the result are some how satisfactory.

But I am also looking for some thing better than this...

[DomainGamer]

The best advice here is to maintain your discipline. It's very hard to stay focused on building backlinks when it sometimes takes weeks for Yahoo or Google to pick them up. My only motivation is opening Y Site Explorer and seeing the #'s slowly go up.

[seo999]

You Submit Daily Your Site in Forums, Social Bookmarking Sites and More Focus in Link Building

[hurlinghamclinic]

you can try social book marking, social media questioning and answering.

[pipes]

Submit to as many directories as you can daily and mix it with some good blog commenting, i find that brings good results.

[michaelpa]

Best way to make as much as possible backlinks, Specially Social bookmarking site, like digg.com, propeller.com, youtube.com

[gregdavidson]

Most social bookmarking sites make your backlinks "nofollow" and blog posting is a questionable way of building backlinks for SEO purposes. I even recall reading somewhere that it's considered "black hat seo" but I haven't confirmed that.

[mithil]

One should plan a stratergy to build links for a website. Also, if you have a e-commerce website then you cannot submit its pages to the social networking sites. They will ban the profile.

[olivercarding]

Whenever i try and increase my links i normally work on doing it for a period of time, say 30 mins

[gettingthere]

There's an easier way to do this. Find a few very active forum posters out there and pay them to insert your website into their signature. This works great! You will end up with thousands of backlinks.

[seoemporium]

Link building is very boring, no doubt about that. But if you can get past the tedium you can succeed. The key is to think about your end goal and not the boring task you are performing. This is what I try to do:

- Start off slow. Don't do too much at once.
- Get 4-5 very good, authoritative links first. These are the ones you have to pay $$ for. Think yahoo directory.
- Look into one-way links through niche specific forums and blogs.
- A good paid press release helps.
- Slow and steady wins the race!

[converter]

Link building is the most tedious of tasks and I fall asleep after looking at just a few directories. Therefore I no longer really look for links to build PR as such. I come to DP and look for someone that can help me out with links if I think they are legit, and should I come across a good site I contact them for advertising. I'm more interested in the traffic value rather than PR value of the sites that I advertise on.

[domainpubber]

Some great ideas here already; building quality links is hard work and there is no easy way. While submitting quality reviews to good directories is a way to get a new site rolling, you need to do a lot better than that if you want to rank in your niche. I have a LOT of sites, so I'll give you one example of a strategy I have found to be quite successful.

First, you have to know your niche and get connected within that community; social networks like StumbleUpon and Digg will bring you traffic if you get random links but they are all nofollow and as previously mentioned you or your site will get banned if you all you do is submit your own sites and posts!

You have to add value to your community. So for my site about window blinds (http://www.windowblindstips.com/) what I did was find niche forums that are on "authority" sites for home decorating. I try to find forums that do not use VBulletin or other mainstream forum scripts since those are not as valuable as ones that use custom scripts.

As an example, for this window blinds site, I find home decorating forums and registered. After getting to know some of the regular visitors there and seeing what problems they are trying to solve, I start posting USEFUL replies that link to RELEVANT topics on my own sites and others that I think are also valuable and helpful to the community.

So, for instance, one member on the Garden Web Home Decorating forum (http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/decor/) needed to know how to cover arched palladium windows (http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/decor/msg1020161511681.html?8321) so I replied with some good tips and a link to a relevant post on my window blinds tips site about Arched Window Treatments (http://www.windowblindstips.com/tips/arched-window-treatments.htm). The link is dofollow and is not spam since it is useful and on topic.

I could give you many other examples but you have to know your niche and get involved in your community to make this strategy work. Yes, it takes time and a lot of effort, but the results are far more valuable than trying to get thousands of links from low value, unrelated sites or ezines article sites in my experience.

It's really more about quality than quantity but if you plan and work diligently you can build quite a large number of links naturally and steadily over time. This is what produces good search results and brings your sites quality traffic.

[drjupitor]

I'm pretty much tired of "randomly" building up backlinks because you lose track of things and get unmotivated. I was wondering if anybody here could come up with a "goal-oriented" daily plan for building backlinks. For example, maybe you could submit to 30 directories, find 5 link partners, and write 2 articles in 1 day. Just some random example of a plan I could use. Building backlinks is so boring that I just can't do it. Or maybe I'm just missing a few techniques that other people are using.

That depends on what you want. If your aim is to get good pr than you should make a plan for about an hour a day to submit to free directories of your niche. this is the plan i am using right now and i got PR4 and PR3 for my two blogs in 4-5 months. But remember you should not get tired of doing same thing doing everyday.

[flashgordonweb]

I take the long-term approach to link building. I submit to directories one day a week, blog comment a little every morning, and do forums twice a week. I also try and utilize free press releases (http://www.bauuinstitute.com/Marketing/PressRelease1.html)as much as possible in between. Seems to work pretty well for me.

