It seems everyone here in this forum is a little disoriented, because I see too many focused in Google Pagerank instead of looking quality sites and relevant links that could bring traffic and boost rankings on SE. Days ago I was reading an article from Eric Ward, the so called link building authority around the internet. In his article, he mentioned the distribution of the link building process where he described the following: 10% of the process is about marketing. 40% is about persistence. 20% is about relevance. 20% Is public relations and the rest is common sense. Even Matt Cutts the Google engineer described Eric as one that follows the most correct approach to link building. We should use Eric thinking to start building real backlinks. Use your common sense, what kind of site should be linking to you? Is your site content deserving to be on top ten at search engines? The linking process should be naturally so, Should I post comments on blogs? The answer is YES but in relevant blogs to yours no matter if follows or not, eventually if you participate more often instead of just posting a spammy comment, the blog owners will start visiting your site and perhaps a real back link to you. Should I post comments on forums? YES, but write something relevant to your site, forums may lead visitors to your site as well as a backlink from any of those users. Should I write articles? YES, article marketing is a valid way to get visitors and backlinks too. Should I ask for link exchanges? YES, but find those relevant sites to yours, avoid those with thousands of irrelevant links. Use social media sites: Stumbleupon, digg, propeller, redit etc. If your site has good content users may start linking back to you. Stop chasing a number, Pagerank is the quality measure of Google SE but that measure is set by relevance. Seek for relevance and Quality. How to determine quality? Just take a look to the content of the site and use your common sense to determine if is a quality site or not. Stop spamming!
Interesting. Link exchanges are okay. Kinda goes against conventional wisdom nowadays but if it works... why not, right? I'll set up a test and see.
Much agreed, I personally use these same tactics for my sites and it works great however I have found that only doing a couple backlinks every other day seems to get my serps up faster rather than doing many every day. --Tanks!
I strongly agree with this statement. Just take a look at my NEW medical video site. I start link building it around 2nd week of June, 2009 (Just a week AFTER I've launch it). It just almost 2 months old now... Where is it now? It rank PAGE 1 in 3 KWs, PAGE 2 in my other KW. Plus, it was now PR 2. What did I do? I just link to related site. Thats it. =) Here is my medical video site: http://freemedicalvideolibrary.weebly.com/ Im just proud of it!
In relation to your emphasis on relevance, lets say that a general news site is being run on a brandable domain such as esbro.com and the site covers all sorts of different news topics, finance, sport, politics etc. If I have a link in a sports article on this news site to my sports website, is that still deemed relevant? Even though much of the other content is not sports related and neither is the domain.
Thanks for sharing it, Even if these are very well-known among SEO, you have determined the facts with Eric article & Matt Cutt's View ..... Cheers for that.
There's page relevance as well as site relevance. Google's smart enough to work out if individual pages are related, even if the site itself is not entirely. I can't link you to a case study, but I can say with 100% confidence that I've seen a black-hatter doing something similar in the last six months. (One anchor page, with about 6 paragraphs on different topics, then reproduced on 6 different sites and interlinked. Ranked well!)
Sorry I know all this things, Yes I agree with your IDEA, I read your all points which is one by one & very good, and in your post which I like very much that is, your main point "CONTENT".