I was looking at one of my competitors back links through linkdiagnosis.com and I am shocked how they found a lot of these sites. All of their links are DoFollow and they are the only ones that post in that blog or forum. My question. How the hell do they find these sites. Some are blogs that require registration, and after that, all links in the comment area are dofollow. I have tried CommentLuv searchs in google and such, but I feel like their has to be a better tool to find these forums and blogs for goof DoFollow links.
well u can at least copy them by searching "link:yourcompetition.com" but i search manually with google's blog search and installed a firefox plugin that tells me if links are nofollow
I was just watching this thread and got interested by this linkdiagnosis.com Do you see all your competitors backlinks there? (sorry if it's a bit off topic here)
@karen_wood We are SEOers. What do these companies offer that we cannot? They are services, therefore it shouldn't be hard to learn the technique. The google search for link:www.Domain.com is not that good for finding backlinks. I see on linkdiagnosis.com that a lot of the links do not have a page PR, does the homepage PR carry to this link? If not how does one go upond getting high PR links. So i guess a better defined question is: How do SEO firms build so many one way dofollow backlinks.
Well folks Again all interesting stuff. You know what, the best thing anyone can do is do it naturally. I have seen sites so many times that have no page rank yet rank higher than sites with page rank of 2-3. The important thing about linking is that the site is relevent to your site. This might be does the source site contain the keyword that exists on your site? Does the source site have a link to another site that is of great importance? .gov.edu? So many factors here to consider, also google knows when a site starts gaining an incredible amount of backlinks in a small amount of time. So the best approach is to just keep ensuring your backlinks carry juice. Please note that PR simply is google gauge on site Authority. Now they may use this for many other things like saying if page rank is greater than 2 then rank higher? but from my experience this is not true. Hope the above helps and keep on naturally building links to sites that are relevent to your own site and have good content. I posted earlier another example of how you can build backlinks using blogs and forums and the importance of keeping it interesting and keeping it a natural process.
Given that they're focusing on blogs as their primary form of link development and acquisition, I'd ignore them. Regardless of the PageRank they pass or how many other links are on the pages they comment on. If you want to stick it to them, try contacting the owners of the blogs that are related to your site's niche/market/topic and ask them if they'd be willing to let you write a guest post for them (with the only "payment" being a free "dofollow" link back to your site with your preferred anchor text) or let them review your site or a product/service/whatever. With regard to the forums, if the forum owners have an article section, do the same thing with them. Forget about the forum signatures and post/thread areas - these are like "Cheeze Wiz" compared to the caviar that you'll want. And that'll be the main site's articles or blog (sans-comments) sections. With both options, you'll not only get the coveted links that will blow your competitors' links out of the water, but you'll also get a LOT more eye-balls focused on your site, and the traffic they bring with them. It's a win-win situation for you with the only real "loser" being your competitor who's now wondering what you did to become so "buddy buddy" with your new source of links. Which will only show a subset of the links available in Google. Yahoo!'s Site Explorer (or should I call that "MicroHoo's Bing Exploder" now? ) will only show 1,000 of those links. Forum signatures are never sources of quality links. And your mind. Once you do that, the possibilities (such as the ideas I posted above) and opportunities for obtaining merit-based links are endless. Sounds to me like they're not offering anything of any appreciable quality. Just seems like they're scraping the bottom of the monkey barrel in some backroom storehouse at Walmart and calling it a "service". Unfortunately, it IS hard to learn how to do things correctly in this industry - not because of the lack of quality information, but due to the flood of drek and refuse that claims things like "blog commenting and forum signatures" and spamming various social networks being "the best sources of links" (yes, these are direct quotes, and I am NOT making them up ). Those who can find their way through the detitrus to find the diamonds in the rough will not only know what really needs to be done, but also how, why and when (oh, and most importantly, when NOT) to do the work. Of course, they're the ones who'll go on to make a mint (or three). Without seeing the sites in question, the best I can say would probably be "yes, but not much" - as in not enough to register as a "rounded estimate" on the toolbar. Probably found a list of "Great Do-Follow Blogs" on forums such as this one, and then outsourced the job to someone in a country with a MUCH lower cost of living (say $5/day instead of $50/hour) so they can pocket the profit. While true, it also depends on the competitiveness of the keywords in question (and no, the number of pages indexed in Google/MicroHoo is NOT an indicator of competitiveness) and how well the page in question was optimized for those search terms. I'm not qualified to answer that question as it's directed toward the thread starter. .gov and .edu links carry no extra special weight - their perceived benefit comes from the number of other sites that link back to them. If they were .com .net .org .info .myDogLarry (okay, I made the last one up) instead of .gov or .edu the net result would be the same. They also know when a site is getting those links because of the quality of the content as well - breaking news, a definitive resource or guide... it's usually the spammy sites that get busted for building too many links in a short period of time. Which again, are not a great source of links. I will not deny however that the traffic you can get from them (assuming someone sees your comment, likes it, and then decides to check out the site you linked to) can be pretty good at times.
You can also try posting on those sites where your competitor site got its backlinks.. Nothing is wrong with that.. In fact, I was asked to do the same when I was being taught to do backlinks..
These two articles were useful, give them a read if you wish! http://www.area1.info/articles/12-methods-to-obtain-backlinks/ http://www.all4tips.com/2010/04/21/seo/how-to-obtain-lots-of-backlinks-with-link-baiting-ideas/ __________________________________________ bed bugs new york - don't let 'em bite!