Why do people bother with link exchange when they could be posting as many links as they like with good article publishing sites? I've used this strategy with yet another new website for the past 14 days and got the site to #11 (top of page 2) after 4 days. Articles I've published about the website with links to various of it pages and front page have appeared on page 1 for its main keyword. The site was my top adsense earner yesterday. All this has cost nothing and I don't have to add logos from link exchange directories which look absolutely rubbish. In addition, some of my articles I've published on the article publishing site earn £100 a year every year and that takes into account a 50% adsense share but not more adsense revenue from posting the articles elsewhere and that achieved from traffic to the sites they promote.
So, it's better to build links through article submissions than link exchanges? Please share your thoughts.
I would argue that a sitewide 3 way link exchange is much more valuable than an article submission. When you do article submissions, the link you get isnt a high pr itself, the web2.0 site has a high pr. That makes a huge difference.
Links from SOME article directories are very good, but you have to build links from other sources too. I use TOPICAL blog comments, TOPICAL forum posts and article writing as my main methods of link building. Would never risk paid links.
My first recomendation to build links is article marketing and i spend more than $300/mon on article marketing services. but to be honest you will never get a PR5 back links from articles.
There are lots of lists of article directories on DP - I've started to use some but given up as they all demand an exchange or payment - many only have about 12 links - they should pay us. Article submission does work 1) to get the site you promote in the articles up the SERPs and 2) sometimes they get your article to page 1 and people come to your site via that
IMHO, moderate link exchanges (a few links) that make sense and are with industry-relevant sites are just fine. They can bring some relevant traffic. Although they have no SEO value in terms of passing link juice, they still the contribute to the "organic" or "natural" quality of your link profile (which should not contain only high-PR quality links but also other links, including *some* nofollow links and even links from deindexed pages). In a word, mix it up, but don't waste a lot of time on link exchanges or hope to get SEO benefits from them.
Hi, I am very new to this and still have not figured out how to build links. I noticed one of my competition websites is getting links from a World News website , which is pR7. I now have to find a way to learn link building. It seems difficult so far... but, I like what I read here so far.
What matters is the PR of the linking page, not the PR of the home page (PR generally diminishes from the home page downward. For all the link building information you want, check out my signature.
what i have experience this fast few months ago that links is not really important , for someone maybe,, but I see a lot of sies that are less in backlinks but so high in rank and in their serps, What i want to believe if you really have a quality post . then the Big G loves it...
Generally speaking I think it's pretty easy to understand that most likely the best links are going to be the ones which take the most effort to obtain. For example an article takes much more effort (in theory) then a link exchange....most times the article is going to be more valuable. That being said, I'd be shocked if articles that were just published had any PR to their individual pages yet. After 6 months, maybe, but not immediately.
Yeah, when an article is submitted a new page is created. So it will NOT have any PR immediately. the OP meant the domain has a PR 5.
I guess that all methods are useful. Link building should be done from every ponit - not only link exchange, but also articles, press releases, blogs and forums. It is only the whole complex that will bring good results to your PR and Link Popularity.
I agree that article submission to high PR article directories are better than link exchange, and yes, at some point exchanging links with other blogs is in most times, a waste of time. 1associate has a strong point here. The problem also in exchanging links with other blogs is that the blogger of that blog may stop posting at some point in time and would greatly affect the rank of the site which is not good for our blog too.
Article and Directory is needed for building back link as same as Link Building, and i say one word those who think that Link Building for a particular site is a Bad thing they extremely wrong because the link site cache rate is much faster than an article site cache.