Gents, As many of you may have noticed, increasing SERP for old sites is a relatively easy task: write content, get more backlinks, marketing in a straightforward way. For new sites the things are not that cloudless. You probably should balance the amount of backlinks per month, use only quality link sources, write only original content. And all this do not guaranty any improvements in SERP at all. Just to give an example of an approach, I always submit new sites to high-PR press-release services to get only super-backlinks first. Then add medium-quality links very slowly: ~100 per month. What kind of approaches do you use to rise up new sites? Any particular ways you apply to make it fast but safe, without any penalties? Interested to here your points.
My approach is to: - write articles and submit to article directories - submit site to high PR directories with huge traffic - blog commenting - forum posting This really works for me.
The most successful method i have approached for new websites was social bookmarking, but it is very hard to do and can be used on rare occasions. You make some very high quality content, that would be interesting for lots of people and get it on digg frontpage and it spreads viraly, on forums and other social sites, next day you have your keyword in the first positions.
I found that the most successful way is to get contextual links - they are the most powerful imho. However, the best strategy is to vary your incoming links. Never should you rely on a single source for your backlinks. And you should also pay attention that your keyword is in the anchor text as often as possible.
prweb.com and webwire.com are my two favorite press release sites. Something keep in mind when doing social bookmarking. Not all of the social bookmarking site offer do-follow links, so check first before doing that.
Guys, thanks, I see some fresh and qualified answers here. Related detalizations from my side, if I may: How do you get them? I have not seen any stable/solid network providing contextual links. Digging on the front page of Digg - you must be a magician ;-) Seriously, do you build of of set of accounts on these SB and forums and reuse them every time? Might be 'bannable' if used for promotion of the same sites multiple time, isn't it? Or there some tricks you apply. Never used webwire, what is their actual distribution database? How many of your pr-copies do you see in Google after distribution?
There are a few networks that offer good services. As far as I know one of the best is blog blueprint. If you want a more complete review of available networks visit this site: http://linkvanareviews.com/ (I don't own it and I'm not an affiliate)
Which is very rare nowadays. Unfortunately, I have not found any valuable info about contextual/in-content backlinks via the link you provided. Regarding blueprint, I do not trust any services who sell/promote the idea of autoblogs (pure garbage explosion in my sense).
It's exactly the same as article marketing only you don't post your articles on ezinearticles, goarticles or some other article directory, you post them on private sites. That's the whole deal. And exactly as in the article directory, case it's totally up to you if you want to post garbage or something that brings some value to the user. I'm not questioning your principles, I'm just saying that you should take a better look before forming an opinion on things because not everything is what it seems to be at first glance. Cheers
Indeed, this is just my personal attitude, formed by my current occupation, where I really hold a fight with autoblogs trying to enter our network. Despite the fact that some articles on them are good, the autoblogs themself look really ugly - just a bunch of unrelated, mixed and bad formed texts. And rarely any design at all. Also, I have quite a doubt that google will like your links at such 'sites' (still my speculations here - never used autoblog posting in my daily seo).
You're right....most of the blogs in the networks don't have a nice design. This is indeed one of the problems, but it's does't really affect the SEO results. The fact is though, that they really do help your ranks. And until now, Google never slapped these kind of networks so they're working quite good.
I'm not a magician, but i have a friend who is power user and in top 100 digg members, so with descent content he reaches frontpage easily.
The consistency of the backlinks is as important, if not more important, as the quality and quantity of backlinks. Alot of site owners backlink their site alot for the first week or two, then stop. Continued backlinking will show Google your site has value and is growing in popularity.