I am very undecided about the backlink building services I see all over the place... according to a few SEO books I have read building 100's of random backlinks would actually hurt your site if the websites submitting links to you weren't relevant. Is this correct? If so I am in sort of a tight spot... My website is a re-seller of energy saving products, so it would be impossible for me to advertise on my competition's websites and many informative websites. Which leads me to wanting to create a blog. Would it be better to create a new domain for the blog, or create it in my website? Subdomain? domain.com/blog?
What kind of SEO book you got? Does it didn't explained the relevancy thing when it comes to link building? Maybe you've missed it, keep in mind to build links naturally and getting along with the same topic with yours. When creating blog, I prefer to use domain.com/blog... blog.domain.com is also good one.
No that's what I am asking. There are link building services on DP that offer 1,000+ back links for like $5.00. I was wondering, if backlinks need to be relevant to your website, why people would use these services. Wouldn't they just be getting 1,000+ back links to websites that have zero relevance to their website's content, and deflating their rank?
I have a site that I used a service here to add 1000 links. A year later, one of my links ranks higher than my site on Google. This is bad. It hurt me. However, that same site is ranked #1 on the specific term I was trying to rank for. It's making 400-500 a month from the Yahoo traffic. Would I do it again? Sure. Would I change anything? Yes, I would still do the 1000 links, but I would also work on some quality links in an effort to push my site up on Google. In the end, I learned a lot from this experience and I can take that info and apply it to my next project.
It's not true. Otherwise we will be able to hurt our competitors quite easily. As far as you don't spam (blackhat link building techniques) you will be fine. There are countless ways to build backlinks for your site. That's a great idea, domain/com/blog is your choice