Hello, I have been using article submission and social bookmarking services. I did all manually. I write a few articles a week and submit them to some article directories. I create new blog pages on my sites and submit new pages to social bookmarking sites. However, my traffic is going down on 2012. Is there a new school of building back links in 2012? What do I miss? Thanks very much!
I don't there is many new link building tactics in 2012. However using only the two you mention above will not really help.
Blog comments, submit site to web directories, Web 2.0s, Squidoo and Hubpages, Wiki's, Links in documents, Links on video sites like youtube, RSS, pinging. That should be enough to keep you occupied for a few months.
Gone are the days of easy backlinking and ranking high on Google. Now if you want to survive in 2012 then most of your concentration should be in content creation. For a moment lets trust Google and let it put your site at position it deserves.
Build quality sites with awesome content, stand out from the crowd. Worst thing, it does not guarantee you anything tho, G is playint around too much this last February, let's see where does it go...
but so many peope say dont do that because google can easily find this trick and then punish your money site
Hi, Quality, addictive content (makes readers want to comeback), links from relevant, authority sites, and social signals (Facebook, Twitter, +, etc.)
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Am I killing my PR and Alexa by linking to several outside sites in every (daily) blog post? I link to something relevant, and don't usually pay attention to PR, etc. of the outbound link. Only just now realizing this might be hurting me.
It's possible that your outbound links are hurting you. I would take everyones advice and build quality content, social networking links, and social bookmarks.
Sure, some time we again re-plan and work with new efforts and mental power will cause to get success.
You need to expand your linkbuilding efforts, importance is given to link diversity as well! So you need to do other stuff as well. Like someone mentioned above, web2.0, wikis etc also don't forget Press Releases!