[foreststone]

The best way is try your best to get back link from any website related to yours and never stop this work :)

[cowy]

For seo purpose, I usually do some blog commenting and post the anchor text in my another blog. However, you also can outsource the work. Just pay $10 for professional and approved blog commenting gives me really good result.

Oh yeah, make sure put the link in relevant content, or the link will considered as spam

[ronmac]

Set youself a motivational goal or target. say x number of backlinks a week etc.
search for the same niche as yours and concentrate on these first

[shortanswer]

Several of you have advised discussion forum and community participation. Does Google attribute more value to multiple (signature or otherwise) links from the same domain? I thought only one link counts. Do search engines treat forum links differently?

[domainpubber]

Several of you have advised discussion forum and community participation. Does Google attribute more value to multiple (signature or otherwise) links from the same domain? I thought only one link counts. Do search engines treat forum links differently?

Most forums allow you to post links so they don't all have to point to one URL; by linking to useful posts on your site you can help others while also helping yourself :D

[gettingthere]

There's always the option of outsourcing. For my case, I got so tired of doing the same thing over and over again that I outsourced it to submitedge.com (http://www.submitedge.com). These guys did a very good job of using a combination of techniques - articles, directories, social bookmarking and more.

I signed up with one of their packages and today my site is PR5 in just 4 months. Not too sure if it is entire their work that improved my PR but I am sure they did contribute. But remember that content is KING.

Cheers.

[river]

Articles & Social Bookmarking

[zortag]

OK I admit I'm biased but I think the best backlinking approach is the system in my signature (Neurolinker). It give one way links from related websites by matching up your site with related sites from the 1100+ sites already in the network. It also has article marketing with an article spinner for unique articles built in, and it now has a collaborative social bookmarking system to get you permanent one way links from social BM sites. And it is one of the least expensive systems on the market, costing way less than most of you spend on DP services each month.

[cipals15]

For example,

You are creating about an article about dogs and you are targeting "dogs" keyword. Search it on the three search engine giants. Copy all Top 5 sites in the results. Use Analyze Backlinks (http://resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com/2008/09/analyze-backlinks-and-linked-text.html). Acquire a backlink from all the sites that link to the top 5 sites in the search results.

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[Dhvanesh]

There are a few directories out there that will deliver you traffic.

traffic from directories:confused: I don't think so.

I try to find forums that do not use VBulletin or other mainstream forum scripts since those are not as valuable as ones that use custom scripts.

How do u find that such forums have used Vbulletin script? And, is there any specific reason that such forums are not as valuable as ones that use custom scripts:confused:

[Dhvanesh]

Hey,

I realized that forum posting is one of the best link building method coz most of u guys believe as well.

Forum posting is my main task among the various SEO stuffs and now I love my job more and more... lol Thanks... :)

[LinkStrong]

I think that google is completely discounting directory back links because they resemble link farms and are just a bunch of links in a list. I have a couple sies with 10-15k backlinks and they do not do nearly as well in the serps as the sites with 5000 or so quality links. If a link exchange partner puts your link in a directory on their site that is not indexed then what good did it do. Concentrate on quality and the results will come. Results will prove to be motivating as well as the $ that come with it.

[LinkStrong]

Also don't think that article distributions or link schemes that send a article to hundreds of blogs will work. These pages hardly ever get indexed on the blogs they go on. Plus you don't want your links on a bunch of peoples sites who are grasping at straws.

Forum posts don't work either. Look. Everyone has these links on their signatures. But look at the pages they're on. These pages get archived and not indexed.If you have seo quake installed on firefox you can see that they have no google cache date. That means google will never see the links. So whats the point.

[Dhvanesh]

Also don't think that article distributions or link schemes that send a article to hundreds of blogs will work. These pages hardly ever get indexed on the blogs they go on. Plus you don't want your links on a bunch of peoples sites who are grasping at straws.

Forum posts don't work either. Look. Everyone has these links on their signatures. But look at the pages they're on. These pages get archived and not indexed.If you have seo quake installed on firefox you can see that they have no google cache date. That means google will never see the links. So whats the point.

So what do u think? according to u which are the best link building tactics?

[mdvaldosta]

How come nobody said "write good content"? That's the best plan. Then again, these days I guess that's overrated, what with directories, article marketing, social bookmarking, etc.

I'll tell you one thing that doesn't work, and that's regurgitating the same article on 400 article directories filled with copies of other articles just like it.

[sitebizz]

Does those backlink in social bookmarking site stay permanently?

[olopsman]

link building can be frustrating, specially when you check your hit stats and the directories you submitted to is not giving traffic.

[5593907]

A marketer named Michelle MacPhearson puts out a great free e-book that provides a daily plan for building links. Her site is located here: http://socialmediadaily.com. Note that I'm not affiliated with her in any way. Her plan is clearly mapped out and gives you some great linking resources as well as a step by step daily method.