What's the most effective way to get relevant & decent one-way links? I've registered with hundreds of directorys and have several other methods. But what is new and cutting-edge?
i find it best to pay people $3-$4 per link william jack has a service and its great might want to check that out.
Write quality articles and distribute in major article directories. Not cutting edge or new but works well and you get a decent link to your site.
Submit in related categories in directories. There are tons of free directories and paid directories to submit to that require no link backs.
I have been working on getting one way links for a clients site for over 3 months. I have submitted to just about every directory I can find and have also contacted websites in the same industry sector and requested links where appropriate. Have considered Link-vault and other link exchanges but I understand these to be of little or use or even counter productive. Is 3 months a long time to wait for Google to pick up new links? Has anybody got any other advice - my client does not have the resource to write articles or contribute to blogs even though I have strongly recommended they do so.
You can try both directory submission & one way link building service simultaneously. Directory links will give you only 1% hit of your total visitors. People now a days submitting bliendly to directories for getting high PR, you can't get other benifit from them. Getting links in natural way is the best way how you can gain ranking in search engines. Also blog & rss submission is also a good idea. My blog get visited averagely 50 times / day so to start with it's good number. There are many blog directries also which will give you free one way link.
There are plenty of ghostwriters that will write an article on your topic for a fee. They then allow you to slap your name on the article as the author. It can be had for $50 or less. Also, check out the tool in my sig. Its free, and will help you submit an article to over 200 sites. And yes, 3 months is a long time to wait for google to pick up the links. If google accurately reported every link they found, I think you would fins most were found in 2 to 3 weeks. This is one reason I like MSN for SEO. It shows me where more of my links are.
Pay for a one way link to an established relavent site with high PR. I advertised for my new funny ecards site on a relavent PR6 site for 1 month. It had over 3000 pages indexed in google and yahoo, msn, etc... I got my link on all the pages of his site. and yahoo shows over 3000 incoming links to my site. Google Page Rank predictor is showing a PR5 with next update. and I am already getting some traffic from many search engines. One reason could be the mod rewrite thing along with customized metatags for each page of my new site. Anyways, that helped.
Why not search blogs on related subjects and write a nice comment (not spam!!!) and this way you get not only the link but relevent traffic flow. If the blog is particularly good, recommend it on your site and maybe teh blogger will return the favor.
I have had some very good results from submitting articles. The links you gain from this are very easy to track as well - simply wait a few weeks after you have made the submissions and then search for a particlular sentence from the article (preferably one that had no results previously) and see how many sites come up. Over time you can get the article on hundreds of sites meaning hundreds of good links. The best way to send articles is to do each submission manually but if you don't have time then there are websites and software to do it for you. I have a service in my signature which uses software to send them to 180 sites if you are interested.
When promoting my article collection ,I have submitted a few articles to a few article sites and The links are all one way . Plus I can see these articles on other sites also giving me a link. Going to do more of that . Regards Jeet
The great thing about article sites is they allow other people to take your articles as long as the links etc remain the same. So a good article sent to a few sites can be picked up by hundreds over time. Its a really good long term and short term link building strategy.
Agreed. In my opinion, the top 3 easiest methods for generating one-way inbound links are: Ask for them from related sites, submit to directories, and submit at least one or two articles about your site's topic to article directories. Those last two alone can easily generate over 1000 free inbound links in 2 weeks or less.
What about duplicate content? There are two questions I have. If you also carry the article as content on your site do you not risk getting fingered for carrying duplicate content? Then there is the multiplier affect? Do the search engines give credit everytime the article and link appear?
http://www.webconfs.com/duplicate-content-filter-article-1.php I have not seen anything that says the content is ignored, just filtered out of any results. I take that to mean that if you republish some authors article on your site, your site may not be in the list of search results. I did look at the backlinks for one of my sites that I have been promoting with articles, and I see only three backlinks resulting from articles I've distributed. Google only reports 159 links for the site and has given it a PR of 5. MSN reports almost 5000 backlinks. I am fairly certain that there are at least 1000 reprints of various articles. I guess I don't know if Google is counting the article links or not, but given PR 5 and the 3 reported backlinks from articles I'm guessing they're counted.
What I have been doing is taking original content off my site and submitting it half-heartedly as an article to the submission sites. I assume that this is bad practice. Do I read you correctly, in that whilst you are not certain you believe Google is crediting you with the links from the articles but filtering out the pages from the search results. Am I correct to assume that in the case where I have added the articles to my site the chances are that that particular page on my site wont feature as a search result but that this should not affect the the rest of the site in anyway?
Yes, that's my opinion. Submitting portions of your site as articles is not a good idea from what I've read. By doing so you run the risk of not showing up in the SERPs for that page's keywords. As for the back links from articles, I believe they get counted, but I have no solid proof. However, my After 5 site only has 47 backlinks according to Google. With Article Distributor adding a link to each article being submitted, and over 500 downloads since December 3rd, the bigdaddy datacenters are reporting something like 20,000 occurances of the phrase "submitted with article distributor". So, I guess I'll find out in a few days about how many of those links get counted for my site.