Hello all, I would like to ask all of ya that which is the best strategy when it comes to link building. Link exchanges (reciprocal) is supposed to be very easy, but i think it doesn't have that much value when it comes to google. So what are the methods to do link building w/o reciprocal link exchanges? I am confused as some people say that Blog comments are the way to increase back links. REALLY? Cuz as far as I knw blog comments give u a non-follow link, and same goes for forum signatures. Than what should I do? What works better for all of you? I would appreciate if some nice person can clear my concepts if they are wrong.
i dont prefer blog comments usually because article submissions and directory sub.work the best for me.There are several blogs that are dofollow - so you can try commenting on them if you want.The problem with these dofollow blogs is that the admin can change it to nofollow whenever he likes saying people are trying to spam for links.So i personally dont like blog commenting.Link exchanges are not bad.So you should try to get a couple of RELATED link exchanges.Dont neglect them completely.Forum signatures are dofollow.Use them well.
Their are lots of ways to build links. I'm guessing you have little to no budget. Both methods work, but link exchanges often want you to have pagerank and history. New sites have very little to give in exchange I would personally start with blog comments.
Of course one way Link building strategy is better, however, reciprocal lnks are also good with topic related sites.
reciprocal is a much less return on time spent. it's only good if the sites you're trading links with are top quality and do not have a lot of outbound links. I never have liked "closing the loop" when link building. I'd go for one-way links, social sites, etc.
For traffic, reciprocal is fine. Otherwise, find somewhere to build yourself proper one way backlinks.
You need to have a well rounded link building campaign. Blog comments and forum signatures even where they are no follow can be valuable if you have a good website. When people visit your site and like it those visits can turn into natural one way links.
I believed that one way backlinks is effective rather than reciprocal. Links exchange (LE) is best to attract trafic with the same niche. LE also is the best for blog networking between the bloggers. Thanks
I agree that one way link is better but from which types of sites: blog, forum or others? Also if reciprocal links have any bad effects?
I use a One-Way link service on every site to get it started. There's a free one at LinkBuildingSolutions.com and I'm guessing that there are more. I know of one that is paid as well...but can't remember the site name. Article distribution is a good tool as well for one-way links. Use a mass distributor like Article Marketer and don't worry about duplicate content. It will get your site out there to a lot of places and you'll score one-way links in your author resource box. Social Bookmarking - I use Bookmarking demon to build bookmark links to my sites en masse. Angela's Backlinks - this one takes time, but has worked well for me. I get her packets and build links (and link wheels at the same time) from high-pr sites. Most of the boost is from trickle-down PR and not direct, but she does have a few do-follow blogs mixed in that you can search with Parameter to find which pages have the Highest-PR.
Ok thank you all for your inputs. All the inputs will help me alot now, I have clear cocepts of what I shoud really do now? Thanks
Excessive reciprocal links can get your site a nice, big, fat penalty. Those types of links can have a negative impact on where your site ranks in the search results. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356 Since google does not define what "excessive" is, its best to avoid link exchanges all together.
I still have seen domains getting first page rankings based solely on recip links, so they must still have some value, albeit for non competitive keywords, however I believe one way links are much more powerful.