Hello, Me and my business partners will be opening a site soon which has a pretty good short domain, three characters and I am in charge of advertising and gaining link backs. Now I have suggested that we submit one article to over 200 article directories and submit a press release to around 80 free press release sites. I also have said about posting on forums related to our site and putting a link in our signature. What do you think about this? I think the press release would be good as we have one of the shortest domains in the world and I think we may get some people blogging about it. What else could I do?
You could comment on dofollow blogs. This is an easy way to get very high page rank backlinks to your website. Remember to take it slowly. Don't build links too fast.
These days Google doesn't give much weight to directory links, in fact, Google's Webmaster Guidlines have recently removed the suggestion of submitting to directories.
Yes, I will be making decent comments on high PR dofollow blogs. Also, do you think many people will blog about us as we have a three character domain?
Why just dofollow blogs? If you are going to make worthwhile comments, then hit up high profile blogs regardless of whether they are dofollow/nofollow. Blog comment links are not worth spit in the grand scheme of things. Neither are forum links, directory links, article submission links, etc. All of these are slowly being devalued and is not really a long-term solution. If you concentrate on becoming an authority in your niche, and hit the authority blogs with valuable insights ... then they will link to you 'naturally'. Do not get sucked into the easy link schemes that get touted all over the place here. Seriously.
Don't waste your time on directories, they don't mean a lot anymore. Social Bookmarking (if suitable for your site) will get you some short term traffic, with the goal of going viral but that's pretty tough to do. For increasing PR and backlinks (and hopefully SERP ranking) do-follow blog commenting is a good solution and pretty easy to do if you've got an hour or two free everyday. Keep the links coming in at a steady pace though, Google doesn't like to see a bunch at once and then none all of a sudden.
I fully agree with you that too fast link building is not good. But how much is too fast or how fast is too fast. Will you please clarify?
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I visited the web site, but I did not understand what you all do exactly. I saw mention on linkbait, but do you all develop custom linkbait for every client, and then promote it? Or something else?
Im a really solid believer in creating amazing content them promoting it socially. Create content that people want to see and read and you will naturally build backlinks. Why spend time hunting down exchanges when you can spend your time making your site that much better and reap the rewards of both return visitors due to higher quality content as well as free back links from webmasters who think your site is worth sharing with their viewers. The downside to this is you need to know how to get the ball rolling with finding people to start passing your content around... once you get that down pat.. its just a matter of creating enough likeable content and watch the snowball continuously grow!