Complete Strategy #1: Here is my list, in order of tactical importance: First and the most important is to build a content rich site. Then, narrow in scope [say half a dozen high potential keywords, with a smattering of lessor important but still related kw's]. Contact your niche related sites that have same as your scope and ask for a reciprocal link.[after you have already linked to them, of course!] Building content rich, informative and above all unique content, then all peers will beat a path to your door, asking for the reciprocal link. Get your site listed on yahoo.[yes, it does force you to yank out your wallet, but it IS one of the best links you can get]Do some research to find the most appropriate category[which is where the Link Relevancy comes from], and one good title and description which is optimized! Then, get into the ODP. Do some research as required with the yahoo for the best possible category, title and description for your site. Find out which of the thousands of specialty SE's and directories that your site is a good fit for, and submit to them. After you are done with 1 - 5, build another content rich site, and on this one, concentrate on your next batch of kw's. Cross link the home pages. Repeat. Even though blogging is all the rage these days, I think it will go the way of link farms in the not-too-distant future, especially if/when the SE's determine that it is just another case of spamming. We are staying away from it, and concentrating on the 6 tactics above. Of much less importance is cross linking within each of your individual sites. I have gotten away from heavy cross linking, relying instead on good site maps [which addresses spider ability, not link pop]. (Rocky Rawstern with 7th Wave) Hope this helps...will come up with more..
Thanks, This is a good way to bring more traffic from search engines. I like the cross linking method. Awaiting more tips. Good luck. (+rep added)
What do you mean by cross link the home pages? If you link sites you own together Google might slap you like they did me once when I first started so careful with this.
hey, thanks buddy. I really appreciate it. Will definitely come up with more unique ideas. Yeah, Google will definitely penalize you until and unless it's a niche related site. You must have done that with niche that are not directly or indirectly related to your niche. Google will look at that link as a artificial link, hence will penalize you by either a decrease in SERP or sand box. So yeah, just remember the site you cross link with is a niche related site. Hope this helps.
Is the article is mainly play role as an attraction for traffic and backlinks? I just impressive with your tactical of link building that is out of my think. Instead, I'm too new in blogging. What I just know is buy link, commenting and submit articles/ site to the directory. Very helpful article!!!! Thank you very much for open up my mind
Personally I don't like to link to my direct competitors and ask for exchanging links after that. It's a better idea to build a few keyword rich satellite blogs/site to support your main site.
Yeah! It's totally true about what you said. People usually don't prefer exchanging links with their competitors. But, not every blog/website is your competitor. Usually there are levels of each blog. If you have new blog you have great competition with sites which are new and have less backlinks or even have pr upto 3. You can't say that you are competing with wikipedia or sites like espn in sports niche or any other good site in your respective niche. Sites like www.health.com or www.menshealth.com don't care for blogs which are new. For them competition is on some high level. And exchanging links from sites higher your level is a good way to build backlinks. I hope I have made my point clear.
instead of crosslinking ths sites you can create 2 more sites and link them in a square to each other. Results are stunning after 6 to 9 months
Step 1: Try to identify useful links. If you are a web developer, break your clients into relevant linked groups: e.g. realtors, travel and tourism, technology companies. Step 2: category-page.html. Build a good list for each group (one for realtors, one for travel and tourism, etc.), plain html, listing it with, keyword-relevant title for each description which links to the site for each client "Travel accommodations and resorts in Australia" Save this page as say, travel-sites.html, and perhaps to remember where it lives easily, and make it easily update able, save it in a directory like www.yourclientsite.com/accommodations/travel-sites.html (Don't click. Just a sample) Step 3: Make each of the pages different within each site. Now apply your site template for each site in the list, to that raw html page, (in other words cut and paste the list into a blank version of one of your existing pages for each site and save it as /accommodations/travel-sites.html) so that you have different look, feel and byte size, for each of the pages built, in line with the look of each site. This will stop most SE's viewing pages as duplicate content when in fact what you're validly doing is provided useful related links to other resources on the Web. Step 4: Make a site-map.html. Build a site map within every site in the above list, if you haven't already. In each site, have the site map linking to every internal page, set out like the one above, with at least a one paragraph description of what is on the page, with relevant keywords, which is also useful to humans. Hyperlink the main keyword/phrase to the pages within your site. Also include a link to the above link page (/accommodations/travel-sites.html) which lists all the other related sites. Save the site map as something like site-map.html. Step 5: Make a link to the site map from each home page. On your home (index/default) page include a link to the site-map.html page. Step 6: Submit to search engines. Submit your home page to major SE's if it hasn't been submitted in a while. So now you have a link to a site map on your home page, with that site map listing one paragraph descriptions and hyperlinks to all the pages in your site, including your new accommodations/travel-sites.html (which now looks just like the rest of your pages in the site). This simple 6-step process is a popularity and relevancy boost for ALL the sites you have on the travel-sites.html list. Firstly, from the home page on each site, SE spiders and humans now have access to relevant descriptive links to all pages in your site and other related sites. They have the addition of some useful "related resource" information within the site content using the travel-sites.html page. And most importantly, they have "x" more relevant sites as incoming links. If all the sites are full of valid and unique topic-related content, you've built a nice little interlinked network of sites for very little effort. And with a resubmission to the major SE's of this new content, you should see some increased results within 3 months when checking link relevancy.