Dear DP members, I have a few questions for you:- Do you spend some time - everyday - for link building purpose? Do you have a schedule for it in your everyday routine? Do you try to get original links from other sites/blogs not owned by you? Or do you have some other sites and you send links to your main site? Do you ever 'buy' links? Does it help in the long run? How often do you count your back links? Do you check for lost links? Suppose today you have total 10 back links, tomorrow if comes down to 7, how seriously and how fast would you work for compensating those number of lost links so that your rankings doesn't get affected? Lastly, do you find the above questions worth asking or they seem to be silly questions?
Yes, I am working on back links and getting good response from other website. I am using only theme based websites/blogs for link building.
Thought-provoking questions. I spend certain time on link building every day and all my links are completed by hand. But I seldom check my backlinks and I think I need to spend some time on it. Thanks
I'll answer your questions one-by-one. Do you spend some time - everyday - for link building purpose? Do you have a schedule for it in your everyday routine? No. Absolutely not. In fact, I don't think about "link building". I spend most of my time working on my sites, and when I think about marketing, I'm thinking about networking and connecting with other webmasters, not overtly thinking about "link building". Do you try to get original links from other sites/blogs not owned by you? Or do you have some other sites and you send links to your main site? I have a number of sites and some of them link to each other, but only when relevant and in relevant ways. For example, my opinion site links to all my main sites and blogs. But the blog about tea links only to my tea site, and the tea site does not link to my opinion site, but it does link to my tea blog (in the section of my profile where any user of the site links to their tea blog). Etc. Do you ever 'buy' links? Does it help in the long run? Absolutely never under any circumstances! It's against google's policies and it will get your site penalized or dropped from the search rankings. Not to mention that it's unethical and frowned upon by other webmasters. A legit webmaster will never link to a site that uses black-hat techniques, so you harm yourself far more than just google's penalty alone. How often do you count your back links? Do you check for lost links? Rarely, and never. Suppose today you have total 10 back links, tomorrow if comes down to 7, how seriously and how fast would you work for compensating those number of lost links so that your rankings doesn't get affected? I wouldn't think about it at all. Lastly, do you find the above questions worth asking or they seem to be silly questions? I find these questions are silly, not really worth asking. They seem to come from the mindset of a spammer, not a legitimate webmaster. Get out of the spammer mindset, and get into the legitimate webmaster mindset. Stop thinking about links and start thinking about people. Stop thinking about "content" and start thinking about quality writing. Stop thinking about marketing and start working on your website! It'll pay off much more in the long-run!
Thank you cazort, for taking up the time to reply in details. Everything is fine, except for the ending paragraph. Let me clarify one small thing: the reason why I asked all these questions was I never ever thought about link building or buying links etc. I am maintaining some websites since 1999. So please don't misunderstand the reason of my questions. I request so. There are many members in DP forums who talk about back links & link building; there are also many who 'sell' and 'buy' back links. That is why, I thought of asking your opinions. If I was of a spammer mindset, I wouldn't have asked these silly questions at all.
cazort, you talk absolute sense, but the fact is - website without visitors is nothing, visitors come from search engines, search engines rank your website based mainly on your inbound links profile. So one way or another, you should think about link building, it's just the way you think that makes the difference between white hat and black hat techniques. Nefertiti, personally I don't think that counting number of links, placed daily is worthy task. More important is to work constantly, since there are millions of reasons that all your links from this week won't get indexed and then they will appear all together the other week, and then again - thinking more out of the box, let's say for example - new services for your website, new places to share your knowledge and expertise etc. - where you can reach your target visitors bypassing serps - helps with serps too
yea, I'm making about 10 -20 back links a day, but now I pay more attention to press release, I think it can also get good results
I'm definitely not meaning to imply that you are a spammer! I'm just pointing out that you can break into a new category of legitimacy here. Just that there are a lot of spammers on these boards, and on SEO and web marketing sites in general. It's virtually impossible to keep them from somehow influencing your mindset. I myself have fallen into a spammer mindset from time to time. The key is to always try to step it up to the next level. A lot of the time, I think there is a connection between mindset and use of language. For example, web marketers use the word content incessantly, whereas serious writers use the word writing. Calling it content treats it as a commodity, an object, whereas calling it writing emphasizes and embraces its richness as a work of art. The same goes for link building or link development: these words are a bit loaded. I think it's more useful to think about broader questions like: "Is my website good enough that a webmaster or blogger would be enthusiastic to link to it?" or "Do prominent webmasters and bloggers in relevant areas know that my site exists?" and then work on either improving your site or networking with other webmasters, rather than to think about how to increase the number of links.
I think that there's another more important distinction, beyond just black and and white hat techniques. Within the white hat techniques, there are those that are more natural and those that are more awkward and ineffective. I think link building is a lot like dating and relationships. If you go out looking for a relationship, you're going to approach people in a way that makes them uncomfortable; you might come across as desperate or needy, or possibly viewing them as an object or commodity. On the other hand, when you finally sit back and start being comfortable being single, and focusing on other aspects of your life (job, school, hobbies, friends, family), an ideal person often seems to fall right into your life. Part of this is that people are most attractive when they're not looking. Link building is like this. The more you think about it, the more you come across as desperate or spammy when trying to approach other webmasters or bloggers about adding links to your site. If you stop thinking about it, and start focusing on the quality of your site, and on building strong relationships with other webmasters and bloggers, built on mutual respect and genuine friendship, you will find that people start adding links to your sites left and right, without you ever having to ask.
hi, yes link building policy services are good for getting the goggle rank.And i spent 2- 3 hours for doing link building for my website.