What is your preference? Trying to build links on different sites or creating your own blog that would give links to your site?
Why not both? That's what I'm doing. The bog to create content on your site and link-building to drive traffic to it...
I was actually thinking of an external blog linking to my site, because I could create a lot more relevant content that I might not want on my actual site. I already have a successful forum running on another site that has boosted my ranking for some keywords. I was just trying to get a blog to do the same for other keywords.
even if you create your own blog, you will still need to build backlinks. a single blog linking to your site will not be enough to rank you given that your niche/targeted terms have atleast some level of competition. you need backlinks form wide range of sources using various link building methods
I shall then do both. A good thing was that none of you thought it was a waste of energy to create a blog. Hopefully I will see good long term result with this approach. Thanks for all the comments.
I like to do both. Having many blogs can be good if you link properly. In a sense you have your own mini network.
I never thought of having multiple blogs. Sounds like a good idea. Can you share a little about how you have done it. Number of blogs. Unique URL names or hosted under wordpress. Do you have them on separate servers to get unique IP numbers. How do you link them. Sorry about the number of questions. I am trying to learn from others experience.
I've always recommended a blog attached to the back end of a site... this let's you try to rank for longer-tail terms and also keeps any linkjuice passed within your realm of command. I think it's rather risky and time consuming to build links to an external blog and then give yourself links. Just my two cents!
*The one thing I seem to have left out of my post is that obviously a blog should not be a replacement for linkbuilding. Linkbuilding is absolutely crucial, though having a blog helps you attract more links, reach a wider audience and gives you something to which you can build genuine links.
I think have my own blog will be better for me, because i can control the link...I can do whatever i want to do with the link
Building a blog with backlinks to your site is not very useful, backlinks from only one blog worth nothing i think... And i don't remember if Google can ban you because it is like a "cheat", if everybody do that, everybody will have a lot of low backlinks. So do both! Build a blog with backlinks and also building links in others sites.
It's worth doing both. If you decide to create your own blog with links to the site its worth building up the incoming links to that blog also to reinforce the whole linking structure.
well i would choose to back-link and develop my own blog because its permanent . once you back link for a client he gives you money and thats it , only 1 time payment. personally i would like longtime payments
As several people have already said "Why not both?". A blog alone will not give you enough backlinks to affect your rankings very much (unless you start link building to the blog also to give it rank which then passes rankings).
I would say depend on the quality. If you can create great quality site with same niche, then it is good to add backlink for your website However, it will be much easy to get backlink from other website than create own website