What's the most effective link building strategy?

I like article submissions as they seem to get distributed all over the net. But the links I get aren't always very high quality.

I'm not too convinced by directory submissions as directories are just lists of links.

I don't like social bookmarking, as it bookmarking your own page feels a bit spammy.

Blog commenting can be interest, as it gets you to read lots of blogs. But finding dofollow links can be tough as people often change from dofollow to nofollow after being spammed.

What does everyone else think?

 

I think directory submission is a great way to get effective links for a website/blog

 

directory submission is d bst way 4 building links.

 

Article submissions have work great for me. If they're well written and informative many site owners will post them.

 

You guys bump a really old thread way to go

I would like to comment on this one

This statement should not be in general, in social bookmarking you can add some friends and through them you can promote your links vice versa.

 

Directory submission is the best for me!

 

I'm not sure they even need to be well written or informative. I wrote a basic article and it was splogged to over 150 pages within a month. All I did was post it to

ezinearticles
buzzle
articlealley
articlebase
goarticles

At the moment I'm only submitting to those 5. Should the list be modifed in any way? I don't like spending too much time submitting articles as it's very dull, and articles get copied around anyway.

 

I've had good link-building success with directory submissions. That has resulted in tons of backlinks, a modest number of which yield a nice PR flow and some traffic.

Lately I've gotten into social bookmarking. One of the benefits I've seen there is an increasing number of deep links showing up in Google Webmaster Tools.

 

How exactly do you do your social bookmarking? I take it there's more to it than just adding every page of your site to your bookmark list.

 

I believe a link from a page that ranks well in the serps will outweigh all of the mentioned methods (unless you found a follow blog comment on a well ranking page).

 

What about doing all of them, when it comes to link building you need to use all available weapons

 

My approach is pretty simple. My main site is del.icio.us. I've got all my pages' links on that one (about 140+ pages). Most other social bookmarking sites (but not all of them) have an easy tool to import all your del.icio.us links.

 

Directory submission is the best one then articles.

 

I noticed all the links are nofollow in del.icio.us, what benfit does this add to your site? is it just for traffic?

 

I am starting to get minor traffic from del.icio.us, as well as from a number of other social bookmarking sites.

I use del.icio.us as my "master" bookmarking site, keeping it up to date with all my new pages. Then as I add a new bookmarking site, I simply import the entire del.icio.us list of bookmarks. It takes about one minute.

Here are some more benefits of del-icio.us, from an article in Search Engine Journal at http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cach...del.icio.us+nofollow&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us

Monitoring social bookmarking services like Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Ma.gnolia can help search engines in multiple ways by:
• Indexing Sites Faster : Humans bookmark sites launched by their friends or colleagues before a search engine bot can find them.
• Deeper Indexing : Many pages bookmarked are deep into sites and sometimes not as easily linked to by others, found via bad or nonexistent site navigation or linked to from external pages.
• Defining Quality : If someone takes the time to bookmark a site, it usually has some quality to it.
• Measuring Quality : Essentially if more users bookmark a page, the more quality and relevance that site has. A site with multiple bookmarks across multiple bookmarking services by multiple users is much more of an authority than a site with only several bookmarks by the same user.
• External Meta Data : Users who bookmark sites tag them with keywords and descriptions which add an honest and unbiased definition which is created by the public and not the owner of the site.
• Co Citation : Social bookmarking sites tend to categorize sites and pages based upon the tags used by humans to describe the site; therefore search algortihms can classify these sites with their peers.

 

Delicious is good for driving traffic (you will need high quality content).
Other that this it's not SEO friendly.

 

The best method is to submit it to article becuase from there you can get multiple links. whereas submitting to Directory and blog comments will not do so. And about social bookmarking generally it gives backlinks but very few are bookmarking it if your content is not interesting

So the best things is to concentrate more on article submission with other methods.

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Does it matter whether or not articles are on the same subject as the site being promoted? My site is an SEO tool. But the only thing I can write lots of articles about is recipes that I cook.

 

I am biased towards directory submissions. I provide the submission services and have seen PR boost with right directory submission and a little of social bookmarking.

 

I believe that the best link building tool is article submissions, because you are recieving multiple backlinks. Though directory submissions are good as well, especially with high PR directories.