After some hard research trying to find out what my competitors are using to rank higher than me on search engines, I have reached one conclusion. All of them are using services that let them distribute unique content through different kind of websites. Like press release, articles through related niche blogs other than directories and they also distribute content through social media sites. Building links through content from related (and frequently visited by search engines) pages are the ultimate link building strategy that can also generate high amount of traffic by itself. But no one of my competition will spend too much time on it, they must be using services or software or even freelancing to help them with this task.
yeah I think many people are paying for freelancers. It's unfortunate though that when you are first starting out, you probably don't have the money to pay for freelancers.
onlineimexpert, actually, the most powerful booster to get to the serp top are incontent contextual links in. For example we have two sites: Site A has 100 links from blog comments and forum posts (user-generated content) Site B has 10 incontent contextual links with target keyword(s) Obviously site B will get higher serp ranking.
Yay! Finally someone who understands the true SEO! It really is true. Once people get out of that stage "I want to get as many links as possible" they realize that editorial links rock! They are very powerful.
Just do them both if you wanna bet any competitors. Getting freelancer to distribute unique contents and contextual links building at the same time.
Ok, next logical step is where can someone get good reliable freelancers to do this job ? During the time I paid lots of scammers only to find out they did a piss poor job with 0 value for me. One question comes into my mind : These freelancers come with their own list of PR sites ?