The Best and Only Backlink SEO Strategy you should be using for your website!

About Me: I've been doing SEO before it was even termed SEO (back in the just fillout the metadata and h1 tag days). I've got just under 20 websites with top 10 rankings on all 3 search engines under my belt, and I believe in sharing and spreading the knowledge...especially to those newer at the SEO game.

A Short Word About Backlinks:
Backlinks are integral to every aspect of your internet marketing strategy whether it be articles, videos, link exchanges, etc. You need backlinks.

In my experience I've found that if you're going to focus your backlink campaign energy on anything then focus on what has the greatest impact.

This has to be arguably
1)Hubpages (Squidoo, Hubpages.com, etc)
2)Articles (Zimbio,Ezine,GoArticles) and
3)Blog comments (from relevant blogs)

Wait a minute! What about Social Bookmarking? Well bookmarks are considered "soft links" and although they give short bursts of traffic they provide real long-term value for search engine rankings. Make them less than 20% of your total website backlinks or you may get penalized.

1) Hubpages - You only need to focus on two main sites. Squidoo(http://www.squidoo.com) and Hubpages (http://www.hubpages.com). Build out a really in-depth, hub/lens of value and indiscreetly point your lens back to your site. Keep updating your hubpage/lens as time moves on to keep it fresh. You will be rewarded and this type of link is invaluable in the long-run

2) Articles - You only need to focus on three main sites. Ezinearticles (http://www.ezinearticles.com), Zimbio (http://www.zimbio.com) and GoArticles (http://www.goarticles.com). Ezine gives more long-lasting link juice while GoArticles is good for a quicker short-burst items such as news stories and celebrity gossip. There are other great article sites, but you're a successful webCEO so you're BUSY right?!! Like I said you only have a limited amout of time so spend it wisely and NO duplicate content -- reword if you're really lazy.

3) Comments - This is where I see many young marketers go wrong. They waste there time on low PR, random topic blogs. This may even hurt your ranking. Listen up! You only want backlinks from your site from High PR, High Authority blogs such as edu blogs. There are only a couple out there but use a free tool like EduBlogFinder (http://http://www.edublogfinder.com) and combine it with Seoquake. Only leave meaningful comments so they wont get deleted on edu blogs of PR3 or above. You only need 3 of these a day. That's it!

I'd love to see someone do a case study and only follow this exact strategy on a non-ranked website of 10 pages or more. I assure you that it will be ranked top 10 for a few long-tail keywords in less than month. Prove me wrong!

Anyone disagree?

Happy SEOing guys?

 

wew thx,..

 

Ok , but my question is , how do i promote , or off-seo my website Jocuri mancare as its not a blog so i can submit my articles to ezine - goarticles etc , i cannot digg it or hub it. I can :
link exchange with related websites
submit it to directories
comment on do-follow blogs ( but sadly they are not related to my niche )
forum posting
buying links from high pr websites ( but i dont do that )

But the bottom question is : What if , all i'm doing its not enough ? What should i do beside this ?

 

A few points to add to OP:
1. Blog commenting: don't just go for high pr blogs but for relevant blogs, it would be a nice idea to post comments on nofollow blogs now and then, it will look more natural and some search engines will still count them.
2. Submit to a few very good directories like business.com, yahoo, dmoz.
3. Participate in relevant forums, it's quite difficult as your posts must be very good, otherwise you'll get banned, and you might drop a few links there. In return you'll get a few links and mainly, traffic. It's just like a word of mouth.

 

sound like a great strategy, I will give it a try thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us

 

As the dude above said, relevant blogs and forums really does work well.

 

Thanks!
I am going to put these to use and give you some feedback on how it went

 

You're welcome!

 

Nice post openmindz.
That is basically the strategy that I use with 2 exceptions:

1. Squidoo - Don't use them due to their random enforcement of the change in their TOS. Also, their popularity in the search engines seems to have fallen off. At least for what I search for.

2. I submit the same article to 8 - 10 directories instead of 3. The extra time it takes to submit them is minimal compared to the results.

Oh, and I haven't tried the blog route. Might have to give that a shot

Thanks for the tips!!
Zeek

 

Thanks guys.

I left out the 'word" relevant under blogs. Now sometimes it's difficult in finding blogs that are specific to your exact topic but if you can find an article on a High PR edu blog that deals with your subject matter (you only need to match 1-2 words) then you're golden.

Also, I'd like to point out this is for the busy webceo (that's what you should think of yourself as) on a budget and short of time. I feel that giving someone a list of 10 articles sites, 15 hubsites, 100 directories to submit to and so forth is too daunting.

Apply Brian Tracy's theory in that you should focus your efforts on what will bring the more immediate result(s).

Oh, and Squidoo still works great. Don't worry about the new TOS just build a lens that adds value to the site and don't spam the heck out of your topic.

If you guys want a killer Squidoo tutorial I'll put one up in another thread and I guarantee mine will get you better results than anyone!

 

eLeSlash, you have alot of work to do at jocuri-degatit.info. The first thing is you want to lower your density for the term "Cooking Games" and wrap that baby in an <h1> tag at the top. Wrap the first instance of "Food Games" in an <h2>.

Secondly, you absolutely can create a hubpage that links back to your article. You simply have to build the hubpage around the topic of cooking, but devote at least one section to cooking games.

Don't link exchange and don't buy links. Do the article submission thing and do a ton of blog commenting. Any blog that even mentions food is fine, but if you find an entire blog dedicated to food then of course that's relevancy at it's finest.

Let me know if you need any help with your hubpage.

-openmindz

 

thank! i'm learning seo thank for tutorial

 

Thanx openmind for the review, i reallly need some help with my hubpage as i first hear about it today. Isnt it better if i write an article about cooking or maybe cooking games and submit it to ezinearcitles - goarticles ?

 

Let me know which thread its in.

 

Thax for sharing the cool tips.

 

Great tips, especially about the .edu finder.
I would love to read your Squdoo tutorial, please let us know where it is!
Rep given!

 

eLeSlash - you don't just want to blindly submit your articles to the directories. There is a science behind. You want to first create your hubpage then point your articles to your hubpage and your hubpage to your website. You are passing the linkjuice upward. It is not bad to place 1 link to the hubpage and 1 to the website from the article either. If you need any help with the hubpage just send me a pm.

I'm going to post a killer Squidoo tutorial later this week. It's going to knock your socks off.

Go get that money people!

-openmindz

 

Nice piece of advice. I had tried some in the past and it does work! However I also believe it helps a lot submitting to some quality directories.

 

Really great tips! and will surely give it a try..

 

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the great feedback and I'd be happy to elaborate on any points covered here so far. For now I'm going to concentrate on the Squidoo Lens Building tutorial I promised everyone. Link:http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1507424

Here's the thing. I don't just want to pass the information along, I want people to come back and share their success stories. Maybe my ideas inspired you to try something different and I can also learn from you as well.

Please share both your progress and success stories in either this thread or the new one so we can all learn and grow together.

-openmindz